Rickey Family History NUMBER 1 •y Spring 1990
This is the initial issue of RICKEY ROOTS AND REVELS, the official Newsletter of the RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION. Our goal is to reach out and assist all who are tracing the several RICKEY FAMILIES in America, to serve as a focal point and data exchange medium for independent researchers, and especially to introduce and reintroduce widespread RICKEY COUSINS to one another. We are all part of a large extended RICKEY FAMILY — cousins by the dozens that share blood lines and a common heritage. It's high time we all got acquainted with our RICKEY ROOTS — and maybe we'll experience a few laughs at a RICKEY REVEL (or two) along the way!
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage. To know who we are — and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is the most disquieting loneliness.
Alex Haley in ROOTS, pub by Doubleday * Co.
The saga of our RICKEY FAMILY HISTORY and their westward migration from the Eastern Seaboard into the Wilderness and across the Great Plains to the Pacific Coast is a fascinating one. This is a story that needs telling, both for us and RICKEY generations to follow. Search your "family archives" for those long- forgotten items and anecdotes that tell about your pioneer grandparents' lifestyle. We hope that you will join with others in furnishing data for publication in future issues of this Newsletter.
We would like to include Family Bible records, marriage licenses, birth and death certificates, old photographs (with or without identification), county court records (deeds, probate settlements, wills), tombstone recordings, biographical sketches, oral history interviews, newspaper obituaries (word-for- word), military and pension data, church items, school graduations, etc. Photocopies are preferred. We think it's very important that you keep Originals within your family. Documentation (when it was done and where copies can be found) is important but not an absolute necessity.
The editor will try to give credit to those who furnish items and articles for publication, so please put your name and address on the back of each of the items submitted. A snail sticky address label is very handy for this purpose. Also, please indicate if the item needs to be returned, otherwise they will be filed in the recesses of file folders which may not be indexed by any "logical" method.
Permanent Mailing Address for this Newsletter will be: RICKEY ROOTS AND REVELS STANTON M. RICKEY Your self-appointed editor 1649 Piikea St. (808) 422-7103 Honolulu. HI 96818 Nov. 1st to April 1st but he can also be reached April 1st to Nov. 1st at: 235 15th St. NE (503) 363-4389 Salem, OR 97301 A portion of our Summer is spent on the road, extensively traveling in a Toyota Dolphin Motorhome, complete with Family History Files and a laptop computer. Together with my lovely wife, ADDIE (SMITHSON) DYAL RICKEY, we visit other RICKEYS (including those with ASSOCIATED SURNAMES), research obscure county courthouses, and glean whatever RICKEY data is available in assorted libraries and genealogical societies from coast to coast. Since your editor has both a Permanent and Alternate Summer address, and an elaborate mail forwarding scheme, it is anticipated that most correspondence will catch up within a couple of months. We hope that our correspondents will be patient during that time.
Through correspondence, telephone calls, and recent travels around the USA, the editor has met some very interesting "Cousins" of RICKEY DESCENT who have been gathering family data. By the way, not all of them currently carry the RICKEY SURNAME. We must never forget that a married daughter acquires a new ASSOCIATED SURNAME that will be handed down to subsequent progeny. They are RICKEYS, nonetheless. Everyone has been so gracious and generous in sharing their material, it seemed logical that a newsletter was the best way to expand the distribution process and share information with others who have a common interest and purpose. It will not be copywrited, so feel free to duplicate, extract, or otherwise use the contents as you wish. Hopefully, time and fortune will permit this and subsequent issues to go to anyone and everyone who is (or should be) interested. Pass the word to other RICKEY FAMILY members and researchers, and send us their addresses and phone numbers to add to our Mailing List.
So far, we have been extremely pleased to meet and exchange RICKEY FAMILY information with the following:
Diane Armstrong Howard & Jean Carol Foulds 527 Kellogg Blvd 4280 Patterson Dr # 25 Coos Bay, OR 97420 Diamond Springs, CA 95619
Vic Biondi & Shirley Biagi William & Gladys Goettling 4310 Winding Woods Way 4024 Firdrona Dr Fair Oaks, CA 95628 Gig Harbor, WA 98335
William & Avis Brown Roscoe &. Verona Ging 310 So Center St PO Bx 209 P. O. Box 242 Lovelock, NV 89419 Zearing, IA 50278
Billy & Barbara Brown Bill & Laura Moffat 548 Braunda Dr 19370 Dayton Rd Roseburg, OR 97470 Bend, OR 97701
Edward & Charleen Bosler Robin & Timothy McCandless 2157 Hadden Rd 1212 Hooli Cir Walnut Creek, CA 94596 Pearl City, HI 96782
Catherine Cooper Courtney E. & Harriette Proctor 1220 Bay Harbor Cir 3 Mann Ave Dayton, OH 45458 Watsonville, CA 95076
William & Virginia Cramer James & Carla Scott 48-244 Vista de Nopal 802 Royal Oaks St La Quinta, CA 92253 Elko, NV 89801
Emmett & Lucille Day Arthur & Beulah Thomas Desert Creek Rd PO Bx 1307 Smith Valley, NV 89430 Carson City, NV 89702 Paul & Maggie von Kempf Robert & Louise Rickey 1543 Walnut Dr 16000 SE Powell Blvd #10 Palo Alto, CA 94303 Portland, OR 97236
Bud Rickey Roger Joseph & Mary Rickey P. O. Box 199 3071 Yellowstone Dr Coleville, CA 96107 Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Harold Bert & Eva Rickey R. Michael Rickey W. 1824 Arabian Rd PO Bx 1461 Colbert, WA 99005 El Toro, CA 92630
John M. Rickey Thomas Michael Rickey 228 Pine St 29 Bobrich Dr Apt. E Bonner Spring, KS 66012 Rochester, NY 14610
Rebecca Rickey Embrey Wayne & Louise Rickey 94-102 Wali Place H-103 2400 Crowell Rd Waipahu, HI 96797 Turlock, CA 95380
RICKEY QUERIES For those who have been associated with the genealogical field, you may want to submit some QUERIES. It is usual to limit the query to 100 words or less and to include some specifics about names, dates and places. For instance:
Desire correspondence with descendants of SARAH ELIZABETH RICKEY, 1st wife of DENNIS MC KINLEY; married 16 Sep 1826 in Morgan County, OH. She died 2 Aug 1844. They had four sons: Thomas Rickey, Joseph Franklin, Alexander Paul and William Harrison. One daughter, Mary Elizabeth, married, 1st, Thomas Benton MC MURRAY, 31 Oct 1857, Iowa County, IA; 2nd, Calvin A. CAMPBELL. DENNIS MC KINLEY took second wife, HANNAH JANE SIVARD, 22 May 1845. Morgan Co, OH. Reply to STANTON M. RICKEY, 1649 Piikea St., Honolulu. HI 96818.
Interested in contacting descendants of HENRY RICKEY, born about 1782. Appears on Tax Lists of 1809 & 1810 in Cross Creek Township, Jefferson Co, OH. In 1817 he operated a tavern in Wayne Township, Jefferson Co, OH. In 1823 4 1824, he was Postmaster of Bloomfield (now Bloomingdale). Censuses of 1820 & 1830 place him in Wayne Township. The Jefferson Co Census of 1850 lists HENRY RICKEY, age 68; wife SATIRA, age 29 (possibly 2nd WF); Two daughters: Virginia, Age 6 & Lavina, Age 3. Reply to MAGGIE von KEMPF. 1543 Walnut Dr, Palo Alto, CA 94303.
Desire correspondence with descendants of RUFUS RICKEY, born 30 Nov 1836 in OH or IA to Dr JOSEPH KARR RICKEY k ELIZABETH MC CLEARY (both died and buried at Clarinda, IA around 1900). RUFUS R. married VIRGINIA ROSEMOND on 17 Apr 1860. They had two sons named LEWIS A. HARRY RICKEY, and two C daughters: VIRGINIA RICKEY, who married FRENCH WHITFIELD, and HELEN RICKEY, who married (1st) PARKER POOLE, & (2nd) RUFUS SPAULDING JR. Reply to BARBARA BROWN, 548 Braunda Dr, Roseburg, OR 97470. 2300 RICKEYS BRANCH RICKEY CLAN
Your editor has undertaken research Although few can prove it, most on all those who carry the RICKEY RICKEYS speak of family lore that says surname, then linked them up with they are related to WESLEY BRANCH identifiable ancestors and descendants RICKEY (born 20 Dec 1881 in Pike Co, regardless of surname. At present, OH, died.2J. He was the famous baseball some 2300 individuals have been mogul who managed the St Louis assigned specific, discrete ID Numbers Cardinals for almost 30 years, leading (called RIN) and stored in the RICKEY them to 6 National League and 4 World FAMILY ASSOCIATION computer. They are Series championships in that time. all RICKEYS (and associated Surnames). While there, he was credited with Most, but not all, are further development of organized baseball's grouped into about 850 families which Minor League "farm system", which are assigned an MRIN Number. These trained young talented players and consist of at least Husband & Wife provided the conduit for their (with or without identifiable eventual stardom in the Major Leagues. children). Oftentimes, an individual He later became president of the appears on one Family Group Sheet Brooklyn Dodgers, where he (FGS) as a child linked to parents and successfully broke baseball's "color siblings, then on another FGS as a barrier" and introduced Jackie parent with his or her own children. Robinson as the first black player in Completion of an FGS is a handy major league professional baseball. method of synopsizing and digesting He is of Scotch-Irish ancestry nnd data found on the many different and the name was originally O'RICKEY. varied sources uncovered by research Early generations lived in Connecticut and correspondence with other members and Vermont in the 17th Century, then of our extended RICKEY FAMILY. The Elmira, New York. In 1817, his great Editor's own FGS is provided on page grandparents, JACOB RICKEY & TRYPHENA 7 as an example of this process. All STRONG floated down the Ohio River on readers are encouraged to complete the a raft and settled in Scioto Co, OH. blank FGS form on page 6, and mail it in so that accurate info on your own family can be entered in the computer.
ALEXANDER RICKEY was born in 1680 RICKEY CLANS at Edinburgh, Scotland, and came to Philadelphia, PA in 1698. In 1715, he There are at least 5 major groups of married ANNE KEIRL of Bucks Co, PA, RICKEYS identified to date. For want and died there in 1758. With their of a better name, let's call them family of 10 children, they were "Clans". Eventually, as we expand our recorded as members of the Falls identification of relationships and Friends Monthly Meeting. Some of common progenitors, some of these now their descendants went to New Jersey, separate clans should become linked or others to western Pennsylvania and merged into fewer RICKEY FAMILY lines. Ohio. Their 2nd son, JOHN RICKEY, In addition, there are many born 17 Nov 1717, married MARY individual RICKEYS standing alone, as HUTCHINSON and removed to Trenton, NJ, yet unlinked to even a clan. These where he died 3 Sep 1798. Part of the lost brothers and sisters and cousins battle of Trenton was fought on his need to be found and included in the farm. On 26 Dec 1776, a company of RICKEY FAMILY HISTORY now being plan- Hessians drove his family from their ned. home and planted a cannon in his hall. Through active participation in the The Americans charged to dislodge the RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION and a field piece, and the Hessians general willingness to share results surrendered. JOHN, and his 20 year old of heretofore independent research, son MICHAEL RICKEY (killed in action 3 this goal can be most effectively years later), disregarded their Quaker realized. principles and participated in the fighting. They both later joined the 2nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Artillery. They settled in lone, CA, where he THOMAS & SARAH CLAN is held in high regard today as an early pioneer who organized the THOMAS RICKEY & SARAH LAUGHERY, original community, platted the initially identified in Allegheny Co, townsite, and established the PA around 1800, were reportedly the Methodist Church that has been in parents of as many as 16 children. continuous existence since 1852. Through only 5 of their sons and 2 Another brother, WILLIAM RICKEY, daughters, about 700 descendants (and accompanied by his wife, ELIZA BRINLEY spouses) have been documented so far. and their 7 children, also came to This Scotch-Irish couple lone, CA from Dubuque, IA in 1852. subsequently removed to Morgan Co, OH, They subsequently moved to Coleville, where she died in 1821, and he, in CA (East of the Sierras in Mono Co). 1825. While there, PRISCILLA RICKEY One of their sons, a 16 year old also married M. MC CURDY, and SARAH RICKEY named THOMAS BRINLEY RICKEY (after his married DENNIS MC KINLEY. The 5 sons uncle), parlayed a gold strike into a all migrated from Ohio to Iowa around fortune invested in ranching, mining 1840. and banking. He was known as the The 2 younger sons remained in Iowa, "Cattle King of Nevada", and was served in the Civil War and became elected to the Nevada State Senate. dentists and physicians. Dr DAVID TALMAGE RICKEY practiced medicine in QUEBEC & NEW YORK CLAN Cedar Co, IA for 3 years starting in Some RICKEYS are of French origin. 1845, then 2 years in Dubuque, IA; The family name was Anglicized after after which he was in Pella, IA for 5 several generations in America, but years. In 1856, he settled in was originally spelled RIQUIER, RIQUE, Marshal1 town, IA, where he was one of ROUTHIER or RIQUET. Their usual the earliest physicians and the first migration pattern started in Quebec, dentist in that area. He died there Canada. THOMAS MICHAEL RICKEY (Born in 1895. He married three times and 22 Oct 1962 in Geneva, NY) has had 17 children, some of whom identified many RICKEYS in upstate New eventually migrated westward to Idaho York as descendants of his great great and Washington. grandparents, JOSEPH RIQUET (known Dr JOSEPH KARR RICKEY had 13 also as RIQUIER, RECKEY, & RICKY) & children. He practiced medicine and HENRIETE CHRETIEN. They were married dentistry for 7 years in Marion (near in 1835 and lived in St. Anicet, Cedar Rapids), Linn Co, IA; lived 3 Quebec on the St. Lawrence River until years in Lancaster, WI; then Keokuk, about 1850, then removed to Massena, IA for 28 years. The last 21 years of NY until 1875, then Oswego, NY. Today his life were spent in Clarinda, IA, other RICKEYS of French descent are where he died in 1900. found in Kansas, Oklahoma, Arizona, The 3 older brothers migrated to California and Washington. Some 75 of Oregon and California. Many of their these RICKEYS attended a Family descendants are found today in WA, OR, Reunion last year in New York and CA. NV, & even two families in Hawaii. their 7th Annual Reunion is planned In 1850, the eldest son, JAMES LYTLE for 28 July 1990 at Palmyra,NY. RICKEY took his wife and 3 sons over the Oregon Trail to settle on fertile BROWN CO. OHIO CLAN farmland in the Williamette Valley near Salem, OR. THOMAS RICKEY (Born 1776) & his JAMES was accompanied on this trek wife, HESTER (born 1775) brought their by his brother, THOMAS BRINLEY RICKEY. family from Essex Co, NJ to Brown Co, They parted company near what is now OH in 1817. Today, some 190 of their Pocatello, ID, and the latter headed progeny (and spouses) have been for the gold fields of California. He identified in our computer, mostly made a successful strike in Amador Co, residing in southern Ohio. One CA, and returned to Dubuque, IA to exception is 7th generation gather his large family (10 children descendant, U.S. Navy Lt (senior and wife, MARY HARPER ROBBINS, for grade) REBECCA RICKEY EMBREY, (his 2nd) westward migration across currently an Intelligence Officer on the plains by ox drawn covered wagon the staff of the Commander in Chief, in 1852. Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. SAMPLE: EDITOR'S OWN FGS
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All RICKEY descendants are cordially invited to share in a fun filled family history festival and grand gathering of far flung cousins. We will convene at 10 AM in a large air conditioned clubhouse that comfortably seats 200 persons. It is located on a picturesque lake with adjacent heated swimming pool and parking for 70 cars. Your Registration Fee includes a catered Luncheon, 1990 Membership in the RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION with free newsletters, free swimming and free parking. This superb facility became available through the courtesy of HOWARD & JEAN CAROL FOULDS (Grandaughter of Nevada State Senator THOMAS B. RICKEY). We intend to make this a pleasurable and memorable REUNION REVEL for everyone. REGISTRATION can be accomplished by MAIL at either our OREGON or HAWAII Address. Please use the enclosed green form for this purpose. Special arrangements have been made with the nearby BEST WESTERN PLACERVILLE INN (US Hwy 50 at Missouri Flat Exit) to offer their deluxe guest rooms at a discounted RICKEY REUNION RATE of $55 Double, which will be good for the duration of your stay. If your reservation was made by calling (800) 528-1234, the Central Office may quote you a higner price. Be sure to mention the lower RICKEY REUNION RATE at the front desk when registering. Reservations are being accepted now, but must be made no later than 7 days prior to arrival. Early reservations are recommended. Our REVEL will be held during a peak demand tourist vacation season. RICKEY ROOTS AND REVELS Stanton M. Rickey 1649 Piikea St. Honolulu, HI 96818 Address correction requested NUMBER 2 _y Suaaer 1990 Here we go again! This is the SECOND ISSUE of RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS, the official Newsletter of the RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION. Ue have made real progress toward our goal of introducing (and reintroducing) widespread RICKEY COUSINS to one another. Most rewarding Dialogues have been established, with both family history stories and data flowing to and froa individual cousins and your Editor's central clearing house. Even better, aany ACTIVE cousins are now telephoning and writing to one another, Baking new contacts with old known relatives and developing an exciting rapport with new found cousins within the SEVERAL CLANS of our EXTENOED RICKEY FAMILY. To all of you ACTIVE readers who are now eagerly participating in this process, we say Bany thanks for your enthusiastic response. Ue have been absolutely inundated with correspondence and phone calls since distribution of the first Newsletter. People froa all over the country have been sending in their FAMILY GROUP SHEETS (FGS), Queries, Faaily Trees and Pedigree Charts, Faaily Photos, Bible Record Extracts, Etc. All this takes auch aore processing tiae than was ever anticipated, and the postage bill is horrendous, but still it is a very worth while endeavor. A very special thanks for your aonetary donations. Your voluntary contributions enable us to expand our operations and reach aore RICKEY DESCENDANTS. The concept of a central clearing house for RICKEY FAMILY HISTORICAL DATA has really caught on. In the past few weeks, we've gone froa 2300 to over 4100 RICKEY (and associated spousal) SURNAMES in the coaputer—and aore coaing in daily. Don't stop now! If you've already sent in your own FGS, fill out another for your parents, children, grandparents and grandchildren. Our c coaputer has plenty of rooa for all of thea! To those of you yet to be heard froa, we say coae join us and experience the exhilaration and joy that results froa learning aore about your RICKEY FAMILY HISTORY. Take that first step by completing the FAMILY GROUP SHEET (FGS) PRINTED IN OUR FIRST ISSUE. Info that you furnish will be poured into the RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION coaputer, where your relationship to other RICKEY DESCENDANTS can be readily interlinked, fully docuaented, and shared with all of your aany cousins. NO FGS OR OTHER RESPONSE MEANS YOU WILL BE DELETED FROM NEWSLETTER HAIL LIST. Ue will again be spending a portion of our Suaaer on the road, traveling extensively in a Toyota Dolphin Hotorhome, coaplete with Faaily History Files and laptop coaputer. Ue expect to visit other RICKEYS, research obscure county courthouses, and glean whatever RICKEY data is available in assorted libraries and genealogical societies froa coast to coast. Since your editor has both a Permanent and Alternate Suaaer Address, and an elaborate nail forwarding scheae, all correspondence will catch up with us eventually. So PLEASE WRITE!!!. Permanent Mailing Address for this Newsletter will be: RICKEY ROOTS AND REVELS STANTON M. RICKEY Your self-appointed editor 1649 Piikea St. (808) 422-7103 Honolulu, HI 96818 Nov. 1st to April 1st But he can also be reached April 1st to Nov. 1st at: 235 15th St. NE (503) 363-4389 Salem, OR 97301 IF YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED IN RECEIVING FUTURE COPIES PLEASE NOTIFY THE EDITOR REVEL I WAS A SMASH SUCCESS !!! RICKEY REVEL I, the FIRST ANNUAL REUNION of the RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION is now an integral part of our Family History. In recorded memory, never have so many RICKEYS gotten together in one place at one time for such a grand, gala gathering of far flung cousins. A total of 154 RICKEYS attended, and they came fro* 13 STATES. It was truly a family affair. Included were babies, children, teenagers, young singles and Married couples, some not so young except in spirit, and even some octogenarians who acted like teenagers. All united in a bond of family love and friendship that grew and prospered as the day progressed. So many good things happened at our REVEL, it was decided to devote this entire issue to a description of the EVENT. CAMERAS were clicking all day long, so a photographic record can easily be made. Your editor yearns to see those special SNAPSHOTS, so send the* in and we'll make an ALBUM for display at REVEL II. Several had CAMCORDERS, and VIDEOTAPES were made. ROCKY GING, P.O.Box 209, Lovelock, NV 89419 can provide 2:00 of Edited "REVEL I HIGHLIGHTS" for $24.95, postpaid. When ordering, please specify VHS, Beta or 8 MM format. This in-gathering of cousins commenced promptly at 9 AM with SIGN IN and RECEPTION, which was so ably handled by VIRGINIA "GIGI" RICKEY CRAMER (of the JAMES RICKEY CLAN) & her husband, BILL. As each signed our Guest Book, they were given a packet of family info, pedigree charts and an elaborate Memorial Certificate, large enough for display, and attesting to their 1990 membership and presence at the RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION'S REVEL I at Diamond Springs, CA on 23 June 1990. Individuals were provided identifying name tags and advised to find places at tables identified by signs for their respective RICKEY CLANS. Computer generated printouts of DESCENDANCY CHARTS for each of these Clans were at their table and also posted on the perimeter wall, so that individuals could easily check family relationships. The 4 computers and 2 photo copiers that were available, received heavy useage as family data was engaged. This stimulated •any animated discussions and resulted in discovery of new bonds of kinship. Many came away delighted with having identified and conversed with a 2nd or 3rd cousin whose very existence was not even suspected before attendance at REVEL I. While this was going on, we all enjoyed informal socializing with coffee and 400 delicious home made cookies furnished by SHERLEY HERBECK HC MAHAN-- in exchange for a still unfulfilled pledge by ADDIE DYAL & STANTON MICHAEL RICKEY (JAMES RICKEY CLAN) to research her genealogy. The cookies were eagerly scarfed up! Our gracious hosts, HOUARD & JEAN CAROL FOULDS greeted the cousins and presented them with an El Dorado Co. orientation folio of Haps, Sight-seeing Brochures and Historical Sites in and around nearby Placerville (called "Hangtown" during the 49'er Gold Rush). Not the least of which was a Pioneer Day Parade & Festival on 24 June, climaxed by the arrival from Lake Tahoe of the 41st Annual COVERED UAGON TRAIN REENACTHENT Party, resplendent in historic 49er costumes. JEAN CAROL OLNEY FOULDS (of the WILLIAM RICKEY CLAN) is a grandaughter and the closest living relative of the famous State Senator and "Cattle King of Nevada", THOMAS B. RICKEY (Born 1832 in Highland Co, OH; Crossed the Great Plains in 1852 as a youth of 16; Died 1920 in Alameda Co, CA). When your editor first met JEAN CAROL last year, she knew of only one related family. Now she shares a Descendancy Chart with over 900 RICKEY surnames, and quite a few of them were present at REVEL I. At 10 AM, we appropriately started our formal proceedings by reciting the LORD'S PRAYER—even as our Christian forefathers did as they left the "States" and ferried their covered wagons across the Missouri River into the "wilderness", starting their arduous six month long treks across the continent to Oregon and California. Ue know from "Oregon Trail" diaries, that the RICKEYS "...rested on the Sabbath and conducted religious services enroute...". Ue could do no less. 10 Next, all joined in the "PLEDGE of ALLEGIANCE" to honor those RICKEY VETERANS who served in every War in our Nation's History froa the Revolution to Vietnam—and even earlier. Mention was Hade of Captain (later, Colonel) ISRAEL RICKEY of New Jersey, a ailitia coaaander in the Revolution. Also, Captain JOHN RICKEY who served under Colonel GEORGE WASHINGTON in the French & Indian War of the 1750's, and again as a Colonel in the Revolutionary Uar. His son, another JOHN RICKEY froa Jefferson Co, OH served in the Uar of 1812. Graveyard epitaphs in the Midwest and Southern States provide evidence of aany RICKEYS who fought on both sides during the Civil Uar. The RICKEY FAMILY is also proud to docuaent and honor their aen and woaen who served in all subsequent conflicts in which the United States was engaged. BRITTANY & JULIE UATKINS, aged 8 and 6, respectively, provided a special treat for all of the cousins by doing a SONG and DANCE rendition of "Another Opening, Another Show" (froa the Broadway Musical, "A Chorus Line"). Their spectacular and professional-like perforaance was given a hearty and appreciative round of applause. They caae to our Reunion with their grandparents, ED & CHARLEEN AUDRAIN BOSLER (JAMES RICKEY CLAN). Your Editor, acting as Master of Cereaonies, with the assistance of his 7 year old grandson, MICHAEL ANTHONY RICKEY, and 3 year old grandaughter, MARY CATHERINE RICKEY (children of SHARON & THOMAS BOYD RICKEY of the JAMES RICKEY CLAN) proceeded with a ROLL CALL of the 13 STATES that were represented at RICKEY REVEL I. As each State was called, the following persons caae to the stage and presented the flags of their hoae state: State Naae Clan ARIZONA KENDRA RICKEY YOST WILLIAM JACOB RICKEY CALIFORNIA CHARLES BRANCH RICKEY BRANCH RICKEY FLORIDA LOWELL E. RICKEY BRANCH RICKEY HAWAII MICHELE LEILANI RICKEY-PIDD JAMES RICKEY LOUISIANA ELIZABETH ANN RICKEY JOSEPH KERR RICKEY MINNESOTA DANA & RACHEL RICKEY BROWN CO, OHIO NEVADA VERONA THOMAS GING JAMES RICKEY OHIO DONALD E. RICKEY BRANCH RICKEY OREGON ROBERT EDWIN RICKEY JAMES RICKEY RHODE ISLAND TERRA DAWN ADDISON JAMES RICKEY TEXAS PATRICIA RICKEY COLLIER WILLIAM RICKEY WASHINGTON HELEN MARIE RICKEY JAMES RICKEY UISCONSIN CHRISTINE BUSS LOST SOULS We originally intended to show our SPECIAL ALOHA to a select few of our VERY SPECIAL RICKEYS by presenting thea with leis of tropical flowers, but the shipaent froa HAWAII failed to arrive on tiae, so we substituted CALIFORNIA red roses. They were presented to the following: MAGGIE & PAUL von KEHPF (WILLIAM RICKEY CLAN). She was our hard working PUBLICITY CHAIRMAN who spread the news of REVEL I throughout the land, by contacting various societies and publications, and who directed a crew of volunteers that were still stuffing envelopes at aidnight on 22 June. We thank PAUL for volunteering as courier for a wild goose chase to Pollock Pines! CLAIRE ANNE RICKEY ADDISON & TERRA DAWN ADDISON, age 9 (JAMES RICKEY CLAN). Your editor's daughter and grandaughter, who traveled the FURTHEST DISTANCE by flying in froa Newport, RHODE ISLAND. 11 GENEVA & LOWELL E. RICKEY (BRANCH RICKEY CLAN). They were DISTANCE RUNNERS-UP, who only Kissed the record by 150 miles, but earned special recognition by driving all the way from Pinellas Park, FLORIDA. HICHAEL PIDD & HICHELE LEILANI RICKEY-PIDD (JAMES RICKEY CLAN). Your editor's son-in-law and daughter, who took tine away from their busy work schedules to plan, prepare and serve our BUFFET LUNCHEON—as volunteers, strictly without any compensation other than the Aloha and Good Will thus generated. BILL & LAURA ALUMBAUGH HOFFAT (JAMES RICKEY CLAN). Your editor's niece and her husband who processed HAIL REGISTRATION forms, and produced computerized name and address listings and labels to identify all of the cousins who attended our REVEL. MORGAN HICHAEL RICKEY, age 5 months (THOMAS BRINLEY RICKEY CLAN). Roses were presented to his sother, CLAUDIA PARKER RICKEY for bringing the YOUNGEST RICKEY to this Family Reunion. Also present were MORGAN'S father, ROGER HICHAEL RICKEY—and the proud grandparents, MARY MICHAEL & ROGER JOSEPH RICKEY. This entire family was nattily attired in specially designed T-Shirts, which detailed their personalized family tree. HARRIET DAUTEL FUNK (BASKING RIDGE, NJ CLAN). Her COMPUTER RIN #2450 was selected as the UINNER in a random access program applied to all present. She was accompanied by her son, GEORGE GERHART FUNK, who brought their own computer to the REVEL. Contrary to rumor, theirs was NOT the one used to select #2450. VIRGINIA "GIGI" RICKEY CRAMER (JAMES RICKEY CLAN) for the patience and charm she exhibited in GREETING all who entered the doorway. She and her husband, BILL CRAMER performed admirably, considering they were pressed into service at the last minute by her brother, your editor. JEAN CAROL OLNEY FOULDS (WILLIAM RICKEY CLAN) was supposed to receive a Super Maunalani Orchid Lei for being such a SUPER HOSTESS and arranging for the use of this superb clubhouse facility, as well as all of the time and effort that she and her husband, HOWARD FOULDS, spent in preparing for this special day. Instead, she received roses, too. But with them, went our special ALOHA and heartfelt thanks for a job well done. ADDIE DYAL RICKEY is the lovely and charming wife of STANTON MICHAEL RICKEY (JAMES RICKEY CLAN). Her wise counsel, practical experience, artistic talent and exuberant spirit provided both the inspiration and know-how that made REVEL I a reality. Your editor and HC presented his MENTOR (and BRIDE of the past 18 months) with an armful of roses, which she then freely distributed to the assembled cousins. WHO WERE THESE RICKEYS ? The two green and orange flags on either side of the stage were not National flags, but still represented the SCOTCH-IRISH origin of our ancestors. RICKEYS were part of that group of immigrants to America known as SCOTCH-IRISH, not because they were a mixture of races, but because they were originally SCOTS that migrated to Northern Ireland on account of the religious and political disturbances of the 1600's. They were an assertive, sturdy people with reverence for God and deep devotion to their own Church. They were staunch Protestants, mostly PRESBYTERIANS, and did not intermarry with the native Irish. Continued persecution by the established Church of England resulted in large numbers of them migrating to America in the 1700's. Colonial governors offered free land on 12 their western borders, and our RICKEYS Mere among the early pioneers that sustained the burden of defending the frontier. Most of our ancestors eventually became METHODISTS, possibly as the result of evangelizing by the circuit riding preachers that visited isolated hanlets. For whatever reason, lost of the RICKEY FAMILIES that moved westward in the 1800's into Ohio, Iowa and on to the Pacific Coast had been converted to Methodise. As yet, our Family History Research has not yielded conclusive evidential proof of the exact date and arrival point, or even names, of the original RICKEYS that arrived in America. The one exception is ALEXANDER RICKEY, said to have arrived in 1698 from Scotland on the ship "Shield". He and his descendants were QUAKERS (not PRESBYTERIANS), and all efforts to tie them into our other CLANS have been unsuccessful so far. Always we must say "so far", and keep searching! A biography of the Nevada State Senator THOMAS BRINLEY RICKEY (of UILLIAM RICKEY CLAN) refers to "...three brothers of SCOTCH-IRISH ancestry (HENRY, THOMAS 8, BENJAMIN) who emigrated from the north of Ireland to Pennsylvania at an early epoch of that state...11. Family lore contains many of these unproven stories. One of the more intriguing ones is that an ISRAEL RICKEY (Died 1729) arrived in America with 14 SONS. If true, that one family could provide enough immigrant ancestors to cover most of our several CLANS, and we'd all be descended from a common progenitor. By working together and sharing our findings with others of the RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION, we should be able to unravel this puzzle. LARRY CENOTTO, GUEST SPEAKER Our Guest Speaker was LARRY CENOTTO, County Archivist, with offices at the Amador County Museum in Jackson, CA. He is widely recognized as a local history resource person and has published numerous articles in periodicals, and several books on early Amador Co history. His archives contain many photos, historical references and considerable memorabilia and data on the THOMAS BRINLEY RICKEY CLAN. (This is the elder TBR, not to be confused with his nephew, Nevada State Senator TBR of the UILLIAM RICKEY CLAN). LARRY gave us a lively and factual account of the family settling in lone Valley, CA in 1852, the close involvement of the entire family with the METHODIST CHURCH over the years, and the traumatic episode of the "ARROYO SECO GRANT" case, which disposessed the RICKEYS from land they considered rightfully to be their own. He told of father RICKEY and his eldest son, JAMES, coming to California in 1850 and discovering gold. TBR then returned to Dubuque, Iowa by ocean voyage and riverboat, and brought his family of 10 children and pregnant wife overland to lone in 1852. There, he purchased acreage, surveyed and subdivided lots for sale to other settlers. The RICKEYS operated the "Irene Hotel" and a store on Main St, and also built the first steam flour mill in 1856. The first school teacher in the valley was hired by TBR, and his own children comprised the largest number of students. The family of THOMAS B. & MARY HARPER ROBBINS RICKEY stood for all that was best in community life, and played a key role in organizing the METHODIST CHURCH. The first church building was erected on RICKEY land in 1853. In the controversial land case, a series of political machinations resulted in adverse decisions against the settlers and these were upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court. An appeal by petition to President Abraham Lincoln failed, and the U. S. Marshal was sent to evict the RICKEY FAMILY. About 50 of his friends and neighbors intervened and threatened to use force against the Marshal, but the stay was only temporary. Eventually, a U. S. Army Company of dragoons was sent in to back up the Harshal, and the RICKEYS were forced to leave lone and settled in the nearby Shenandoah Valley. Much of the above is detailed in the "HISTORY OF AHADOR CO", originally published by Thompson & Uest, Oakland , CA. LARRY CENOTTO sold several reprints of this book at REVEL I. Additional copies of this 344 page, illustrated volume are available from the RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION for $15, postpaid. 13 NONA JENKINS RICKEY, AGE 101 Her picture and a news clipping describing NOMA's 101st BIRTHDAY on 10 April 1990 was included in each REVELERS info packet. This was sent to us by her grand niece, ROUENA RICKEY SOUDER of Portsmouth, OH. When we adjourned for Lunch, her grand nephew, LOWELL E. RICKEY was posted at the head of the buffet line and everyone signed a HAPPY BIRTHDAY CARD to be presented to this venerable lady— probably the OLDEST LIVING RICKEY. Our readers are encouraged to follow up with personal cards or notes of their own. Her address is: NOHA JENKINS RICKEY Golden Years Convalescent Center 2125 Royce St Portsmouth, OH 45662 "SHOW & TELL TIME" Individuals were invited to cone forward and present interesting and unusual stories about their families. The following persons responded: MAGGIE von KEMPF read from a letter written in 1919 by FRANK ERVINE RICKEY (of the THOMAS BRINLEY RICKEY CLAN) to his parents, CHARLES WILLIAM & CAROLINE AMANDA GRINNELL RICKEY, on the occasion of their 50th Wedding Anniversary. This came as a very pleasant surprise to KATHLEEN RICKEY YOUNG (daughter of FRANK) and her two sons, FRANK RICKEY YOUNG and JOHN DOUGLAS YOUNG, all of whom were present at Revel I, but heretofore unaware of the letter's existence. DONALD E. RICKEY (BRANCH RICKEY CLAN) told of a recent visit to MARTINS CEMETERY in Scioto Co, Ohio, where tombstones indicate that some 34 RICKEYS are buried. Particularly impressive was his description of a large tree that grew from the graves of Rev JACOB RICKEY (born 14 Feb 1775, died 28 June 1847) & TRYPHENA STRONG RICKEY (born 10 June 1787, died 25 Nov 1836). HARRIET DAUTEL FUNK told about the riotous incident at Perth Amboy, NJ in 1747, which resulted in her ancestors, JOHN RICKIE & ISRAEL RICKIE, being recorded on a list of persons indicted by the Supreme Court of Somerset, NJ for HIGH TREASON AGAINST THE CROWN. A letter written 18 July 1747 by JOHN DEARE (High Sheriff of Middlesex Co) to CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERT HUNTER MORRIS reads, in part: "...a mob of about 150, armed with great clubs came into the town on horseback. Rode by my door, then alight...came on foot up the street...and two fiddles playing...We...commanded them to disperse. Read the proclamation ...by which we had taken (JOHN) BAINBRIDGE. I was knocked down and have a grievous wound in my head. They also struck the Mayor, broke one of the Constables head, beat several others and then violently with a sledge and Iron Bar & a Hatchet broke open the...doors of the Gaol...took out the prisoner and carried him off Huzzaing...". From the tone of a flurry of affidavits recorded in subsequent court proceedings, an "Insurrection" had taken place. Eventually, the RICKEYS and about two dozen others received token fines for their part in this episode. JACOB MICHAEL RICKEY (BRANCH RICKEY CLAN) was honored on the occasion of his 7th BIRTHDAY. His parents, WILL SHERWOOD & JOAN ZAPPETINI RICKEY, were especially proud that their youngster was willing to forego a more usual celebration in order to attend REVEL I. Of course, he did meet a whole new gang of cousins, and swam and reveled with many of his own generation. We all stood and sang "Happy Birthday to You" and made certain he received an extra piece of our decorated REVEL CAKE. JACOB'S grandparents, FRANK WANZER & RUTH LOMBARD RICKEY were also present, as well as his uncle, JOSEPH PATRICK RICKEY. Earlier, the California Flag was carried by his younger brother, CHARLES BRANCH RICKEY. 