Francis Aldridge was born in Wilkes County, North Carolina in 1764. His parents were Francis Aldridge and Henritta Ritter Prince who came from Virginia to North Carolina in the 1700s. Francis served in the Revolutionary War as a private in the North Carolina Line, later receiving a pension for his service.

Francis married Margaret Cole in Rutherford County, Kentucky, Octorber 19, 1789. They had seven children. Margaret apparently died and Francis married Polly Mary Patterson in 1805 in Fayette County, Kentucky. They eventually settled in Science Hill, Kentucky, where Francis died May 17, 1845.

Elijah, the son of Francis, was born February 18, 1792, in North Carolina. When he was two, his family moved to Kentucky. Elijah married Jane White January 26, 1812, in Montgomery County, Kentucky. Elijah and Jane had twelve children, some in Kentucky and some in Indiana, where they moved sometime around 1830. They lived in Indiana about 29 years before moving to Iowa in the 1860s.

In the early 1870s, their son Frank took Elijah and Jane to live with him in California. Elijah died in his son's home about 2:30 in the morning May 24, 1878. He was buried twelve hours later at the Christian Church, of which both he and his wife were members. He was 87 years old at the time of his death, had been married 66 years and half his children were still alive.

Jane Aldridge continued to live with her son, Frank, in Corralitos, near Watsonville, until she died December 24, 1884, age 90. She and Elijah are buried in the Aldridge plot next to their son, Frank, and other family members in the Pioneer Cemetery in Watsonville. Their son, Frank, had an $85 tombstone placed over their graves.

Their daughter, Caroline, born in 1822 in Kentucky, married Elbridge Mabrin Whitted May 9, 1846, in Rockville, Indiana.