Since I wrote the article on Thomas T. Jewell in May, I’ve wanted to share photos that Ritchey and I took on our last trip west for genealogy research – his family. I was amazed to see the date was 2002 – almost 20 years ago. I have […]
The following is the 1956 local newspaper article concerning the golden wedding anniversary of James Eben Ritchey and Baina Melcina Cellan Ritchey. The couple were married in 1906, in Geneva, Fillmore County, Nebraska. James was the son of Charles Henry Ritchey and Lucinda Amanda Jewell. Baina was the […]
Ritchey and I standing between the McKee and Ritchey gravestones. Sugar Grove Cemetery, Schuyler County, Illinois, 2002. Today we are leaving Kentucky, heading northwest to Illinois, to the small town of Rushville in Schuyler County. This is the ‘land of the Ritchey’s and McKee’s’ – my Ritchey’s maternal […]
Vivian Eleanora Ritchey Brown, my husband’s mother, was driving home to Nebraska for her Uncle James’ funeral when she was involved in a car accident and died. So tragic for the family – Ritchey was only twelve. from The Nebraska Signal, Geneva, Nebraska James E. Ritchey Fillmore Pioneer […]
Isaiah and Lydia Ross Hill
1929 Wedding
Revolutionary War heroes and families.
Ritchey's Paternal Grandmother
George and Caroline's Wedding Day
Klein Sod House