14 ELIZABETH ANN RICKEY (Or JOSEPH KERR RICKEY CLAN) described a fen of the exploits of her great granduncle, "Colonel" JOSEPH KERR (KYLE) RICKEY. He was born 11 Jan 1842 in Keokuk, Iowa. As a youth, he showed an aptitude for cards and spent much time in southern states, drifting along the Mississippi River. Consequently, when the Civil war broke out, he cast his lot with the Confederacy. The title, Colonel, was not an earned rank, but has some validity because he served as an aide to a Governor. He was a riverboat gambler, raconteur, and a suave lobbyist of almost unbounded influence, not only in state capitols, but also in Washington, DC. In 1896, during the Democratic National Convention, at the Planters Hotel in St Louis, HO, he introduced a new libation that became an instant hit. This was the "GIN RICKEY", which has remained famous to the present day. BETH told us that he once mixed his special cocktail for SIR THOMAS LIPTON, who heartily approved. Flamboyant to the end, "Colonel" RICKEY suffered a mysterious death. On (date ?) April 1903, he was found dead on a street in New York City, ostensibly a suicide, with a bottle of carbolic acid in his pocket. Widely known and a man with countless friends, his demise was front page news in the NY Times and the St Louis Dispatch, and carried by many other newspapers from Coast to Coast. One ref. was: San Francisco (CA) Call, 24 Apr 1903, p 9, col 7. DORIS MAE WOOLFORD RICKEY,wife of WALTER ALBERT RICKEY (BASKING RIDGE CLAN) unraveled the long standing mystery of the two AARON ROSS RICKEYS. Researchers have long been plagued by the coincidental parallels of their lives. Both AARONS traveled west along similar paths and married women with similar names. Each had large families and a daughter named MARTHA, and both ended up in the Sacramento, CA area. Thanks to the info DORIS provided, we now have the two families properly documented. It seems that two brothers were lost in the woods (circa 1830), became ill from exposure, and were found and nursed back to health by a mountain man named AARON ROSS. Each vowed to name his first born son after their benefactor. AARON ROSS RICKEY, the grandfather of our WALTER, was born to JOHN RICKEY & JANE ROBERTS, Dec 1846 in Elgin, Kane Co, IL. The other AARON was born to BRICE RICKEY & ELEANOR BELL WRIGHT in 1842 at Mt. Sterling, Brown Co, IL. Much of this info was related to DORIS & WALTER by MARTHA RICKEY STEWART WEST, before she died at Camas, WA on 29 Mar 1988, just two months short of her 100th BIRTHDAY. Her father ran away from home at age 17 and crossed the Plains to Steamboat Springs (near Reno, NV), traveling with an Illinois neighbor family named HARDIN. He later married MARIA MARGRATA SCHMIDT, who was also in the employ of the HARDINS. For a time, AARON worked as a teamster, driving freight wagons from Winnemucca to Reno in Nevada. When their home in Steamboat burned down during a snowstorm, they removed to Florin (now part of greater Sacramento, CA). This AARON ROSS RICKEY died in Orangevale, CA, 9 Apr 1931 at age 86.. His wife MARGRATA, died 8 Nov 1910. Both are buried at Sylvan Cemetery in Citrus Heights, California. ROGER MICHAEL RICKEY (THOMAS BRINLEY RICKEY CLAN) delivered an inspiring eulogy to his grandfather, LAWRENCE EUGENE RICKEY, who died in San Diego, CA on 22 May 1990 at age 85. Referring to his new born son, MORGAN MICHAEL RICKEY (our youngest RICKEY, born 23 Jan 1990), he said "The Lord giveth, and he taketh away". All rose for a moment of silent prayer in tribute to "BUD", as the deceased was affectionately known throughout his entire lifetime. ROBERT EDWIN RICKEY & JAMES LYTLE RICKEY (JAMES RICKEY CLAN) were the only TWINS present. They were born at Estacada, OR, 25 Aug 1922 and were sons of JOSEPH CARR & NETTIE FRANCIS WOODLE RICKEY. They were both combat aerial gunners on B-25 bombers in WW II. ROBERT retired as a CHIEF MASTER SERGEANT after serving 29 years in the Army Air Corps and U. S. Air Force. HOWARD & JEAN CAROL OLNEY FOULDS were recognized as the couple married longer than any others present. Congratulations on 55 YEARS of wedded blissi 15 ADULT RICKEYS UHO ATTENDED REVEL I Addison. Claire Englert. Kristen Kaubic. Norman ^v JoEiien 31 Aim* St, 350 Curtner Ave *21 8309Ascolano Ave Newport. R.I. 02840 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Fair Oaks, CA 9562S Bolukbasi. Dawn Foulds. Howard and Jean Carol Lejeune. Millie Rickey 3908 E Cherokee St 4280 Patterson Drive *25 4081 La Coo ceita Drive Phoenix, AZ. 85044 Diamond Springs, CA 95619 YorbaLindii, CA 926b6 Bosler. Ed and Charleen Frank. Sandra Rickey Machacek. Julie 2157HaddenRd 1427 N. Harmony Drive P.O. Box 1025 Walnut Creek. CA. 945% Janesville, Wl 53545 Winchester, OR. 97495 Brennan. Jawie Frazier. Lori Moffat. Bill and Laura 1542 HSt 3952 Tricia Way 88 Red Cloud Ranch Arcata.CA. 95521 North Highlands, CA. 95660 Powell Butte, OR 97753 Brown. Barbara Funk. Harriet Oven. Bradley andFaye 548 Braunda Dive 5558 Carita Street 3419 So West Street Roseburg, OR.97470 Long Beach, CA 90808 Visalia, CA. 93277 Buss. Christine and Jason "fessier. Rodney and Lori Pidd, Michael and Micheie 4440 Oak Hollow Dr. *T 8312 Northwind Way Sacramento, CA. 95842 Redding, CA. 96003 Orangevale. CA 95662 Collier. Patricia Rickey Ging. Rocky and Verona Proctor. Courtney and Harriette 5&13FlynnPkwy 3 MannAve Corpus Christi, TX. 78413 Lovelock, NV. 89419 Watsonville.CA. 95076 Convij, Laura Jane Hill. Janet Proctor. Les and June P.O. Box 395 14082 Tollhouse Road 174 Roan Drive Coofrseqold.CA. 93614 Clovis , CA 93612 Danville. CA 94526 Cramer. William and Virginia Jones. Robert Rickey Proctor. Lyle and Lois 4S--244 Vista De Nopal 603 Waller St 1135 Redwood Blvd LaOuinta.CA 92253 San Francisco, CA. 94117 Redding, CA. 96003 Edwards. Warren and Pat Jostus.Judy Proctor. Martha 1286 Mt. Hermon Rd 5S9 Parsons Dr 732 2nd St Scotts Valley. CA 95066 Redding. CA 96002- 16 Rickey. Bud Rickey. Irene Rickey. Robert Sr PORoxlW I233NW 11th St 16000 S F Povoll Blvd . *t 10 ColnvilJe. CA.96H17 Corvallis. OR. 97330 Port In ml. OR. 072 36 Rickey. Burton and Alice Rickey. Jack and Marilyn Rickey. Roger and Mary 3?l Sun«e< Blvd 743 Bellarmine Dr 3071 Yellowstone Dr Pn rt To v n so n d. W A 08 368 Salinas. CA. 93901 Costa Mesa, CA. 9262ft 3027 Rickey. Donald Rickey. James L. Rickey. Ronald. 300 F Main St $368* Hamp«tead Lane 233?" Wain Si Crestline. OH. 44*27 Eugene. OR. 97403 Hampton. MN. 35031 Rickey. F.lizabeth Rickey. John and Patricia Rickey. Shirley Stilwell 1763 Coliseum »223 14019 Serene Way 4037 Alex lane New Orleans. LA 70130 Lynnvood. WA. 98037 CiirmichnM.rA 95608 Rickey. Fmma Rickey. Joseph 813CrestmontDr 7382 Lincoln Blvd 26* folu Rickey. Frank Wanzer and Ruth Rickey, Kenneth Rickey, f'om and Sharon. P 0 Box 346, 24611 Palace Ct 1723 Sun Rickey. Frank R Rickey. Lowell & Geneva Rickey. Virginia *2SS HohsonSi 7726 70th St. N. 1062 Michelangelo Dr Mesa, AZ. 83204- Pinellas Park, FL 34663 Sunnyvale, CA. 94087 Rickey. Frances Louise Rickey. Paul and Kathy Rickey. Walter and Doris 411 Lewis Ave 117AdlerAve. *l P.O. Box 78.3 San LeandroCA 94-346 Campbell, CA. 93008 Roscvillc.CA. 93661-0783 Rickey. Freda A Rickey. Paul and Anna Rickey. Will and Joan, 2333 River Road , . A 399CaladoAve. 1181 Queens Ave. Modesto, CA. 93331 Campbell, CA. 93008 YubaCity, CA. 95991 Rickey. Helen Rickey. R. Michael and Claudia Schmidt. Margarctc Rickey O Box 9747 P.O. (Sox t H-tl 2219 N Pinkham Sacramento, CA 93823 ElToro.CA. 92630 Visaiia.CA. 93291 17 Schoenvaid. Donaia Thomas. Craig and Karen. f iiliams. Dan 6c [anet Rickey PO Box 215 1038 Robinson S200 Clearndge Ave. N W Malaga, Wa. 98S2S Merced, CA. 9*340 Silverdale.Wa. 98383 Selkirk, Bruce U Shirley Tho»»s. Craig and Rita. Young. John Douglas 2424 Sunset Dr 3131 Mortara Ct«cu£ 2939 Alexander Dr Santa Rosa, CA. 95401 San Luis Obispo.CA. 93401 Placerville, CA. 95667 Siden. Eleanor Starr Thomas. Arthur and Beulah Young. Kathleen Rickey 260 Urbano Dr P.O. Box 1307 ?29 High St. San Francisco, CA. 94127 Carson City, NV. 89702 Santa Cruz. CA. 95060 Scott. Jim and Caria. Tuetti* Patricia Rickey Young. Frank Rickey 802 Royal Oak Dr 651 Scott St #7 659 High St Hko, NV. 89801 San Francisco, CA. 94117 Santa Cruz. CA. 95060 Sertich. Robert &Celia Von Kempf. Paul tA* 18 ********* RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS Stanton H. Rickey 1649 Piikea St. Honolulu, HI 96818 Address correction requested Volume 2 March 1991 Issue Number 3 The RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION is now truly nationwide in scope — and then some (we shouldn't forget our CANADIAN members). What started as an attenpt to link up some of the Editor's known relatives and trace the history of his own immediate family, has exponentially exploded. Our centralized computer now has a data-base on over 5500 RICKEYS (and ASSOCIATED SPOUSAL SURNAMES). Early on, it became apparent that accurate linkage of family relationships could only be achieved by collecting data on ALL RICKEYS, then sorting them out later as members of identifiable CLANS. The original long term goal of tracing all of these CLANS back to a single, common source remains as elusive as ever, but we have experienced some exciting breakthroughs in merging branches of our extended RICKEY FAMILY and expanding the numbers of related persons within the several major CLANS. The key that unlocks the mysteries of our nearly forgotten heritage is the continuing exchange of information with one another, and via the Central Clearing House provided by our RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION. Our large computerized data base has had phenomenal success in identifying most individuals as members of a particular branch of the RICKEY FAMILY TREE. Newcomers who send in their FAMILY GROUP SHEET (FGS) are often pleasantly surprised when we use the name of a parent or grandparent to link them up with dozens (and often hundreds) of blood related cousins. Those of you who have yet to participate in this program are urged to complete the Blank FGS en page 27. If you have previously sent us an FGS on your immediate family, please fill in more of these blank forms to tell us about the families of your aunts and uncles, grandparents and grandchildren. "Uncle Charley" may prove to be the missing link that ties you into 6 or more generations of RICKEY ANCESTORS and opens up a wealth of information about your heritage. NEWSLETTER NOT COPYWRITED This publication is not copywrited. It may be duplicated in whole or in part, so that you can pass the word to any of your kinfolk. Send us the names & addresses of those who may be or should be interested; we will place them on our mailing list to receive this Newsletter.. Who is the "someone" who has been collecting data on your family??? Let us know who they are, especially if they are not included in the address lists of this and previous issues of the NEWSLETTER. The more we share our information.. .the more that information can help solve some of our "loose connnections". Search the "family archives" for those long-forgotten items that tell us about grandpa and grandma's families. News clippings of weddings and obituaries are particularly informative. Group family pictures are most welcome, especially when accompanied by names and/or stories about a particular occasion. We anticipate being able to reproduce quality photos "In forthcoming issues. So, keep those cards, letters and SNAPSHOTS coming! We no longer have a home in HAWAII. Please send all communications to the following PERMANENT ADDRESS; PHONE; (503) 363-4389 RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS STANTON M. RICKEY O 235 15th St. NE Salem, OR 97301- 4228 IF YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED IN RECEIVING FUTURE ISSUES PLEASE NOTIFY EDITOR 19 VISITORS TO HAWAII. This winter we enjoyed hosting the following RICKEY COUSINS: John t» Pat Rickey & daughter Jennie, 14019 Serene Way, Lynnwood, WA 98037 Avis b, bill Brown, & daughter Becky, p. o. Box 242, Zearing, IA 50278 Elston it Jeanne Rickey, 2100 Blisswood St, Pocahontas, AR 72455 Michele 6. Mike Pidd 6. son Will. 8312 Northwind Way, Orangevale, CA 95662 ADDRESS CHANGES from Issue Number 2: Millie Rickey LeJeune Margarete Kickey Schmidt 6731 W. Charleston #1 31606 Fritz Dr Las Vegas, NV 89102 Exeter, CA 93221 o ADDIE & STANTON RICKEY — ONLY 11,999 MILES TO GO...! DISCOVERING NEW RICKEYS CAN BE FUN Last summer and fall, we put another 12,000 miles on our trustworthy little Toyota Dolphin Motorhome, traveling from the Pacific Northwest to the Atlantic Coast before returning in November to Salem, OR. Our Dolphin RV served both as our complete home on wheels and traveling research facility, complete with genealogy files and dual laptop computers (His & Hers, no waiting!). Accompanied by my lovely wife and intrepid companion, ADDIE DYAL RICKEY, we were pleased to meet myriads of RICKEY cousins throughout the heartland of America. More often than not, we arrived with little advance warning, practically unnanounced except for a hasty telephone call. Sometimes, we even stumbled on RICKEY DESCENDANTS by pure accident, or by referrals from another cousin just down the road. That we were so warmly welcomed everywhere is a tribute to the graciousness and charm that characterizes our EXTENDED RICKEY FAMILY. Following are names and addresses of those we contacted enroute. Many opened both their hearts and their homes during our overland trek, and allowed us the privilege of overnight parking in their driveway. We shared family history memorabilia, photos, tales, gossip and vital statistics. For brevity's sake, those cousins previously identified in prior issues of our Newsletter will not be repeated. 20 Carol Rickey Bleifeld Joseph Rickey P. 0. Box 41 11614 Shane Rd. c Henry, IL 61537 Brimfield, IL 61517 Vicki Rickey Bryan Mrs. Howard K. Rickey 1130 Cothrell 37 West Oak St. Olathe, KS 66061 Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 Richard & Nancy Rickey Davies James Rickey Prospect Hill Rd. 37 South Finley Ave. Horse Heads, NY 14845 Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 Frank & Marjorie Rickey Fullerton Flo & John Albert Rickey 1121 Oakview Dr. P. O. Box 906 Columbus Jet., IA 52738 Choctaw, OK 73020 Joe & Virginia Rickey Gaylor Malia Helen Rickey 631 Bailey Dr. #3 45 Ridgecrest Terrace #2 Mansfield, OH 44904 West Roxbury, MA 02132 Dorothy Rickey Kahler Marie Rickey 233 Segar Rd. R. R. #6, Box 241 B Horse Heads, NY 14845 Portsmouth, OH 45662 Jean Rickey Lopeman Marjorie & Wayne Rickey 1408 Chestnut St. P. O. Box 41 Henry, IL 61537 Henry, IL 61537 Ken & Linnie Belle McKee Wendell Rickey 519 Bush Ave. P. O. Box 237 Horse Heads, NY 14845 Winchester, OH 45697 Ann & Albert Rickey Lee & Jane Schriewer 3779 S. Galloway Dr. 2120 S. Air Depot Memphis, TO 38111 Midwest City, OK 73110 Audrey Rickey Connie Swansan RR #1 610 North St. Brimfield, IL 61517 Henry, IL 61537 Dorothy Rickey Wanda Rickey Walker 704 E. Liveoak St. 6339 Dummerstan Ct. Altus, OK 73521 Dublin, OH 43017 Evelyn & Harold Lester Rickey Stryker & Marilyn Warren 120 N Santa Fe Ave. 4618 Mountain View Dr. Princeville, IL 61559 Nashville, TN 37215 Frances Louise Rickey Clarence & Frances Rickey Wissmiller 7146 Forest Dr #82 812 3rd St. Kansas City, KS 66112 Henry, IL 61537 Hilda Rickey Ann Wright 1303 Fifth St. 2933 Kingman Blvd. * Moundsville, WV 26041 Des Moines, IA 50311 21 REVEL 11—RICKEY FAMILY REUNION SCHEDULED FOR 29 & 30 JUNE 1991 The Second Annual "REVEL" of the RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION will be held on Saturday & Sunday, June 29 & 30, 1991 at SHAWNEE STATE PARK LODGE. 15 nriles NW of PORTSMOUTH, OHIO (Famous as the birthplace and home of BRANCH RICKEY). ALL RICKEY DESCENDANTS are cordially invited to share in this fun filled family history festival and grand gathering of far flung cousins. We will convene at 10 AM, SATURDAY in a large air conditioned ballroom that comfortably seats over 200 persons. Your REVEL REGISTRATION FEE (Use REG FORM on page 25) includes a catered Luncheon, and 1991 Membership in the RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION with free Newsletters. A Potluck PICNIC is planned for Noon, SUNDAY. The Lodge is located in SHAWNEE STATE PARK, which is nestled in a 60,000 acre Ohio State Forest — in the Appalachian foothills bordering the Ohio River. SHAWNEE is one of the finest of the State of Ohio's elaborate system of multi- purpose outdoor recreational parks. Besides the Lodge, the park offers completely modern picnic and CAMPGROUND FACILITIES — with 107 sites for both Tents and Recreational Vehicles up to 35 ft long. Showers, Electric Hookups and Sanitary Dump Stations are available. Park activities include swimming, boating, fishing, horseback riding, canoe rentals, hiking trails, and an 18 Hole Golf Course. Resident summer naturalists schedule both daytime functions, and relaxing evening nature programs in the amphitheater. SHAWNEE is located in the extreme southern portion of Central Ohio — about 100 miles South of COLUMBUS via US Hiway 23, or 90 miles East of CINCINNATI via US Hiway 52. Both cities are served by all major Airlines and Rental Cars are readily available. When driving, take US Hiway 52, Westbound from PORTSMOUTH for 8 miles to intersection of State Hiway 125 at FRIENDSHIP, then NW for 6 miles to the Park boundary. RICKEY REVEL I, our first Reunion in CALIFORNIA, was a delightful family affair. It was attended by 154 RICKEY DESCENDANTS from 13 states. Included were babies, children, teenagers, young singles and married couples of all ages. All united in a bond of family love and friendship that grew and prospered as the day progressed. The interaction between members of different RICKEY CLANS was a joy to behold. Cousins found one another for the first time, or renewed contacts and established relationships that had been lost or diminished over the years. Details of that gathering were related in the Sumnner, 1990 Issue. Read it again for a preview of what to expect at REVEL II. Our CALIFORNIA COUSINS now challenge OHIO, the Central Heartland of America and Crossroads of early PIONEER RICKEY MIGRATIONS, to host an even bigger and better party...!!! LODGE & NEARBY MOTEL RESERVATIONS All 50 Guest Rooms at the SHAWNEE PARK LODGE and its Central Meeting Room have been set aside for the exclusive use of our RICKEY FAMILY REUNION. This superb facility (see description on page 24) was acquired by our great REVEL II Chairman, Cousin DONALD RICKEY of 509 E. Main St, Crestline, OH 44827. Phone (419) 683-4704. Those desiring Lodge accomodatians should use the RESERVATION REQUEST FORM ON PAGE 23. Please note the GUARANTEED RESERVATION DEADLINE of 30 April 1991, also Advance Deposit and 2 Night Minimum Stay Requirements. Additional accomodations are also available at the COUNTRY INN, a motel located about 7 miles from the Lodge; on US Hiway 52, 1/2 mile East of the intersection of State Hiway 125 at FRIENDSHIP. They offer 12 units with 2 Double Beds at $29.95 per couple plus $3.00 each for extra persons in a room; 10 more units have one double bed at $24.95. For reservations, make direct contact with Mr or Mrs HAMILTON, the resident owners. Write to Country Inn, Rte 5, Bx 153-C, Portsmouth, OH 45662. Or call direct to their Nationwide Toll Free Number: (800) 622-6844. Early reservations are highly recommended. Remember, Our REVEL II will be held during a peak demand, tourist summer vacation season. 22 SHAWNEE STATE PARK LODGE P. 0. BOX 189 FRIENDSHIP, OHIO 45630 PHONE : (614) 858-6621 NAME OF ORGANIZATION/FUNCTION: RICKEY FAMILY REUNION (Revel II) FUNCTION DATES: 28, 29 and 30 JUNE 1991 RESERVATION ARRIVAL DATE: 28 JUNE 1991 MINIMUM NUMBER OF NIGHTS: _2_ NAME: ADDRESS: CITY; STATE: ZIP: TELEPHONE -- AREA CODE: ( ) NUMBER Reservation Request: Roan Rate (Single - 1 person) 55.00 Deposit with Tax $59.95 Room Rate (Double - 2 persons) 69.00 Deposit with Tax $75.21 (3rd thru 6th person in Room) 5.00 each Deposit with Tax $5.45 each Number of Rooms Requested TOTAL ENCLOSED DEPOSIT $ This reservation form must be accompanied by a check or money order (NO CHARGE CARD NUMBERS) as an advance DEPOSIT equal to the TOTAL AMOUNT OF ONE NIGHT'S STAY. Checks or money orders are to be made payable to CANTEEN CORPORATION. Room reservation forms, along with the advance deposit, must be received at Cambridge, OH 43725 no later than 30 APRIL 1991. After this date reservations cannot be guaranteed. You must call the reservation center at (614) 439-4406 to see if they will accept a late registration. Phone reservations will not be accepted prior to 1 MAY 1991. PLEASE MAIL THIS COMPLETED FORM AND ADVANCE DEPOSIT TO: 800-AT-A-PARK CANTEEN CORPORATION P. O. BOX 550 CAMBRIDGE, OH 43725 NOTE: Room check-in time: 3:00 pm Room check-out time: 12 noon THANK YOU FOR MAKING A RESERVATION AT SHfiWNEE STATE PARK LODGE! 23 Vacation fun and relaxation in Ohio's beautiful "Little Smokies? Shawnee State Park offers a wide variety of .WNEE enjoyable activities within 60,000 acres of Ohio's largest contiguous woodland. For outdoor enthusiasts, Shawnee has recently completed a new addition Shawnee offers an 18-hole championship golf course, for business activities offering as many as seven tennis, basketball and shuffleboard. The park's marina individual meeting rooms and a spectacular ballroom, is on the Ohio River, where you can enjoy water-skiing, accommodating up to 400 people With excellent powerboating and explore the river's many streams and audio-visual and caterir tributaries. Canoes can also be rented at Turkey Creek Lake. Hikers can discover the plant and animal life of Shawnee's forested hills. And plenty of nature programs and opportunities for picnicking, swimming, fishing and hunting round out the picture For relaxing, the Shawnee Lodge overlooks the lake and features spacious cedar decks and 50 guest rooms. Unwind in our indoor and outdoor pools, and enjoy our Jacuzzi, exercise room, sauna and game room. The lodge also contains a full- service restaurant, cocktail Shawnee State Park Lodge draws nature lovers from far lounge and gift shop. Access and wide. Tributaries of the nearby Ohio River provide miles of enticing streams for canoeing. After a day of for the handicapped is swimming, hiking, boating or golfing, guests can unwind provided throughout. And in the expansive, high ceilinged lobby. Knotty pine paneled guest rooms, fully equipped cabins, first class dining accommodations and a warm and friendly staff make your stay a real pleasure. For information and reservations, write Shawnee State Park Lodge, -SVJ1 P.O. Box 98, Friendship, Ohio 45630, or phone: (614) 858-6621 or 1-800-AT-A-PARK (800-282-7275). r -••-.3*1 REVEL II A RICKEY FAMILY REUNION " will be held an Saturday & Sunday, 29 & 30 June 1991 at .,. SHAWNEE STATE PARK LODGE I (On State Hiway 125) 6 Miles NW of Friendship, Ohio 45630 PHONE: (614) 858-6621 EARLY BIRDS GATHER at 9AM, SATURDAY.. .Sign in and meet new cousins. PROGRAM STARTS at 10AM. LUNCHEON at 1PM... (Price included in REVEL REGISTRATION). PROGRAM CONTINUES at 2PM.. .UNTIL 5PM. DINNER PARTY.(Optional).at 7PM...UNTIL...! ($15 per person). POTLUCK PICNIC IN PARK..at NOON, SUNDAY Gather S> "Talk Story" Time... BRING: Yourself, spouse, kids, and anyone you can talk into meeting your kin... Old Photo Albums, Scrapbooks, Genealogy Charts & Family Memorabilia Current Family Snapshots and a Camera for picture taking...VIDEOCAM?.... A Biographical Sketch about yourself...a parent...uncle...or grandpa Is there a special talent among us RICKEYS?...Musicians in our midst?... Vocalists...Sing-along Leaders...Children Acts...RICKEY STORY TELLERS... Would special someones like to present a Historical (Hysterical) Skit... COMPUTERS, PHOTCOPIERS, SCANNERS are badly needed. Can you HELP..???... INVITE: OTHER COUSINS who may wish to attend. PHONE THEM & Send their names & Addresses for inclusion on the RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS Newsletter Mailing List. PLEASE: Let us know you are coming, .and how many. .Send the REGISTRATION FORM below. f ** EARLY REGISTRATION (Prior to May 25, 1991) ** 1 RICKEY FAMILY REUNION ~ REVEL II, June 29 & 30, 1991 < Make CHECK Payable To: "Rickey Family Reunion" $& Return this FORM To: 235 15th St NE, Salem, OR 97301-4228.. .PHONE: (503) 363-4389 Number of NAME(S) ADULTS **at $20 each $ CHILDREN **at $10 each $ age 4-12 INFANTS FREE $_00 under 4 DINNER PARTY RESERVATIONS...(Optional) NUMBER **at $15 each $_ **TOTAL PAID $ ADDRESS PHONE ( ) - CITY STATE ZIP - **LATE REGISTRATION (after May 25, 1991); ADULTS $25, CHILDREN $15, DINNER $20** 25 •L.' RICKEY COUSINS AT THE 1957 SCIOTO COUNTY FAIR JAMES HUSTON RICKEY SR. FRANK WANZER RICKEY SR. WESLEY BRANCH RICKEY SR. JAMES EPHRAIM RICKEY CHARLES EDWIN RICKEY HOW MANY OF THEIR DESCENDANTS WILL BE AT REVEL II...? 26 HUSBAND. . Place. Place. Occupation _ c T*» Bun.J PUc*. Other wi Father Mother (iMiJtn n«i«») PUce. CJiureJi Affil.. Oeevpataon. Di.J Buried __^__ Pl.ce Plaet fourc** of iatormaiictn and Otiivr kw«I> Maiiional intormation on Father Mother (maiJen name). CHILDREN BORN DIED MARRIED Vhen There Vhen Where To whom Then Where • 1 2 3 4 S 6 7 » 10 11 12 27 RICKEY ROOTS AND REVELS is dedicated to helping those who are tracing their connections to the several RICKEY CLANS in America. We are especially interested in publishing new information, but also very willing to up-date and correct earlier published data. As any writer/researcher knows, when something gets into print, there are always "new" items which come to light, typos that need correcting and just plain errors of fact that need the enlightenment of further research. We would like to include Family Bible records, marriage licenses, old photographs (with or without exact identification), county court records (deeds, probate settlements, wills), tombstone recordings, biographical sketches, oral history interviews, newspaper obituaries (word-for-word), military and pension data, church items, school graduations, etc. Documentation (when it was done and where copies can be found) is important but not an absolute necessity. Your editor will try to give credit to those who furnish items and articles for publication so please put your name and address on each of the items submitted. A small sticky address label is very handy for this purpose. Also, please indicate if the item needs to be returned, otherwise they will be filed in the recesses of file folders which may not be indexed by any "logical" method. IN MEMORIAM NOMA EVELYN JENKINS RICKEY passed away on 29 SEP 1990 at Portsmouth, OH. According to an obituary sent in by her grandaughter, RUTH SMITH of Rte 2, Box 188 W, Minford, OH, NOMA was born 10 APR 1889 in Greenup Co, KY. She was preceded in death by her husband, PEARL BRYSON RICKEY, who died 18 AUG 1955. She was buried alongside him in Martin's Cemetery—the last resting place of over 35 RICKEYS. As the oldest known living RICKEY, this venerable lady was singularly honored at RICKEY REVEL I, when all signed a card in honor of her 101st Birthday. 28 ***************************************** RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS Stanton M. Rickey 235 15th St NE Salem, OR 97301-4228 Address Correction Requested Volume 2 November 1991 Issue No. 5 REVEL H - RICKEY REUNION REPORT As each signed our Guest Book, they were given a packet A total of 108 RICKEY COUSINS - the long and the of the family info, pedigree charts and an elaborate short and the tall, ranging in age from 1 month to 86 years Memorial Certificate, large enough for display, and old - were in attendance at RICKEY REVEL II (17 of attesting to their 1991 membership and presence at the these cousins also were at REVEL I in California last RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION'S REVEL H. year). The SECOND ANNUAL REUNION of the They also received a plastic 'goodie bag' containing large RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION was held on 29 & scale maps of Portsmouth and Scioto County, descriptive 30 June 1991 at Shawnee State Park Lodge, near brochures identifying local points of interest and some Portsmouth, Ohio. Those superb facilities were made giveaway promotional items. These bags were items available by the planning efforts of DON ALD EUGENE procured from the Portsmouth Area Chamber of RICKEY (of the Branch Rickey clan). Many thanks Commerce by LOWELL E. RICKEY (Branch Rickey also to VIRGINIA RICKEY GAYLOR (Branch Clan). His wife, GENEVA LETT RICKEY and other Rickey Clan) who labored tirelessly as our Reservation family members assisted in assembling the contents. Coordinator. This gala party was a rip-roaring, rousing Each person was given a unique combination name tag reprise of last year's gathering in California. RICKEY and souvenir. This consisted of a large (2 W) circular descendants came from 15 states to pray and play together, yellow button/medallion with our covered wagon logo in reunite with old relatives, meet new cousins, bask in the the center, and imprinted around the edge with the words glory of a common heritage, to mingle and thoroughly RICKEYREVELIL JUNE 1991, PORTSMOUTH OfflO. enjoy the august aura of love and kinship that emanated A ribbon suspended from the oversized button identified from this gregarious garrulous gathering of our extended each individual by name and home state. AVIS BROWN RICKEY FAMILY. Cameras were clicking constantly andher daughter, LORI BROWN of Ames, Iowa, devoted and there's got to be plenty of great snapshots to share many hours to the design and fabrication of these among all the cousins. If you will send them in to your medallions, which they most generously donated to our EDITOR, he will put those great memories in an album association. for display at REVEL m. The magnificent ballroom of Shawnee Lodge provided Our formal program and most of the scheduled activities ample space for all to be comfortably seated at tables with were concentrated from 9am to 4pm on Saturday. In plenty of room to spread out family albums, genealogy addition we scheduled a dinner party at 7pm in the Main charts, etc., REVELERS were encouraged to find places Ballroom. This event was attended by 70 RICKEY at tables designated by signs for the respective RICKEY COUSINS, and provided both the opportunity for an CLANS. Again we thank LOWELL RICKEY and his extension of the daytime activities and the cementing of grandson, ROBERT, for construction and placement of new ties in an informal, more relaxed atmosphere. On convention style signs, together with stands and holders Sunday, there was a potluck picnic in the Shawnee State (these two cousins were always ready and willing to pitch Park campground, which was organized by ROWENA in and help setup or rearrange decorations and equipment RICKEY SOUDER (Branch Rickey Clan). Rom noon whenever needed). Computer generated descendancy to about 3pm, 25 of us gathered together in a laid-back charts for each of the clans were at their table and also environment to split some watermelon, share some more posted on the perimeter wall, so that people could easily great food, and "talk story". check family relationships. Three computers and a The in-gathering of cousins commenced promptly at photocopy machine were available at all times to facilitate 9am on Saturday, with sign in and reception so ably the search, recall and exchange of family data. This handled by BILL & AVIS BROWN (Dr. David stimulated many animated discussions and resulted in Talmage Rickey Clan), VICKI RICKEY BRYAN new bonds of kinship being formed on the spot. Many (Basking Ridge Clan), GENEVA LETT RICKEY and were delighted with the opportunity to identify and ROWENA RICKEY SOUDER (Branch Rickey Clan). converse with a 2nd or 3rd cousin whose very existence Page 39 and unknown before attendance at REVEL n. SHOW AND TELL TIME The successful staging of RICKEY REVEL II was Individuals were invited to come forward and present truly a united family affair. Our profbund thanks go out to interesting stories and comments about their families. those many unsung, generous individuals who contributed The following responded: so willingly of their time and effort Your Editor apologizes JULIA RICKEY PEEBLES, niece of Wesley Branch for not mentioning all of you by name. If you were Rickey (b. 20 Dec. 1881 & d. 9 Dec. 1965) spoke overlooked, that's my failure, not yours. reverently of her famous uncle's strength of character and At 10am, we appropriately started our formal program scrupulously high moral and ethical standards, and by reciting The Lord's Prayer, in remembrance of the particularly his solicitous concern for all of the female Christian Heritage of our RICKEY FAMILY pioneers. members of bis family. She said that one of his favorite WENDELL HAROLD RICKEY (Brown County Clan) topic for young unmarried ladies was: How to Choose a led all of us in a stirring rendition of God Bless America. Husband. As the father of 5 girls, this became a very Next, all joined in the Pledge of Allegiance to honor important subject It all started when the eldest daughter, those RICKEY VETERANS who served in every war in MARY, complained that he never quite approved of the our Nation's History - from the Revolution to the recent several young men that she brought home for parental Desert Storm operation against Iraq. Although at the time scrutiny. She asked what he expected from a prospective we were not aware of any specific RICKEY descendants son-in-law? Branch initially replied that he would need who served in the Persian Gulf, it was assumed that some some time to seriously consider her question. Several must have been there. Since then we have learned about days later, he garnered his daughters together to receive the following named veterans of that conflict: his fatherly advice. Foremost, he admonished, they must KARL FREDERICK STEADMAN, Sgt, USA Held be guided by three basic principles when choosing a Artillery, son of JAMES E. STEADMAN & husband: INTEGRITY: He must be honest and sincere; SHARLENE JO RICKEY (Thomas Brinley Rickey INDUSTRY: A willingness to work hard and do his best Clan); 5086 Avocado Circle, Yorba Linda, Ca. 92686- in whatever is his chosen vocation. Laziness or loafing 4171. was intolerable. Always be a good provider for his family; SCOTT ALAN RICKEY, son of LONNIE RAY LOVE: Most important of all. He should love you more RICKEY & PAMELA DIANE ROBINSON of than anything or anyone else in the world. Undoubtedly, Watonga, Ok, and grandson of JOHN ALBERT as was his usual wont, Branch delivered mis little speech RICKEY (Oklahoma RICKEY dan) & FLOELLA in an eloquent manner, expanding on each principle and ROWENA BARTON, P.O. Box 906, Choctaw, Ok. providing pertinent examples. By curious coincidence, a 73020 footnote to this story follows. Surely there are many others that answered the call to BRANCH BARRETT RICKEY, grandson of the duty, and we invite all cousins to send us their names so illustrious Branch, was unable to attend REVEL H, but that their service may be properly acknowledged and did show up at the conclusion of our post-REVEL Sunday documented. Pot Luck Picnic in the campground of Shawnee State Then we proceed with a roll call of the 15 states that Park. Unfortunately, only a handful of REVELERS were represented at REVEL n. As each state was called, remained to hear the many stories he related about his the following persons came to the stage and presented the revered grandfather; for this descendant had undoubtedly flags of their home state: inherited the senior Branch's wit and charm, and that rare State Name Clan silver tonged ability to articulate and spellbind. One of California Charles Branch Rickey Branch Rickey his favorite reminiscences concerned the three basic Florida Robert Rickey Branch Rickey principles involved in choosing a husband. The younger Hawaii Rebecca Rickey Embrey Brown County Illinois James Huston Rickey Branch Rickey Branch spoke of being the only male in the audience Indiana Patricia Rickey Peteb Indianapolis when his grandfather addressed an assembly of the entire Iowa Marjorie Rickey Fullerton Wm. Jacob Rickey female student body of coeds attending Ohio Wesleyan Kansas Megan & Daniel Bryan Basking Ridge University. His subject was the same one described above Kentucky Jon Hamilton Rickey Pa. Quaker by Julia Rickey Peebles, only by now it had been Minnesota Rachel Rickey Brown County Nevada Millie Rickey Lejeune Brown County expanded into an hour long presentation. As the senior New York Arthur John Rickey NY/Quebec Branch delivered his passionate message and fervently Ohio Nicholas Kordalis Brown County punctuated his remarks with gestures, all eyes turned Oregon Addie Dyal Rickey James Rickey toward the "shy young sophomore", who unsuccessfully Pennsylvania Richard Alan Wikander Basking Ridge Virginia Rebecca Rickey Embrey Brown County Page 40 tried to make himself as inconspicuous as possible. He bride home from Klamath Falls, Or.; he and RUTH said he sorely wanted to beat a hasty retreat, but felt ANNE LOMBARD were married there on 5 Nov. 1944. compelled to stay out of respect for his grandfather. Your After the Portsmouth wedding of Jim and BETTY JANE Editor sincerely hopes that Branch Barrett Rickey will BOWMAN on 30 June 1946, the newlyweds decided to be able to participate in future REVELS to regale us with sneak out of town by a devious route to avoid any other "insider recollections" abouthis famous grandparent. friendly shenanigans by well wishing celebrants. As they WILL SHERWOOD RICKEY (Branch Rickey were making their getaway, Frank & Rum closely followed Clan) spoke movingly of the recent loss of his father, the them in another car, apparently too close. They were soon late FRANK WANZER RICKEY (see obituary on p. being tailgated by