At Fountain Rock, the family grew corn and wheat, eventually becoming one of the largest slave holding plantations in all of Maryland.
[1] After leaving Congress, Ringgold returned to his estate, Fountain Rock, which hosted the Chapel in the Woods and now is the site of Saint James School.
Founded in 1842, today Saint James is one of the oldest Episcopal boarding schools in the United States.
Two years later, Samuel Ringgold married Marie Antoinette Hay, a granddaughter of James Monroe at the White House.
[citation needed] The stepson, George Hay Ringgold (1814–1864) was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1833, later left the Army to become a farmer but rejoined in 1846.
George Hay Ringgold was buried at Calvary Cemetery, now part of Cypress Lawn in San Mateo County, California.