Frank, careening through the downtown 32, June 1991 issue of RICKEYROOTS & REVELS). A streets at 60mph! Still, this wasn't enough for the exuberant native of Portsmouth and nephew of Wesley Branch former Navy fighter jock. Repeatedly, he backed off and Rickey, it was FRANK'S desire to return to his roots for men rammed the lead car with his chase vehicle. Jim & this reunion, but Divine Providence willed otherwise. Betty commented that they never expected to live through These members of FRANK'S immediate family from this harrowing experience to celebrate their Wedding California were present to hear him eulogized. His widow, Night. Apparently, all turned out well, for they celebrated RUTH LOMBARD RICKEY; daughter and their 45th Wedding Anniversary at REVEL n. granddaughter, FRANCES LOUISE RICKEY BUELL VICKI RICKEY BRYAN (Basking Ridge Clan) & SARAH RUTH BUELL; and grandsons, JACOB was introduced as the new Associate Editor of RICKEY MICHAEL RICKEY & CHARLES BRANCH ROOTS & REVELS, responsible for layout, format, RICKEY. His son, WILL, read a very special poem photo reproduction, and making sure mat the other Editor written by a friend on the occasion of FRANK'S passing. behaves himself and meets deadlines. Vicki presented It follows: the latest draft of her book entitled "The Rickey Family", My friend's eyes are closed, his breath is still and distributed several advance copies for comment. She He has played his last game of baseball and climbed his has already done considerable meticulous research, and it last hill will scon be published and made available to the interested No more will he arise to greet the rosy dawn members of the RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION. For now he sleeps the eternal sleep, Frank is gone. EMMA LUCILLE RICKEY (Brown County Clan) He fought a hard and a good fight as he journeyed displayed a beautifully crafted RICKEY "Namegram" thru this life that she had crocheted. Emma then sold tickets to the And was truly a kind & caring man, & loved by bis REVELERS and conducted a raffle for this lovely art family & bis wife piece. The winner was FRANCES LOUISE RICKEY So I say to those who will gather: "Try, if you can, BUELL from San Leandro, Ca. Over $300 was raised by not to weep" this raffle and the proceeds donated to the coffers of the And he would never want to bring unhappiness or RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION. Another of this cause your tears to fall; but he had to go, as we all delightful crochet work was presented to Addie & Stanton must, when soft and low, we get our final call. And I Michael Rickey (James Lytle Rickey Clan) in believe Frank walked in such a way as to leave recognition of their continuing Family History Research footprints on the sands of time; that those coming after efforts. It is now proudly and prominently displayed at him can see he was a friend to all mankind. their home in Salem, Or. So Good-bye Frank! I'm glad you were my friend MILLIE RICKEY LeJEUNE (Brown County Clan) And I believe that someday we'll meet again. revealed her outstanding talent with a vocal rendition of JAMES HOUSTON RICKEY (Branch Rickey Clan) an enchanting love song that she recently had composed also spoke of his cousin, FRANK WANZER RICKEY, and copyrighted. This vivacious and lovely cousin but in a much lighter vein. Apparently, these two cousins accompanied herself on the piano. graduated from Portsmouth High School together in the ETHEL RICKEY SNYDER related a story about Class of 1938. Jim went to Ohio State University at John Rickey and his brother, who manufactured golf Columbus and Frank to Ohio Wesleyan University at clubs. They gave Jack Nicklaus, then an aspiring youngster Delaware. Both graduated just in time for World War n. from Columbus, Ohio his start. Before he achieved fame, Jim was a Combat Engineer Company Commander with they provided the financial wherewithal by sponsoring the 45th Infantry Division in Europe, while Frank was a one of his early tours on the professional golf circuit. Navy Fighter Pilot in the Pacific. After the war, bom Now he owns their company, among other assets. returned home to Portsmouth. Frank brought his lovely Page 41 GUEST SPEAKERS Rickey (b. 28 Feb. 1858 / d. 2 Oct. 1932) & Nettie WENDELL HOWARD RICKEY (Brown County Campbell (b. 3 June 1866 /d. 31 Jan. 1937). Clan) functioned superbly in the role of REVEL JAMES HUSTONRICKEY& BETTYBOWMAN PUBLICITY CHAIRMAN, tirelessly spreading the were Married Longest; 45 years almost to the day. Our '""miit word about REVEL II in many newspapers and heartiest congratulations. What better way to spend an genealogical publications. He also was solely responsible anniversary man amongst all those cousins! for selecting and arranging the appearance of two CATHERINE RICKEY COOPER (Brown County outstanding guest speakers. We thank him, and them, for Clan) was given half an award for being One-half of a their major contribution to our Reunion. Twin (there being no twins present). We expect her to ROSEMARY CRABTREE was introduced by bring her twin brother, CHARLES S. RICKEY to Wendell as an extremely knowledgeable member of the REVEL HI so they can be properly recognized. Scioto County Historical and Genealogy Societies. She "WENDELL'S BUNCH" were the family with the gave us a very interesting account of the growth and Most Brothers and Sisters at REVEL n. Present were 8 decline of commerce in the southern Ohio communities out of a possible 10 siblings. They came fromal l points of in and around Portsmouth, and how the shutdown of the the compass, but got together around the piano for a iron and steel industry impacted on the demography and songfest just like old times. This musically gifted family economy of the area. She also described the recent was led by WENDELL HAROLD RICKEY at the resurgence of the area, with a renewed emphasis on piano, and included MARY PHYLLIS RICKEY CARL, tourism based on the history associated with Ohio River ROBERTEDWARDRICKEY,CHARLESBRYSON traffic. We were told that Wesley Branch Rickey, when RICKEY, EMMA LUCILLE RICKEY, SHIRLEY a young man, taught school in a rural one room ANNE RICKEY MASSIE, RONALD THOMAS schoolhouse, less than one mile from the present location RICKEY, and ROGER SAMUEL RICKEY. of Shawnee Park Lodge. The farm boys in that school had a reputation for rowdy pranks that forced most teachers to 1992 -- REVEL m -- BRANSON, MO. quit in their first year, however, Branch quickly earned An informal 'caucus' on Saturday night considered the students respect and was rehired for two more terms several options for the location on next years reunion. and received a pay raise from a grateful school board. After much discussion, the consensus was that Branson, HAZEL ROUSHkepther audience constantly amused Missouri would be an ideal spot. Not only for its central by reciting her own whimsical poem entitled "History of location, but also for the splendid recreational facilities Women's Fashions in Rhyme". For an encore, she told a offered amid the natural beauty of this Ozark Mountain & comical yarn about the old fanner's insistence that his Lake country. Two cousins volunteered to investigate the wife needed an automatic washing machine. He decided feasibility and undertake advance planning for a RICKEY to do the first load himself, using the entire box of REVEL DI site location and date. They are: detergent that came with the machine. We all cracked up Bill Brown Ronald Rickey when Hazel described the resultant foamy overflow with P. O. Box 242 1135 15th Street W. suds filling the entire basement. Zearing, JA. 50278 Hasings, MN. 55033 SPECIAL RECOGNITION (515) 487-7229 (612) 438-3365 KENNETH LEE RICKEY (Brown County Clan) & his wife, ANNA LEA, Traveled the Furthest distance to our reunion. These cousins came 2400 miles from Laguna Miguel, Ca. They also were at REVEL I in Diamond Springs, Ca. last year. SARAH RUTH BUELL (Branch Rickey Clan) was the Youngest Baby present She was born 23 May 1991. At age 1 month & 6 days, they refused to let her board the airplane in San Francisco without being accompanied by her mother, Frances Louise Rickey Buell. ETHEL RICKEY SNYDER (Brown County Clan), born 6 Oct. 1904 received an ovation for being the Most Venerable cousin present. She is the daughter of Samuel Shawnee State Park Lodge Page 42 c c Page 43 NATE T. RICKEY (Of Course!) BROWN (b. 10 June, 1860, Scioto Co., Oh. / d. 9 June by Jim Rickey 1940, Portsmouth, Oh.) seated on the front porch with After attending RICKEY REVEL II in Portsmouth, Grandpa Nate. Dad lived there at mat time while going Ohio, I came across a 1905 Photo Book of to Portsmouth High School. homes, stores and people living in Figure 3 shows the home of my maternal great Portsmouth shortly after the turn of the grandfather, Jacob Zottman. By coincidence, bothhomes century. appeared on the same page of the old Photo Book, with About 1898, my grandfather, this home appearing to the right of Nate's picture. On 9 NATHAN THOMPSON RICKEY May 1917, twelve years after this Photo Book was (b.9Feb. 1859,Madison Township, published, Nate's son and my father, JAMES HUSTON Scioto Co., Oh. / d. 22 Jul. 1957, VARNER RICKEY, SR. married the granddaughter of Crystal Springs, Fl.) started the old Jacob. My mother was LYDIA ELIZABETH RICKEY REALTY CO. with GIESLER (b.9Dec. 1893/d. 4 Nov. 1984 at Arlington offices above the "Corner Book Store" Heights, 11), the daughter of CHRISTIAN GIESLER in downtown Portsmouth. The sign (b.26 Jun 1855/d.Feb. 1914) and ANNA CHRISTIANA on the left front window of the second ZOTTMAN (b. 13 Mar. 1855 /d. 13 Sept. 1929). floor read: REAL ESTATE, RICKEY, "OF COURSE". Why Grandfather used the "Of Course" was RICKEY and REAL ESTATE never made clear to me, but he was widely known for that Are Synonymous. slogan. I remember that he even signed his name most of OFFICE OVER CORNER BOOK STORE. the time - NATE T. RICKEY (Of Course). Figure 1 • o> ttr ft.. *M Nate had been a salesman for many years after leaving Ikcr Vmm awamrf «* aka • mt a. w. itn datfr da la *dr p^r «*., •< It b « «k r»«"»t his father's farm and going to Dennison College (then called Granville College) in Granville, Ohio. Neither of Farms, Timber and Mineral Lands, City and Suburban Properties. his brothers, JAMES SILAS RICKEY (b. 17 Dec. Hoa*. Built ,o Ori^ ^ u 1851, Scioto Co., Oh. / d. 4 Mar. 1927) nor JACOB FRANKLIN RICKEY (b. 18 Mar. 1854, Scioto Co., Oh. / d. Dec. 1939) attended college, but both managed farms and sold cattle to my maternal grandfather, Christian Giesler, who was a butcher. RICKEY REALTY CO. continued in business, and Figure 2 in the mid-1920's, CHARLES EDWIN RICKEY (b. 22 Apr. 1879, Scioto Co., Oh.) and JAMES EPHRAIM RICKEY (b. 6 Dec. 1881, Scioto Co., Oh.), both sons of James Silas Rickey, joined the firm. Shortly afterwards, Nate T. Rickey retired from real estate, but remained active in politics and various community causes (Of Course!) About this time, JAMES HUSTON VARNER RICKEY, SR. (b. 23 Nov. 1890, Portsmouth, Oh / d. 8 Follow up questions and/or comments are welcomed. Nov. 1861, Portsmouth, Oh.) also entered the business. They should be sent to the author: James Huston Rickey, The latter was my father, who continued with them until 117 Oak Hill Court, St. Charles, n. 60174. the Great Depression of the 1930's. The Rickey and Real Estate advertisement (see figure 1) that appeared in the old Photo Book shows the breadth of coverage and thoroughness of their efforts to serve the property needs of the entire community. The firm continued to function as RICKEY REALTY CO. until Figure 3 some time in the 1960's when the last RICKEY member had passed away. At the top of this page from the same Photo Book is a picture of Nate T. Rickey," Of Course". Figure 2 is the family home with my grandmother, LOIS HULDA Page 44 RICKEY QUERIES South, Burnsville, MN 55337; or to great granddaughter Submit queries on your RICKEY connections. Be sure to Linda Noggle, 6900 Rawhide Ridge, Columbia, MD. include all names, dates, and places for eacnevent relative to 21046 one family. Type or print clearly. Please use day, month (spelled oat) and year system, ie., 30 Oct. 1820. Submit as LOST ANCESTOR FOUND many queries as you like. Be sure to include your name and Patricia Rickey Peteh has proven that determination, address on each query submitted. perseverance and a little luck do pay off in locating your lost' ancestor. With little information on her grandfather A series of 'Round Robin Letters' were widely LEROY T.RICKEY, Patty pleaded her cause atROOTS circulated in the 1950's among members of the Thomas & REVELS n. Several trips to regional libraries later we Brinley Rickey & William Rickey Clans. These were able to successfully reunite Patty with her lost' contained lively and newsworthy items about the doings ancestor. Patty proved to be the great granddaughter of of family members and should provide much valuable PETER MOSER RICKEY and MARY THOMAS info of a historical and genealogical nature. Anyone ELLIOTT. This discovery places Patty in the Basking having copies of these letters is urged to send them to Ridge Clan. In the process of locating Leroy T.'s parents Maggie von Kempf, 1543 Walnut Dr., Palo Alto, Ca. we uncovered previously unknown children of Peter 94303 Moser Rickey and Mary Thomas Elliott. If you have Seeking info about and/or descendants of any information on any of these children, please contact Revolutionary Soldier JOSHUA CARPENTER who Vicki Rickey Bryan, 1130 East Cothrell, Olathe, Kansas served in the same Regiment as JOHN JACOB RICKEY 66061. (b. 1750 Horseneck, Ct / d. 1837 Horseheads, NY). Four sons of Joshua came to Michigan. The eldest, WILLIAM LeRoy T. Rickey CARPENTER, came as a widower. His wife, Lydia, is b.1870 Minonk, Illinois buried in the Old Marsh Cemetery at Horseheads, Waty (daughter) b. 1871/72 Minonk, Illinois Chemung Co., NY. Family lore says she was probably a Franky (daughter) b. 1872^73 Minonk, Illinois RICKEY. SAMUEL CARPENTER, brother to Eda (daughter) b.1875 Minonk, Illinois WiUiam, married MARY 'POLLY' RICKEY. The latter Mildred May b.1888 Norton, Kansas couple came to Lenawee Co., MI in the early 1830's, as And, we're hot on the trail of locating other Lost did 'Judge' JOSEPH RICKEY (probably brother of RICKEY Ancestors Mary). Please reply to Vivian Elmore, 1029 S. Webster St., Jackson, ML 49203 Are there any living descendants of 'Colonel' JOSEPH KERR RICKEY, famous Washington D.C. lobbyist and Saloon Keeper who invented the 'Gin Rickey'? He maintained apermanentresidence in Fulton, Mo., and is buried there in Hillcrest Cemetery. At the time of his death in New York City on 23 April 1903, he had two living children, WILLIAM HYDE RICKEY of Portland, Oregon and ALBY PRATHER RICKEY (Mrs. Leslie Benton Hanchett) of East Saginaw, MI. A third child, NATALIE RICKEY, died on 17 Jan. 1896. Please write to the great grandniece of 'Colonel Joe'; Elizabeth A. Rickey, Inc. 1765 Coliseum Square, #225, New Orleans, LA. 70130 Seeking identification of parents & grandparents of JAMES RICKEY, born Bradford Co., PA (or southern NY state) on 16 Sept. 1823; married LUCY VAN NORMAN at Chemung Co., NY in 1847. Came to Moscow, Iowa Co., Michigan in 1851 and died there on 1 Dec. 1901. Family lore says father's name may be ISRAEL RICKEY. Please reply to James's great grandson, Donald Edward Rosenbaum, 129321st Ave. LeRoy T. Rickey Page 45 1990 New York SMALL WORLD, HUH! OWEN JAMES RICKEY Phillip J. Leighton Rickey & Mary Sullivan Even us Rickey's have to admit that it's a 'SMALL v.miil'' WORLD' after all. Two very interesting stories illustrate 26 Nov. 1990 Columbus, OH this point *DAVIS ZACHARY WALKER JUDY RICKEY NORMAN, 719 Griffith St, London, Jay Davis Walker & Kate Burkley Ontario, N6K3A6, Canada writes: "My mom (IDA BELLE VIETHS RICKEY) was on a Princess Cruise 31 Dec. 1990 Turlock, CA through the Panama Canal, and found, purely by accident, ROBERT WAYNE GRANT another RICKEY descendent on the same ship... Cousin Todd Grant & Kelly Denise Rickey CHARLEEN AUDRAIN BOSLER& her husband, Ed from 2157 Hadden Rd., Walnut Creek, Ca. 94596". Your 1991 Oklahoma EDITOR fondly remembers the latter couple from MITCHELL RICKEY REVELS I, where two of their grandchildren, Steve Rickey & Anita Collier BRITTANY & JULIE WATKINS favored us with a delightful song and dance routine. 23 May 1991 San Francisco, CA B. NORRIS RICKEY, 4872 A Beach Dr. SE, St. *SARAH RUTH BUELL Petersburg, Fl 33705 writes: "Thanks, but . . Dickinson Buell, Jr. & Frances Louise Rickey .Unfortunately, since making reservations at Shawnee *These Beautiful Bouncing Babies were at REVEL II Lodge some business came up and I had to cancel Reunion plans. Perhaps next year... I recently was on a boat trip IN MEMORIAM from Kissimmee, FL to Lake Okeechobee, a rivertri p of 120 miles through 7 locks. While transiting one of them, CHARLES KENNETH RICKEY died in the lock tender asked if I was from Ohio, because every Sacramento, CA on 17 Dec. 1990 at age 76. He was a winter she has a boater come through with the RICKEY partner with the architectural firm of Rickey & Brooks last name. She didn't know his first name, but if at and affiliate with the American Society of Architects. A REVEL II you find an Ohio RICKEY who is a regular lifelong resident of Sacramento, he was born in mat city visitor to the Central Florida Waterway, please invite him on 24 June 1914 to John Quincy Rickey Sr. and Ida to call me when he is in Florida". Whoever you are, when Marie Webster. Preceded in death by bis wife, Thelma you read this, call your Cousin, die Pinellas Co., FL Irene Martin, he is survived by his son, David Martin Assistant County Attorney at his office-TEL: (813)462- Rickey of Citrus Heights, CA; brothers, William Henry 3354. Rickey of Sacramento and Ralph Webster Rickey of Carmichael, CA (since passed away on 27 Feb. 1991); NEWEST RICKEY BABIES and two grandchildren, Sheryl Ann and Glen Scott Rickey. He was buried on 19 Dec. 1991 at ML Vernon 19 May 1988 Whittier.CA Cemetery on Greenback Lane in Orangevale, CA. (Info NICHOLAS ALEXANDER ATWELL furnished at REVEL II by Wayne Donald Rickey, 2655 John D. Atwell & Sharon Kay Steadman Emerald Way, Turlock, CA 95380. Letter with obit sent by Judy Allen, 6245 Tonzie Rd., lone, CA 95640) 9 Oct. 1988 California BRTTTAIN RENE RICKEY RALPH WEBSTER RICKEY died in Sacramento, Steven Rickey & lisa Ellis CA on 27 Feb. 1991 at age 73. He was born there on 14 May 1917. Preceded in death by his wife, Margaret 28 Dec. 1988 Turlock, CA Amelia Wright, and a brother, Charles Kenneth Rickey BRITTANINICHOLE GRANT (see above), he is survived by another brother, William Todd Grant & Kelly Denise Rickey Henry Rickey of Sacramento; three sons, Wayne Donald Rickey of Turlock, CA, Monte Ronald Rickey and 11 Jan. 1989 Orange, CA Frank Todd Rickey; Grandchildren David Dorer, AMY JO MILLS Steven, Kevin Dale, Kristofer Don, Lloyd Trent, and Melvin Robert Mills & Ricki Jo Steadman Myan Rickey, also Marsha Rickey Guzzi and Kelly Page 46 Denise Rickey Grant; six great grandchildren. (Info Trust Officer, Jefferson Bank. 124 SW Adams St. Peoria, furnished at REVEL n by Wayne Donald Rickey, 2655 IL 61649). We have no explanation for the letter of Emerald Way, Turlock, CA 95380) sympathy received, except to surmise that Rickey Roots •>..,*. & Revels and other correspondence was found among VIOLA MARION (CARPENTER) RICKEY, died the decedents effects. Any readers having knowledge of in Pawtucket, R.I. on 28 June 1991 at age 76. She was Nedra's family and/or relationship to other Rickey's, are born 17 June 1915 in that city, to George S. Carpenter requested to notify your Editor. & Mary Elizabeth Morris. Beloved wife of the late Marvin Hall Rickey (b. 21 May 1911 Wytheville, VA / Did you ever notice? The 4 volume, 4,800 page history d. 13 Aug. 1969 Boston, MA). They were married in of the county where your great-grandfather lived is not Pawtucket in January 1939. She is survived by son, indexed? Ronald Barry Rickey of Seekonk, MA, and another son, Terry Ward Rickey of Old Hickory, TN.; grandchildren MARRIAGES Dawn Kerry and Leigh Kristen Rickey of Old Hickory, TN. She was buried 3 July 1991 at Moshassuck Cemetery PEGGY LYNNE RICKEY to Curtis Eugene COX in Central Falls, R.I. (Info furnished by Terry Ward on July 20, 1991. Peggy is the daughter of the late Rickey, 5117 Brittany Dr., Old Hickory, TN 37138) Charles Lewis Rickey, Sr. and the late Nina Elizabeth Pender. THELMA G.RICKEY died atage 87 on2 June 1991 KENNETH MELVIN RICKEY to Lisa Ann at Phillipsburg, KS where she was born on 26 May 1904 CLOUGH on September 28,1991. Ken is the son of the to Isaac Emory Rickey (b. 3 Oct. 1881 Craig, MO / d. late Jacqueline Snick Rickey and Oren Lee Rickey of Feb 1973 Smith Center, KS) & Nettie Ethel Smith. Odessa, Mo. Thelma was a school teacher in Salt Lake City, Utah for 41 years before returning home. She was buried 5 June 1920 CENSUS 1991 at Fairview Cemetery in Phillipsburg. Her passing is mourned by her sister, Henrietta Elizabeth Rickey On Monday March 2,1992, the National Archives in c Bulleigh of Phillipsburg; Nephew Jack Rickey andNiece Washington DC, will unlock the file cabinets housing the Tomlyn Kaye Rickey Brandon; Grand-nephews Jack 1920 Federal Census Microfilm. The 1920 Census exists •Rickey Brandon & Jay Rickey Brandon. (Info was only on microfilm and is completely soundexed. This furnished by the tetter's wife, Sally Sue Hopson Brandon, long awaited event will be a redletter day for all RR 1, Box 99, Phillipsburg, KS 67661) Excerpts from genealogists. Mark your research calendars. Sally's eloquent letter follow ".. .In Thelma's belongings Simultaneously, file cabinets will also be unlocked and we found copies of Rickey Roots & Revels and a letter the entire 1920 Census will be available at each of the 12 from you. Being the genealogist buff in the family, the Regional Archives: info was dropped in my lap. . . Before Jay and I were married, Thelma and I spent a day discussing family New England Region history. Since my family tree is at a standstill, I began.. 380 Trapelo Rd. Bldg 22, *fifi{aty Q . to piece together my husband's side ... Enclosed are Waltham, MA. 02154 Bayonne, NJ. h Mid-Atlantic Region Great Lakes Region FGS's on our bunch. . . also some articles on Branch 5000 Wissahickon Ave. 7358 S. Pulaski Rd. Rickey. . . she had the same Rickey spunk and Philadelphia, PA. 19144 Chicago, IL. 60629 determination. She had a strong thirst for knowledge and Southeast Region • Central Plains Region passed that on to the many students she taught. .. She 1557 St. Joseph Ave. 2306 E. Bannister Rd. loved to travel, talk, and entertain... I will miss her dearly East Point, GA. 30344 Kansas City, MO. 64131 Southwest Region Rocky Mountain Region and so want to carry on the history and lore that she 501W. Felix St Bldg. 48, Denver Federal Center entrusted to me." * EDITORS NOTE: SALLY'S INPUT WAS Ft. Worth, TX. 76115 Denver, CO. 80225 THE BREAKTHROUGH THAT IDENTIFIED THELMA AS THE GREAT Pacific Sierra Region Pacific Southwest Region 1000 Commodore Dr. 24000 Avila Rd. GRANDDAUGHTER OF ISAAC RlCKEY (B. 15 SEPT 1804 IN NY San Bruno, CA. 94066 Laguna Niguel, CA. 92677 /D. 18 Nov 1889 SaoTO Co., OH) & MARY ANN BECK, AS Pacific Northwest Region Alaska Region WELL AS 3RD COUSIN, ONCE REMOVED, TO BRANCH RlCKEY. 6125 Sand Point Way, NE. 654 W. Third Ave. Rm 012 Seattle, WA. 98115 Anchorage, AK. 99501 NEDRA RICKEY of Peoria, IL passed away on 5 March 1991. (Info furnished by Debra J.Sippel, Assistant HAPPY HUNTING Page 47 Due to the high cost of publishing & mailing the ROOTS and REVELS newsletter, it has become necessary to request a donation of at least $10 annually if you wish to continue receivingthi s newsletter. Persons who attended REVEL II in June 1991 have already paid as part of their registration fee. Here is my donation for 1992 $ 10.00, other $ , I wish to CONTINUE receiving the Rickey ROOTS and REVELS newsletter. Make check payaable to: Rickey Family Association. I DO NOT wish to continue receiving Rickey ROOTS and REVELS newsletter, please remove my name from your mailing list. Add the following new "COUSIN" to the mailing list for the Rickey ROOTS and REVELS newsletter and send a free copy of the most recent newsletter. Name Address City, St Change my address to the following: Name Address City, St. Page 48 RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS Stanton M. Rickey 235 15th St NE Salem, OR. 97301-4228 Address Correction Requested Noble Co. Genealogical Society P. O. Box 444 Caldwell, OH 43724 o November 1991 ^oots & Revets Volume 3 February 1992 Issue No. 6 COLONEL JOE, INVENTOR OF THE riverboats, made him feel more at home with the "GIN RICKEY" South's cause. When the Civil War broke out, Cousin When Your Editor was a crass teenager in high Joe got off a side-wheeler tied up alongside a Missouri school, one of several nicknames I had to bear, was wharf and joined the Army of the Confederacy. This, "GIN RICKEY." Perhaps, some others of you despite the fact that his father and two brothers served cousins suffered silently under the same sobriquet. I in the Union Army. For a time, he was stationed at had only a vague notion that it was some kind of Fulton, Callaway Co., MO. where he met and married drink, and not the slightest idea that the beverage, SALLIE HOWARD on 12 Dec. 1865. They had and its inventor, played a significant role in my five children: HOWARD RICKEY (b. 1867 / d. RICKEY FAMILY HERITAGE. In fact, the man 1868, Fulton); ALBY PRATHER RICKEY (a who created this famous libation of the 19th Century, daughter, b. 13 Jun. 1869 in Fulton; married LESLIE was my 1st cousin, 3 generations removed. In the BENTONHANCHETTon8 Apr. 1891 in Fulton); latter third of the 19th century, he was widely admired NATALIE KYLE RICKEY (b. 14 Apr. 1871 / d. as a suave lobbyist of almost unbounded political 17 Jan. 1896, married ROBERT H. SPENCER); influence, not only in state capitals, but also in JOSEPH KERR RICKEY (b. 1873 / d. 1874, in Washington, D.C. Today, he is chiefly recalled as Fulton); WILLIAM HYDE RICKEY (b. 13 Dec. the inventor of a drink that can be found all over the 1874 / d. 9 Oct. 1907, Carson City, NV.). world, bearing our Family Surname. After the Civil War, our subject entered politics as "Colonel" JOSEPH KERR (KYLE) RICKEY a "silent member," or lobbyist. It was now a few (b. 11 Jan. 1842, Keokuk, IA. / d. 23 Apr. 1903, hours ride from Fulton to Jefferson City and the New York City, NY.), the 4th son in a family of 13 State Capital, and Joe was often present to see that children born to Dr. JOSEPH KERR RICKEY, certain proposals that interested him were passed by Sr. (b. 28 Apr. 1815, Allegheny Co., PA. / d. 28 Apr. the State Legislature. He was described as a jovial 1900, Clarinda, Page Co., IA.) & ELIZABETH and affable young man, with a smiling face, courtly McCLEARY(b. 28 Aug. 1818, County Cork, Ireland manner, and a reputation for always keeping his / d. 9 Mar. 1902, Clarinda, IA.). Most of his boyhood word. Well liked by all the Missouri politicians, he years were spent in the Mississippi River town of easily made friends and was always ready to help Keokuk, where he found the allure of an adventurous, round out a table of poker. And so, when a particular variegated life on the "Big Muddy" most appealing, friend talked about some law or scheme that was There was no better way to pass the time on long deemed beneficial, Rickey would lend an attentive trips drifting down to New Orleans than over a table ear, and say he would see what could be done about shared with congenial companions, a cold bottle on it. the side, and a friendly game of poker. Those river Cousin Joe soon found that silently guiding the days were made for gambling, and young Joe Rickey, destinies of legislatures was not an unpleasant busi- with an amazing aptitude for cards, was awfully ness, and could be pleasantly lucrative. The main good at it. Legend has it that he played his cards well; thing was to know the men who controlled the votes, undoubtedly now and then he lost, but if he did, no This meant eating, drinking, laughing, and gambling such score is on record. The cards generally favored with them; all things that suited his fancy and in Rickey and he raked in the chips. which he excelled. Politicians, like most other people, His traffic with Southerners, sojourns at the river liked a good story, and Joe already had a reputation ports of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana, and as a fluent raconteur. He quickly drifted into the role his fancy for the leisure-filled easy life on the of full time professional lobbyist, but soon realized Page.49 that guiding Missouri politics had its limits. The the Planters Hotel in St Louis, MO. during the Demo- place to go for that game was Washington, D.C. and cratic National Convention of 1896. He mixed his he saw no reason why his rising star couldn't shine now famous drink of limes and gin for some of his just as brightly in the Nation's Capital. old political cronies. Among them was Marse Henry About this time, he acquired the title, "Colonel." Watterson, Editor of the Louisville Courier Journal, In those days, and in his profession, a title was who said: "Joe, I am christening the most palatable important, and Colonel was an especially pleasant drink I have ever known — the GIN RICKEY." one. It was never an earned military rank, but had Cousin Beth told us that her ancestor later prepared some validity as he had once served in that capacity his famous libation for Lord Dunraven in London, as an aide on a Governor's staff. His obituary, which England; and dined with Sir Thomas Lipton, where appeared on the front page of the New York Times on he mixed it for him and the Dukes of Marlboro and 24 Apr. 1903, said: "Colonel" Rickey was one of a Manchester. quartet of famous Colonels who were known in Another of our RICKEY FAMILY nearly every city in the country - Col. William Hyde, ASSOCIATION cousins is former Tennessee State Col. Broadhead, Col. "Gus" Prather, and Col. Rickey. Senator, ALBERT CLIFTON RICKEY (b. 23 Dec. He had a very wide acquaintance with members of 1917, Memphis, Shelby Co., TN.), residing at 3779 Congress, and took an active part in promoting S. Gallaway Dr., Memphis, TN. 38111. He advises legislation. At one time he was the owner of the that "Col. JOSEPH K. RICKEY (his great grand Shomaker Building, on Pennsylvania Ave., in the uncle) was a lobbyist in Washington D.C. for the capital city. silver interests in the 187O's and 1880's. There he Before long he was quite as popular in Washington owned the Silver Dollar Saloon, which had the first as he had been in Jefferson City. He wheedled and bar that was paved with silver dollars and covered traded with Congressmen and Senators with amazing with glass. There have been many of these silver deftness. When he asked friends for favors, he usually dollar bars since, all imitators of Col. Joe's idea." got what he wanted. One story illustrates his lobbying The New York Times obituary stated that our Col. prowess. It seems that a large corporation had been Joe was a warm friend of William Jennings Bryan. entirely unsuccessful in getting its patents renewed. The obit also quoted AI Smith (former mayor of Finally, in despair, they approached "Colonel" New York City, later Governor of New York State, Rickey and asked for his help. "Well, just wait and and Democratic candidate for President in 1928), see," Joe said, and he was off. Just 30 minutes later who said: "Joe and I were boys together. He was the he returned, carrying the patent renewals under his soul of honor. He was as square as a die, and if he arm. were your friend, you could command his last dollar. He was reputed to be the greatest of all gamblers. He has given away a fortune to those he deemed in Joe would bet on anything; walking down the street need." with a friend, he'd even wager on the number of a Flamboyant to the end, "Colonel" Joseph Kerr still far-off but approaching streetcar. Our cousin bet (Kyle) Rickey suffered a mysterious death. On 23 on the first Grover Cleveland election, getting long Apr. 1903, he suddenly collapsed on the corner of odds, and won $80,000. He lost more than that when Broadway and 25th Streets in New York City. A Cleveland was defeated four years later, but he made policeman assisted him to his home at 24 West 25th it all back in a few weeks on sugar stocks. Supposedly St, where he succumbed. A bottle of carbolic acid he got his tips on sugar prices while in a poker game was found in his coat pocket. Although family with several Senators. members denied that he had taken poison, an autopsy At RICKEY REVEL I, in Diamond Springs, CA. revealed a small quantity of carbolic acid in his on 23 June 1990, ELIZABETH ANN RICKEY (b. stomach. Widely known and loved by countless 11 June 1956, Lafayette, Lafayette Par., LA.), of the friends, his demise was reported as front page news Dr. Joseph Kerr Rickey Clan, described some of by the New York Times and St. Louis Dispatch, and the exploits of her great grand uncle. She said that carried by many other newspapers from coast to Col. Joe Rickey introduced the "GIN RICKEY" at coast. Page 50. "Those who do not look upon themselves as a link within 10 miles. Other motels with more moderate > connecting the past with the future do not perform prices than our Reunion/Convention Center are their duty to the world." - Daniel Webster also available in the immediate area. Our very special c thanks to the following Rickey Cousins who are EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS working so diligently to make our RICKEY FOR REVEL HI FAMILY REUNION bigger and better than ever!!! Eureka Springs, AR., a famous resort area known as the "Little Switzerland of the Ozarks" has been Bill Brown Elston Rickey selected as the site of RICKEY REVEL IE. It is P.O. Box 242 2100 Blisswood Zearing, IA 50278 Pocahontas, AR. 72455 located in the NW corner of Arkansas, just south of Tel: (515) 487-7229 Tel: (501) 892-4640 the Missouri border, and less than 50 miles from Branson, MO. The latter was investigated and The following adult Rickey's attended REVEL II rejected by our planning committee as unsuitable at Portsmouth, OH. (*denotes attendance at REVEL due to high prices, lack of available meeting facilities, I at Diamond Springs, CA.) and overcrowding during the summer season. Apparently the newest country music capital is Marie Rickey Portsmouth, OH currently a victim of its overnight success. Anyone Philip & Wanda Rickey Howard Portsmouth, OH who saw the recent CBS TV "Sixty Minutes" Special Brenda Fulton Raines Seaman, OH on Branson, which showed traffic jams of tourists in Ruth Ellen Rickey Fulton Winchester, OH gridlock on narrow roadways, would readily agree Eleanor Rickey Wiles Winchester, OH that our planners made a wise choice. Check the Wendell Rickey Winchester, OH Roger Rickey Winchester, OH "Points of Interest" Section of the AAA Tour Book Mary Phyllis Rickey Carl Enon, OH that covers AR, KS, MO. & OK, and you will find 2 Larry Dale Rickey Creston,OH & 1/2 columns of recommended attractions devoted Mary Palfrey Creston,OH to Branson, as opposed to 4 columns for Eureka Julia Rickey Peebles McDermott, OH Springs, (an historic destination resort for over 100 William & Lynn Penland Evansville, IN Indianapolis, IN years). Joseph & Patricia Rickey Peteh Harms & Beth Rickey Pieper Evansville, IN RICKEY REVEL HI will be held on 27- 28 June George Rickey Crawfordsville IN 1992 at Best Western — Inn of the Ozarks, P.O. Sharon Rickey Crawfordsville, IN Zearing, IA Box 431, Eureka Springs, AR. 72632. This is a Bill & Avis Brown complete recreation resort and convention center on Francis & Marjorie - - Rickey Fullerton Columbus Junction, IA 34 acres, just two minutes from the historic downtown •Ronald Rickey Hastings, MN district of Eureka Springs, AR. For Room James Huston & Betty Rickey, Jr. St. Charles, IL Reservations, you may. call direct (501-253-9768) John & Jean Rickey Lopeman Henry, IL or call Best Western at (1-800-528-1234). Rooms E. Wayne & Marjorie Rickey Henry ,IL Decatur, IL have been blocked especially for this RICKEY Clarence & Margie Rickey Vicki Rickey Bryan Olathe, KS FAMILY REUNION from NOW until Mav 25. Frances Sinister Rickey Tonganoxie, KS 1992. After that date, they will no longer give us Kimberly Rickey Martinez Wichita, KS priority on accommodations and price, and our Debbie Reese Mansfield, OH unfilled rooms will be made available to the general "'Millie Rickey LeJeune Las Vegas, NV public. Ask for our RICKEY REVEL m special Kenneth & Anna Lea - - Metter Rickey Laguna NigueL, CA room rate of $64 plus tax (kids under 18 stay free in •Paul & Maggie vonKempf Palo Alto, CA same room"). WARNING: If vou call the central 800 Wayne Rickey Turlock, CA number, be sure you are NOT booked into Best *Ruth Lombard Rickey Palermo CA Western—Eureka Inn, located in the same town! •Will Sherwood Rickey Yuba City, CA *Stanton & Addie Dyal Rickey Salem, OR The AAA Camp book lists 300 RV Camp Sites Frances Rickey Buell San Leandro, CA. within 5 miles of Eureka Springs and another 100 Jim & Jamie Peebles Cincinnatti, OH Page. 51 Rebecca Rickey Embrey Fredricksburg, VA Previously unknown cousins are being identified Arthur & Claire Rickey Verplank,NY by your use of the back page coupon, and they each Richard Wikander Westown, PA Lowell & Geneva Rickey Pinellas Park, FL receive a complimentary copy of our Newsletter. Jon Rickey Ashland, KY This has been especially helpful, as most in this Glenn & Wanda Rickey Walker Mansfield, OH category do not carry the Rickey Surname. We Jay & Kate Walker Columbus, OH have no way of reaching those Rickey Descendants Keven Geedey & Laura Eckles Hickory Corners, MI with associated spousal surnames, unless you come Reynoldsburg, OH Chad & Shelva Geedey forward and send us their name & address. Please William & Carlyn Rickey The Plains, OH William & Betty Rickey Circleville, OH continue in this effort to expand our extended family Harold & Janet Wardlow Columbus, OH of Rickey cousins to all who are eligible. Virginia Rickey Gaylor Mansfield, OH Thanks also to those who took the time and trouble •Donald E. Rickey Crestline, OH to drop us a line and say Do Not Continue. Some Mansfield, OH Thomas H. Rickey gave reasons such as death, divorce, mistaken identity, Charles & Dorothy Rickey Cincinnati, OH Ethel Rickey Snyder Ketterling, OH duplicate addresses, etc. Unfortunately, many who Robert E. Rickey Dayton, OH did not respond, sent only the message of silence. George & Kathy Rickey Kordalis Dayton, OH We would still like to hear from our inactive "silent *Emma Rickey Dayton, OH majority," preferably with a request for upgrading to Dayton, OH Catherine Cooper Active Membership. Do all of your Rickey Cousins Cuba Rickey Lucasville, OH Charles & Ruth Smith Minford, OH a favor by mailing in the back page coupon and Virginia Rickey Portsmouth, OH stating your preference either For or Against William & Rowena Rickey SouderPortsmouth, OH continued participation. We are now sending RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS to 118 libraries nationwide, that have MEMBERSHIP DONATIONS BY Genealogy Collections. Nearly all have sent letters ACTIVE COUSINS of appreciation and acknowledgment, and stated that The response to our back page coupon in the last our Newsletter is made available to patrons. These issue of RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS has been are distributed Free, and the cost is subsidized by most gratifying. Many thanks! Your outpouring of our Active Members who made voluntary donations. both dollars and laudatory comments is exactly the Most prominent among these libraries are: The kind of support we needed. If we are to continue this outstanding Family History Library in Salt Lake effort to explore the myths and mysteries of our City, UT.; WI. State Historical Society Library on nearly forgotten heritage, we must continue to reach the University of WI Campus at Madison, WI.; Allen out, identify, and embrace more cousins in our Co. Public Library, Ft. Wayne, IN.; Sutro Library extended Rickey Family. Your voluntary (The Genealogy Collection of the CA. State Library), contributions make this possible. San Francisco, CA.; Ohio (State) Genealogical The RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION now Society Library, Mansfield, OH.; Iowa (State) has an Active paid up membership of 239. Each mail Genealogical Society, Des Moines, IA. And to drop forwarding (we are on the "Rambling Research mention just a few of the largest Public Libraries: Road," currently in Arizona) steadily increases that Cincinnati, OH.; St. Louis, MO.; Dallas, TX.; Denver, number. For the convenience of those Inactive CO.; Los Angeles, CA.; and Seattle, WA. Cousins, who failed to respond, there is another The Newsletter is also sent to the Library of back page coupon in this issue. Understandably, Congress in Washington, D.C., which has recog- Christmas Holidays, etc. may have been the reason nized our status by assigning us an ISSN number. It for your procrastination. We hope you see fit to appears on the back page, just over the return ad- upgrade your status from Inactive to Active, because dress box. The ISSN can be used by most it will soon be necessary to drastically reduce the computerized libraries to access us in the Master mailing list from 907 individuals and 118 libraries Reference List of OCLC. currently receiving our Newsletter. Page 52. IN MEMORIAM death by his parents, and a brother, ROBERT FRANKLIN RICKEY (b. 27 Apr. 1921, Columbus, THOMAS H. RICKEY collapsed and died Franklin, Co., OH. / d. 15 Mar. 1983, Lucasville, unexpectedly on 3 Aug. 1991 at Ashland, OH. He Scioto Co., OH. and married MARIE LAUTER, 29 was bom 10 Mar. 1925 at Newark, OH. to ISSAC Nov. 1940, Russell, Greenup Co., KY.) PARKER RICKEY (b. 20 Jan. 1896, Lucasville, EDITORS NOTE - Tom, Virginia, Rev. Phil, Scioto Co., OH. / d. 22 Oct 1947, Lucasville) & Wanda Sue, Wanda Ruth, Glenn and Marie AVENELL JANE WHEELER (b. 29 May 1898, attended REVEL H. The untimely passing of Tom I Wheelers Mills, Scioto was a tremendous shock to his family and also Your Co., OH. / d. 12 Aug. Editor, who enjoyed the pleasure of meeting him, 1983, Lucasville). Tom just six weeks earlier. He will be sadly missed by all j was a U. S. Navy veteran of the Rickey Cousins who convened in Portsmouth, of WW IL a resident of OH. last June. The photo of Tom at left, won an Mansfield, OH. for the award in 1988 as "Mansfield's Most Interesting past 42 years, and was Face" is his legacy to our Rickey Family. I retired from the trucking industry. Large numbers I of his life long friends and RICKEY DESCENDANT CROWNED I business associates came "MISS TULSA" I to pay their last respects, during calling hours at Wappner Funeral Directors FLOELLA & JOHN ALBERT RICKEY (b. 21 in Mansfield. His sister, VIRGINIA RICKEY Feb. 1924, Portales, Roosevelt Co., NM.) of Choctaw, GAYLOR, reports that "some 200 adult men stood OK. sent us a news clipping about the crowning of by his casket and wept openly." Funeral services his 1 st cousin, twice removed, MEREDITH ALICE were conducted by his nephew-in-law, Rev. LEE (b. 17 Nov. 1971), as Miss Tulsa (OK.) for PHILLIP HOWARD (married WANDA SUE 1991. The lovely blonde and blue-eyed, 20 year old, RICKEY, 23 Sept 1972, Lucasville), at Blue Run a University of Tulsa sophomore, is the daughter of Methodist Church, Lucasville /Minford, Scioto Co., STEPHEN RICKEY OH. on 6 Aug. 1991. Interment followed at nearby LEE (b. 18 Jan. 1950) Martins Cemetery, the historic family burial ground & JANET R. where 36 members of the Branch Rickey Clan have DENNIS. Her been laid to rest Surviving are his wife of 45 years, grandparents were HAZEL LORRAINE (WALLS) RICKEY of MELVIN LOGAN Mansfield; a daughter and son-in-law of St Johns, LEE (b. 31 July 1919) Newfoundland, Canada, CATHERINE RICKEY & MARGARET (b. 9 Jan. 1947, Mansfield, Richland Co., OH.) & CARLEY PARKER PAUL SMITH; two granddaughters, MELISSA (b. 14 Mar. 1926), and ANN SHREWSBERRY (b. 31 Mar. 1966, she is the great Mansfield) and HEIDI (SHREWSBERRY) granddaughter of MOSSER (b. Sep. 1968, Mansfield and married BESSIE ADA MARK MOSSER, 6 Sep. 1990 in New York City, RICKEY (b. 5 Jan. 1898 in OK. / d. 12 Dec. 1965, NY.); two sisters, VIRGINIA WHEELER Ponca City, Kay Co., OK) & JEFF LEE. (RICKEY) GAYLOR (b. 29 Nov. 1918, Muncie, In the pageant at the Williams Theater of the Delaware Co., IN. and married JOSEPH R. Performing Arts, Cousin Meredith won the inter- GAYLOR, 18 May 1953 in Winchester, VA.) and view, talent, and swimsuit competitions, as well as the WANDA RUTH (RICKEY) WALKER (Birthdate "crowdpleaser" award. Her selection as Miss Tulsa unknown, married GLENN EDWARD WALKER, earned her a $1000 scholarship, which will be used to 10 Nov. 1946 in Lucasville). Tom was preceded in further her university education. Then, she said: "it Page 53 was back to reality." As a theater major, Meredith following explanation of the "How's, Why's, Where's had to immediately return to her dormitory room to and What For's" is meant to aid your understanding write a comparison of two plays from different peri- for the reasons we request your completion and ods. Last June, she was one of the contestants in the submission of FGS. When received, they are ana- "Miss Oklahoma" pageant at Oral Roberts Univer- lyzed and compared with current holdings of the sity, a stepping stone to the Miss America Pageant RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION; then merged The Oklahoma Rickey Clan members are justifi- with our computerized data bank of over 7,500 ably proud of her outstanding accomplishments, and Rickey (and associated spousal) Surnames. of the ambition, perseverance and dedication that Take a look at the sample on page 56. Each FGS Meredith displayed in reaching for star status. All covers one family unit, which consists of Husband & Rickey Cousins join in applauding her endeavors. Wife & the Children born to, or adopted by, that particular couple. Our computer software program ^-—————— (The LDS Church "Personal Ancestral File") assigns WEDDING BELLS a discrete number that is unique to that particular MALIA HELEN RICKEY married CARLOS family group. It is called an MRIN (short for Mar- JUAN BARRIENTOS on 8 June, 1991 at St John's riage Record Identification Number). Although Church in W. Roxbury, MA. Malia is the daughter parents of both spouses, and other spouses of the of STANTON M. RICKEY (Your Editor) and the husband or wife, are referenced on an FGS, they are late HELEN PATRICIA (SHEEHY) RICKEY. Li not part of the nuclear family represented by a spe- addition to your "Cousins" ADDIE & STANTON cific MRIN. In the sample FGS, Your Editor of Salem, OR., the Wedding Party included sisters of (Stanton) & his 2nd wife (Adeline) represent an- the bride: MICHELE LEILAN1 RICKEY PIDD other distinctly separate family grouping, which of Orangevale, CA. (with her husband MICHAEL consequently is assigned a different MRIN. Any & son WILLIAM STANTON PIDD) and CLAIRE children of a second marriage should be recorded on ANN RICKEY ADDISON of Newport, R.L (with a separate FGS and grouped under the MRIN that husband ROBERT and daughters TERRA and pertains to both their Mother and Father. It is very SELAH ADDISON); also Stanton's niece, important that we use separate FGS. Do not mix LAURA ALUMBAUGH. stepchildren on a single sheet Each child should be on the FGS of both of his/her parents. MICHELLE RENEE RICKEY married DARIN Each of the 7,500 persons currently in our com- MICHAEL KLEIN on 10 Aug. 1991 at the historic puter has been assigned an RIN (Individual Ezra Meeker Mansion in Puyallup, WA. Michelle is Identification Number). Typically, single individu- the daughter of MICHAEL & CHUN als will be found as a child, under the MRIN of his HENDERSON and LEROY RICKEY, all of parents; then again as a spouse and/or as a parent in Tacoma, WA. one or more marriages (each with its own MRIN). In ^^^^^^^^^^^_^___^^^_ every case, the individual retains the same RIN. This numbering system enables our computer to rapidly FAMILY GROUP SHEETS (FGS) search our entire database, locate a person, and es- Family Group Sheets (FGS) are the single most tablish his relationship with one or more Rickey important tool in researching the Genealogy of our Families & Clans. Helpful practices that expedite extended Rickey Family. They serve as worksheets processing of FGS include: for computer input, and then are filed as a "hard 1) Please use black ink; blue does not photocopy copy" backup. In addition, FGS provide additional Well. details, notes, and a record of sources employed to 2) Print, using BLOCK CAPITAL LETTERS. generate info. All meaningful data on one family Handwriting is often hard to decipher. unit is synopsized and recorded on the FSG, even 3) Identify the County, as well as City & State. though many diverse (and often contradictory) Most Vital Statistics are found in County Court- sources are used in the analytical process. The houses. Page 54 4) DATES. Please use the Dav. Month. & Year the Scioto Co., Ohio Rickey's. She is the daughter System: ie: 8 OCT. 1920 leaves no room for doubt. of CHARLES LOUIS RICKEY (b. 1873, near 8/10/20 raises questions. Is it Aug. 10th or Oct. 8th? Lucasville, Scioto Co., OH.), who came to Arkan- It is 1820 or 1920? sas at age 18, married at 25 and fathered 7 children. 5) MAIDEN Name for Wives & Mothers. Leave Most of his progeny is now concentrated in 3 or 4 surname blank if unknown. Do NOT repeat the counties in the extreme NE corner of Arkansas. Her name of the Husband. grandparents were ISAAC MEAD RICKEY (b. 21 6) SOURCES, Explanatory NOTES, and Ampli- Jun. 1833, OH. / d. 14 Feb. 1904) & MARY fying REMARKS are bestplaced on the REVERSE KIRCHNER(b. 14Mar. 1844,PA./d. 1927).Both SIDE OF FGS. Asterisks or footnote numbers on are buried in Martin's Cemetery, Madison Town- FRONT SIDE ITEMS can be keyed to comments on ship, Scioto Co., Ohio, the last resting place of the REVERSE. another 33 members of the Branch Rickey Clan. 7) Please put SUBMITTER'S NAME & AD- Likewise, her great grandparents, JOHN DRESS on Top Right Corner of FGS. Telephone S ANFORD RICKEY (b. 21 Mar. 1802, NY / d. 19 number is optional. Accompanying Snapshot Pho- Aug. 1865) & MARY WELLS (b. 26 Aug. 1903 / tos are especially welcome. d. 3 Jul. 1871), are buried in Martin's Cemetery. REV. JACOB RICKEY (b. 14 Feb. 1775 / d. 28 KEEP THOSE FGS COMING IN! Jun. 1847, Scioto Co., OH.), are also buried in the Martin's Cemetery and great grandfather of the Your Input IS EXTREMELY VALUABLE!!! famous Branch Rickey, is believed to be the uncle If you have not yet sent in your own FGS, please of JOHN SANFORD RICKEY. take a few minutes to fill out the blank form on Several of our colleagues are now exchanging pa?e57 and MAIL itto Your EditorNOW!!! YOU info, and working diligently to carry the Branch know more about YOUR FAMILY than anyone Rickey Clan back another three generations to 17th C else. Please share that precious info with the rest of Century Colonial America. There are strong indica- us. Photocopy as many FGS as you like and send tions that our Horseneck (CT) to Horseshead (NY) them to relatives. The RICKEY FAMILY Clan may be related to the above named Jacob. By ASSOCIATION Computer has a voracious working together and exchanging info through the appetite for data. Once in our computer, correct RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION'S Central family info becomes immortal. Do another one for Clearing House, the mysteries enshrouding our heri- your parents and grandparents. Don't forget your tage are being solved. Your participation in this children's families. We want to include your on-going process is truly needed. SEND IN grandchildren, too. Please follow the guidelines in THOSE FGS and do your part to further this effort. the Same FGS and helpful practices detailed above. Remember to use a separate FGS for each family Next Time your're feeling rather unimportant, try a unit (Husband, Wife & Children). little arithmetic trick based on the undebatable fact that Our basic concept of providing a central clearing it took two people, your parents, to get you here. Each of house for the exchange of Family History Info has your parents has two parents, so in the generation just proved to be a tremendous success. Our computer- prior to that of your mother and father, there were four people whose pairing off and sharing love contributed to ized data bank of 7,500 surnames continues to grow your existence. exponentially. Examples abound of Rickey's using You are the product of eight great-grandparents, 16 our system of computer linkage to learn more about great-great-grandparends, 32 great-great-great-grandpar- their common heritage, and sharing the joy of meet- ents, etc. Keep on multiplying the number by two. If you ing new cousins. One very recent breakthrough, figure an average of about 25 years between each gen- merged the Arkansas Rickey Clan with the Branch eration, you'll discover that a scant 500 years ago, there Rickey Clan. DORA GLADYS RICKEY were 1,048,576 people on this planet beginning the WALKER of 1439 Greene 225 Rd., Delaplaine, production of you. AR 72425, furnished evidence of her relationship to "The Rev. Gene Britton in East Point, Ga., Southside Sun" Page 55 SAMPLE: EDLTOR'$ OWN FGS Born 3O&CT \<\1O PI... A to P P Occupation Church Di.J Pi«c Buti.J \"D&C HI . F..U. TVXOfAtKS goM CVCSW rr (m«iJ*n p PI.-. BorieJ iq _ rU eJ(H gflWC Place tourcea of information »nJ Olhrr liu.b. ___ additional information on » nverae aide. Motn*r (fiMt CHILDREN BORN DIED MARRIED When Where When Where To whom When Where S1&ME. GFv&utSrJOS, &K»4 f(UW«tfO.'A d)i.UiM K&M&RVtUt lfs»>RK7fkeu t\NR\tJ Ca.CfV RofteRT&.^DvSomTv. t*sKR\W Ce.TrX Y\Or46LOC\J.V*\ 6 7 8 9 10 11 \1 Page 56 Volume 3 May 1992 Issue No. 7 outstanding job of site selection. AVIS & REVEL m—RICKEY FAMILY REUNION BILL BROWN of Zearing, IA (DR. DAVID SCHEDULED FOR 27 & 28 JUNE 1992 TALMAGE RICKEY CLAN), and JO ANN & ELSTON RICKEY of Pocahontas, AR. have The Third Annual "Revel" of the RICKEY worked extremely hard these past months to FAMILY ASSOCIATION will be held on ensure that we will meet in a first class Saturday & Sunday, June 27 & 28, 1992 at the environment. (The latter couple are members Convention Center of BEST WESTERN—INN of the ARKANSAS RICKEY CLAN—Scratch OF THE OZARKS, the largest such facility in that, newly amalgamated with the BRANCH EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS. Famous as RICKEY CLAN). See story starting at bottom a prime resort area for over 100 years, and of page 55, Issue #6, (Feb 1992). EUREKA known as the "Little Switzerland of the Ozarks", SPRINGS has so much to offer as a vacation the site of RICKEY REVEL III is located in spot, it's difficult to describe all of the many the NW corner of Arkansas on US Hwy 62, just attractions. When you arrive, just park your car South of the Missouri border. ALL RICKEY at the INN, and you can board a quaint looking DESCENDANTS are cordially invited to share Trolley (now diesel powered) to tour the in this fun filled family history festival and charming historic downtown area, with its turn grand gathering of far flung cousins. REVEL of the century "gingerbread" architecture—an ""^ I in California in 1990 was enjoyed by members authentic Victorian Village nestled in an Ozark ^ of the several RICKEY CLANS from 13 States. Valley, lovingly preserved through the years REVEL II last summer in Ohio had 15 States and beautifully preened to show the "good old represented. Already, we've heard from people days" ambience in all its glory. The entire who attended one or both previous Reunions, downtown is listed on the National Register of who are eager to return again in anticipation of Historic Places. Vintage Steam Locomotives another super celebration and the opportunity and restored passenger cars ride the rails on to mingle with other RICKEY COUSINS. If hourly excursions, where you can enjoy lunch you are wondering why we have "REPEAT or dinner in an old fashioned dining car. REVELERS", you have only to turn to past Overlooking the town is the world famous issues of RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS. See seven-story high statue of Christ of the Ozarks Issue #2, Summer 1990 and Issue #5, November that can be seen for miles. Take in an evening 1991 for all the joyous details. What? You performance of the GREAT PASSION PLAY, missed the first two glorious garrulous now in it's 25th YEAR, and expecting its 5 gregarious gatherings. Too bad! But now is MILLIONTH VISITOR this summer. your chance to make up for lost time and join us Experience this inspirational re-enactment of in commemorating our illustrious RICKEY the Life, Death, Resurrection and Ascension of FAMILY HERITAGE. This is a Family Affair Jesus Christ. A powerful performance and for RICKEY DESCENDANTS of all ages. So moving drama staged by a cast of 200 actors bring the kids and get them acquainted with and even live camels, donkeys and sheep. Revel their extended RICKEY FAMILY. Share the in the rollicking fun of rompin' stompin' joy and warm fellowship of meeting brand new country music jamborees and comedy shows C cousins and renewing relationships that have combined with down home country barbecues. been lost or diminished over the years. AND THAT AIN'T ALL!!! Representatives Our Planning Committee has done an of the Chamber of Commerce will be on hand at Page 59 Registration to assist you with bookings for any 1992 Membershipin the Rickey Family Association of these extra attractions. with free newsletters. Early Registration is offered at If you plan to attend RICKEY REVEL III, we adiscountprice, so we can better estimate the facilities strongly suggest that you pick up the phone and number of meals required. Your cooperation right now and CALL THE EUREKA SPRINGS will insure that all will run smoothly, and enable us CHAMBER OF COMMERCE on their FREE to make the Rickey Family Reunion a fun filled HOTLINE 1-800-643-3546 and request their frolic with memories to cherish forever. FREE 75 PAGE BOOK/BROCHURE, which is chock full of many attractions too numerous to ALSO ATTENDED detail here. Even if you are not a RICKEY REVELS H REVELLER, send for the book anyway and see what you're missing! The following Rickey Cousins attend Revel II in Portsmouth, Ohio on 29 & 30 June, 1991. Please RICKEY REVEL HI- accept my apology for them being overlooked in the ROOM RESERVATIONS list of attendees that appeared in Col. 2, page 51, issue #6 (Feb. 1992): MAKE ROOM RESERVATIONS NOW! Don't Ruth Richmond Robert & Mary Rickey delay and be disappointed. Nearly half of the 50 PO Box 415 PO Box 222 rooms that we "blocked" are already filled, and early Rittman, OH. 44270 Ripley, OH. 45167 indications are that a large turnout is expected. Call Earl & Shirley Massie Bobby & Ellen Rickey Cochran the INN OF THE OZARKS, DIRECT, at (501) 253- 389 Brown Rd. 105 S. Gamble 9768 and identify yourself as attending RICKEY Wilmington, OH. 45177 Shelby, OH. 44875 REVEL HI. Our special rate is $64 plus tax for two persons. Extra adults in the room are $5 each, but IN MEMORIAM kids under 18 stay free in the same room as parents. These prices are good for extended stays up to one week prior or one week after 27-28 June 1992. Do FRANCIS E. "FRANK" FULLERTON, NOT bother to call BEST WESTERN'S Central beloved husband of MARJORIE LOUISE Booking 800 number, because you will be told that (RICKEY) FULLERTON of the WILLIAM the hotel is completely booked for OUR DATES. JACOB RICKEY CLAN, passed away This is because of the "blocked" agreement CALL suddenly on 3 Apr 1992 at his home, 1121 DIRECT. Our contract expires on 25 May. After Oakview Dr., Columbus Junction, IA 52738. that date, anything goes and any available rooms Frank was born on 16 Feb 1912 at Topeka, will be rented on a first come, first served basis; Shawnee Co., KS; the son of Edward Fullerton probably at higher rates. Early reservations are & Iva Dill. He and Marjorie were married on recommended. Our REVEL will take place during 1 Jan 1935 at Winfield, Henry Co, IA. Frank a peak demand tourist vacation season, but both the was a farmer for 33 years, and also had been INN and the Chamber of Commerce are dedicated to employed by the L-W Farm Service Co. Other assisting us in finding alternative accommodations survivors are their three children: BEBE JOAN in the event of a sellout (FULLERTON) MC FARLAND (b. 27 May 1937, Columbus Junction, Louisa Co., IA), RICKEY REVEL IH -- JOCELYN JEAN (FULLERTON) HARRIS EARLY REGISTRATION MORGAN (b. 29 May 1941, Columbus Junction) and RONALD EDWARD COMPLETE AND MAIL THE REGISTRATION FULLERTON (b. 4 Jan 1949, Mt Pleasant, FORM on Page 67 prior to May 25,1992 to guarantee IA); also 9 grandchildren: JAMES ROBERT your place at this in-gathering of Cousins. Your MC FARLAND (b. 10 Apr 1957), JON registration fee includes a catered luncheon, and Page 60 EDWARD MC FARLAND (b. 25 Mar 1959), RICHARD DEAN MC FARLAND (b. 4 Oct SEND US YOUR OBITS 1961), DE ANN (MC FARLAND) SOJKA (b. 7 Jan 1964), SUZANNE KAY (HARRIS) MC GREGOR (b. 1 Jan 1960), ANNE MARIE Obits are superb as a source of Family History (HARRIS) CLARK (b. 15 May 1965), data. Not only do you often find a mini- DANIEL EDWARD FULLERTON (b. 11 Sep biography of the deceased, but usually there is 1976), CRAIG THOMAS FULLERTON, and a list of survivors covering several generations. ANDREA LYNETTE FULLERTON; and 9 The married surnames of sisters and aunts will great grandchildren. Frank was a member of surface, to be matched up with their given the United Presbyterian Church of Columbus names that have been obtained from other Junction. Services were held on 6 Apr. 1992 at sources, like Census Records. Clues to the the Stacey-Lewis Funeral Home, with Rev. geographic dispersion of the family come from Lynne Smith and Rev. Dennis Coon officiating. comments about the current addresses of All of Frank's grandsons were casket bearers mourners assembled for the funeral. Church and his grand daughters were flower attendants. affiliation, membership in Fraternal Interment followed at the Columbus City, IA. Organizations, burial sites and names of funeral Cemetery. directors are all prime sources for follow-up research. Examples follow: MARIAN & MAX COWGILL, 34 Edgewood Dr., Richmond, OH 43344 sent obits for these two brothers, both Civil War veterans, and sons of DENNIS MCKINLEY (b. abt. 1801, NJ / d. 1870 - 80, English Twp., Iowa Co., IA) & c SARAH ELIZABETH RICKEY (b. 25 Feb. 78n, Aiiegneny L:O., **A. / d. 2 Aug. 1844, Morgan uo., UH). Max Reece Cowgiil (b. 5 15ept7T9297CTair5ourne Twp., Union Co., OH.) is the great great grandson of the latter couple and 4th cousin of Stanton M. Rickey (Your Editor, see FGS on page 56, Issue #6, Feb. 1992). Our common ancestors are THOMAS RICKEY (b. Scotland? / d. abt. 1825, OH.) & Editors Note: See page 42, top of Column 2, Issue SARAH LAUGHERY (b. bef. 1784, Ireland ? # 5 of Rickey Roots & Revels, Nov. 1991. We /d. abt. 1821, OH. or PA.) should have reported that the award for the couple THOMAS RICKEY McKINLEY (b. 5 Nov. present at Rickey Revels II, who were Married 1827, Washington or Morgan Co., OH7Ta723 Longest, went to Marjorie and Frank, her husband Sept. 1906, Caledonia, Marion Co., UH.). Here of 57 Years. We genuinely regret and hasten to we learn that he married HARRIET BRICE on correct this gross error. 17 Sept. 1851, and they were blessed with 9 children, of which 7 are named in the news EDWARD T. RICKEY (b. 8 Dec. 1917, Chapin, clipping. EL) passed away on 7 Aug. 1991 at Lincoln, Logan WILLIAM HARRISON McKINLEY (b. 13 Co., IL. See page 63 for complete obituary sent in by Oct. 1840, Morgan Co., OH / d. 7 Mar. 1910, his beloved wife, VIOLA I. (BIERMAN) RICKEY ~Galion, Crawford Co., OH.). The obituary states of 2360 Railsplitter Ave., Lincoln, EL 62656. that he married MARGARET GEIGER, was born in Galion on 27 Mar. 1863, and names all of their 7 children. Page 61 . VIOLA (BIERMAN) RICKEY, widow of Gray and the remains were interred in the EDWARD T. RICKEY (b. 8 Dec 1917, Chapin, Caledonia Cemetery. Morgan Co., IL/d. 7 Aug 1991) sent in the obituary The Marion Star, Marion Ohio of her late husband. This is reproduced as a splendid Tuesday, September 25,1906 example of the amount of info that can be gleaned from even modern day death notices. In her accompanying letter, Cousin Viola explains that the WM. MCKINLEY reference to the deceased's mother as ELSIE RICKEY RICKEY is not a typographical error. For Many Year a Resident of Gallon Passed Away Her maiden name was RICKEY, but the family has At 2:15 Friday morning, William McKinley, never been able to find arelationship (if any) between for many years a resident of Galion, breathed the two families. Something for us to work on? his last says the Galion Inquirer. He was aged 69 years, 4 months and 25 days. Thomas R. M'Kinley Dies at Caledonia Deceased was born in Morgan county, this state, Death is the Result of Illness of Some Time October 13th, 1840. He spent his youth on a He is a Veteran of the Civil War farm in that county. Shortly after the breaking Follows Farming Until About Nine Years Ago When our of the civil war, Mr. McKinley enlisted in He Moves to Caledonia and Retires from Active the 14th Iowa Infantry and served more than Business —The Funeral Services Are Held at four years and until the final triumph of the Caledonia Today northern army. During his furlough he came to Thomas R. McKinley, a prominent retired Galion and was united in marriage on March farmer, residing in Caledonia, died at 1 o'clock, 27,1863, to Margaret Gelger of near this city. Sunday afternoon, as the result of a protracted The marriage was a happy one and was blessed illness. Mr. Me Kinley was born in Washington by six children, all of whom survive as follows: County, November 5, 1827. He was united in Mrs. Emma Plotner, Mrs. Lizzie Hill, Geo. marriage, September 17, 1851, with Miss McKinley, of this city, Mrs. Ada Reynolds, Harriet Brice. To this union were born nine Mrs. Alberta Bender, Loraine, Mrs. Clara children, seven of whom are living. The children Fairchild, Mansfield, all of whom together are: A. B. McKinley, of Dayton; T. S. with one adopted daughter, Mrs. Ira Foster, of McKinley, of Reno, Nevada; A. D. McKinley Crestline, and the widow survive him. of Caledonia; Mrs. Louisa Reece of Richwood; Mr. McKinley was a good and patriotic citizen E. L. McKinley, George W. McKinley, and and proved his loyalty and bravery during the Mrs. Matilda Crissinger, of this city. There dark days of the rebellion by his valor in the are twenty-three grandchildren and seven great- defense of his country. He was a kind and grandchildren. indulgent husband and father and will be sadly Mr. McKinley followed the trade of a wagon missed from the family circle. On Easter Sunday and carriage builder until the time of his the family enjoyed a reunion at the home, the enlistment for service in the civil war, as a occasion being the 47th wedding anniversary member of the 136th regiment, O.V.I. At the of Mr. and Mrs. McKinley at which all the close of the war he began farming and in due children were present. time possessed himself of good farms in Marion Funeral Monday afternoon in the United and Wyandot counties. He resided on a farm in Brethern church of which the deceased was for Wyandot county until about nine years ago many years an exemplary member. Dr. Sinder when he moved to Caledonia. officiated. Burial in Fairview. The funeral services were held at the M.E. The Marion Star, Marion, Ohio Church in Caledonia, at 10 o'clock this morning. Monday, March 11,1910 The services were conducted by Rev. James Pagef>2 12109-A Old Frederick Rd, Thurmont, MD EDWARD T. RICKEY 21788. Would like Info on any descendants of RUFUS Lincoln - Edward T. Rickey, 73, of Lincoln SPALDING RICKEY Jr. (b. 1867, Ocean died at 3:30 a.m. yesterday (Aug. 7, 1991) at Springs, Harrison Co, MS / d. Oct 1910, Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital. His Memphis, Shelby Co, TN). He had at least one funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at First Baptist daughter, MARY VIRGINIA RICKEY (b. Feb Church, Lincoln, with the Rev. Seldon Bernauer 1891). What happened to her? Did she marry officiating. Burial will be in Union Cemetery, & have children? Knowledgeable persons Lincoln. please contact ELIZABETH RICKEY, 1765 Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. today at Coliseum, Apt 225, New Orleans, LA 70130. Holland & Barry Funeral Home and for one hour before services Friday at the church. CORRECTION: Last Query in Issue #5 (Nov He was born Dec. 8, 1917, in Chapin, a son of 1991). Bottom of Col. 1, p 45, should have John and Elsie Rickey Rickey. He married read: "...came to Moscow, Iowa Co, Viola I. Bierman on September 23,1939, in St. WISCONSIN in 1851..." Charles, Mo. She survives. Other survivors include two sons, Thomas, Seeking Info and/or descendants for KATE Paducah, Ky., and Steven, Barnhart, Mo.; one RICKEY (b. 5 May 1865 / d. 6 Feb 1928, daughter, Carol Smerk, Ypsilanti, Mich.; two Clarinda, Page Co., IA) married WILLIAM S. sisters, Laura Smith, Jacksonville, and Irene MARLOW (b. 22 Jan 1862 / d. 2 Feb 1918). Baldridge, Alton; seven grandchildren; and They had at least one daughter, VIRGINIA three great-grandchildren. He was preceded in MARLOW (b. 8 Sep 1901 /d. 9 Apr 1915). All C death by two sisters and one grand daughter. buried in Clarinda, IA Cemetery. Please contact He was an Army medic in World War II. He ELIZABETH RICKEY, 1765 Coliseum, Apt was a member and past deacon of First Baptist 225, New Orleans, LA 70130. Church, Lincoln, and was the lay leader for Sunday services at St. Clara's Manor and TIMOTHY ALLAN RICKEY, PO Box 461, Lincolnland Nursing Home. Thornville, OH 43076 would like to correspond He was a member of United Food and with anyone who has info on his Ancestral Commercial Workers Local 534. Line. He is the son of ALLAN ROBERT RICKEY. His grandparents were BOB & ANN RICKEY of Barneveld, Iowa Co., Wisconsin. RICKEY QUERIES DANIEL RICKEY (b. 1777, NJ / d. after 1856, ISABEL RICKEY (b. 30 April 1798, Middletown, Iowa Co, IA). His daughter, SARAH RICKEY PA/d. 19 Apr 1866, Moundsville, WV) married (b. 1808, OH / d. after 1876, probably IA) SAMUEL DORSEY (b. 12 Oct 1789, Anne married MACASLIN LAYPORT in 1829. Arundel Co, MD) in 1819. They had 6 children: Their daughter, MARY LAYPORT (b. 1830, MARY m. SETH INGRAM; REBECCA m. Harrison Co., OH/d. 1882, probably near Rich THOMAS DORSEY on 22 Mar 1838; Hill, MO) married JOHN IRONS RALPH in DENNIS m. ELIZA ALLEN; SAMUEL m. 1850 at Gallipolis, Gallia Co. or Meigs Co., JOAN HOLIDAY; CORNELIUS and OH. Anyone with info about them or any of TERISHA JANE died young. If you have info their descendants, should contact CHESTER on parents of ISABEL, and/or her descendants, F. MACK JR, 21 Hickory Dr, King George, please contact DONNA YOUNKIN LOGAN, VA. 22485 Page 63 NEWEST RICKEY BABIES SHERRIF ERNEST E. RICKEY "Busts a Moonshiner" 3 4 January, 1991 Walden, NY ERNEST EUGENE RICKEY (b. Apr 1880, on a JASON THOMAS RICKEY family farm in Madison Twp, Scioto Co., OH / d. Arthur John Rickey, Jr. & Donna Ruscitti 1942) to ISAAC MEAD RICKEY (b. 21 June 10 June, 1991 Elko.NV 1833, OH/ d. 14Feb 1904) & MARY KIRCHNER ALISA LOUISA SCOTT (b. 14Mar 1844,PA / d. 1927),inJan 1902married James Scott & Carla Burkhalter 30 August, 1991 Sacramento, CA MAGGIE FRAZIER (b. abt 1881, MO), one of 11 BRITTANY CHRISTINE BUSS children born to JACOB FRAZIER & SARAH Steven Douglas Buss & Christine Sue Gilbertson MITCHUM. Our subject was a farmer and general 1 November, 1991 Los Gatos, CA store proprietor on Blue Run, and later became a PETER LOUIS RICKEY, JR. Deputy Sheriff at Portsmouth, Scioto Co, OH. He Peter Louis Rickey Sr. & Venetia Sialaris found the excitement of politics and law enforcement more to his liking, and successfully ran for Sheriff in WEDDING BELLS 1919. He was reelected for a second two year term in 1921. These terms of office coincided with the early days of Prohibition, when the raiding of local JENNIFER ANN CRITTENDEN married moonshine stills was a matter of high priority. He DAVID ALLEN LANGSTON on 29 Feb. 1992 was authorized only one regular deputy, but had at Seven Dolors Catholic Church in Manhattan, numerous special deputies from time to time. One Kansas. Jennifer is the daughter of REBA such, was his cousin, FRANK WANZER RICKEY LOUISE RICKEY and FRANKIE RAY Sr. (b. 21 June 1888, Duck Run, Scioto Co., OH / CRITTENDEN. Jennifer will graduate from d. 26 Oct 1953 at DuckRun), (brother of BRANCH Kansas State University in May with a degree RICKEY, the "Mahatma" of baseball). Both were in Early Childhood Development and David is sons of JACOB FRANKLIN RICKEY (b.18 Mar with the United States Army. The newlyweds 1856, Scioto Co., OH / d.Dec 1939, Portsmouth, will be residing in Germany where David is OH) & EMILY BROWN (b. 11 Nov 1856 / d. stationed. 1935, Crystal Springs, Pasco Co., FL) SHERIFF Ernest E. Rickey spent many a night on TRACY MARIE RICKEY was married to special raids to enforce the 18th Amendment to the DONALD RAYMOND COFFIN on 3 April U. S. Constitution, which made illegal, the produc- 1992 at Westhaven Baptist Church in tion, transportation and consumption of all alco- Tonganoxie, KS. Tracy is the daughter of holic beverages. One of the favorite stories told CHARLES D RICKEY and SANDRA KAY about SHERIFF RICKEY deals with the time that OWENS of Tonganoxie. a "moonshiner" had just completed the making of a batch of booze at his still, which was hidden in the Both brides are nieces of your Associate Editor, woods. Bursting with pride, he held up a jug of his Vicki Lynne Rickey Bryan, and grand brew and defiantly said: "Come and getme, Rickey." daughters of LESLIE HERMAN RICKEY, Our erstwhile Sheriff, who had been hiding in the JR. (b. 15 Mar. 1927 Mulberry, KS. /d. 6 Oct. woods while preparing to raid this very still, tapped 1985 Kansas City, KS.) and FRANCES the surprised moonshiner on the shoulder and said: LOUISE SHUSTER (b. 12 June 1927 Platte "I'm Here"! ! ! City, MO.). All are descendants of the BASKING RIDGE NJ CLAN. 3 Page 64 one of whom is our correspondent, LEONARD WHO WAS NEDRA RICKEY? IVAN RICKEY (b. 12 Jan 1911). All of the above are members of the BASKING RIDGE, (NJ) CLAN, descended from SAMUEL R. NEDRA RICKEY passed away on 5 Mar 1991 RICKEY (b. 14 Mar 1809, Hoop Pole Twp, in Peoria, IL. This was reported in Newsletter Somerset Co., NJ / d. 11 May 1861, Marshall Issue #5 (Nov 1991) at the bottom of page 47. Co., IL), who came to Illinois in 1835 with his We invited readers with further knowledge to wife SARAH HALL (b. 9 May 1810, NJ/d. 21 come forward with answers to the question: May 1853, Marshall Co., IL). They had 11 Who was NEDRA RICKEY? A letter of 11 children. The earliest known American ances- Dec 1991 was received from Cousins tor of this CLAN, ISRAEL RIKY (d. Oct 1729), LEONARD & VIOLET (BLAND) RICKEY, is buried under the spreading branches of a 500 14011 Bland Ave, Dunlap, IL 61525, wherein year old oak tree in the graveyard of the 300 they stated: "...we knew Nedra Rickey. She year old Basking Ridge, NJ Presbyterian was EMMETT RICKEY'S Wife. Emmett Church. was the son of ROBERT S. RICKEY, who was married twice. Emmett being Leonard's half ANOTHER TALENTED uncle. We were very close to Emmett and RICKEY WINNER Nedra. Emmett was a city policeman on the Peoria Police Department all of his life until he GEORGE FRANKLIN RICKEY (b. 23 Mar retired." From clues provided by their letter, 1942), 2450 West Lake of the Isles, we searched the data bank of the RICKEY Minneapolis, MN 55405, won a Class A award FAMILY ASSOCIATION computer for addi- of $1000 in the "Better Homes & Gardens" tional info, which follows: Annual Home Improvement Contest. Details of EMMETT ROYCE RICKEY (b. 17 June 1902, his achievementl Sparland, Marshall Co., IL / d. 1980). He appeared in that! served over 20 years on the Peoria Police Force magazine's Nov.I and retired in 1959. His first wife was HAZEL 1991 issue. The! TAYLOR. They married on 24 Dec 1919 and following was! had 2 children, ROBERT LOUIS & VADA abstracted from! LOUISE RICKEY. His second wife was that source.! NEDRA L. HAMM, whom he married on 23 George garnered! Oct 1935 at Clinton, IL. Emmett was the son 1st place in the! of ROBERT SAMUEL RICKEY (b. 6 Dec Exterior Fix-upl 1861, Marshall Co., IL / d. 16 Sep 1943, Category, by taking! Marshall Co., IL) & his second wife, a basic brick box[ HENRIETTA DE WALT (b. 24 Dec 1870, type home andl Marshall Co., IL / d. 2 Mar 1923, Marshall Co., transforming it into an English style country IL). Emmett had 8 brothers and sisters, and 6 charmer. His imaginative approach and lots of half siblings from the marriage of his father and hard work took a modest home, once described the first wife, MARGARET ELLEN M ARPLE as "the neigborhood pauper", and created a (b. 1868 / d. 12 Feb 1893, Marshall Co., IL). dwelling that now looks perfectly at ease, One of the latter's children was GEORGE nestled amid stately neighbors in a grand old ROBERT RICKEY (b. 7 Feb 1888, Marshall Minneapolis lakefront area. George removed Co., IL / d. 5 Oct 1969, Chillicothe, IL) who the original roof, and added a half-story with married 26 Jan 1910, BESSIE HASTINGS (d. front and side dormers, The original brick was 20 Feb 1954). This last couple had 5 children, sandblasted, and classically styled new windows Page 65 . were added to take full advantage of the EUREKA SPRINGS expansive lake views. He also added extra See You in June insulation to minimize heating costs during the cold Minnesota winters, and created a solarium from the old screened side porch. When not engaged in such creative construction, George The Eureka Springs is a Northwest Airlines Pilot. City trolleys mahetravel- ling about the winding hill- side streets of Eureka Springs both easy and fun. We were alerted to this story by his proud parents, last June at RICKEY REVEL II. They The Great are WAYNE EARL RICKEY (b.20 May 1918, Passion Play, Sparland, Marshall Co., IL) & MARJORIE visited by millions, CARR (b.9 June 1918, Chillicothe, Peoria Co., considered IL). They were married 7 Aug 1937 in America's Burlington, Des Moines Co., IA), and currently No. 1 ota- door drama. reside at 1102 Impala Dr, Henry, IL 61537 — when not wintering in St. Peterburg, FL. Besides George, their immediate family consists of KENNETH WAYNE RICKEY (b. 14 May 1940, Peoria, IL) and CAROL JEAN (RICKEY) BLEIFELD (b. 11 Oct 1943, Peoria, IL). Incidentally, WAYNE EARL is a Tborncrown Chapel, soaring brother of LEONARD IVAN RICKEY (See above the woods on the out- previous story about NEDRA (HAMM) skirts of Eureka Springs, is an architectural master- RICKEY). All belong to the BASKING piece. RIDGE (NJ) CLAN. Best Western Inn of the (hades ARKANSAS Eureka HoKncLoon. Springs & HffiWPO North SIMB 8T SRS 2PRS Arkansas W-3S SW3 3M> awes aw *t« Railway S5J63 S-5? &m sws on ojfersrides •mm SKS mm aboard •mm m-rm authentic fcwH80.Ro steam trains. o . Page 66 REVEL III A RICKEY FAMILY REUNION will be held an Saturday & Sunday, 27 & 28 June 1992 at 1 BEST WESTERN—INN OF THE OZARKS (On US Hwy 62 W), PO Bx 431, Eureka Springs, Arkansas 72632 C FOR ROOM RESERVATIONS, PHONE: (501) 253-9768 EARLY BIRDS GATHER.. .at 9AM, SATURDAY.. .Sign in and meet new cousins at CONVENTION CENTER. PROGRAM STARTS at 10AM. LUNCHEON at 1PM... (Price included^ REVEL REGISTRATION). iv'i PROGRAM CONTINUES at 2PM.. .UNTIL 5PM. DINNER PARTY.(Optional).at 7PM...UNTIL...! ($15 per person). CONVENTION CENTER Again at NOON, SUNDAY... Informal "Talk Story" Time.. .All afternoon. 1PM...ADDIE will teach "ORGANIZING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY" BRING: Yourself, spouse, kids, and anyone you can talk into meeting your kin Old Photo Albums, Scrapbooks, Genealogy Charts & Family Memorabilia Current Family Snapshots and a Camera for picture taking.. .VIDEOCAM? A Biographical Sketch about yourself...a parent...uncle...or grandpa Is there a special talent among us RICREYS?.. .Musicians in our midst? Vocalists.. .Sing-along Leaders.. .Children Acts.. .RICKEY STORY TELLERS Come prepared to tell RICKEY FAMILY STORIES about your FAMOUS or INFAMOUS ANCESTORS /—^ COMPUTERS, PHOTOCOPIERS, SCANNERS are badly needed. Can you BRING ONE...???... INVITE: OTHER COUSINS who may wish to attend. PHONE THEM & Send their Names & Addresses for inclusion on the RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS Newsletter Mailing List. PLEASE: Let us know you are coming, .and how many. .List All Names. .MAIL REGISTRATION FORM below ** EARLY REGISTRATION (Prior to May 25, 1992) ** RICKEY FAMILY REUNION — REVEL III, June 27 & 28, 1992 Make CHECK Payable To: "RICKEY FAMILY REUNION" Return this FORM To: BILL BROWN, PO Bx 242, Zearing, IA 50278 ...PHONE: (515) 487-7229 Number of NAME(S) ADULTS **at $20 each $ CHILDREN **at $10 each $ age 4-12 .INFANTS ** FREE $__00_ under 4 DINNER PARTY RESERVATIONS.. .(Optional) NUMBER **at $15 each $_ **TOTAL PAID $ ADDRESS PHONE ( ) - WTY STATE ZIP - **LATE REGISTRATION (after May 25, 1992): ADULTS $25, CHILDREN $15, DINNER $20** Page 67 , To Eureka Springs Take US Hwy 71 & US Hwy 62 West Scenic US Hwy 62 West, leading to Eureka Springs is best approached from US Hwy 71 which runs along the western edge of both Arkansas and Illinois Missouri. Go south on US Hwy 71 from Kansas Indianapolis City, Missouri; OR North on US Hwy 71 from Ft. Kansas Springfield Mndia Smith, Arkansas; until you reach Rogers, Arkansas; CitV StLouis then go EAST on US Hwy 62 WEST for 35 miles to Missouri joplifjspringfield the INN OF THE OZARKS (Located 1/2 mile WEST of Junction with SR 23). AIRLINE FLY/ DRIVE connections are from FORT SMITH or LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas; TULSA or OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma; WICHITA or TOPEKA, Kansas; SPRINGFIELD, ST. LOUIS or KANSAS CITY, Missouri; or MEMPHIS, Tennessee. See Circular Map for estimated driving times. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ISSN 1058-0263 RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS Stanton M. Rickey 235 15th St NE Salem, OR. 97301-4228 3/ FORWARDING & ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED FIRST CLASS MAIL Noble Co. Genealogical Society P.O. Box 444 Caldwell, OH 43724 o May 1992 Page 68 Volume 3 October 1992 Issue No. 8 heritage of our RICKEY FAMILY PIONEERS, followed by REVEL III - RICKEY REUNION REPORT the "Pledge of Allegiance" to our flag, reasserting the patriotic values of those RICKEY VETERANS who served in every war in our nation's history. This was followed by EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS was the site of a Roll Call of the 20 States represented at REVEL III. As RICKEY REVEL III. Our 3rd Annual Reunion of RICKEY each state was called, the following persons came forward DESCENDANTS was held at the Convention Center of Best and presented the flag of their home state: Western Inn of the Ozarks on 27 & 28 June 1992. A total ST. NAME CLAN of 91 fun-loving RICKEY COUSINS came from 20 states to AZ. FRANK BURDETTE RICKEY William Jacob Rickey pay homage to their heritage; and mix, mingle and make AR. JACKIE RICKEY WEAVER James Bernard Rickey merry among the many attractions of this famous old CA. PAUL von KEMPF William Rickey Victorian Resort. Together, we enjoyed gourmet dining CO. LARRY JOE RICKEY Basking Ridge and a scenic rail excursion aboard an old fashioned steam FL. LOWELL E. RICKEY Branch Rickey train, experienced the magnificent and inspirational IL. KATHIE RICKEY OSBORN James Bernard Rickey IN. PATRICIA RICKEY PETEH Basking Ridge spectacle of the "Great Passion Play", and explored the IA. BEBE FULLERTON MCFARLAND visual delights of this "Little Switzerland of the Ozarks". William Jacob Rickey We are most grateful for the untiring efforts of our site KS. VICKI RICKEY BRYAN Basking Ridge selection committee. ELSTON RICKEY (Branch LA. ELIZABETH ANN RICKEY Dr Joseph Kerr Rickey Rickey Clan) of Pocahontas, AR, and BILL & AVIS MN. RACHEL RICKEY Brown County MO. NORMA RICKEY ANDERSON James Bernard Rickey BROWN (Dr David Talmage Rickey Clan) of Zearing, NY. CLAIRE RICKEY New York IA worked closely with the hotel staff and Chamber of OH. EMMA LUCILLE RICKEY Brown County C Commerce to insure that our special reunion requirements OK. JACK W. SCHRIEWER Oklahoma were efficiently and graciously accommodated. OR. ADDIE DYAL RICKEY James Rickey PA. RICHARD WIKANDER Basking Ridge The montage of photos on page 76 provides a TN. ROBERT BALDWIN RICKEY Dr Joseph Kerr Rickey representative, but limited sampling of this gathering of TX. WAYNE FRANKLIN RICKEY James Bernard Rickey cousins. These pictures came from only three of the WA. ROBERT GLENN RICKEY Dr David Talmage Rickey revelers. Many more took pictures during the weekend, and they are urged to send in their snapshots to place in RICKEY REVEL BINGO our album —for viewing at future reunions. Our officially scheduled activities were conducted on As each Reveller signed our Guest Book and picked Saturday. We convened promptly at 9AM, with sign in up their info packet, they were given a bingo-like matrix and reception ably handled by VICKI RICKEY BRYAN sheet and invited to play "RICKEY REVEL BINGO". All (Basking Ridge Clan, from Olathe, KS), PAT & JOE signed an individual slip of paper, which was deposited PETEH (Basking Ridge Clan, from Indianapolis, in a common box, to be randomly drawn later. Each was IN) and BILL & AVIS BROWN. The latter couple instructed to approach other persons and get them to sign worked tirelessly to process all of the Mail-In their names in one of the matrix squares. This icebreaker Registration Forms, and account for the funds game engendered much enthusiasm and hilarity as all received. They were also responsible for the design scurried about the room, meeting new cousins and and production of those super souvenir name tags. inviting them to fill in the squares of their RICKEY BINGO Individuals were seated at tables according to their cards. Later, as individual names were drawn, each membership in respective RICKEY CLANS. Computer person stood up and introduced themselves, spouses and generated descendancy charts and alphabetical listings children as descendants of a particular clan, and told enabled each to find their particular place on their clan something about their life style (i.e. Hometown, family tree. This introduced them to other related Occupation, Hobbies, etc). The game took an especially cousins. humorous turn when "BOB RICKEY" was called. Our formal program commenced with recitation of There were four present with the same name and all "The Lord's Prayer" in remembrance of the Christian responded simultaneously. They were: ROBERT Page 69 EDWARD RICKEY (Brown Co. Clan, from Dayton, Crawfordsville), and son, WAYNE FRANKLIN OH); ROBERT GLENN RICKEY (Dr David Talmage RICKEY, who came from Pearland, TX with his wife, Rickey Clan, from Shelton, WA); ROBERT SCALES VIRGINIA. RICKEY (Dr Joseph Kerr Rickey Clan, from Hot MARIAN RICKEY & KENNETH C. THATCHER Springs, AR) and his 1st Cousin, once removed, received a standing ovation and heartfelt congratulations ROBERT BALDWIN RICKEY from Memphis, TN. for being MARRIED LONGEST — 59 years. Whereupon, The latter generated much laughter and applause by good Ken shared the secret of their many happy years together. naturedly rubbing his shiny pate and audaciously allowing He said that they never had a quarrel in all that time that none would ever forget his middle name. because of an agreement when first married. He did not try to run her business, and he did not try to run his own SPECIAL RECOGNITION business, either! They were astounded to learn that the RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION was in possession of The BURTON CARLYLE RICKEY (Basking Ridge Very Special Poem written by Ken for Marian on the Clan) & his wife, ALICE, traveled the FURTHEST occasion of their Golden Wedding Anniversary, 16 Apr DISTANCE to our reunion. These cousins drove 2303 1983. ADDIE DYAL RICKEY, wife of STANTON miles to Eureka Springs, AR from Port Townsend, WA. MICHAEL RICKEY (James Rickey Clan, from They also came to REVEL I at Diamond Springs, CA in Salem, OR), surprised the honored couple by reading 1990. Runner-up was ROBERT GLENN RICKEY, this delightful poem to the assembled cousins. Ken's attending his 1ST RICKEY REVEL. His home at Shelton, ingenious verse is reproduced on page 77 for all to WA was only 70 miles closer than the winners. Third enjoy. Also congratulated were the Runners-Up: place went to PAUL von KEMPF (William Rickey HAROLD LESTER & EVELYN FRYE RICKEY Clan) & his wife, MAGGIE, who traveled 1969 miles (Basking Ridge Clan, from Princeville, IL), married 58 from Palo Alto, CA. The latter cousins attended both years, and his brother WAYNE EARLE & REVELS I & II. MARJORIE CARR RICKEY (Basking Ridge Clan, RICHARD WIKANDER was going to receive a from Henry, IL), wed nearly 55 years. "SPECIAL EFFORT" award for the furthest distance traveled ROBERT BALDWIN RICKEY & wife, by motorcycle, but he crossed us up this year and flew in PATRICIA LORAINE VANDERGRIFF RICKEY from Westtown (near Philadelphia), PA. He was (from Memphis, TN), their daughter, VANDE LEE recognized anyway for this unique mode of travel to RICKEY SOUTHERLAND (from Little Rock, AR), REVEL II at Portsmouth, OH last year. and grandson, JOHN RAY "SANDE" MARIAN RICKEY THATCHER (William Jacob SOUTHERLAND Jr. were distinguished as the only Rickey Clan) & her husband, KENNETH, journeyed THREE GENERATIONAL FAMILY present. All are the SHORTEST DISTANCE. They came from Rogers, AR— members of the Dr Joseph Kerr Rickey Clan. just 35 miles up the road. This was their 1st REVEL and Incidentally, Bob & Pat celebrated their 51st we expect to greet this lovely couple again in subsequent Wedding Anniversary at REVEL III. years. WENDELL'S BUNCH (Brown County Clan) again CATHERINE RICKEY COOPER (Brown County comprised the family with the MOST BROTHERS & SISTERS Clan, from Dayton, OH) received half an award at PRESENT. They serenaded the cousins in a gleeful reprise RICKEY REVEL II for being 1/2 of a set of twins present. of their performance at last year's RICKEY REVELII. This This year, she persuaded her twin brother, CHARLES musically talented family was led by WENDELL S. RICKEY, to accompany her and they were both duly HAROLD RICKEY (from Winchester, OH) at the recognized. piano. Vocalizing were his siblings: MARY PHYLLIS GEORGE WILLIAM RICKEY (James Bernard RICKEY CARL (from Enon, OH), ROBERT Rickey Clan, from Crawfordsville, IN) was the MOST EDWARD RICKEY (from Dayton, OH), CHARLES VENERABLE COUSIN present. He was born 31 Jan 1905 at BRYSON RICKEY (from Cincinnati, OH), EMMA Tuscola, Douglas Co., IL, the son of BENJAMIN LUCILLE RICKEY (from Dayton, OH), SHIRLEY FRANKLIN RICKEY (b. 12 Feb 1874, Ross Co., OH ANNE RICKEY MASSIE (from Wilmington, OH), / d. 19 Apr 1916, Argus Twp, Champaign Co., IL) & and RONALD THOMAS RICKEY (from Hastings, NANCY "NANNIE" COOK (b. 26 Apr 1883, Garrard MN). Co., IL / d. 25 Aug 1916, Camargo, Douglas Co., IL). MICHAEL CHATFIELD, ("HONORARY COUSIN" Accompanying GEORGE to REVEL III were his from Cleveland, MO) and good friend of VICKI daughter, SHARON RICKEY (also from RICKEY BRYAN (Basking Ridge Clan, from Olathe, Page 70 KS), is always ready to lend technical assistance and College, Carlisle Barracks, PA. All were urged to read troubleshoot problems encountered with RICKEY FAMILY his book, "FORTY MILES A DAY ON BEANS AND HAY" for ASSOCIATION computer input and output. Mike's expertise a highly informative description of the frontier has ironed out many a glitch for those of us who have no experiences of the Regular Army Enlisted Soldier of that idea what is inside those strange little boxes. He deserves era. DON RICKEY' s great grandfather was a physician, special recognition, not only for his good works at this practicing in southern Ohio and Kentucky (in & around REVEL, but also for his collaboration with Vicki in the Portsmouth), but removed to Canada in the 1860's, production of our newsletter. It is Mike's equipment and where he taught at Me Gill University Medical School in know-how that enables us to scan and digitally record Montreal, Quebec. The assembled cousins were asked your precious old family photos, storing them in the if anyone knew of a Dr. RICKEY of that timeframe and computer for enhanced quality reproduction in RICKEY place that might fit Don into one of our active clans. ROOTS & REVELS. JAMES HUSTON RICKEY (Branch Rickey Clan, from St Charles, IL) read from correspondence received SHOW AND TELL TIME from his son, Lt. Cmdr. (Dr.) DAVID NATHAN RICKEY, a U. S. Navy Dental Officer now stationed on WHO WERE THESE RICKEYS? To seek answers a ship assigned to the Philadelphia, PA Navy Yard. Dr. to this omnipresent question and provide insight about DAVID observed that a certain CARRIE RICKEY our heritage, individuals were invited to take the "by-line" appeared regularly as film critic for the microphone and share SPECIAL RICKEY STORIES with all "PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER", SO he sent her a copy of of the cousins. Some of the tales were serious, others "RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS I" and asked if she was humorous, and some even sad, but all were informative related. Her reply was as follows: "Dear Dr David and we came away from this reunion with a greater Rickey (that's my father's name, too! !)...IamaRICKEY appreciation of the ties that bind our extended RICKEY born, but alas, I am a bogus RICKEY. My father's FAMILY. family — Lithuanian Jews who emigrated here in 1921 Cousin STANTON MICHAEL RICKEY initiated — were called RYKEWICZ. After World War II, my this segment by reading from a recent news clipping sent father and his siblings all changed (or shortened) the in by DON GLADSTONE RICKEY (Lost Souls Clan, surname. My aunt and uncle chose "RICHTER". My of Evergreen, CO). Apparently, a certain unnamed Dad chose "RICKEY", because that was what everyone RICKEY..."asked his father to bring him a briefcase at called him. I am thrilled to have a "homonym" relative the County Jail, prior to his court appearance on an in Philadelphia...". COUSIN STANTON commented assault conviction, and that was enough for his that his research had previously put him in touch with conviction on another charge of introducing CARRIE'S mother, CHARNA ISABEL BARSKY contraband...A Deputy Sheriff found a semi-automatic RICKEY, a famous sculptor residing in Venice, CA. pistol, ammunition, a bullet proof vest and cash in the Her specialty is "Kinor" or sound sculptures—fabricated briefcase." Undoubtedly, anyone related to this from metal, with surfaces shaped to capture the wind and particular line of RICKEY'S is qualified for admission produce harmonic vibrations that "sing" as the breeze to the "SOCIETY OF DESCENDANTS OF blows through them. Charna sent Stanton an article DISREPUTABLE ANCESTORS". STANTON said written by Carrie in 1989 entitled "The Day Pancho that he knows about the existence of this society, Villa Dropped By For Lunch". Carrie's grandparents, because he qualified as a result of ancestors being taken J. B. & SONIA BARSKY emigrated from Europe after before a Puritan Church Court in Colonial Massachusetts WW I, but immigration quotas forced them to spend for a "Connubial Irregularity". Fortunately, this was several years in Mexico before entering the U.S.A. not his RICKEY line. While in Chihuahua in 1923, Pancho Villa and some of his armed soldiers rode into town and had lunch at the STANTON went on to describe his recent interview boarding house where they were staying. The 22 year with Dr. DON GLADSTONE RICKEY (Ph.D., Univ old Sonia spoke some Spanish and conversed with the of Oklahoma), a well-known historian, lecturer and revolutionary leader, but not until he was gone, was she author. Don is considered a leading authority on the U. told the identity of the mysterious guest. When she S. Army's post-Civil War campaigns against the several approached the dining table, all of the men stood up to Indian tribes that resisted the path of Westward honor her, because she was obviously very pregnant. Migration. His expertise on the Indian Wars was honed Just a few weeks later, Charna Barsky Rickey was while working as a historian at the Little Big Horn, born. So now we have another RICKEY anecdote, and Custer Battlefield in Wyoming and at the Army War Page 71 understand how the name of RYKEWICZ became a and "A Current Affair". As a result she did meet many part of our extended RICKEY FAMILY along with other interesting people. Some commended her, but many derivative surnames like RIKY, RICKY, RICKE, RIECKE, were vindictive. Beth laughed and said it was pretty ^ RICKIE, REEKIE, RIQUET, REQUIER, RYCKE, etc. difficult to explain to her date, why these people were "** ELIZABETH ANN RICKEY (Dr Joseph Kerr trying to run her car off the road. Fortunately, most of Rickey Clan, from New Orleans, LA) dropped a real this has subsided and her life is now beginning to return bombshell by alleging that her great granduncle, to normal. All RICKEYS should be justifiably proud of "Colonel" JOSEPH KERR RICKEY Jr never served Cousin Beth' s courageous "whistle blowing" stance that in the Confederate Army during the Civil War! While thwarted what columnist George Will called "..this bad researching in the National Archives in Washington, seed of American politics...". Your attention is invited DC, BETH found preliminary evidence that he actually to page 80, NEWSWEEK magazine, 8 Oct 1990, for a fought for the Union, as did his father and brothers. description of Beth's early efforts against David Duke. Apparently, "Colonel" JOE's widow, SALLIE I. FRANK BURDETTE RICKEY (William Jacob HOWARD RICKEY applied for a pension in 1920 (17 Rickey Clan, from Mesa, AZ) introduced some levity years after his death), based on his service in Company with the following humorous anecdote. While discussing A, 2nd Iowa Infantry. Beth will defer final judgement, his ancestry with the wife of an old friend who was from pending receipt and analysis of copies of the pension Scotland, Cousin FRANK told her that he had just found request and other military records, but she said it looks out that he, too, was Scotch. She immediately informed like our colorful rapscallion cousin may have invented him in no uncertain terms: "Frank, you are Scottish! the story of his southern service to further his political Scotch comes from a bottle!" ambitions in the border state of Missouri. Beth said that BURTON CARLYLE RICKEY spoke of his he made and lost several fortunes, and was an inveterate grandfather, JOHN WESLEY RICKEY (b.19 Feb gambler — willing to wager on absolutely anything. 1855 / d. 2 Feb 1935, Los Angeles, CA), who headed a She also revealed that the original "Gin Rickey" recipe prominent Civil Engineering and Architectural Firm in was in reality straight bourbon with a little twist of lime. Chicago, and was responsible for several major Apparently he imbibed this libation daily, which construction projects in the latter part of the 19th Century. undoubtedly contributed to his florid complexion. She BURT displayed his grandfather's documents and read spoke glowingly of the exploits of her famous relative, a 26 Mar 1890 newspaper clipping from the Chicago describing him as a gifted storyteller who was widely Daily News that credited him as Chief Engineer of the admired and sought after by the political powerbrokers West Chicago Rapid Transit Co and Superintendent of of his era. When he died in 1903, his obituary appeared construction for the famous Chicago Elevated Railway. on page 1 of the New York Times, and she said not very Burt also showed his grandfather's handwritten original many people were so honored. (EDITOR'S NOTE: See plans, specifications, bills of materials, and cost data for pages 49 & 50, Feb 1992, Issue No. 6, RICKEY ROOTS & construction of the Texas State Capitol Building in REVELS for feature article on "Colonel Joe, Inventor of Austin, which has a dome taller than that of the U.S. the Gin Rickey"; also page 15, Summer 1990, Issue Capitol in Washington, DC. Among these artifacts was No. 2). the handwritten report of completion presented to the Beth was introduced as a currently famous Governor of Texas on 16 Apr 1888. Burt told of Republican Party activist and GOP State visiting Austin enroute to REVEL HI, where he consulted Committeeperson from Louisiana, who had played a with the State Archivist, who was especially pleased to leading role in the recent defeat of David Duke's bid for receive copies of these historic papers. Governor of that state, and his subsequent run for the ARTHUR JOHN RICKEY Sr (New York Clan, Presidency in several Republican primaries. Her from Verplanck, NY) proudly related a story about his 18 research and vehement outspoken views on National year old grandson, DE VIN RICKEY (son of RUSSELL Television exposed this neo-Nazi, white supremacist J. RICKEY & LENORE LACINA), who just received bigot as still harboring the same sentiments that an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West prevailed when he was active in the Ku Klux Clan. She Point. ART described some of the rigorous traditions of described the effect of all this on her personal life. Beth "Beast Barracks" that DEVIN must cope with when he said her phone was tapped, she received death threats, reports to summer basic training in July. Until formal had to move from her apartment and was provided with Academy classes commence in September, he will be bodyguards. She received all kinds of phone calls from addressed as "NEW CADET RICKEY". Any mail sent people who saw her on several TV news programs, PBS, to him must bear that pseudonym. If a letter arrives Page 72 bearing his real name, he must perform 50 pushups—for Originator of the "Knot Hole Gang", which provided each letter! If someone sends him a "care package" thousands of free admissions to kids. The only requirement (cookies, candy, etc.), all get to share them — except was that they have parental permission and not miss NEW CADET RICKEY! Instead, he gets 25 pounds of school. rocks to carry in his pack. Art & his wife, CLAIRE, are Put numbers on players' uniforms to identify them, looking forward to the coming football season, when before anyone else even thought about it. they will see CADET DEVIN RICKEY march into the Invented the batting helmet and first introduced it in stadium with his classmates. Art also mentioned another 1951. Branch started a company to manufacture them, new development in their family. The anticipated birth and by 1954,300,000 were being sold annually and used of his 12th RICKEY grandchild, due 4 to 6 weeks at all levels of baseball, from the Majors to Little Leagues. after REVEL III, but "SHE" already has a name — Started the "Fellowship of Christian Athletes". An KAITLIN ASHLEY RICKEY — and is already in the organization found today in all high school, college and RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION computer! professional sports, whose members play for the Glory of ROBERT GLENN RICKEY shared an amusing God. family story told to him by his grandparents, FRED Involved in the formation of the first "All American LEROY RICKEY (b. 19 Feb 1866, Ferguson, Marshall Girls Professional Baseball League", now being portrayed Co, IA / d. 3 Nov 1939, Bremerton, Kitsap Co, WA) & in the Hollywood Movie, "A League of Their Own". SARAH "SALLIE" POWERS (b. 13 Nov 1869, MO Still being quoted in 1992 by TV & Radio sportswriters /d. 1 July 1955, Tacoma, Pierce Co, WA). The Dr David and editors. His ideas and sports management principles Talmage Rickey Clan of Iowa were all staunch never die! They are recognized as being as valid today as Republicans. Apparently, SALLIE was descended from when originally uttered. a line of southern Democrats, who came from Missouri FOUR SISTERS from the James Bernard Rickey and Arkansas. As not too affluent newlyweds, they used Clan entertained us and poked fun at one another with a to walk to town to get supplies and invariably her father, hilarious musical "Hee Haw Parody" in the style of the WILLIAM POWERS would come along in his wagon "Beverly Hillbillies" TV Show. This lively act was so and give the young couple a ride. However, one Election well received that a repeat performance was demanded at Day they met on the road, and FRED's father-in-law the poolside barbecue that evening. They were: JACKIE cracked the whip, drove around and left them in the dust. LYN RICKEY WEAVER, master angler fromGassville, As he passed, he shouted: "DIRTY LITTLE AR; NORMA JEAN RICKEY ANDERSON, banker REPUBLICANS"! from Neosho, MO; CAROL SUE RICKEY SMITH, English teacher from Covington, IL; and KATHIE JO JAMES HUSTON RICKEY again took the podium RICKEY OSBORN, vendor of windows & doors from to provide additional first hand observations about his North Aurora, IL. All are daughters of RHONDAL first cousin, once removed, the famous BRANCH (RONALD) SHANNON RICKEY(b. 23 Jul 1915, RICKEY. (EDITORSNOTE: See pages 40 & 41, NOV 1991, Findlay, Shelby Co., IL) & BETTY JO BIXLER. Issue No. 5, RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS; also pages 29,30, Excerpts from their amazing ditty follows: & 31, June 1991, Issue No. 4 for prior coverage of our When we got the invite Where, oh where, did our distinguished cousin). Naturally, all present knew of him, To this here reunion, kinfolk come from? but a show of hands totaled only three who had ever met We said Why not Why did they make their him. Jim drew from personal memories to further extoll Let's give it a try! Homes in this land? the virtues and accomplishments of the outstanding baseball magnate. Jim spoke of the high moral character We've gathered together and religious values that exemplified major milestones in To find out the answers the career of his illustrious ancestor, and the far-reaching at this year's union impact his ideas had on his contemporaries. The following of the whole RICKEY CLAN! ! achievements, not previously covered in this newsletter, were attributed to BRANCH RICKEY: MEMORIAL SERVICE First Baseball Executive enshrined in the BASEBALL HALL OF FAME at Cooperstown, NY; for that is how he BEBE JOAN FULLERTON MC FARLAND is remembered — as a business and managerial genius, (William Jacob Rickey Clan, from Ainswoth, IA) not as a player. He played professional ball in his early delivered a most moving and eloquent eulogy to her years, but was only of average ability. father, FRANCIS E. "FRANK" FULLERTON (b. 16 Page 73 Columbus Junction, Louisa Co, IA). (EDITORS NOTE: See JUANITA JOHNSON (b. 3 Jan 1924, Allerton, Wayne pages 60 & 61, May 1992, Issue #7, RICKEY ROOTS & Co, IA). They are descended from HENRY B. RICKEY REVELS for complete obituary) She spoke lovingly of the (b. 22 Nov 1810, VA/WV / d. 16 Oct 1890, buried good health and happy, active life that her father enjoyed Pilotsburg Cemetery, Lime Creek Township, Washington even unto his final hours. He took his usual daily walk, Co, IA) & JINSON "JINSEY" DICK (b. 29 Feb 1816, made plans to attend a ballgame and then quietly passed OH / d. 4 Aug 1892, also buried in Pilotsburg Cemetery). away in his sleep. We learned from his beloved widow, BRADLEY SCOTT RICKEY (Henry B. Rickey MARJORIE LOUISE RICKEY FULLERTON, that Clan, resident of Geneseo, IL) married LAURA Frank eagerly anticipated attending this reunion with PETERSON on 19 May 1991 at Andover, Henry Co, his family. Also present were: Bebe's husband, IL. His parents are JERALD WAYNE RICKEY (b. 9 RICHARD D. MC FARLAND; another daughter, Aug 1943, Moline, Rock Island Co, IL) & PEGGY DE JOCELYN JEAN FULLERTON & her husband, DECKER, residents of Carbon Cliff, IL. His ROBERT "BUTCH" MORGAN (from Washington, grandparents are CHARLES DICK RICKEY & IA). EVELYN JUANITA JOHNSON of Colona, IL. BRADLEY & LAURA both graduated from Black WEDDING BELLS Hawk College in Moline, IL. DIANA SUE RICKEY was married on 27 June 1992 THOMAS MICHAEL RICKEY married KRISTIN to WILLIAM BAKER. She is the daughter of JAMES NOLAN on 9 June 1990 in Rochester, Wayne Co, NY. BRUCE RICKEY (b. 17 Nov 1923, Russellville, Brown He is the son of GEORGE FREDERIC RICKEY (b. Co, OH) & RUBY EILENE DOTSON (b. 16 Apr 1922, 2 July 1922, Geneva, Ontario Co, NY / d. 2 July 1985, Mt Olivet, Robertson Co, KY). We learned of this Geneva, NY) & SHIRLEY MAE LAUDENSLAYER marriage from her father, who expressed his regrets for (b. 23 Apr 1925, Lyons, Wayne Co, NY). They are not attending RICKEY REVEL IH, due to this more members of the Quebec Rickey Clan, descended from important event. Excuses! Excuses! TOM's gr gr gr gr grandparents, LOUIS RITIER & MARIE SUREAU-BLONDIN. In French Canada, the NEWEST RICKEY BABIES surname was also spelled REQUIER, and RIQUIER by successive generations before evolving into RICKEY 18 October 1990 San Antonio, Bexar Co, TX with Tom's grandparents, ALFRED ST. DENIS RONALD GRAY MOWERY II RICKEY (b. 30 Mar 1887, Oswego, NY / d. 12 Aug Robert Raymond Mowery & Melanie Sophia Leavoy 1953, Geneva, NY) & THERESA FRANCES OOT (b. 20 November 1990 Portland, Multnomah Co, OR 10 June 1888, Minetto, Oswego Co, NY / d. 25 May VANESSA KAYE BISH 1939, Geneva, NY). Tom is employed as a feature writer Timothy Bish & Vicky Ann Rutherford in the Public Relations Dept of the University of Rochester, and Kristen is a free lance photographer. 27 June 1991 Saginaw, Saginaw Co, MI Cousins STANTON & ADDIE RICKEY spent an STEFAN MICHAEL MOEDE evening with this delightful young couple at their home Matthew Moede & Julie Kulak in Rochester this past July. 25 December 1991 Iowa City, Johnson Co, IA MICHAEL RICKEY married EWA DEJNICKA CASSANDRA KAY MC FARLAND on 23 Aug 1991 in Phoenix, Maricopa Co, AZ. MIKE Jon Edward Me Farland & Karen Kay Rupert is the son of JOHN EDWARD RICKEY (b. 9 Dec 1949, Geneva, NY) & ROSALIA ALLERA. He is also 5 March 1992 Iowa City, Johnson Co, IA the nephew of THOMAS MICHAEL RICKEY of ELAYNA KATHERINE MC FARLAND Rochester, NY, and another member of the Quebec James Robert Me Farland & Beth Reiner Rickey Clan. DEBORAH LYNN RICKEY (Henry B. Rickey 6 August 1992 Cold Spring, Putnam Co, NY Clan) married JAMES WILSON on 25 May 1990 at **KAITLIN ASHLEY RICKEY Colona, Henry Co, IL. She is the daughter of JERALD Ronald J. Rickey & Teresa WAYNE RICKEY & PEGGY DE DECKER. Info came from Family Group Sheet (FGS) sent in by the ** Arrived on schedule, as predicted by Grandpa bride's grandparents, CHARLES DICK RICKEY (b. ART RICKEY; see pg 73 18 Jan 1919, Ottumwa, Wapello Co, IA) & EVELYN Page 74 WestchesterCo,NY)&FLORENCECADWALADER IN MEMORIAM (b. Trenton / d. 1951, Trenton). Survivors include his wife, AGNES YOUNG, whom he married on 24 Nov FREDA ALBRECHT RICKEY passed away on 14 1949; nieces and cousins; and his brother, WILLIAM Apr 1991 at her home in Modesto, Stanislaus Co, CA, C. RICKEY of Manahawkin, NJ, who we thank for just two months shy of her 90th birthday. She attended sending us this obituary. The deceased was a member of RICKEY REVEL I at Diamond Springs, CA in 1990, along the RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION' S Pennsylvania Quaker with her two children, who survive her. They are Clan, and a direct descendant of ALEXANDER CHARLES WILLIAM TREAD WAY RICKEY (better RICKEY (b. abt 1680/1688, Edinburgh, Scotland / d. 5 known as "BUD"), of Coleville, CA, and PATRICIA Dec 1758, Lower Makefield, Bucks Co, PA), who RICKEY COLLIER of Corpus Christi, TX. FREDA emigrated to America in 1698, and in 1715 married was buried in Antelope Valley Cemetery, Coleville, ANNE KEIRL (b. abt 1692 at Lower Makefield). Mono Co, CA, beside her husband, CHARLES TREADWAY RICKEY (b.19 June 1897 / d. 15 Apr RICHARD V. BURWELL died at home in Castle 1966, Los Angeles, CA). The latter is the grandson of the Rock, Cowlitz Co, WA on 14 Jan 1992, following a former Nevada State Senator, banker and cattle baron, lengthy illness. He was born 3 May 1913 in Boise, ID to "Colonel" THOMAS BRINLEY RICKEY (b. 23 Aug VERNON ALONZO BURWELL (b. 21 Oct 1888, 1836, Ohio/d. 12 Jan 1920, Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA). Clarinda, Page Co, IA / d. 9 Mar 1967, Puyallup, Pierce Also at rest in this lovely little country cemetery east of Co, WA) & HAZEL IRENE RICKEY (b. 31 Aug the Sierra Nevada, is the Senator's father, WILLIAM 1892, Marshalltown, Marshall Co, IA / d. 4 Aug 1964, RICKEY (b. 13 May 1812, Allegheny Co, PA / d. 18 Tacoma, Pierce Co, WA). The latter was a daughter of May 1891, Coleville/Topaz, Mono Co, CA), who brought FRED LEROY RICKEY & SARAH "SALLIE" his family across the plains in a covered wagon from POWERS (See page 73, REVEL ffl, "SHOW & TELL" Dubuque, IA to California in 1852. item). On 14 Feb 1936, RICHARD married PHYLLIS IZETTA HANSON in San Francisco, CA. The deceased was a woodworker by trade and built cabinets, homes O and wooden boats. He worked at the Puget Sound (WA) Naval Shipyard during World War II, and later at various boat building companies and general contractors in that area. He removed to Castle Rock, WA in 1969 and built the present family home there. Until failing health forced him to retire, he was employed by the Castle Rock School District as a custodian. His interests included photography, wood carving, the enjoyment of music and traveling. He was preceded in death by his sister, IRMA IRENE (IRMADENE) BURWELL WARD (b. 21 Feb 1916, Gravity, Taylor Co, IA/d. 3 May 1991, Mountain Home, Owyhee Co, ID); a son, RICHARD HANSON BURWELL (b. 9 Oct 1944, Bremerton, Kitsap Co, WA / d. 21 Dec 1988 in Castle Rock); and a grandson, RICHARD JAMES CARLSON (b. 22 Nov 1961, Freda Albrecht Rickey alongside William Rickey Seattle, King Co, WA / d. 21 June 1984, Tacoma, WA). (b. May 13,1812 / d. May 18,1891) RICHARD is survived by his beloved wife, PHYLLIS, at home; two daughters, SANDRA IRENE BURWELL- WALTER H. RICKEY died 14 May 1991 at John CARVEY of Tacoma, WA and SHARON JUNE Knox Village, Orange City, Volusia Co, FL. He was BURWELL BROWN of Kelso, WA; a son, PHILLIP born 4 Sept 1909 at Trenton, Mercer Co, NJ, and served DONALD BURWELL of Tacoma; eight grandchildren; in the U. S. Navy for 20 years, retiring as a First Class one great grandson; and a nephew, ROCKNE N. WARD Petty Officer. He loved boating and flying as a licensed of Grandview, ID. All are members of the Dr David pilot, and was a member of the Methodist Church. His Talmage Rickey Clan. parents were: WILLIAM PAUL RICKEY (b. 29 May 1870, Trenton, Mercer Co, NJ / d. July 1922, Scarsdale, Page 75 WELCOME RICKEY REVELS III MOORE FAMILY REUNION if •a Page 77 NEW RICKEY FAMILY HISTORY NOW AVAILABLE places provides ahandy tool for researchers. Undoubtedly, Book Review by Stanton Rickey this is the most ambitious and complete effort ever "THE RICKEY FAMILY — ISRAEL RIKY undertaken by a member of our extended Rickey Family. CLAN, BASKING RIDGE, NEW JERSEY", comgjed It belongs in the library of every member of the RICKEY and published by VICKI RICKEY BRYAN, 1130 E. FAMILY ASSOCIATION, even if your forebears cannot Cothrell,Olathe,KS 66061. Tel: (913)780-0185. In 183 currently be traced to Basking Ridge. Who knows? fact-filled pages, this book documents over 1100 Maybe, someday, most of us will find our lines merging descendants of the author's earliest known progenitor, with those early day RICKEY ANCESTORS of New York, ISRAEL RIKY, who died in 1729 and is buried in the Connecticut and New Jersey. At the introductory price of graveyard of the Basking Ridge, NJ, Presbyterian Church. $15 (postage included), Cousin VICKI's monumental Information garnered from many years of painstaking effort deserves your patronage. research of census data, old newspapers, wills, deeds, family bibles, cemetery and church records, military RICKEY REVEL IV PLANNED FOR OREGON archives and other historical references has been carefully documented. A chronological organization portrays the Plans are now being made for the 4th Annual Reunion westward migration of successive generations of the of AM, RICKEY CLANS to meet in OREGON in . BASKING RIDGE CLAN. Emphasis is placed on areas 1995rThis coincides with the many OREGON TRAIL Aof. heaviest Rickey concentrations in New Jersey, Pioneer Celebrations scheduled throughout the Pacific Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Northwest, during the Sesquicentennial Year of that Kansas, Colorado, Arizona, Idaho, California and massive Westward Migration. ROBERT EDWIN Washington. Rickeys are also located in 13 other states. RICKEY, CMSGT, USAF (Ret), who attended RICKEY This book is much more than a mere recitation of Names, REVEL I, is Chairman of our Site Selection Committee. Dates; and Places. Sprinkled throughout are biographies, Anyone desiring to help, express ideas, or ask questions, obituarist famifc#,siories, and tombstone epitaphs that is encouraged to write to BOB at 16000 SE Powell Blvd, an our Rickey heritage. A Sp 10, Portland, OR 97236; or telephone him at (503) 5erisive_3O-nage index of names of persons and 760-4709. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ISSN 1058-0263 RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS Stanton M. Rickey 235 15th St. NE Salem, OR. 97301-4228 FORWARDING & ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED FIRST CLASS MAIL Noble Co. Genealogical Society P. O. Box 444 Caldwell, OH 43724 October 1992 Page 78 , & Q^cvels Volume 3 December 1992 Issue No. 9 BE COOL IN OREGON AT RICKEY REVEL IV ON 24 - 25 JULY 1993 Holiday Inn Portland South - Wilsonville, OR is now confirmed deceased, his heirs took claim to the land. Also, JOSEPH RICKEY many assigned their warrants to others for cash REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER payment. An "R" indicated the claim was rejected. This did not necessarily mean that the applicant was The declaration that follows this article was dishonest, but many could not provide proof of made by JOSEPH RICKEY on 17 Sep 1832. Our service. By 1832, discharges had often been lost (or fledgling nation treated their Revolutionary War never issued). Comrades who could attest to service Veterans rather shabbily. Many were already dead might be deceased or moved away. Rejected claims by the time the Congress finally authorized monetary often generated voluminous correspondence that pensions or Bounty Land Grants. After authorizing, provides considerable info about the veteran. then rescinding, then re-authorizing (with These records contain much of Family History restrictions based on rank, type of service and value. Applications were initiated in the courts of disability), Congress eventually passed a the county or town where the veteran lived. The comprehensive Act which became law on 7 June applicant stated his name, age, date and place of 1832. It provided pensions for all, officers and birth, residences, military organizations, and lengths soldiers and sailors: whether Continental Line, State of service. Supporting affidavits submitted by troops or Militia. Widows and orphans were entitled associates and neighbors added more info to this C to the balance of money due the pensioner. The few genealogy treasure trove. Sometimes family bible who eventually received benefits were already pages, torn out of the book, were enclosed as greatly advanced in years, as was Joseph at Age evidence. By reference to the Claim Number, 84. We know that he did collect a pension for about Revolutionary War Pension Applications and 5 years, inasmuch as his will was filed in the ensuing correspondence can be found at the National Richland Co, OH Court House in Dec 1837. Faded Archives in Washington, DC and also at the 12 memories and lost documents prevented many from Regional Archives (see page 47, bottom of column successfully pleading their case to a seemingly 2, Rickey Roots & Revels, Issue # 5, Nov 1991). reluctant War Department Pension Office. So many years passed before approval that benefits often went to survivors, such as second wives and their minor children. REVEL HI VIDEOTAPE AVAILABLE Apparently Joseph Rickey was successful in his plea, because he later was assigned Revolutionary Pension Claim No. S 4100. The prefix "S" meant A VHS videotape entitled "Highlights of Rickey his claim was approved. A "W" prefix meant Revel HI" is now available for anyone desiring a benefits collected by a widow. "BLW" was a Bounty colorful record of our latest reunion at Eureka Land Warrant Claim. These were authorized by Springs, AR, on 27 & 28 June 1992. Postage, Congress in 1776 as a substitute for wages, which packaging & handling is included in the bargain they were unable to pay the soldiers. The number of price of $15.95. Art says a portion of the proceeds, acres granted was based on rank, and ranged from after expenses, will be donated to the Rickey Family 100 to 1100 acres. This method of payment worked Association. Send $15.95 (check or moneyorder) so well that bounty-land warrants were granted until to ART RICKEY, 19 Wayne Avenue, Verplanck, 1855, and were also awarded to veterans of other NY 10596. post-Revolutionary Wars. If the soldier was Page 79 o^ J^oseph ^icfeey a soddleit o$ the itevoQutlon to obtain the benefit o$ the act o^ Cong/iess passed 7th Jtane 1832. State o^ (Dhio, County o^ ^ickQand (Dn this \7tk c(ay o^ Septembe/t, 1832 pe/tsona££y appea/ted be^o/te me c^U?e*:ande/t $n this battfle they £ost about 40 men and we/te d/tii/en back about th/tee mi£es. C3^e has no /teco&Gection o^ the names o^ ^egu^a/t ©^ice/ts. (3^e se/tued th/iee months and u^as discha/tged about tne time that (3^ouse was ma/tching th/tough cJVIew ^e/tsey and S£ee was pursuing him. (5We /teceiued a w/titten discharge but has £ong since fiost it. c_Again in the yea/t 1779 he thinks, he ente/ted into tne se/tuices o^ the ^United States as a so£die/t in the U^AaiiyQand Page 81 MILITARY SERVICE Was your ancestor born between the dates listed in the 1st Column below? If so, he may have served in one of the Wars or Armed Conflicts named in the 2nd Column. Dates and duration of these Colonial American and United States hostilities are shown in Column 3. Prior to the American Revolution, the service records of soldiers and militia were kept in many varied formats and locations within the Colonies and in the foreign countries involved. Lists of names of participants may also appear in Colony and Town Muster Rolls, some of which have been published. The United States Federal Archives have maintained military and pension records for all Wars since the Revolution. Research of these holdings often reveals a host of information about your veteran ancestor. BIRTH YEARS WAR OR ARMED CONFLICT FROM-TO 1572-1622 JAMESTOWN, VA. MASSACRE 1622 1583-1619 PEQUOTWAR 1633-1637 1625-1658 BACON'S REBELLION 1675-1676 1625-1658 KING PHILLIP'S WAR 1675-1676 1639-1730 INTERCOLONIAL WARS 1689-1748 1704-1745 FRENCH & INDIAN WAR 1754-1763 1713-1746 PONTIAC'S REBELLION 1763-1764 1724-1756 LORD DUNSMORE'S WAR 1774 1720-1768 AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR 1775-1783 1741-1776 WHISKEY INSURRECTION 1791-1794 1740-1795 FRONTIER INDIAN WARS 1790-1813 1757-1800 WAR OF 1812 1812-1815 1782-1814 BLACKHAWK WAR 1832 1796-1830 MEXICAN WAR 1846-1848 1806-1850 CIVIL WAR 1861-1865 1816-1877 WESTERN INDIAN CAMPAIGNS 1866-1895 1848-1881 SPANISH AMERICAN WAR 1898-1899 1849-1884 PHILLIPINE INSURRECTION 1899-1902 1850-1883 BOXER REBELLION IN CHINA 1900-1901 1867-1900 WORLD WAR I (USA) 1917-1918 1886-1927 WORLD WAR H (USA) 1941-1945 1900-1935 KOREAN WAR 1950-1953 1915-1955 VIETNAM WAR 1965-1973 HELP CIRCULATE OUR NEWSLETTER AAA ATLAS IDENTIFIES COUNTIES After you have finished reading our Newsletter, we When we receive letters or FGS with Family History data, hope that you will save each issue for future reference. If oftentimes the place names for an event (i.e. Birth, Mar- not, please don't discard it in the "round file". Why not riage, Divorce, Death, etc.) is expressed as City & State, pass it on to another relative or friend who may be only. In normal usage this is sufficient; however, failure to interested in Rickey Family happenings? Some of you include the county places the Researcher/Genealogist at a have told us that you send them a photocopy and retain the disadvantage. All such vital statistics are generally re- originals. All well and good, but another thought is to corded, stored and maintained at the county level of govern- donate Rickey Roots & Revels to your local Public ment. In recent years, some progress has been made in Library or a Historical/Genealogical Society. While centralizing some records at state level, but only in some, you' re about it, ask these interested individuals and orga- not all states, and even then not for all time periods. Even o nizations if they would like to be placed on our direct when centralized, indexing procedures often require mailing list. Page 82 , knowledge of the original county of record. There- fore, when telling us about your family, please GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY include the county, along with city & state. This CELEBRATION will insure that info stored in the Rickey Family Association Computer is both accurate and com- Mr & Mrs JOHN VINSON RICHARDSON of plete. 614 E. Schreyer PI, Columbus, Franklin Co, OH Any atlas will help locate the county, given the 43214, and Triadelphia, Morgan Co, OH celebrated city & state, but by far, the best, cheapest, fastest their 50th Wedding Anniversary on the weekend of and easiest to use source is published by the 4 & 5 April 1992. Actually, two celebrations were American Automobile Association. The AAA road planned in their honor. One was held on Saturday atlas covers all of the United States and Canadian at the Indian Springs Church of Christ in Columbus, Provinces and is for sale at all AAA offices for the where John served as an Elder for 20 years. This List Price of $7.95 to non-members. Members pay was followed by a second gala party on Sunday only $5.95, and the lower price can also be found at afternoon at the Burr Oak State Park Lodge in some discount outlets. Now here's the good news! southwest Morgan County. Friends and family Unlike most other Atlases, this one lists all of the came from Florida, Illinois, California and from all town names and grid coordinates on the same page over Ohio to participate in their joyous celebrations. as a given state map. You do not have to constantly flip from the back of the book to a particular state's map page to locate a city within the county boundaries. AMAZING RICKEY WHAT A STRANGE NAME "AMAZING" RICKEY (b. 4 July 1835, Montezuma, Powashiek Co, IA / d. 11 Nov 1918), was one of the first white children born in this frontier community. His parents were convinced that he would be a spectacular success in any endeavor that he chose, so they named him Amazing. Unfortunately, he turned out to be a rather ordinary person, and came to despise his given name because it made him a ready target for ridicule. He married a fine woman who stuck with John Vinson Richardson & Irene Hope Smith him through 60 years of a rather turbulent marriage, April 2, 1942 marked by heavy drinking and womanizing. On his On 2 April 1942 at the bride's home on Lemon deathbed, he made his wife promise that the name Hill in Deerfield Township, Morgan County, OH, Amazing would not appear on his tombstone. True John Vinson Richardson, (b. 24 July 1918, Newark, to his wish, the tombstone in the local cemetery Licking Co, OH and son of Sir Herman Richardson reads: "Here lies my husband, a man who never & Bessie Humphrey of nearby Triadelphia) was drank liquor, never looked at another woman or had married to IRENE HOPE SMITH (b. 6 Apr 1922, an evil thought in our 60 years of marriage". It was Morgan Co, OH). Ted Waller, Minister of the all for naught. Today, visitors to the cemetery who Seventh Street Church of Christ officiated at their read the epitaph, invariably exclaim: "Hey, that's wedding. The bride is the eldest of 7 children born Amazing!" to Harold Curtis Smith Sr (b. 14 June 1898, Deerfield Twp, Morgan Co, OH / d. 22 Feb 1893, Me May all of you Rickey descendants have a truly Connelsville, Morgan Co, OH) & Daisy Marie blessed Christmas with your loved ones, and a very Bankes (b. 18 June 1900, Deerfield Twp / d. 31 Jan happy and prosperous New Year. 1972, Zanesville, Muskingum Co, OH). Hope's Cousin Stanton Cousin Vicki parents and grand parents were all natives of Morgan Editor Associate Editor County. She is the great great granddaughter of Page 83 Margaret Ann Rickey (b. 8 Apr 1811, Jefferson where John & Hope had spent the first year of their Co, OH / d. 21 Dec 1877, Morgan Co) & Samuel married life during WW II. Hope writes that they Carman (b. 3 Dec 1811 in Maryland / d. 15 Sep "...had a romantic dinner at Antoine's and stayed at 1891, Malta Twp, Morgan Co). The latter couple are an historic Bed & Breakfast Plantation House...we buried side by side in Wolf Creek Cemetery, Malta celebrated for nearly a month...it was a very loving Twp. Hope's 3rd great grandparents were Brice B. and affirming time for us!" Rickey (b. 15 Dec 1773, Somerset Co, NJ / d. 15 Aug 1843, Jefferson Co, OH) & Margaret Cole (b. 22 May 1775/d. 14 May 1814, Jefferson Co). Thus, DIRTY LITTLE REPUBLICANS Hope's maternal ancestral line is traced back to Israel Riky, who died Oct 1729, and is buried under These are the "Dirty Little Republicans" who that stately and venerable 500 year old oak tree in were spurned by her father on Election Day 1890. the historic graveyard of the 300 year old See page 73 Rickey Roots & Revels, Issue #8 for Presbyterian Church of Basking Ridge, NJ. amusing story told at Revel III by their grandson, Robert Glenn Rickey, of Shelton, WA. John Vinson Richardson & Irene Hope Smith 1992 Fred LeRoy Rickey (1866 -1939) Hope is a widely known herbalist, and writes a column, "Growing Herbs with Hope" for the Morgan County Herald. She has also written articles for various state and national Herb Society publications. Early in 1941, John was in the first draft from Morgan County. He served in World War II for 5 years and remained in the U.S. Army Reserve for another 25 years, retiring with the rank of Colonel, Corps of Engineers. He retired from Jeffrey Mining Machine Co in Columbus, and now enjoys life as a Christmas Tree farmer near Triadelphia in Morgan County. The Golden Anniversary couple have one son, Dr. John Vinson Richardson, Jr (b. 27 Dec 1949, Columbus, Franklin Co, OH) who has his PhD from Indiana University. He resides in Inglewood, CA with his wife, Nancy Lee Brown (b. 18 Aug 1947 in Tennessee). The young couple gifted their parents Sarah "Sallie" Powers (1869 -1955) with a "Second Honeymoon" in New Orleans, LA, Page 84 , attended Rickey Revels II & III, where their IN MEMORIAM presence greatly enhanced the conviviality of these occasions. His ready smile and always congenial EARLE WAYNE RICKEY, beloved husband of demeanor will be sorely missed at future gatherings Marjorie Carr Rickey died quietly in his sleep, on of our extended Rickey Family. 6 Aug 1992 at Wilcox Memorial Hospital, Lihue, His grandson, Erik David Bleifield, composed Kuaui, Hawaii. He was vacationing with his wife, a special poetic eulogy that was read at the funeral and granddaughter, Kelly Lynn Rickey, on board as a Memorial to Wayne. Excerpts follow: the USS Constitution, when he became ill. Wayne and Marge were celebrating their 55th Wedding Loving was his devotion, Anniversary, and had already spent five beautiful to the benefit of all creatures, days doing what they enjoyed so much—cruising Living was his passion and visiting the Hawaiian Islands. It was in this Inspiring those in his wake. context that Marge poignantly wrote: "Wayne went from one Heaven to another". His generosity was extreme- Wayne was born on 20 May 1918 in Sparland, Prof oundly affecting each child he cared for. Marshall Co, IL, to George Robert Rickey (b 7 Feb Unassuming, unwavering friend to all. 1888, Sparland, Marshall Co, IL / d. 5 Oct 1969, His lineage is left to carry on. Chillicothe, Peoria Co IL) & Bessie Hastings (d. 20 Feb 1954, Marshall Co, IL). He was a member of the His heart is left attended by his beloved. Basking Ridge Clan, descended from Israel Riky (d. In the faces of his family can be seen the traces of Oct 1729, Basking Ridge, NJ). Wayne married his smile. MARJORIE CARR on 7 Aug 1937 in Burlington, It is in myself that I see his essence Des Moines Co, IA. She survives, along with their and I feel his love. two sons, Kenneth Wayne Rickey of Henry, IL & George Franklin Rickey of Minneapolis, MN; a Why has such a wonderful heart been taken from us. C daughter, Carol Jean Bleifield of Middleton, WI; Where should we turn to when we need his strength. two brothers, Leonard Ivan Rickey of Dunlap, IL & He is still among us. Alive in each new sun rise. Harold Lester Rickey of Princeville, IL; two sisters, Waiting for us each time we return. Wilma Jean Lopeman & Frances Lucille Roach Wissmiller, both of Henry, IL; also four grandchildren, Elaina Michelle & Erik David Bleifield, and Scott Matthew & Kelly Lynne Rickey. Wayne farmed in Whitefield and Steuben Townships of Marshall County for several years, and in 1952, purchased the former L. J. Smith Massey- Harris farm implement dealership in Henry. He operated this business as E. W. Rickey Sales & Service for 28 years, retiring in 1980. He was a member and Elder of First Presbyterian Church of Henry, and also a member of Henry Lodge, AF&AM 119, Mohammed Temple Shrine, Scottish Rite Bodies- Valley of Peoria, and the Lacon, IL Country Club. Funeral Services were held at First Presbyterian Church of Henry on 11 Aug 1992. Dr. Marshall Simpson officiated. Masonic rites were conducted the night before. Interment was in Henry Cemetery. Wayne & Marjorie have been staunch supporters of the Rickey Family Association, committed to the Earle Wayne Rickey and Marjorie Carr concept of Family History research and dedicated to August 5,1992 helping preserve our common heritage. They both Page 85 Adults attending REVEL HI, Eureka Springs, AR *Also attended REVEL I, Diamond Springs, CA **Also attended REVEL II, Portsmouth, OH ***Ati,n,&in **Arthur & Claire Rickey "Richard Wikander "Lowell & Geneva Rickey Robert & Pat Rickey 19 Wayne Avenue Rt. 926, Box 570 7726 — 70th St., North PO Box 280969 Verplanck, NY 10596 Westtown, PA 19395 Pinellas Park, FL 34665 Memphis, TN 38168 **Mary Phyllis Rickey Carl Connie Carl Holly E. Rickey ••Earl & Shirley Rickey Massie 5765 Hunter Road 156 Sunnybrook Trail 1258 Independence Circle SE 389 Brown Road Enon, OH 45323 Enon, OH 45323 New Philadelphia, OH 44663 Wilmington, OH 45177 **Kathy Rickey Kordalis "Robert Rickey •"Emma Rickey Charles S.Rickey 3295 Old Salem Road 5360 Bessmer Drive 813Crestmont 3041 Mill Pond Drive Dayton, OH 45415 Dayton, OH 45426 Dayton, OH 45431 Bellbrook, OH 45305 **Catherine Rickey Cooper "Charles & Ruth Smith "Ruth Ellen Rickey Fulton ••Eleanor Rickey Wiles 1220 Bay Harbour Circle Rt. 2, Box 188W 5213 Eckmansville Road 10312 State Rt. 125 Dayton, OH 45458 Minford, OH 45653 Winchester, OH 45697 Winchester, OH 45697 **George W. Rickey "Sharon L.Rickey "Avis & Bill Brown John & Joy Rickey 707 Perm Drive 707 Perm Drive 1504— 140th Street 305 East Pierce Crawfordsville, IN 47933 Crawfordsville, IN 47933 Indianola, IA 50125 Fairfield,IA 52556 **Marjorie Rickey Fullerton ** James & Betty Rickey Kathie Rickey Osborn ••Wayne & Marjorie Rickey 1121 Oakview Drive 117 Oak Hill Court 219 Briar Lane 1102 Impala Drive Columbus Junction, IA 52738 St. Charles, IL 60174 North Aurora, IL 60542 Henry, IL 61537 Harold & Evelyn Rickey Carol Rickey Smith MikeChatfleld Norma Rickey Anderson 120 North Santa Fe RR 2, Box 111 Rt. l,Box 16A 110 Cedar Ridge Princeville, IL 61559 Lovington, IL 61937 Cleveland, MO 64734 Neosho, MO 64850 **Vicki Rickey Bryan Jackie Rickey Weaver Larry & Janice Rickey •Frank B. Rickey 1130 East Cothrell Box 264 2192 South Zenobia 628 South Hobson Olathe,KS 66061 Gassville, AR 72635 Denver, CO 80219 Mesa, AZ 85204 ***Maggie & Paul von Kempf •Burton & Alice Rickey Robert Glenn Rickey Jack & Jeanne Schreiwer 1543 Walnut Drive 521 Sunset Boulevard 405 South 16th Street 1008 — 104th StNW Palo Alto, CA 94303 Port Townsend, WA 98368 Shelton,WA 98584 Oklahoma City, OK 73114 Wayne & Virginia Rickey "*Ronald Rickey •Elizabeth Rickey Flo Rickey 2416 Parkview 1135—15th StW 1765 Coliseum #225 427 Girard Park Pearland, TX 77581 Hastings, MN 55033 New Orleans, LA 70130 Lafayette, LA 70503 ** Wendell Rickey Dora Rickey Walker ••Charles & Dorothy Rickey Vande Rickey Southerland P O Box 237 80 Arias Way 4165 James Drive 2926 Imperial Valley Dr Winchester, OH 45697 Delaplaine, AR 72425 Cincinatti, OH 45245 Little Rock, AR 72212 Mary & BUI Hibbard Joyce Walker Bennett ••* Addie & Stanton Rickey POBox68 263 Hurricane Lake Road 235 - 15th St. NE O'Kean, AR 72449 Bald Knob, AR 7201 Salem, OR 97301 Richard & Bebe Fullerton McFarland Robert & Jocelyn Fullerton Morgan ••John & Jeanne Rickey Lopeman 706 S.Marian 1408 Chestnut Street Ainsworth, IA 52201 Washington, IA 52353 Henry, IL 61537 David & Tamme' Mowery Lackey ••Harvey & Rowena Rickey Souder ••Joseph & Patricia RickeyPeteh 1542 East 67 th Place Rt. 6, Box 66A 4730 East 16th Street Tulsa, OK 74136 Portsmouth, OH 45662 Indianapolis, IN 46201 Robert Scales Rickey o Kenneth & Marian Rickey Thatcher Ronald & Cecilia Rickey Mowery 74RivercliffRoad 4138 Mayflower Street 80 Arias Way Rogers, AR 72756 Garland, TX 75043 Hot Springs Village, AR 71909 Page 86 WE NEED your Family Group Sheets, then send another for your childrens' families -- and another for your parents, and another for your grandparents, and another for HUSBAND. Place . M Place. Occu pation _ ReaioeU at. Church Affil-. Wa» Serv.. Plan. Bun*A Place. Other Father Mother (ma«Je« name), ^maiden name) PUce. Ckurcn Aftil.. Oempatson. Place. BurieJ Place. P!»c* coarcea of iotorntatinn inii Other ku.L Additional iniormaiinn on Father niae. Mother (maiden name) . CHILDREN BORN DIED MARRIED *•" hen '• RCTV When Where To whom When Wnere 1 c^ 2 3 4 5 6 1 7 8 I 10 £*>> 11 i 12 ! Page 87 1993 Newsletter Renewal Due to the high cost of publishing & mailing the Rickey Roots & Revels newsletter, it has become necessary to request a donation of at least $10 annually if you wish to continue receiving the newsletter. Persons who attended Revel HI in June 1992, have already paid as part of their registration fee. Here is my donation for 1993 of $10.00. or other $_ _. I wish to continue receiving the • Rickey Roots & Revels newsletter. Make check payable to Rickey Family Association. I DO NOT wish to continue receiving the Rickey Roots & Revels newsletter. Please remove my name • from your mailing list. Add the following new "cousin(s)""to the mailing list for the Rickey Roots & Revels newsletter and • send a free copy of the most recent newsletter. Name Name Address Address City, St., Zip City, St.^Zip SEND BACK ISSUES: Change my address to the following: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8 Name •• -.. v „ ' • Address Circle those d^red, Donation o| $2.00 i -; City, St., Zip for each one requested.' LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ISSN 1058-0263 RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS Stanton M. Rickey 235 15th St. NE Salem, OR. 97301-4228 FORWARDING & ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED FIRST CLASS MAIL Caldwell, OH. 43724 December 1992 Page 88 CJ^oots & Volume 4 February 1993 Issue No. 10 1850 - RICKEY'S travel on the Oregon Trail Let's all take a 2,000 mile walk! Transport yourself back in time and try to imagine ROBBINS (b. 10 Aug 1810, Ross Co, OH / d. 16 the mixture of consternation, joy, anticipation, fear, Feb 1879, Amador Co, CA) resided in Dubuque, and misgiving, when father, JAMES RICKEY (b. IA; also WILLIAM RICKEY (b. 13 May 1812, 1802, Jefferson Co, OH / d. 25 Jan 1875, Salem, Allegheny Co, PA / d. 18 May 1891, Coleville, MarlorTCoTORyr announcecTin" tfielvpring of 1850 Mono Co, CA) & ELIZA BRINLEY (b. 1816, that he was taking his family to OREGON! Yes, Monmouth Co, NJ / d. 22 Oct 1874, Hollister, San they were going to take a little walk; some 2000 Benito Co, CA) were then settled in Dubuque, IA. miles or more, and of 6 months duration. He said Dr DAVID TALMAGE RICKEY (b. 16 June they would have to cross the wide expanse of empty 1820, Allegheny Co, PA / d. 16 May 1895, prairies, ford or swim raging rivers, survive the Marshalltown, Marshall Co, IA) had just moved bleak and arid deserts, and climb over snow capped from Dubuque to Pella, Marion Co, IA with the 1st mountains to reach their goal! OREGON! Where of his 3 wives, MARY COAN (b. 24 Feb 1820, he had been told that free land was waiting to be Preble Co, OH Id. 19 Aug 1851, Marion Co, IA). claimed in the fabulously fertile Willamette Valley His other wives were: 2nd, JANEM. CARLTON (b. that stretched southward from the Columbia River, 28 Feb 1832, ME / d. 1 Apr 1859, Marshall Co, 150 miles long and about 50 miles wide. IA), and 3rd, MARY FORREY (b. 25 Mar 1842, Initially, his loving and usually patient wife, Henry Co, IN / d. 24 May 1926, Marshalltown, DELILA NICKOLS (b. abt 1810, OH / d. 16 Aug Marshall Co, IA). Dr JOSEPH KERR RICKEY 1881, Portland, Multnomah Co, OR) probably (b. 28 Apr 1815, Allegheny Co, PA / d. 28 Apr 1900, objected to her husband's seemingly crazy scheme. Clarinda, Page Co, IA) & ELIZABETH Me Practical woman that she was, she may have said: CLEARY (b.28 Aug 1816, County Cork, Ireland / "Look, you_brpught us out west to Iowa from Morgan d. 9 Mar 1902, Clarinda, Page Co, IA) were living in County^Ohio/wfiere we~wef?rTriarTtBd on 4 May Keokuk, Lee Co, IA in 1850. f826"rTleft alTVf~lny"reTatTves^Back there to ac- v^Delila may have continued with: "First you company you and your restless brothers to Iowa." tried farming, and then you set up this trading post The family of THOMAS BRINLEY RICKEY in Des Moines because there was money to be (b. 29 Nov 1806, Jefferson Co, OH / d. 23 Nov 1886, made from all those starry eyed fools headed for Oakland, Alameda Co, CA) & MARY HARPER the goldfields in California. Now, you want to OLD OREGON TERRITORY 1848 THE OREGON TRAIL THE OREGON TRAIU . Page 89 join them! It's too much for me to understand. How and a disease ridden environment encouraged some can we go to this Oregon place and leave our newly to move on westward in search of a better life. One wed children here?" Their son, HENRY RICKEY character (Could it have been James Rickey?) gave (b. abt 1828, Morgan Co, OHjH3^5JNJfix_J881, as his reason: "Just to git where I ain't". These Bishop, inyo" "CoTT^l^^his young wife, ANN were not homeless or poverty stricken bands, fleeing SKAlFE (b. 28 Mar 1832, Yorkshire, England / d. a hopeless or tyrannical situation back east. On the 11 Dec 1923, Orange, Orange Co, CA). contrary, most were relatively affluent, respectable James' reply must have been persuasive, because, middle class families. Some sold homes or used in late May, as soon as the spring rains were abated other assets to finance necessary expenditures. and prairie grass was long enough for oxen to graze, Typically, a party of 6 people, like the James and he and Delila were "BOUND FOR OREGON" Henry Rickey families, required: 4 rifles and 4 with their younger sons (your EDITOR'S great pistols with ammunition, 2 wagons with harness grandfather), THOMAS BENTON RICKEY (b. and canvas covers, 2 tents, bedding and spare 1831, Morgan or Stark Co, OH/d. 4 Feb 1898, City clothing, 1000 pounds of flour, 150 of rice, 1200 of & Co of San Francisco, CA), and little JAMES bacon, 200 of coffee, 300 of sugar, some salt & MADISON RICKEY (b. 6 Dec 1840, Dubuque, pepper, dried fruit, lard, candles, matches and soap. Dubuque Co, IA / d. 10 June 1917, Portland, It took between $700 and $1500 for a family to Multnomah Co, OR). Henry & Ann decided to acquire covered wagons, animals, provisions and pursue the adventurous dream, too. This despite equipment. That was a lot of money in those days. the fact that 18 year old Ann was pregnant with The only way for a poor person to make the journey their first child. No doubt, all were persuaded by was to hire on as a driver or servant. news of the "Donation Land Claim Act of 1850", Along with some 10,000 others who made the a federal statute that was a predecessor to the arduous trek over the OREGON TRAIL in 1850, "Homestead Act". It rewarded a pioneer with 320 the Rickey's proceeded to the jumping off place at acres of free land for settling in the newly proclaimed Independence, Missouri and joined forces with a Oregon Territory, plus another 320 acres if he was typical "train" of about 50 wagons. Before crossing married. This law encouraged the massive westward the Missouri River and leaving the "States", the migration to fulfill our nation's "Manifest Destiny" families elected a wagon-train Captain and other of expansion to the Pacific Ocean, and populated officers, and agreed on rules and regulations to be the territory with U.S. citizens. The reality of their followed on the trail. They heard stories about presence in rapidly growing numbers inexorably fights and friction between families that could prove linked the Pacific Northwest to the United States, disastrous during the long, exhausting overland forcing England to relinquish her claim to the same journey, so prepared for trouble by establishing Oregon country. their own form of self-government. Most wagon What motivated these pioneer families to endure trains hired a scout to lead them. These were the hardships and embark on this grand adventure? usually former mountain men trappers or ex-soldiers A national economic depression, falling crop prices, who knew the country and how to minimize the Page 90 perils that lay ahead. Each night they circled the Here the trail may have been as much as 20 miles wagons in a defensive posture, drove their livestock wide; in other places, it was barely wide enough for inside the circle and posted sentries. Indian attacks a single wagon to pass. About 750 miles west of c against large, strongly defended trains were rare. Independence, MO, the typical wagon train reached As long as families remained with the train, they Independence Rock — so called because it was usually made a successful transit, but if they lagged normally encountered around the 4th of July. The behind due to illness or accident, they became easy emigrants paused here long enough to climb to the prey for hostiles. top for the view, and thousands carved their names The Oregon Trail crossed what are now parts of and dates in the sandstone, preserving a record of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming and their passing for posterity (Your Editor spent the Idaho, before reaching Oregon. It measured 2170 better part of a day here, searching in vain for a miles from Independence, MO to Oregon City, Rickey name). OR. After crossing the Continental Divide at Covered wagons were needed to carry necessary South Pass, WY (864 miles west of Independence), provisions, supplies, and the bare minimum of many followed other trails south to Utah, Nevada household goods required to make a start in their and California. In 1850, the Rickey's measured new home. Of necessity, the emigrants walked the travel in miles per day, not miles per hour. Sunday entire route, usually making about 10 or 15 miles was a day devoted to religious services by our God- daily, all the while nearly choking on the gritty fearing, staunch Methodist Rickey ancestors. This dust raised by other people and animals just ahead. also afforded much needed rest for man and beast, Nor was dust their only impediment. When it and provided an opportunity to do laundry and rained there was neither respite nor shelter. Mostly repair equipment. they slogged along in the mud, pushing the wagons. Early on, the trip was relatively pleasant as long The smell of sweaty animals and their excrement as the weather was fine. The Rickey Family was ever present. Worse yet, was the stench of initially enjoyed camping out and sleeping under rotting dead animals all along the trail, as oxen the stars. Ten year old James Madison Rickey died from exhaustion, poor forage, or poisoned by probably went swimming with his older brothers, alkali water. while their wagons waited in line at crossings of the The Rickey's six month long hike alternated Little Blue and Platte Rivers. Music, storytelling, between mind-numbing monotony and heart- and socializing around evening campfires was great stopping danger, between searing heat and freezing fun for all, especially when the campsites provided cold. Before this deprivation was finished by adequate water, good grazing, and firewood. arrival at the lush green fields of the Willamette Oftentimes, wood was not available and the Valley, 1 out of every 10 that started from Missouri emigrants soon learned the old trapper's trick of lay in trailside graves. Many dropped from sheer substituting "buffalo chips" (dried buffalo dung) to fatigue, some died of pneumonia, or were drowned make an acrid but useable campfire. On the flat at river crossings, or acidentally shot themselves prairie, wagons could spread out to avoid the dust. with unfamiliar firearms, got run over by wagon o wheels, or were gored by unruly oxen. Another not exist. Instead of the relatively placid stream menace was the buffalo, which was hunted as a fine that we know today, the emigrants faced a raging source of food. Unless approached gingerly, huge torrent of rock strewn rapids, swift and angry waters herds of these beasts would sometimes stampede, unlike anything previously encountered. Sheer trampling to death an unwary hunter. cliffs on both sides precluded anything but a danger- During the several years when Asiatic Cholera filled water passage. They lashed their wagons to was epidemic on the trail, deaths increased makeshift rafts and plunged into the terrifying dramatically. This dreadfully contagious disease current. More than a few lost family members and/ was brought up the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers or goods that had been by infected people heading for the outfitting towns, painstakingly preserved where it spread like wildfire among the departing throughout the wagon trains. Their numbers were decimated. hardships of prior Children were orphaned. The husband who buried months on the Trail. his wife, might himself be dead the next day. Some opted for an Numerous diaries record the inscriptions made on alternate, but equally crude headboards of the hastily dug, shallow graves. terrible overland route. One diary reported seeing fresh graves every 80 The "Barlow Road" had yards along one stretch. In May of 1850, Oscar been carved out of the Henry Rickey Hyde recorded the dense forest of the following in his diary: Cascade Range around the south side of Mt. Hood. "Counted as many as 500 Steep terrain made this trail especially difficult, graves along the North particularly when Fall rains turned it into a quagmire Platte (River in of mud that forced many to abandon their wagons, Nebraska). Sickness arriving in Oregon City with little more than the lasted usually but a clothes on their backs. day...and no man dared Time, distance and shared hardship seasoned touch them". these emigrants. They Thomas Brinley Rickey The survivors crossed proved they had the a landscape that was as challenging as it was ability to triumph over spectacular. The last 400 miles of the Oregon Trail adversity, and earned the were especially hazardous. From Fort Boise to right to mold their own The Dalles, there was a 200 mile stretch marked by destiny in the new land. an extreme scarcity of water and grass. By this As a result of their time, both humans and animals were in weakened achievements, the story condition, and facing the Blue Mountains and the of the Oregon Trail and Cascades as the next major obstacles. Wagons had settling of Oregon to be winched up and Territory became a William Rickey over these majestic vital part of our American Heritage (and our own mountains, then Rickey Family history). Thus, these intrepid laboriously let down the pioneers forged the character we came to know as other side with extreme the "Western Spirit". Their determination, blood care, so that a family's and muscle forever wed Oregon to the United States. future was not Today, atop the dome of the Oregon State Capitol in jeopardized by a Salem, there stands an heroic golden statue of "THE runaway broken wagon PIONEER", axe in hand, ready to tame the Dr. Joseph Kerr Rickey and lost possessions. wilderness. About 100 miles east of their destination of All told, an estimated 300,000 people walked the Oregon City (near present day Portland) they reached Oregon Trail between 1843 and 1860. Of this total a settlement called The Dalles, gateway to the number, 50,000 settled in Oregon's Williamette Columbia Gorge. In many ways this was the most Valley, and another 25,000 elsewhere in Oregon o perilous part of the trip. In 1850, the system of Territory (which then included the present states dams that eventually tamed the Columbia River did of WA and ID). Over 200,000 of them made Page 92 California their Iowa to Salem, Oregon in 1850; and the William destination, after gold Rickey & Thomas Brinley Rickey Clans to lone, was discovered there in California in 1852. 1849. Accompanying Unlike those early Rickey Pioneers, your modern the James Rickey mini-vans can cruise smoothly in air conditioned family was Thomas comfort along the Interstates. Missouri, Kansas, Brinley Rickey, who Nebraska, Wyoming, and Idaho, as well as Oregon, are left his wife and 10 all inviting tourists to Explore the Great Western children in Dubuque, IA Migration Route taken by our ancestors. Ask for and headed for the Dr. David Tannage Rickey the map put out by the National Park Service, California goldfields. The latter's son, THOMAS which identifies the chief points of interest from JEFFERSON RICKEY (b.22 Apr 1839, Morgan Independence, MO to Oregon City, OR. Co, OH / d. 16 Apr 1921, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Co, Start at the Museum of Westward Expansion CA) later recorded that the brothers journeyed under the St. Louis Arch. In 1990, the National together on the Trail as far as the Great Salt Lake, Frontier Trails Center was opened at where they parted company. James Rickey took up Independence, MO, presenting the story of three Donation Land Claim #2512 and his son, Henry, major western trails -- to Santa Fe, NM, to DLC #3085, when they established family farms California and to Oregon. Detour north of just southeast of Salem, Interstate Hiway 80 to US Hiway 26 in western OR. Brother Thomas Nebraska to view Chimney Rock. This dramatic went to Amador sandstone tower is the trail's most celebrated County, CA, where he landmark, mentioned in over 800 diaries. Stop by made a successful gold the Visitor Center at The National Memorial in strike, sold his claim and Scottsbluff, NE, then continue westward on Hwy 26. returned home to Iowa Wyoming has a number of impressive "don't by ship and passage miss" locations that are well worth temporarily across the Isthmus of leaving the Interstate. Fort Laramie National James Madison Rickey Panama. In 1852, he Historic Site has 22 restored structures. National made a second overland trip, bringing his entire Park Service personnel present living history family to lone, CA. This time he was elected programs, depicting life at this early military post, Captain of the wagon train in recognition of his which guarded and resupplied the emigrants. Vivid prior experience. Another brother, WILLIAM testimony of the passing of many wagons is found RICKEY, also brought his wife and 7 children at Oregon Trail Ruts National Land Mark, just from Dubuque to lone in 1852, but they apparently outside of Guernsey. See where the ironclad traveled in separate trains. The Rickey Family wagon wheels cut several feet deep through the Association has currently documented nearly 800 sandstone to lower the roadbed. Go southwest from descendants of these three brothers who took up Casper on Hiway 220 to Independence Rock State residence in the states of Washington, Oregon, Historic Site to gaze in awe at this huge outcropping California and Nevada. covered with pioneer grafitti; more than 5000 emigrants carved their names here. Then take Explore Your Heritage Hiways 287, 28 & 191 back to rejoin 1-80 at Rock Springs. This route takes you via South Pass, Take the Oregon Trail to where they found the only easy grade to cross the RIC&EY REVEL IV Continental Divide. This Visitor Center has 24 This year, Oregon will lead the Nation in historic structures and 30 period rooms on display. commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the 1843 Fort Bridger, established in 1842 as a fur trading start of the largest, voluntary peacetime Mass post for mountain men, is on 1-80, 30 miles east of Migration in the History of the World. Interpretive the Utah border. Centers, Outdoor Exhibits, and grass root In Idaho, at Three Island Crossing State Park O Community Celebrations will be found all along (near Glenn's Ferry on 1-84) you can see where the route of the Oregon Trail. Visitors can retrace pioneers made a dangerous and difficult fording of the steps of the James Rickey Clan from Dubuque, the Snake River. By gaining the north bank, the Page 93 route to Oregon was shortened and better feed was Loughlin in 1829, who surveyed and platted the provided for livestock. The 500 acre park has a original townsite; then it was incorporated in 1845 herd of buffalo and long horn cattle. An historical as the first official American city west of the reenactment is staged here each August, with riders, Missouri River. Oregon City had the only Federal horses and wagons; also a parade, western barbecue, Land Office in the West, therefore, in 1850, the and wild west shoot-out, 15,000 spectators are founders of San Francisco, CA filed the plat for expected for this event. their "city by the bay" at this "city by the As you enter Oregon from Idaho, a slight, but (Willamette) falls". Fortunes were made here in worthwhile, detour from Interstate 84 takes you the fur trade, and by supplying huge markets in the from Ontario, OR to the town of Vale; then go 7 California goldfields. Tours are available of the miles south to the (U.S.) Bureau of Land historic mansions built by Dr. McLoughlin and Management (BLM) exhibit at Keeney Pass. Climb other pioneer entrepeneurs. Take Exit 9 from the hill and view 15 miles of trail -- a full day of dry, Interstate Bypass Hiway 205 to visit the End of dusty travel between the Snake and Malheur Rivers. The Trail Interpretive Center at Abernethy Back on 1-84, pause at Farewell Bend State Park, Green. Their $3 Million Preview Center is where our pioneer ancestors camped, and bade scheduled to open in June 1993, with three large farewell to the Snake River that had guided them rooms built to look like covered wagons. There across Idaho. will be a gallery of authentic Trail artifacts, and After another hour's drive northwest on 1-84, live storytellers will share stories of pioneer life on don't fail to stop at Flagstaff Hill, 4 miles outside the Trail, based on actual emigrant diaries. A large of Baker City, OR. This is the newest and most screen, 17-minute multi media presentation will be splendid exhibit of them all. The $12 Million BLM given in a 150-seat theater. sponsored National Historic Organ Trail There's much more to be seen by anyone desiring Interpretive Center, just opened in May, 1992. to drive the entire length (or any part) of the Oregon When the pioneers reached Flagstaff Hill and got Trail. Maps, schedules of events, and other info is their first glimpse of the lush beauty and promise available, FREE for the asking. If you want to that lay ahead, they thought they'd died and gone to make the most of an historicallyaccurate experience, Heaven! Unfortunately, by that time many of them these are the offices to contact: had! Here, a series of insightful interactive exhibits, Missouri Division of Tourism: P O Box 1055, video displays, dioramas and living history Jefferson City, MO. 65102 Tel: (314) 751-4133 demonstrations urge visitors to imagine they are National Frontier Trails Center: 318 W Pacific part of an 1850 wagon train. You can recreate St., Independence, MO. 64050. Tel: (816) 254-0059. preparing for the journey, moving across the prairie, Kansas Travel & Tourism Development, 400 cooking meals and curing a sick child, hearing the SW 8th St., Topeka, KS. 66603 Tel: (800) 252-6727. wagons creak and oxen bellow. Dramatic Nebraska Division of Travel and Tourism, P O presentations of all aspects of trail life plunge the Box 94666, Lincoln, NB. 68509. Tel: (800) 228-4307. visitor into the harsh reality of the pioneer Wyoming Division of Tourism, 1-25 at College experience. While there, ask an attendant to point Dr., Cheyenne, WY. 82002. Tel: (800) 255-5996. out the two floor tiles in the entrance lobby, Idaho Travel Council, 700 W State St., Boise, ID dedicated to two RICKEY families! For more 83720. Tel: (800) 635-7820 info or to plan a trip to Baker City, OR, call (800) Oregon Divison of Tourism, 775 Summer St. NE, 523-1235. Salem, OR 97310 Tel: (800) 547-7842 Finally, there is the "End of the Trail", with several cities in Oregon claiming this title. Most REVEL IV historians agree that, in 1850, it was Oregon City, Rickey Family Reunion Scheduled the economic, cultural and industrial hub of Oregon Territory. Geographically, it was the gateway to for 24 & 25 July 1993 settlement of the Willamette Valley. Here, ocean- going vessels transhipped cargo to riverboats, The 4th annual "REVEL" of the Rickey Family before Portland came into existence. From 1845 Association will be held on Saturday and Sunday, until 1852, it was the seat of territorial government. July 24 & 25, 1993 at the Convention Center of Established as a trading post by Dr John Me Holiday Inn - Portland South, 25425 SW Boones Page 94 Ferry Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070. Telephone: Oregon Statehood, is presented every Friday, (503) 682-2211. Our hotel is located in a quiet, Saturday, & Sunday night throught July and August country setting, but only a 15 minute drive south of at nearby Champoeg State Park. Here, 75 actors c downtown Portland, just west of Interstate Hiway 5 recreate the Birth of the Old Oregon Territory, at Stafford Exit 286. We have reserved 3400 sq. ft. using black powder rifles, bagpipes, buggies and of comfortable, air conditioned meeting and banquest lots of action. space for another of our grand gala gregarious Between July 15 & August 7, 1993, Oregon gatherings of grandparents, kids, and grandkids. Fever: An Oregon Trail Pageant is performed Rickey descendants from all Rickey clans nightly at 8:00 (except Sunday & Monday) at the everywhere meet with their far flung cousins at the Environmental Learning Center of Clackamas Co. End of the Oregon Trail in the Evergreen & Community College in Oregon City. This is a Evercool Pacific Northwest. dramatic reenactment by a cast of 50, with music Rickey Cousins from 20 states enjoyed REVEL and dance protraying vivid stories of the pioneers' III last year in Eureka Springs, AR, and the 1993 arduous trek to the land of new beginnings. Rickey Family Reunion promises to be bigger and Your planning committee is currently better than ever. This is a Family Affair for Rickey investigating the feasibility of group attendance at descendants of all ages, so bring the kids and let one or both of these events, preceded by an authentic them get acquainted with their other young cousins Northwest Indian Salmon Bake. Reserve your in our Extended Rickey Family. A large indoor place with the Application Form on page 97. A swimming pool and spa, adjacent to the Meeting detailed agenda and final pricing will be published Room, will give them plenty of chance for summer later. fun and frolic. All "Revelers" can share the joy and warm fellowship of meeting brand new cousins and RICKEY REVEL IV renewing relationships that have been lost or diminished over the years. Room Reservations Our Planning Committee, headed by ROBERT EDWIN RICKEY, CMSGT, USAF (Retired), of Make your room reservations now! Don't delay Portland, OR (James Rickey Clan) has performed and be disappointed. Early indications are that a an outstanding job of site selection. After large turnout is expected. Call the Holiday Inn - investigating a baker's dozen of indoor and outdoor Portland South. Call the DIRECT, at (503) 682- facilities, they determined that Holiday Inn - 2211 and identify yourself as attending Rickey Portland South offered the finest combination of Revel IV. We have "blocked 50 rooms", and convenient location, modern fully-equipped meeting negotiated a special reduced rate of $50 plus tax facilities, reasonable room rates, and a most for 1 to 4 persons sharing one spacious room with cooperative and competent catering staff. 2 Queen beds. This price is good for extended Today, people come to Oregon for the same reasons stays up to one week prior or one week after 24- that the pioneers came 150 years ago — for the fertile 25 July, 1993. Do not bother to call Holiday Inn's farmland, majestic mountains, pristine pine forests, central booking 800 number, because you will be clean air, and sparkling clear inland waterways where told that the hotel is completely booked for our ocean-going salmon return to spawn. You are invited dates. This is because of the 'blocked1 agreement. to share all of these natural beauties, and to help Call Direct. Our contract expires on 23 June. Oregonians celebrate the 150th Anniversary of After that date, anything goes and any available the Oregon Trail. While here, stay a few days and rooms will be rented on a first come first served enjoy the many Sesquicentennial events planned basis; probably at higher rates. The many throughout Oregon. Call (800) 547-7842 for more community celebrations scheduled throughout this info. Ask for Oregon Trail Packet of maps, planning summer for the 150th Anniversary of the Oregon guides and Special Events Calendar. Trail is certain to increase the number of Within 10 miles of our hotel, two outstanding, yet vacationing visitors and accelerate the demand for uniquely different, outdoor historical pageants have hotel rooms. Motorhomes & Trailers are best been performed annually since 1980. Champoeg: accomodated just 1/2 mile due east of our Revel "The story of Old Oregon", which proclaimed by IV meeting location -- at Pheasant Ridge RV Governor Barbara Roberts as the Official Pageant of Park, 8275 SW Elligsen Rd. Wilsonville, OR Page 95 97070. This is a modern, new facility with 67 level DAYTON, 1834 Nutmeg Ave, Washington, IA spaces offering full-service hookup for $ 18.50 (less 52353. Good Sam discount). Take the same Stafford Exit 286 from Interstate Hiway 5, but go east; located on 9Sth Birthday For O a pleasant, landscaped hillside across from Burns Bros Tuck Plaza. Reservations can be made by GRACE RICKEY GELTER calling (800) 532-7829. Another option is Champoeg State Park, about 10 miles distant. The 10 children of NANCY GRACE RICKEY Take Exit 278 and go west. A lovely, bucolic GELTER (b. 6 Dec 1897, Adams Co, OH) got setting, with 48 E/W hookups at $16, available on a together and celebrated first-come, first-served basis. their mother's 95th birthday on 6 Dec 1992. Grace is the widow of Rickey Queries LOREN DE VERN GELTER (b. 24 Apr Kahului Naval air Station Maui, Hawaii During 1895/d. 24 Mar 1984). WWII. In Jan and Feb 1945, sailors were being Her parents were paid by voucher. On payday, while cashing his HOWARD RICKEY voucher, our inquirer was asked by the Yeoman (b. 13 Dec 1870, Brown behind the counter if he was related to the Rickey Co, OH / d. 10 May 1937, Adams Co, OH) & LIDA who just left. He immediately ran to the door, but MAY MORRIS (b. 13 May 1873, Brown Co, OH / was too late to catch his predecessor namesake. d. 20 May 1937, Adams Co, OH). An open house Now, JAMES BRUCE RICKEY, 303 S. Columbus was held for all of her many friends and relatives at St, Russellville, OH 45168 wants to know Bethlehem Church of Christ in Ripley, OH. All "Whodaguy"! Any Rickey who was stationed there RICKEYS, everywhere, are invited to send Cousin at that time (or has knowledge of one), please Grace a cheery note and/or Birthday Card. Her correspond with Cousin Bruce. After all, this current address is: Mt Healthy Christian Home, burning question has been bugging him for 48 years! 8097 Hamilton Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45231. The Searching for descendants of a Rickey family following children (and their respective spouses) that came to Oregon from Kansas about 1932. were present; all are members of the Brown Co, OH Their marriage took place after 1929. Wife's maiden Clan. name was ZARA SHARP. Her mother was IRMA LIDA NORVILLA GELTER (b.28 Oct 1919) & DUNKLEBURG, and grandparents were named GERALD G. WRIGHT. HEBER LEIN. Rickey children were twin girls, Mrs MINNIE CLARICE GELTER FOSTER MELVA & MYRA, also son, ROBERT and/or (b.24 Apr 1921). DALE. Their address for a time may have been Rte LEONARD HOWARD GELTER (b. 13 Mar 1923) 3, Bx 1308, Boring, OR 97009. Anyone with info & HAZEL C. FOSTER. should contact TIM DOYLE, 10500 Preston CHARLES IRWIN GELTER (b.22 Dec 1926) & Vineyard, Frisco, TX 75034. LOUISE YOUNG. Who is actively researching (or has knowledge FRANK RICKEY GELTER (b.19 Jan 1929) & of) the ancestry and/or descendants of the following PATSY SLOMER. two families: HENRY B. RICKEY (b. 22 Nov LAURA ALICE GELTER (b.24 Sep 1931) & 1810, VA/WV/d. 16 Nov 1890 & buried Pilotsburg BYRL DAILEY. Cemetery, Lime Creek Twp, Washington Co, IA) LETHA VIVIAN GELTER (b.8 Feb 1935) & & his wife, JINSON "JINSEY" DICK (b.29 Feb JAMES FARLEY. 1816, Ohio / d.4 Aug 1892). Or, JOHN RICKEY RALPH DEVERN GELTER (b.26 Mar 1937) & (b. 15 Nov 1803, VA/WV /d. 27 Aug 1850 Wife. Pilotsburg, Washington Co, IA) & wife, RUTHE SADIE RUTH GELTER (b.13 July 1940) & AYERS DICK (b. 4 Apr 1811, New Holland, NELSON ALLEN. Pickaway Co, OH / d. 21 Sep 1854, Pilotsburg). Mrs DOROTHY LYNDA GELTER MANLIEF All are buried in Pilotsburg Cemetery. They could (b.6 Feb 1943). be brothers who married sisters. If you can help solve this puzzle, please contact THOMAS L. Page 96 REVEL IV A RICKEY FAMfLY REUNION will be held on Saturday & Sunday, 24 & 25 July 1993 at HOLIDAY INN — PORTLAND SOUTH West Side of Interstate Hwy 5 — Take Stafford Exit 286 FOR ROOM RESERVATIONS, PHONE: (503) 682-2211 EARLY BIRDS GATHER.. .at 9AM, SATURDAY.. .Sign in and meet new cousins at CONVENTION CENTER. PROGRAM STARTS at 10AM. LUNCHEON at 1PM... (Price included in REVEL REGISTRATION). PROGRAM CONTINUES at 2PM.. .UNTIL 5PM. SALMON BAKE & PAGEANT...at 6PM.. .UNTIL 10PM ($18 per person, "ESTIMATED PRICE"). WATER WHEEL DINING AREA at 10AM, SUNDAY...(NO HOST BRUNCH)..."Talk Story" Time. 2PM...Drive to Oregon City (9 miles EAST on Hwy 205) to "END OF OREGON TRAIL CENTER" at Abernethy Green. BRING: Yourself, spouse, kids, and anyone you can talk into meeting your kin Old Photo Albums, Scrapbooks, Genealogy Charts & Family Memorabilia Current Family Snapshots and a Camera for picture taking.. .VIDEOCAM? A Biographical Sketch about yourself.. .a parent.. .uncle.. .or grandpa Is there a special talent among us RICKEYS?.. .Musicians in our midst? Vocalists.. .Sing-along Leaders.. .Children Acts.. .RICKEY STORY TELLERS Come prepared to tell RICKEY FAMILY STORIES about your FAMOUS or INFAMOUS ANCESTORS COMPUTERS, PHOTOCOPIERS, SCANNERS are badly needed. Can you BRING ONE...???... INVITE: OTHER COUSINS who may wish to attend. PHONE THEM & Send their Names & Addresses for inclusion on the RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS Newsletter Mailing List. PLEASE: Let us know you are coining, .and how many. .List All Names. .MAIL REGISTRATION FORM below ** EARLY REGISTRATION (Prior to June 15, 1993) ** ^"^\ RICKEY FAMILY REUNION — REVEL IV, July 24 & 25, 1993 Make CHECK Payable To: "RICKEY FAMILY REUNION" Return this FORM To: 235 15th St NE, Salem, OR 97301-4228.. .PHONE: (503) 363-4389 Number of NAME(S) ADULTS **at $22 each $ CHILDREN **at $11 each $ age 4-12 INFANTS ** FREE $_00 under 4 "ESTIMATED PRICE" DINNER & PAGEANT RESERVATIONS.. (Optional). .NUMBER^^__**at $18 each $ **TOTAL PAID $ ADDRESS PHONE ( ) - CITY STATE___ZIP - **LATE REGISTRATION (after June 15, 1993): ADULTS $30, CHILDREN $15, DINNER $25** Page 97 Complete and mail the registration form on page 97 prior to June 15,1993 to guarantee your place at this In-gathering of Cousins. Your Registration Fee of $22 includes a catered luncheon, and 1993 Membership in the RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION with Free Newsletters. EARLY REGISTRATION is offered at a discounted price, so we can better estimate the facilities and number of meals required. Your cooperation will ensure that all will run smoothly, and enable us to make this RICKEY FAMILY REUNION a fun-filled frolic with memories to cherish forever. 1993 Newsletter Renewal Due to the high cost of publishing & mailing the Rickey Roots & Revels newsletter, it has become necessary to request a donation of at least $10 annually if you wish to continue receiving the newsletter. Persons who attended Revel HI in June 1992, have already paid as part of their registration fee. Here is my donation for 1993 of $10.00. or other $_ I wish to continue receiving the L__l Rickey Roots & Revels newsletter. Make check payable to Rickey Family Association. I DO NOT wish to continue receiving the Rickey Roots & Revels newsletter. Please remove my name • from your mailing list. Add the following new "cousin(s) "to the mailing list for the Rickey Roots & Revels newsletter and • send a free copy of the most recent newsletter. Name Name. Address. Address City, St., Zip. City, St., Zip . SEND BACK ISSUES: Change my address to the following: I I #1, #2, #3, f4, ffi5^6, *7, #8 • Name - Address_ Circle those desiredr&onation 6y$2.OO City, St., Zip for each one requested. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ISSN 1058-0263 RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS Stanton M. Rickey 235 15th St. NE Salem, OR. 97301-4228 FORWARDING & ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED FIRST CLASS MAIL Noble Co. Genealogical Society p 0. Box 444 Caldwell, OH. 43724 February 1993 Page 98 •w q^oots Volume 7 May 1996 Issue No. 23 COME TO ST CHARLES, MO, 8 & 9 JUNE 1996 7TH ANNUAL RICKEY FAMILY REUNION ARE YOU READY: FOR RICKEY REVEL VII, our 7th Annual Family Reunion. ARE YOU READY: ALL RICKEY COUSINS from ALL RICKEY CLANS invited. ARE YOU READY: TO MEET and mingle with far flung old and new cousins. ARE YOU READY: TO SWAP Family Stories and exchange Album Photos. ARE YOU READY: TO LEARN more about your RICKEY FAMILY HERITAGE. ARE YOU READY: TO PARTY on board the GOLDEN ROD SHOWBOAT Theater ARE YOU READY: WRITE your Short Mini-Biography to share your life story ARE YOU READY: ACT NOW To insure your place at this In-Gathering of Cousins ROOM RESERVATIONS EARLY REGISTRATION MAKE OVERNIGHT ROOM COMPLETE AND MAIL THE RESERVATIONS NOW! We were only REGISTRATION FORM ON PAGE 227 able to set aside 50 Rooms at a PRIOR TO MAY 15, 1996 to guarantee your DISCOUNTED ROOM RATE of $49 (plus place at this In-Gathering of RICKEY Tax). This rate will apply for extended CLANS. EARLY REGISTRATION FEE stays 5 days prior to and after 7 June. OF $20 includes the catered Luncheon on RESERVATIONS MUST BE MADE SATURDAY. Please REGISTER EARLY PRIOR TO 24 MAY in order to receive the to help us plan more efficiently. special RICKEY RATE. You MUST identify yourself as attending RICKEY REVEL MAIL FORMS AND PAYMENT TO: SEVEN to qualify for this rate. A FREE SHUTTLE BUS runs to and from LAMBERT- RICKEY FAMILY REUNION -ST LOUIS AIRPORT (10 Miles away). For Room Reservations: Phone direct to 235 15THSTNE COMFORT INN-ST CHARLES, SALEM, OR 97301-4228 (314) 949-8700 Page 219 CHARLES worked as a clerk in a grocery FRANK IRWIN RICKEY store for $40 a month. To feed a family of SPANISH RANCH FOREMAN seven, they lived on produce from the store and day-old bread from a nearby bakery. By KATHLEEN RICKEY YOUNG The following narrative was published in the "Northeastern Nevada Historical Society Quarterly", Issue 95-2, Apr 1995. It is reproduced here by the gracious consent of the author, our Cousin KATHLEEN of the THOMAS BRINLEY RICKEY CLAN. KATHLEEN RICKEY YOUNG (b. 23 Sep 1912, Stockton, San Joaquin Co, CA) is a retired school teacher and the only child of FRANK IRWIN RICKEY (b. 17 Apr 1877, Stockton, CA - d. 12 Feb 1934, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Co, CA) & CLARABEL PITTS (b. 25 Apr 1881, CA - d. 17 Apr 1948, Santa Cruz, CA). She married JOHN DOUGLAS COOPER YOUNG (b. 29 Sep 1899, MS - d. 27 Mar 1979, Santa Cruz, CA) on 24 Aug 1939 in Carson City, Ormsby Co, NV. Their eldest son, FRANK RICKEY YOUNG was FRANK showed an early ability in named in honor of her father. He presently mathematics and had an enterprising way about resides in Santa Cruz, as does KATHLEEN. him. His 1st Cousin, once removed, the Another son, JOHN DOUGLAS YOUNG Nevada State Senator and Cattle Baron, lives in Santa Rosa, CA. THOMAS BRINLEY RICKEY (b. 23 Aug 1836, Greenfield, Highland Co, OH - d. 11 What follows is the life story of a successful Jan 1920, Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA), self-made man, as remembered by his offered FRANK a chore-boy job at the Topaz, daughter, and related to her by his peers: Mono Co, CA headquarters of the vast Rickey Land & Cattle Co. Their was no FRANK was the 4th oldest of 5 children pay, but board and room was provided. born to CHARLES WILLIAM RICKEY (b. FRANK accepted this job when he finished the 20 May 1845, Hazel Ridge Farm, Linn Co, IA 8th grade, to be one less for his family to - d. 10 Aug 1923, Martinez, Contra Costa Co, support. As young as he was, he rode a horse CA) & CAROLINE AMANDA GRINNELL for 150 miles from Stockton, CA over the (b. 13 Aug 1850, Central Falls, Providence 7400 ft high Echo Summit to Gardnerville, Co, RI - d. 8 Aug 1922, Martinez, CA). He NV and on south (present day US Hwy 395) to was the grandson of THOMAS BRINLEY Topaz. This was really a menial job, and in RICKEY (b. 28 Nov 1806, Allegheny Co, PA the cold winters, a difficult one, but he stuck - d. 23 Nov 1886, Oakland, Alameda Co, CA) with it, and the Topaz Ranch was his home for & MARY HARPER ROBBINS (b. 10 Aug many years. Along came the Spanish- 1810, Chillicothe, Ross Co, OH - d. 16 Feb American War and FRANK enlisted. He O 1879, near Plymouth, Amador Co, CA). returned to Topaz after his troop travels. Page 220 While working and growing up there, he honeymooned on horseback around Lake met the PITTS FAMILY, who lived in a Tahoe and into what is now called the neighboring farm about a mile and a half from Desolation Wilderness area. They moved Topaz. Their children, CLARABEL, directly to Spanish Ranch. My mother had a ARTHUR and WILLIAM were friendly beautiful horse, which she enjoyed riding young people who often rode horseback to daily. She was a lady and the boss's wife, so Coleville, CA, 6 miles away, to attend all- was held in high respect. However, she night dances. People would bring food for a worked right along with the cowboys (called spread between midnight and 1:00 AM while "vaqueros") every day,, except three months the fiddler, drummer and piano player rested in the winter, and when pregnant with me. a bit; then they would dance again until it was time to ride back home for 6:00 AM chores. The Nevada winter weather was extremely severe. Temperatures were often 40 degrees FRANK was very interested in below zero, and many years of 30 to 40 days CLARABEL, but she had higher goals set for of no "bare ground". FRANK worked right herself, and would not give him more than the along side his help and they were very faithful time of day. She went to San Jose Normal to him. The cattle had to be fed and cared (now the University of Pacific) for two years, for, even when the snow and blizzards arrived. then returned home and taught in the one-room Every whiter, FRANK sent CLARABEL to school at Coleville. There she taught her two Stockton, to live with his family. He would brothers, other whites, and many Washoe take his vacation in March and join Indian children. FRANK continued to better CLARABEL in California, returning to himself in the business of the Topaz Ranch and Spanish Ranch for the Spring Roundup. courted CLARABEL, but to no avail. It was in Stockton on 21 Sep 1912, that I About this time, WILLIAM MOFFAT, a (KATHLEEN RICKEY) was born. In mid- friend of THOMAS BRINLEY RICKEY and November, FRANK (hereafter referred to as a well-to-do livestock buyer, met FRANK and Daddy) rented a house in Minden, Douglas could see what a bright young man he was. Co, NV for CLARABEL (hereafter referred to FRANK was short of stature, about 5' 6", like as Mother). Mother and I lived there until his father and brother, but he had a personality Spring and then returned to Spanish Ranch. that easily won friends and opened many doors in the business world throughout his life. My first real home was the main ranch house, surrounded by beautiful green lawns MOFFAT was also a San Francisco, CA and a large white picket fence. BILBAO, a slaughter house owner and had a ranch in wonderful Basque lady, was the housekeeper, Elko County, NV. In 1905, he offered cook, and my nurse. Mother was back to FRANK the managership of his "Spanish working on the ranch. Mother was never Ranch", located near Tuscarora (about 90 interested in housework or cooking; we always miles NNW of Elko). There were 90,000 had a cook or housekeeper wherever we lived. acres and 5000 head of purebred Hereford cattle. These were among FRANK'S happiest The ranch had a large bunkhouse and dining years, although it was a lot of responsibility room for the vaqueros. There were also and hard work. machine shops, corrals, cattle chutes, and lots of horses. It was one of the largest and best FRANK finally persuaded CLARABEL to equipped and best-kept ranches in the West. marry him in 1906. They were married in her family home near Topaz, and Nevada was still the "West" up to the late Page 221 1920's. The University of Chicago brought a between ranchers and sheepmen. Since cattle group of students every Spring to Spanish and sheep grazing habits differ, the range Ranch to see the roundup, branding and horse could not support both. Many times Daddy breaking. They stayed in the bunkhouse for said the only reason he was still alive was 10 days and ate in the dining room with the because he did not drink or carry a gun. vaqueros. The latter had to move out to the Never in my life did I see him swear or see haystacks to make room for the "city slickers". him smoke. His men respected him, and the Daddy always gave them a big barbecue and same men remained on his payroll year after dance the last night they were there. I knew year. They remembered him for years and he all of this, but never got to be part of it had friends all over the state of Nevada. because of my young age. WILLIAM MOFFAT became famous in Supplies came to Elko by rail and were California for his "Manteca Fed Beef. His picked up by a 20-horse supply train. Three slaughter house in San Francisco was going days before, Mother, Daddy, and I would be full force with many of the cattle coming from driven to Elko by our Basque chauffeur, our Spanish Ranch. When we shipped cattle SABINO, in one of the earliest cars. He by rail from Elko to California, I went along would often let me honk the big old horn near many times with Daddy to San Francisco. Mr the steering wheel. If he saw horse teams MOFFAT had a suite at the Fairmont Hotel coming, SABINO would shut off the engine. there, and also a beautiful home in Reno, NV, The horses were so afraid of this monster, where he spent most of his time. He lavishly they would bolt and try to run away. Then entertained and we were present at many of after they passed, SABINO would have to these afairs. Since I was an only child, I was hand jack (crank) the car in order to resume allowed everywhere with my family. the trip. Mother and I wore what were known Incidentally, MOFFAT was married seven as "dusters" over our clothes to protect us times. He also had a beautiful place at Lake from the dust on the unpaved roads. We Tahoe, which we visited twice. stayed at the Commercial Hotel in Elko, while Daddy checked the loading of the supplies. Mother and I continued to go to Stockton every year during the Winter. I never had There was a second ranch on the far end of anyone to play with except bummer lambs, our 90,000 acres. This was known as the "IL kittens, and a dog. Because I needed Ranch". I went there about once a month in socializing with children my age, I was a horse-drawn wagon with my parents. There allowed to enroll in kindergarten every year was a nice couple and some vaqueros who during January and February. In March, lived there and cared for the cattle. It was a following a short visit with his family, Daddy big cabin-like house, and all I can remember took Mother and me on a ferry from Stockton was a huge fireplace made of rocks gathered in to San Francisco. We stayed at the Sutter the vicinity. It filled one whole end of the Hotel for three weeks, and I remember riding large room. I was fascinated as it was my cable cars, going to Golden Gate Park, the zoo first experience of seeing a fire in a fireplace. and the beach. Then we had to return to The lady cooked the meals in that fireplace. Spanish Ranch for calf-branding time, before the cows went to the summer range. Tuscarora was just far enough away for the vaqueros to go on Saturday nights for dances Finally, in late 1916, my Dad's kidneys and drinks. Yes, the West was still plenty began to wear out, supposedly from so many wild! Many fights and even killings on the years on horseback and the hard work. range, as well as Tuscarora, took place MOFFAT regretfully accepted his resignation Page 222 as ranch manager, but insisted he stay on the but we lived in PRESIDENT TAFT's old payroll as a livestock buyer. homestead with his two maiden nieces. The home was full of antiques. I slept on a trundle c We moved to Salt Lake City, UT in late bed, which was pushed underneath the regular October, 1918. One thing I remember going bed during the day. Their carriage house was with us was an ice cream freezer. Many a 4th full of all kinds of fine old carriages. of July, all the ranchers who could get away gathered at Owyhee (about 50 miles north of Back to Salt Lake City. Those were days Tuscarora, NV, near the Idaho border) for a when the dollar was worth something, so with long day of celebration, with games, pony two good year-round salaries, we lived well rides, gambling, and plenty of food, ending and always had help in our home. During the with an ice cream dessert. I remember years from 1918 to 1929, the described pattern because I got to lick the dasher. This ice of work continued. Sometimes while we were cream freezer followed my family to Santa in Salt Lake City, Daddy and I traveled by Cruz, CA, and later with me all over Santa tram to Chicago. A shipment of cattle he had Cruz County. Finally, in 1993,1 donated it to purchased in Idaho arrived the day following a museum. It was one of the earliest, having our arrival, and we would follow their been made about 1915. processing from the train, into the stockyards where Daddy sold them for Mr MOFFAT, and I remember Nov 11, 1918, when bells rang, finally to the slaughter house. This looms big whistles blew, and people paraded up and in my memory as that was one of the two down the streets of Salt Lake City all night largest stockyards in the East. Also the celebrating the end of World War I. slaughter houses were the largest anywhere. MOFFAT kept Daddy on his payroll year- The Boston wool company often sent people round, but only used him from May to Salt Lake City on business trips, and it was through November, buying livestock in Daddy's place to entertain them. We had Idaho, Utah, Wyoming and Nevada. This many notables in our home for dinners. We kept him away from home a great deal. either took them north for a few days to Eisenhower Brothers Wool company of Yellowstone National Park, or south for a Boston, MA hired my Dad, and also kept week in Utah's spectacular southern canyons him on year-round salary, maintaining an and the Grand Canyon. office in Salt Lake City. From mid January through April, he was constantly on the road Daddy planned to retire in 1929, when I buying wool. He went day and night, and would be entering Mills College in Oakland, each year he would have a Juvenile Delinquent CA. We sold our Utah home and moved to assigned to his protection. The boy would Santa Cruz, CA, where we were having a drive for him so he could be constantly on the home built on property purchased in 1924. I go. Daddy became known as the left for college in early September, and then "Whirlwind Buyer of the West". came the stock market crash! We lost a fortune overnight, but not everything. The wool business was extremely competitive and my Dad was one of the best Daddy felt he should return to work. He buyers. When he first started working for this went to Reno, NV and was most fortunate in company, they had him go to Uxbridge, MA finding a job with a large State Bank. He was for six months. He learned wool shrinkage sent to Ely, NV for two years, foreclosing on and the business from the textile mills' end. ranches. This was heartbreaking for my Dad Mother and I were along. I don't know how, as he knew most of the owners and found it Page 223 hard to foreclose on their life-time holdings. IN MEMORIAM As this position was finishing, he was called to Washington, DC, where he was hired by the government's Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) to be in charge of all land loans for the state of Nevada. He worked at this until within 10 days of his death. Daddy phoned one night and asked Mother and me to meet him in San Francisco. There were no kidney machines or transplants in those days, so his unexpected death was caused by uremic poisoning. Joseph E. Peteh (1929 -1995) Many mourned his early passing at age 57, JOSEPH E. PETEH died 25 Jun 1995 at but I never did. It is to this day my belief Indianapolis, Marion Co, IN. He was born 30 that he h'ved about 85 years in those 57. He May 1929 in Denver, Arapahoe Co, CO to was loved and revered by all who knew him as NICHOLAS PETEH & JENNY LISSOLA. a business man, and a person of a warm, He married PATRICIA JEAN RICKEY (b. loving, caring personality. He will long be 26 Aug 1929, Indianapolis) on 3 Nov 1956 at remembered in the annals of Nevada history. Indianapolis. They were parents to three daughters, all born in Indianapolis: THERESE ANN PETEH HELMS (b. 23 Jul 1959); MARIA LEE PETEH CROSS KATHLEEN'S EPILOGUE SCARBOROUGH (b. 29 Oct 1962); and MICHELLE KAY PETEH (b. 1 Apr 1966). Some years back, my husband and I Members of our INDIANAPOLIS CLAN. bought a mine in the East Mojave Scenic Desert Area, near Cima, San Bernardino JOE worked 32 years for the US Postal Co, CA. The mine was not being worked Service, retiring in 1987. He served in the at the time, and we had all the water that US Marine Corps during the Korean War. we needed. Shortly after our purchase, a rancher from about 6 miles away stopped Survivors include his beloved wife, PATTY, to ask if he could continue letting his cattle and daughters; a brother, RICHARD PETEH water there. and a sister, MARY PETEH DRAPER, both from Denver, CO; and two grandchildren. During the conversation somehow it came out that he had once worked for my JOE was buried in Indianapolis Calvary Dad, FRANK IRWIN RICKEY, at the Cemetery, following a service at Shirley "Spanish Ranch". After that, every Brothers Drexel Chapel and a Funeral Mass at Thanksgiving, Christmas, and summer Little Flower Catholic Church.. vacations as long as we owned the property, he would bring us a HUGE Your editor recalls that Cousins JOE & steak a full inch thick! PATTY actively participated in RICKEY REVELS H, HI and IV. They were a great O SMALL WORLD !!! team in presenting and explaining the nuances of our RICKEY REVEL BINGO game. Page 224 OUR RICKEY POSTAL HEROES c Last December, in Issue #21 of RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS, we described the rising costs associated with publishing and mailing this Newsletter, and requested our readers help by sending a VOLUNTARY ANNUAL DONATION to re-activate their 1996 MEMBERSHIP. We are grateful for the generous response by the following SUPER-ACTIVE MEMBERS of our RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION and hereby designate them as RICKEY POSTAL HEROES. EDMOND ADAMS 614 S COMMERCIAL ST PLAINVILLE, KS 67663 VIRGINIA RICKEY ADAMS 8540 XERXES AVE S. BLOOMINGTON, MN 55431 LAURA ALUMBAUGH 65525 SISEMORE RD BEND, OR 97701 KRISTEN ANDERSON 2432 15TH AVE GREELEY, CO 80631 EVELYN ANGIER POBOX 11 IONE, CA 95640 LEROY & WILLA ATHEY 1266 ALPINE HGTS RD ALPINE. CA 91901 CONNIE BRADBURY 3050 RIVER VIEW DR FAIRBANKS, AK 99709 AVIS & BILL BROWN 1504 MOTH ST INDIANOLA, IA 50125 ERIC & DIANNE BROWN 73495 120TH ST ZEARING, IA 50278 KURT & KIMBERLIE BROWN 503 2ND ST BATTLE CREEK, IA 51006 PETER BROWN 2212 HIGHLAND AVE #C MANHATTAN BEACH, CA 90266 RODNEY & MARY ANN BROWN 810 11THAVEACT SILVIS, IL 61282 BARBARA & BILL BROWN 164 WHITE OAK LANE ROSEBURG, OR 97470 BERNICE & BYRON BROWN 1332 BENNETT RD PARADISE, CA 95969 PHILLIP BROWN 12200 WYNMORE LANE BOWIE, MD 20715 JOYCE & ROBERT CARLSON 36825 8TH AVE S FEDERAL WAY, WA 98003 CAROLYN CARMAN 6176 9TH AVE N ST PETERSBURG, FL 33710 GIGI & BILL CRAMER 48-643 VISTA TEERRA LA QUINTA, CA 92253 PATTERSON & MARGARET CROWELL 7675 VIA CAPRI LA JOLLA , CA 92037 RICHARD CROWELL 26265 PASEO DEL SUR MONTEREY, CA 93940 VIRGINIA & VIRGIL CRUM 1355 PEPPER DR EL CAJON, CA 92021 ROBERT & GLADYS DOTT 620 W MACKIE ST BEAVER DAM, WI 53916 DOUGLAS FLECKENSTEIN 3234 NW 29TH AVE BOCA RATON, FL 33434 MARGARET RICKEY FLECKENSTEIN 103 SPOONWOOD RD WILTON, CT 06897 HARRIET DAUTEL FUNK 5558 E CARTTA ST LONG BEACH, CA 90808 VERONA & ROCKY GING PO BOX 209 LOVELOCK, NV 89419 PAUL & LEA GREEN 1041 HOLLYHOCK DR HENDERSON, NV 89015 MILLIE RICKEY LEJEUNE 3743 FOUNTAIN CT NORTH LAS VEGAS, NV 89030 MARJEAN RICKEY MAJORS 3746 W LAS POSITAS PLEASANTON, CA 94588 BETTY & BILL MC LENDON HC 75, BOX 2045 CAMP VERDE, AZ 86322 JO ANN MC JUNKIN 107 ST. AYERS WAY CHAPEL HILL, NC 27514 BETTY & DEANE MC KRAY 603 BROOKLAND PARK DR IOWA CITY, IA 52246 BETTY & DOROTHY NEER 70708 NEER CITY RD RAINIER, OR 97048 PATTY RICKEY PETEH 4730 E 16TH ST INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46201 JANET & WILLIAM REYNOLDS 6314 INDIAN PATH SAN ANGELO, TX 76901 ELINOR REES 314 N 12TH ST OLEAN, NY 14760 ARTHUR J. & CLAIRE RICKEY PO BOX 224 VERPLANCK, NY 10596 ARTHUR LAMBERT RICKEY Sr 3 PLATER ST ABERDEEN, MD 21001 BARTON GILBERT & IVA RICKEY 508 BUCKLEY LANE NEWBERG, OR 97132 BURTON & ALICE RICKEY 521 SUNSET BLVD PORT TOWNSEND, WA 98368 CLARENCE & MARGIE RICKEY 404 NEWCASTLE DR DECATUR, IL 62526 DAVID C. RICKEY 608 CAMDEN RIDGE BIRMINGHAM, AL 35226 DON GLADSTONE & NAN RICKEY PO BOX 1270 EVERGREEN, CO 80437 DONALD EUGENE & PATRICIA RICKEY RR 13, BOX 318 BLOOMINGTON, IL 61704 EMMA LUCILLE RICKEY 813 CRESTMONT DR DAYTON, OH 45431 Page 225 EVELYN RICKEY (& BRUCE MILLER) 1784 GREVELIA SOUTH PASADENA, CA 91030 FRANK & WANDA RICKEY 628 S HOBSON ST MESA. AZ 85204 IVA RICKEY 7777 HOLMES RD #445 KANSAS CITY, MO 64131 JAMES HUSTON & BETTY RICKEY 117 OAK HILL CT ST CHARLES. IL 60174 O Reverend Father JAMES RICKEY PO BOX 70 DWIGHT, IL 60420 Command Sgt Major JOHN & FLO RICKEY PO BOX 33 WATONGA, OK 73772 MARGARET RICKEY 1540 E TRENTON #68 ORANGE, CA 92667 MARJORIE RICKEY 1102IMPALADR HENRY, IL 61537 MILDRED A. RICKEY 1800 146TH AVE SE BELLEVUE. WA 98007 B. NORRIS RICKEY 340 PINELLAS BAYWAY S #207 TIERRA VERDE, FL 33715 RANDALL & ROBERTA RICKEY 3011 W FONTANERO ST COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80904 ROBERT B. & DONNA RICKEY 120 TARPON CIRCLE WINTER SPRINGS, FL 32708 ROGER & MARY RICKEY 3071 YELLOWSTONE DR COSTA MESA, CA 92626 TOM & KRISTIN RICKEY 268 GENESEE PARK BLVD ROCHESTER, NY 14619 VIOLA RICKEY 2360 RAILSPLITTER AVE LINCOLN, IL 62656 VIOLET RICKEY 14011 N BLAND RD DUNLAP, IL 61525 WALTER & DORIS RICKEY PO BOX 783 ROSEVILLE, CA 95678 WENDELL RICKEY PO BOX 237 WINCHESTER, OH 45697 WESLEY & GENEAN K. RICKEY ROSE 2022 ELIZABETH ST ELKHART, IN 46516 DONALD & EDITH ROSENBAUM 12932 1ST AVE S BURNSVILLE, MN 55337 LAURIE & TIMOTHY STEWART 12215 NW LAIDLAW RD PORTLAND, OR 97229 GEORGIE & CLINTON SCHRYVER 301 ALLEN DR SWIFT CURRENT, SK, S9H 3A4, CANADA CHARLES & RUTH SMITH 347 RASES MOUNTAIN DR MINFORD, OH 45653 THAYNE & MARGARET SHANK 3526 MESA GRANDE COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80918 ROBERTA & HARRY W. STEELE Jr 3128 SAINT JUDEDR INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46227 GORDON P. TROWBRIDGE Jr 529 LONGAN DR BAREFOOT BAY, FL 32976 HAROLD VAN HORN 206 DOORLEY RD #A SIDNEY, OH 45365 ANNETTE L. & DALE WALRAVEN 601 S MAIN ST PLAINVILLE, KS 67663 CASIMIR & FLORA RICKEY WESLOWSKI RTE 94, BOX 440 VERNON, NJ 07462 JAMES & JOY RICKEY WEXELS 2515 GINNY WAY LAFAYETTE, CO 80026 MASON & ELEANOR RICKEY WILES 10312 STATE RTE 125 WINCHESTER, OH 45697 RICHARD WIKANDER RTE 926, BOX 570 WESTTOWN, PA 19395 KATHLEEN RICKEY YOUNG 329 HIGH ST SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060 It's not too late to position yourself on our Distinguished List of RICKEY POSTAL HEROES. Please join with us in preserving our RICKEY FAMILY HERITAGE: ACTIVATE MY MEMBERSHIP FOR 1996. I WISH TO CONTINUE RECEIVING THE NEWSLETTER. • Make Check Payable to: RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION. ( ) $12 SUGGESTED DONATION ( ) $20 TO HELP MORE ( ) OTHER $ ADD THE FOLLOWING NEW "COUSINS" TO THE MAILING LIST AND SEND THEM A FREE COPY. Name Name Address Address City, ST, Zip_ City, ST Zip_ CHANGE MY ADDRESS TO: LJ SEND BACK ISSUES: • Name #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, Address #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20,#21,#22 City, ST, Zip Circle those desired-Donation of $2.00 for each O Page 226 REVEL VH A RICKEY FAMILY REUNION will be held on Saturday & Sunday, 8 & 9 June 1996 at STEGTON REGENCY CONFERENCE & BANQUET CENTER, ST CHARLES, MO (Exit 228, Interstate Hwy 1-70; go S on Hwy 94 then W 3/4 mile on Bogey Rd to Plaza Way & Wall St) FOR OVERNIGHT RESERVATIONS AT COMFORT INN-ST CHARLES, Phone (314) 949-8700 EARLY BIRDS GATHER at 9AM, SATURDAY...Sign in & meet new cousins at STEGTON CENTER PROGRAM STARTS at 10AM. LUNCHEON at 1PM...(Price included in REVEL REGISTRATION). PROGRAM CONTINUES at 2PM UNTIL 4PM. SHOWBOAT DINNER/MUSICAL at 6PM.... FRONTIER PARK PICNIC...at 1PM, SUNDAY Informal "Talk Story" Time BRING: Yourself, spouse, kids, and anyone you can talk into meeting your kin Old Photo Albums, Scrapbooks, Genealogy Charts & Family Memorabilia Current Family Snapshots and a Camera for picture taking...VIDEOCAM? A Biographical Sketch about yourself.. .a parent...uncle...or grandpa Is there a special talent among us RICKEYS?...Musicians in our midst? Vocalists...Sing-along Leaders...Children Acts...RICKEY STORY TELLERS.... Come ready to tell a RICKEY FAMILY STORY about your FAMOUS or INFAMOUS ANCESTOR. COMPUTERS, PHOTOCOPIERS. SCANNERS are also needed. Can you BRING ONE ??? INVITE: OTHER COUSINS who may wish to attend. PHONE THEM & Send their Names & Addresses for inclusion on the RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS Newsletter Mailing List. PLEASE HELP BY REGISTERING EARLY: Let us know you are coming...how many...List All Names...MAIL REGISTRATION FORM below. ** EARLY REGISTRATION (Prior to May 15, 1996) ** ^>*>*>\ RICKEY FAMILY REUNION - REVEL VII, June 8 & 9. 1996 \ C UT Make CHECK Payable To: "RICKEY FAMILY REUNION" ^ H6R6 Return this FORM To: 235 15di St NE, Salem. OR 97301-4228...PHONE: (503) 363-4389 Number of: NAME(S) ADULTS *'*at $20 each $ CHILDREN **at $10 each $ age 4-12 INFANTS ** FREE $_00 under 4 GOLDENROD SHOWBOAT DINNER/MUSICAL..(Optional)..Number **at $30 each $ "TOTAL PAID $ ADDRESS PHONE ( ) - CITY STATE ZIP - **LATE REGISTRATION (after May 15, 1996): ADULTS $30, CHILDREN $15, DINNER $35** Page 227 HOW TO FIND RICKEY REVEL VII ST CHARLES is located West of the Missouri River (28 Miles West of St Louis). From AAA APPROVED Interstate Hwy 70, take Exit 228. Go South THREE DIAMOND. on HWY 94 (S First Capitol St) and quickly PRESIDENTIAL AWARDED HOTEL turn West on BOGEY Rd (S Service Rd). Go West on Bogey for 3/4 Mile (paralleling 1-70). Then turn Left on HAWKS NEST Dr and St. Charles, Missouri Right on PLAZA WAY to COMFORT INN. 2750 Plaza Way • St. Charles. MO 63303 Bus: (314) 949-8700 • Fax: (314) 946-8996 It ain't easy, but "Hang Loose" & Follow Stegton Regency Conference Above Instructions, and you can't miss it! Center is located behind the COMFORT INN on Wall St If coming from Lambert~St Louis Airport, Sundermeier RV Park 111 Transit St. forget all of above nonsense, and just call St. Charles, MO 63301 COMFORT INN for FREE SHUTTLE VAN. 800-929-0832, 314-940-0111 Ony RV park in St. Charles. (Hwy 94 N. at 2nd St. to 2000 block, right on Transit, Keep the Faith & LET THE REVEL BEGIN! Page 228 O LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ISSN 1058-0263 RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS Stanton M. Rickey 235 15th St. NE Salem, OR. 97301-4228 FORWARDING & ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED FIRST CLASS MAIL L-1068 Noble Co Genealogy Society PO Box 174 Caldwell, OH 43724 May 1996 Volume 7 Sep 1996 Issue No. 24 RICKEY REVEL VII » REUNION REPORT There were 94 cousins from 14 states that On Saturday evening, we enjoyed Dinner and a assembled in historic St Charles, MO on 8 & 9 lively Musical Presentation of "Singing in the June 1996 for RICKEY REVEL VH, the annual Rain" on board the beautifully restored 1909 grand gala gathering of the several CLANS in our GOLDENROD SHOWBOAT, anchored in the extended RICKEY FAMILY. We were pleased Missouri River. Our party of 64 RICKEY to welcome about 1/3 of those present as First COUSINS were all seated together, front and Time Revelers. Some 2/3 of our attendees had center in the horseshoe-shaped cabaret dining attended prior Revels, and were there to renew room. The performance was a sell-out, and long standing RICKEY FAMILY relationships. unfortunately several late comers without Early Registration could not be accomodated. Our Reunion Coordinators, TOM & DEBBIE BELTER did a super job of planning and site St Charles, the first Capital of Missouri, and its selection for our return to a Mid-West locale. 200 year old waterfront "FRENCHTOWN", After an extensive search of the Greater St Louis proved to be a great place for poking around in area they arranged for an outstanding hotel in the restored buildings replete with historic COMFORT INN-ST CHARLES, and a significance. We enjoyed strolling the luxurious meeting facility and sumptuous catered cobblestoned streets, browsing in quaint gift luncheon at the adjacent STEGTON REGENCY shops, and sampling the Creole cuisine of the CONFERENCE & BANQUET CENTER. old Missouri/Mississippi River steamboats. Page 229 We opened our formal program by reciting the NEELY (b. abt 1762, Goshen, Orange Co, NY - Lord's Prayer, which was led by Cousin d. abt 1788, Delaware Co, NY), and 9 more WENDELL HAROLD RICKEY of the Brown children by SUBMIT. Co, OH Clan, who attended along with six of his brothers and sisters. They are descended from We also honored the strong military tradition THOMAS RICKEY (b. 1776 - d. 4 Dec 1849) & found in the BRANCH RICKEY CLAN, HESTER ANN RICKEY (b. 1775 - 9 Jun 1859), represented at this Revel by CHARLES & RUTH pioneers who came to southern Ohio in 1817. ASCHE SMITH from Minford, OH . In 1756 Both are buried in the Rickey Family Cemetery, the Governor of the British colony of Connecticut 4.5 miles North of Russellville, Brown Co, OH. issued a call for 2500 men to serve in a campaign against the French in Canada. Private JOHN During this last year we were deeply saddened RICKEY of Horseneck, Greenwich, Fairfield Co, by the loss of several RICKEY COUSINS, who CT was among those who enlisted. He was the actively participated in past REVELS. All stood gr gr great grandfather of BRANCH RICKEY. for a moment of silence in loving memory of: NAME CLAN The original JOHN'S son, Pvt JOHN JACOB RICKEY (b. 23 May 1750, Horseneck, CT - d. VIRGINIA RICKEY GAYLOR Branch Rickey 30 Nov 1836, Horseheads, Chemung Co, NY) of Mansfield, OH. served in the Revolutionary War. The latter's LOWELL EUGENE RICKEY Branch Rickey son, MORDECAI RICKEY (b. 11 Jun 1793, of Pinellas Park, FL. Wellsburg, Chemung Co, NY - d. 9 Oct 1867, DONALD SCHOENWALD Basking Ridge, NJ Horseheads, NY), was an NCO in the War of of Malaga, WA. 1812. His son, Pvt STEPHEN RICKEY (b. abt KENNETH LEE RICKEY Brown Co, OH 1820, Chemung Co, NY - d. 1864) fought in the of Las Vegas, NV Civil War with Co B, 107th NY Vol Infantry. JOSEPH E. PETEH Indianapolis, IN of Indianapolis, IN During World War I, WESLEY BRANCH RICKEY (b. 20 Dec 1881, Stockdale, Pike Co, HARRY WESLEY STEELE HI led our OH - d. 9 Dec 1965, Columbia, Boone Co, MO), traditional recitation of the "Pledge of left his promising career as a baseball manager Allegiance to the Flag", in memory of all to serve in France with the AEF as a Major in RICKEY MILITARY VETERANS who the US Army Chemical Corps. defended the nation in all past conflicts. Cousin HARRY is the gr gr gr great grandson of World War H found many RICKEYS from Revolutionary War CAPT ANDREW REEKIE all clans in service. Among them was Lt Cmdr (b. 31 Jan 1749, Markinch, Fife Co, Scotland - FRANK WANZER RICKEY Jr (b. 23 Feb d. 2 Mar 1817, Harpersfield, Delaware Co, NY) 1920, Portsmouth, Scioto Co, OH - d. 26 Jan & his 2nd Wife, SUBMIT MC CRORY (b. 1991, Oroville, Butte Co, CA) a US Navy 1768 - d. 1843). When SUBMIT applied for Fighter Pilot and nephew of BRANCH. The story a Revolutionary War widow's pension of $40 of Captain JAMES HUSTON RICKEY, the per annum (Certificate #W-17522, issued 11 Combat engineer who survived 4 D-Day July 1840), it was supported by a page torn* Landings and participated in the liberation of from their family bible and other affidavits Dachau Concentration Camp, was told in that indicated the surname was changed to RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS, Issue #21, Dec RICKEY in the next generation. ANDREW 1995. JIM was BRANCH'S 1st cousin, once had 4 children by his 1st wife, ELINOR removed. Page 230 There was another Revolutionary War Patriot, Pvt ISRAEL RICKEY (b. 1 Jan 1751, RICKEY REVEL BINGO Cortland Manor, Dutchess Co, NY - d. 28 May 1851, Potter Co, PA). He lived to the ripe old RICKEY REVEL BINGO again proved to age of 100 and is buried in Lyman Cemetery, near be a lively, get acquainted mixer game. Roulette, PA. So far, definite proof is lacking, PATTY RICKEY PETEH and her daughter but there is a strong probability that this MICHELE PETEH ROBINSON of the centenerian was the father of JAMES RICKEY Indianapolis Rickey Clan explained that each (b. 16 Dec 1823, Bradford Co, PA - d. 1 Dec person should completely fill their Bingo Card by 1901, Iowa Co, WI), who migrated from approaching other Revelers, introduce themselves, Chemung Co, NY in 1851 to become the and ask them to place their names in a bingo progenitor of our WISCONSIN RICKEY square. When all had filled the squares on their CLAN. His gr great grandaughters, SANDRA cards, the game commenced. RICKEY FRANK and SUSAN RICKEY ELEY, along with their mother, LILLIAN NEALEY As CRAIG RICKEY drew the name cards, they RICKEY attended Revel VII. were read off by DEBBIE MC KINLEY BELTER, and that person stood and told us a Our traditional ceremony included a Roll Call little about themselves, their occupation, of the 14 States represented at Revel VII. Flags hometown, family, etc. As in ordinary Bingo, were distributed by CRAIG WILLIAM RICKEY marking off a line of names eventually produced of the Basking Ridge Clan, who is the eldest son a Winner. BARBARA LAMMING MC of CHARLES LEWIS RICKEY Jr & KINLEY (Sarah Rickey Me Kinley Clan) was the DEBORAH LEE DENNIS RICKEY. The latter first to call BINGO ! The game continued and couple brought all six of their children to the produced a 2nd winner, PRISCILLA RICKEY Revel from Kansas City, KS. As the flag of their FOREST (Dr Joseph Kerr Rickey Clan) from state was presented, Revelers stood to be counted. Arnaudville, LA. Both were awarded one of those Most were from Iowa, closely followed by Ohio beautifully hand-crafted RICKEY and Illinois. The following individuals came NAMEGRAMS, crocheted by EMMA forward and presented the flag of their home LUCILLE RICKEY (Brown Co, OH Clan) from state: Dayton, OH. * STATE NAME CLAN I SPECIAL RECOGNITION 1 AK MARY ANN CALVERT Basking Ridge, NJ AZ FRANK RICKEY William Jacob Rickey CA PAUL von KEMPF William Rickey BETH RICKEY from Lafayette, LA and FL ROBERT BRUCE RICKEY Basking Ridge, NJ MARJORIE RICKEY FULLERTON from IL VIOLA BIERMAN RICKEY "Lost Souls" Washington, IA were recognized for attending IN MICHELE PETEH ROBINSON Indianapolis, IN their 5th Revel. PAUL & MAGGIE von IA RICKEY LEE KEMMANN William Jacob Rickey KS NICHOLAS & NADIA RICKEY Basking Ridge, NJ KEMPF from Palo Alto, CA were honored for LA PRISCILLA RICKEY FOREST Joseph Ken Rickey their perfect record, in attending all 7 Revels. MN VIRGINIA RICKEY ADAMS Washington Co, IA OH RUTH ASCHE SMITH Branch Rickey The BASKING RIDGE, NJ CLAN had the OR MARGIE RILEY STEVENS William Rickey largest contingent. Their 16 member total TX EARL RICKEY Indiana WI SUSAN RICKEY ELEY Wisconsin included those 2 former "Lost Souls", ROBERT BRUCE & DONNA MAE RICKEY from Page 231 Winter Springs, FL, who were quickly identified door prize to PRISCILLA RICKEY FOREST and assimilated by the expert analysis of VICKI (Joseph Kerr Rickey Clan) from Arnaudville, LA. RICKEY BRYAN, their official clan historian. Next came the WILLIAM JACOB RICKEY and PW BROWN CO, OH CLANS, tied at 15 members. BERTHA KLUSMEIER MC KINLEY BUNDY was accompanied by her son & daughter-in-law, ROBERT LEE MC KINLEY & BARBARA ANN LAMMING MC KINLEY, and grandaughter, DEBORAH ANN MC KINLEY BELTER with her husband THOMAS ALLEN BELTER. All from the Sarah Rickey Me Kinley Clan. Cousins DEBBIE & TOM showed up later at the Showboat Dinner with their children: ATMEE MARIE & BRYON THOMAS BELTER, to make 4 generations - and we have photographic proof. The largest family attending Revel VII was CHARLES LEWIS RICKEY Jr & DEBORAH LEE DENNIS RICKEY (Basking Ridge Clan), who came from Kansas City, KS with their 6 children: ELIZABETH, Age 19; CRAIG, 18; SAUNDRA, 16, CHARLES LEWIS HI, 10; and the 8 year old twins, NICHOLAS & NADIA. Revelers that came from over 2000 miles distant were: BYRON & BEATRICE YENAWINE BROWN (Thomas Brinley Rickey Clan) from Paradise, CA. BETTY NEER (James Rickey Clan) from Rainier, OR. MARY HENNING OLSON (Washington Co, IA Clan) from Brentwood, CA. STANTON & ADDIE RICKEY (James Rickey Clan) from Salem, OR. ROBERT EDWARD RICKEY (Brown Co, VIVIAN RILEY, ROBERT & MARGIE OH Clan) from Dayton, OH, was present with his STEVENS (William Rickey Clan) from Portland, daughter and son-in-law, KATHY RICKEY OR. PAUL & MAGGIE von KEMPF (William KORDALIS & GEORGE KORDALIS & Rickey Clan) from Palo Alto, CA. Also, grandson ROBERT, making 3 generations. VIRGINIA & VIRGIL CRUM (Sarah Rickey This was the 3rd Revel attended by this family. Me Kinley Clan), 1800 miles from El Cajon, CA. MARY ANN CALVERT (Basking Ridge Clan) The shortest distance was 39 miles from traveled the longest distance to attend our Revel. Belleville, IL, home of our Reunion Coordinators: She came 3640 miles from Anchorage, AK, TOM & DEBBIE MC KINLEY; her parents, accompanied by an Alaskan Brown Bear BOB & BARBARA MC KINLEY, and her (fortunately stuffed). The bear was awarded as a grandmother, BERTHA MC KINLEY BUNDY. Page 232 Rickey Clan. He hails from Crawfordsville, IN c and was attending his 4th Rickey Revel. Also similarly honored were a trio of lovely ladies: VELMA IRENE BOULTON CUTKOMP (b. 1 Apr 1906, Louisa Co, IA) of the William Jacob Rickey Clan, from Columbus City, IA. VIVIAN ELIZABETH ETTER RTLEY (b. 18 Apr 1906, Washington, Washington Co, KS ). BERTHA SERENA KLUSMEIER MC KINLEY BUNDY (b. 7 Sep 1906, East St Louis, St Clair Co, IL). The family with the most adult brothers and sisters was easily won by "Wendell's Bunch" (Brown Co, OH Clan). They were: CHARLES RICKEY from Cincinnati, OH; EMMA- RICKEY from Dayton, OH; JOHN RICKEY (the Mayor) of Winchester, OH; MARY PHYLLIS RICKEY CARL from Enon, OH; SHIRLEY RICKEY MASSIE from Wilmington, OH; ROBERT RICKEY from Dayton, OH; and WENDELL RICKEY from Winchester, OH. The couple married longest award went to HAROLD LESTER RICKEY & EVELYN FRYE RICKEY (Basking Ridge Clan) from Honorable Mention for their enthusiastic Princeville, IL. They were married on 27 Nov participation goes to young cousins CRAIG 1934, and are celebrating over 61 years of RICKEY and DANIEL BRYAN, who did a wedded bliss. Runners-up were: PAUL & brisk business in the sale of RICKEY FAMILY MAGGIE von KEMPF, married since 19 Feb T-Shirts and Caps; also MEGAN BRYAN, who 1942, and EARL MONROE RICKEY & was responsible for dispensing Back Issues of EVELYN MATSON RICKEY, (Indiana Rickey RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS. The latter pair Clan) from Waco, TX, married on 18 July 1942. are children of VICKI LYNNE RICKEY BRYAN (Basking Ridge Clan) of Tonganoxie, KS. The youngest RICKEY DESCENDANT was ROBBIE KORDALIS, Age 7, who attended with his parents, GEORGE & KATHY RICKEY KORDALIS, and grandfather, ROBERT RICKEY. We proudly honored those Revelers deemed "MOST VENERABLE" by virtue of their healthy longevity. First place again went to GEORGE WILLIAM RICKEY (b. 31 Jan 1905, Tuscola, Douglas Co, IL) of the James Bernard Page 233 We are especially grateful for the good works of advanced south and east to enter Czecho-Slovakia. MARY MICHAEL HALE RICKEY (Thomas For political reasons, General Patton's Third Brinley Rickey Clan) of Costa Mesa, CA. Army was ordered to withdraw from Prague to Although unable to attend because of the allow Soviet troops to "liberate" the city. When temporary ill health of her husband, ROGER the Russian advance slowed, the Americans re- JOSEPH RICKEY, she made up those entered and really liberated that country. outstanding Nametags for all Revelers. MARY Although trained as a rifleman, Corporal RICKEY is also responsible for maintaining an up to date was assigned post-combat duty in Military Mailing List for our Newsletter, and is always Government of occupied German towns. ready and willing to lend her professional expertise to further enhance projects of the Later, Cousin HORACE was among those RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION. We are destined for redeployment to the Pacific Theater. pleased to report that ROGER underwent While awaiting embarkation at the port of Le successful surgery and has resumed all normal Havre, France, he was ordered to report to the business activities. Troop Commander. He did so with some apprehension, wondering why he was being summoned. His trepidation soon turned to I RICKEY SHOW & TELL I jubilation, because his father awaited him. Following the custom of prior REVELS, we Colonel HORACE B. RICKEY Sr (b. 10 Sep invited individuals to take the microphone and 1901, E Feliciana Par, LA - d. 4 May 1967, share their personal experiences and Lafayette, Lafayette Par, LA) was a Combat SPECIAL RICKEY STORIES, so that we all Engineer on the staff of General Patton and had may learn more about our Family Heritage. arranged this family reunion. Corporal HORACE accompanied his father to the Officers MARY ANN CALVERT told about growing Mess, where they were seated at the upper end of up in Kansas among an extended family with a the room. His Dad explained that this location tradition of oral history. She talked to many was where the best parts of the chicken were older family members who related "grandma served, while Lieutenants at the other end got stories". One such was about fugitive slaves necks and wings. fleeing from Missouri via the "Underground Railroad". Her RICKEY ANCESTORS hid Fortunately for HORACE Jr, WW II ended in them in a secret closet under the fireplace until Aug 1945, when VJ-Day was declared just as he they could be passed along the road to freedom was going up the gangplank of an Asian bound in the North. She recalls her elders as being transport in Seattle, WA. strong, determined people, making the most of a harsh environment. The RICKEY women were Last year, he returned to Europe for the courageous survivors. celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the end of WW II. He spoke eloquently about the warm HORACE BUSHNELL RICKEY Jr (Joseph reception American Veterans received from the Kerr Rickey Clan) was a Corporal with the US people of the Czech and Slovakian Republics. Army's 97th Division in WW II. After Cousin Horace attended Revel VII in the company surviving the Battle of the Bulge in 1945, he of his daughter, PRISCILLA RICKEY crossed the Rhine River under fire and entered FOREST, and his half-sister, ELIZABETH ^ ANNE "BETH" RICKEY. J) the Ruhr Valley of Germany. They rapidly Page 234 RUTH ASCHE SMITH proudly displayed a In 1996, COURTNEY PATTERSON, another record of "BRANCH RICKEY STUDENT daughter of BOB & DENISE PATTERSON AWARDS" given annually to one outstanding received identical recognition at the ANNUAL Senior student at each of a dozen high schools in BRANCH RICKEY AWARD DINNER. These Scioto Co, OH. Selection is based on both awards memorialize Cousin BRANCH, who academic and athletic achievement, as well as helped found the FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN demonstration of the Christian ideals that Cousin ATHLETES in 1954. This nationwide BRANCH RICKEY followed throughout his organization uses athletics as its platform to life. The keynote speaker at the 1993 event was communicate the ideals of Christianity. BRANCH BARRETT RICKEY, grandson of our baseball magnate. BRANCH, HI, as he is widely known, is currently President of the AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, a Mid-West AAA baseball league. In 1993, the outstanding student athlete/scholar at CLAY HIGH SCHOOL was LESLIE PATTERSON, daughter of ROBERT & DENISE LORENE RICKEY PATTERSON and COURTNEY was cited as a fine Christian role grand-niece of ROWENA RICKEY SOUDER of model to her peers at Clay High School. She Portsmouth, OH and the late LOWELL participated in volleyball and softball, and EUGENE RICKEY of Pinellas Park, FL. captained both teams. She received the Panther LESLIE is the 3rd cousin, 4 times removed, of the Award for team spirit, dedication and illustrious WESLEY BRANCH RICKEY. unselfishness; made the 1st Team, AH Southern Ohio Conference hi softball; and the SOC All-Conference Scholastic Award. Cousin COURTNEY, was on the Honor Roll all 4 years, member of the National Honor Society and was her Class Salutatorian. Her future plans include a teaching career, as well as marriage and family. DENTON RICKEY MOORE (William Rickey Clan) from Moore Haven, FL regaled us with his true life adventures, which have been recapped in reviews of his books in Issues #14 (Feb 1994) and #18 (Feb 1995) of RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS. While at Clay High School, LESLIE He enthralled the cousins with tales of his first participated in softball, volleyball and tattoo at age 14; twice wounded as a young cheerleading, and was Captain of all three Marine on Iwo Jima; homesteading in Alaska teams. She was on the Honor Roll all 4 years, 1947-1962; and he & VELMA being capsized by and a member of the National Honor Society. a gigantic wave while sailing around the world. At graduation, she was Class Salutatorian. Cousin LESLIE is one year away from graduation Cousin Denny entertained us with videotapes at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth. Her of Alaskan escapades, depicting the hardships major is Education, and she would like to become and joys shared with his first wife, JANICE, C an athletic coach as well as a teacher. while raising 6 children in an austere wilderness. Page 235 MORE RICKEY POSTAL HEROES VOLUNTARY ANNUAL DONATIONS in support of RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS continue to be received from our readers. Also many NEW COUSINS have been identified. Your assistance in defraying the rising costs of publishing and mailing this Newsletter is much appreciated, and enables us to reach an ever expanding mailing list of RICKEY DESCENDANTS. We are grateful for the generous response by the following SUPER-ACTIVE MEMBERS of our RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION and hereby designate them as RICKEY POSTAL HEROES. BETTY & RON BEESON 100 S IDAHO ST POST FALLS, ID 83854 DEBORAH & TOM BELTER 7106 SHARON DR BELLEVILLE, IL 62223 LAURA JANE CONWAY 43700 TRABUCO RD COARSEGOLD, CA 93614 TOM & CYNTHIA DAYTON 1834 NUTMEG AVE WASHINGTON, IA 52353 ATWOOD DE COSTER 15239 HEATHER CT ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 MARJORIE RICKEY FULLERTON 1205 E WASHINGTON #356 WASHINGTON, IA 52353 RUTH RICKEY FULTON 5213 ECKMANSVILLE RD WINCHESTER, OH 45697 SARA L. HINER 28 PUCCINI PLAZA SANTA FE, NM 87501 JANET HILL 14802 TOLLHOUSE RD CLOVIS, CA 93611 DORIS RICKEY KEMMAN 505 7TH AVE CLARENCE, IA 52216 MARIANNE NORTHRUP 41209 HURD DR ELYRIA, OH 44035 TRECIA & CARL NORTHRUP 43700 WEBSTER RD WELLINGTON, OH 44090 BETTY PRICE 3321 W PARK DR BURNSVILLE, MN 55306 COURTNEY & HARRIETTE PROCTOR 3 MANN AVE WATSONVILLE, CA 95076 ANNA LEA RICKEY 8425 SQUAW VALLEY AVE LAS VEGAS, NV 89128 CHARLES & DOROTHY RICKEY 4165 JAMES DR CINCINNATI, OH 45245 CLIFFORD & CHERYL RICKEY PO BOX 534 BUTTE, MT 59703 EARL & EVELYN RICKEY 4135 N ROCK CREEK LOOP WACO, TX 76708 ELIZABETH RICKEY PO BOX 51831 LAFAYETTE, LA 70505 GEORGE & SHARON RICKEY 707 PENN DR CRAWFORDSVILLE, IN 47933 HORACE B. RICKEY Jr RTE 3, BOX 304 ARNAUDVILLE, LA 70512 JACK & KATHY RICKEY 10344 STRAWBERRY LN SPRING VALLEY, CA 91977 JOSEPH RICKEY 6719 N PARKWOOD DR PEORIA, IL 61614 REBECCA RICKEY & GARY EMBREY 16 RIDGE POINTE LN FREDRICKSBURG, VA 22405 ROBERT GENE RICKEY 8532 RED HILL COUNTRY CLUB DR RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730 ROBERT GLEN RICKEY 405 S 16TH ST SHELTON, WA 98584 ROY A. RICKEY 1612 GLACIER AVE JUNEAU, AK 99801 VIVIAN RILEY 25 SE 63RD AVE PORTLAND, OR 97215 BOB & MARGIE STEVENS 25 SE 63RD AVE PORTLAND, OR 97215 MARIAN RICKEY THATCHER 74 RTVERCLIFF RD ROGERS, AR 72756 DORA RICKEY WALKER 1439 GREENE 225 DELAPLAINE, AR 72425 RICHARD WIKANDER RTE 926, BOX 570 WESTTOWN, PA 19395 TOM & KENDRA RICKEY YOST 4421 E DESERT LANE CT HIGLEY, AZ 85236 PAUL & MAGGIE von KEMPF 1543 WALNUT DR PALO ALTO, CA 94303 It's not too late to position yourself on our Distinguished List of RICKEY POSTAL HEROES. Please join with us in preserving our RICKEY FAMILY HERITAGE: Page 236 ADULTS ATTENDING REVEL VII, ST CHARLES MO, JUNE 1996 * SHOWS NUMBER OF PRIOR RICKEY REVELS ATTENDED VIRGINIA & KAYE ADAMS * SANDRA RICKEY FRANK JAN & CLYDE MESERVE 8540 XERXES AVE S 710 MESTA LN #1 204 PERRYMAN AVE BLOOMINGTON, MN 55431 MADISON, WI 53704 PALACIOS, TX 77465 * DEBBIE & TOM BELTER **** MARJORIE R. FULLERTON MARILYN CARL MINETTE 7106 SHARON DR 1205 E WASHINGTON #356 2207 WOODSIDE AVE BELLEVILLE, IL 62223 WASHINGTON, IA 52353 SPRINGFIELD, OH 45503 BERNICE & BYRON BROWN WENDIE KELLY DENTON R. & VELDA MOORE 1332 BENNETT RD 1834 J AVE NE PO BOX 1289 PARADISE, CA 95969 CEDAR RAPIDS, IA 52402 MOORE HAVEN, FL 33471 ** VICKI RICKEY BRYAN * DORIS RICKEY KEMMAN *** JOCELYN & BUTCH MORGAN 22142 KANSAS AVE #54 505 7TH AVE 706 S MARION AVE TONGANOXIE, KS 66086 CLARENCE, IA 52216 WASHINGTON, IA 52353 BERTHA MC KINLEY BUNDY RICKEY LEE KEMMAN CAROLINE R. & EARL MULLEN #A1 SIGNAL HILL PL 1834 J AVE NE 106 S WALNUT BELLEVILLE, IL 62223 CEDAR RAPIDS, IA, 52402 WINFIELD, IA 62659 * MARY ANN CALVERT ** KATHY R. & GEO. KORDALIS * BETTY NEER 15000 OLD SEWARD HWY 3295 OLD SALEM RD 70708 NEER CITY RD ANCHORAGE, AK 99516 DAYTON, OH 45415 RAINIER, OR 97048 ** MARY PHYLLIS R.CARL ** JEANNE R. & JOHN LOPEMAN ** MARY HENNING OLSON 5765 HUNTER RD 1408 CHESTNUT 792 CORNSILK CT ENON, OH 45323 HENRY, IL 61537 BRENTWOOD, CA 94513 ** CONNIE CARL \ GEORGE WILLIAM MARTIN ***PATTY RICKEY PETEH 156 SUNNYBROOK TR 3149 SOUND VIEW DR 4730 E 16TH ENON, OH 45323 GAUTIER, MS 39553 INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46201 * VIRGINIA & VIRGIL CRUM ** SHIRLEY R. & EARL MASSIE CHARLES / DEBORAH RICKEY 1355 PEPPER DR 389 BROWN RD 4801 BERRY RD EL CAJON, CA 92021 WILMINGTON, OH 45177 KANSAS CITY, KS 66106 VELMA BOULTON CUTKOMP * BEBE & DICK MC FARLAND ** CHARLES/ DOROTHY RICKEY PO BOX 126 714 LINCOLN 4165 JAMES DR AINSWORTH, IA 52201 CINCINNATI, OH 45245 CILUMBUS CITY, IA 52737 BOB & BARBARA MC KINLEY EARL & EVELYN RICKEY SUSAN RICKEY ELEY 37 DOVER DR 4135 N ROCK CREEK LOOP BELLEVILLE, IL 62223 WACO, TX 76708 MADISON, WI PRISCILLA RICKEY FOREST BETTY & DEANE MC KRAY **** ELIZABETH "BETH" RICKEY RTE 3, BOX 304 603 BROOKLAND PARK DR PO BOX 51831 ARNAUDVILLE, LA 70512 IOWA CITY, IA 52246 LAFAYETTE, LA 70505 Page 237 ELIZABETH PEARL RICKEY JOHN H. RICKEY ** WENDELL RICKEY 2030 E COLLEGEWAY #9369 PO BOX 143 PO BOX 237 OLATHE, KS 66062 WINCHESTER, OH 45697 WINCHESTER, OH 45697 *** EMMA L. RICKEY LILLIAN RICKEY *** VIVIAN E. RILEY 813 CRESTMONT DR 2102 YAHARA PL 25 SE 63RD DAYTON, OH 45431 MADISON, WI 53704 PORTLAND, OR 97215 *** FRANK & WANDA RICKEY ROBERT B. & DONNA RICKEY MICHELE & KEN ROBINSON 628 S HOBSON 120 TARPON CIR 4730 E 16TH MESA, AZ 85204 WINTER SPRINGS, FL 32708 INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46201 *** GEORGE & SHARON RICKEY ** ROBERT EDWARD RICKEY *** CHARLES & RUTH SMITH 707 PENN DR 3295 OLD SALEM RD 347 RASES MOUNTAIN DR CRAWFRDSVILLE, IN 47933 DAYTON, OH 45415 MINFORD, OH 45653 HAROLD & EVELYN RICKEY *** STANTON & ADDIE RICKEY HARRY & BOBBI STEELE 120 N SANTA FE AVE *** 235 15TH ST NE 3128 ST JUDE DR PRINCEVILLE, IL 61559 SALEM, OR 97301 INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46227 HORACE B. RICKEY Jr VIOLA RICKEY *** MARGIE & BOB STEVENS RTE 3, BOX 304 2360 RAILSPLITTER AVE 25 SE 63RD ARNAUDVILLE, LA 70512 LINCOLN, IL 62656 PORTLAND, OR 97215 ****** PAUL & MAGGIE von KEMPF 1543 WALNUT DR Page 238 PALO ALTO, CA 94303 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ISSN 1058-0263 RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS Stanton M. Rickey 235 15th St. NE Salem, OR. 97301-4228 FORWARDING & ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED FIRST CLASS MAIL LLLIMmLI.I.UIIml L-1068 Noble Co Genealogy Society PO Box 174 Caldwell, OH 43724 Sep 1996 V.. Volume 8 May 1997 Issue No. 27 BRANCH RICKEY & JACKIE ROBINSON MADE BASEBALL HISTORY 50 YEARS AGO Our illustrious cousin BRANCH RICKEY WESLEY BRANCH RICKEY (b. 20 Dec had both the courage and the high moral 1881, Stockdale, Pike Co, OH - d. 9 Dec 1965, conscience to introduce the first black athlete, Columbia, Boone Co, MO) was one of baseball's JACKIE ROBINSON, into Major League most astute business executives. In 1917 he Baseball on 15 Apr 1947, thus breaking the became President of the St Louis Cardinals color barrier and changing the sports world organization, and 3 years later initiated the now- forever. During a 30 minute ceremony after the familiar baseball farm system. This innovation 5th inning of the 1997 season opener at Shea produced talented ball players who transformed Stadium between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the bumbling, cellar-dwelling Cards into New York Mets, PRESIDENT CLINTON said: champions. They won the National League "It is hard to believe that it was 50 years ago Pennant 6 times and the World Series 4 times today at Ebbetts Field (in Brooklyn, NY) that a during RICKEY's tenure. 28 year old rookie changed the face of baseball and America...JACKIE scored the go-ahead run From 1942 to 1950, he was President, General that day and all of America has been trying to Manager and part-owner of the Brooklyn catch up ever since..." Dodgers organization. Again, he replaced a Page 259 bunch of losers with talented youngsters who won Did JACKIE have the inner strength to pennants in 1947 and 1949, and finished a close sustain him as the first of his race in modern second in 1946 and 1950. He later served as major league baseball? Could this talented man General Manager and Vice President of the handle the invective, torment and scorn that was Pittsburgh Pirates, rebuilding an ailing team that sure to haunt him? At their first meeting, eventually went on to win the National League BRANCH grilled him relentlessly behind closed Pennant in 1960 and defeat the New York doors for three hours, outlining in the most Yankees in the World Series. On 29 Jan 1967 graphic detail the insults and abuse that he would BRANCH RICKEY was significantly honored by face from ballplayers and fans, alike. The election to the BASEBALL HALL OF FAME at Dodgers' boss alternately chastised and cajoled, Cooperstown, NY. threatened and reassured. At one point, JACKIE asked: "Mr Rickey, do you want a player who is afraid to fight back". BRANCH replied: "I want a player with guts enough not to fight back. You've got to do this job with base hits and stolen bases and fielding ground balls. Nothing else". BRANCH exacted JACKIE'S promise to turn the other cheek and gracefully endure the racial epithets and taunting for at least three years. JACKIE replied on the field with a fiery style that drove opposing teams to distraction. He ran the bases with abandon, a first to third base machine. He danced on the basepaths with a hop, skip, and jump that maddened pitchers, and trotted home when they lost their concentration and threw the ball past the catcher. In 1949, JACKIE led the National League with a .342 batting average, and was selected as Most Wesley Branch Rickey (1881-1965) Valuable Player (MVP). He became the leader of a team that won 6 pennants in his 10 seasons Cousin BRANCH earned many accolades and barely missed 2 others. for his entrepreneurial spirit and baseball innovations, but probably his greatest achievement was breaking the segregation policies that denied the best black players from playing on the same field as whites. JACKIE ROBINSON was handpicked by BRANCH to be the first African- American to play for a major league team in the modern era. RICKEY realized that baseball needed a man with the perfect blend of character and ability to carry the aspirations of everyone who ever hoped for racial equality. He carefully selected ROBINSON as the centerpiece of his bold plan. BRANCH knew that JACKIE had the ingredients to be a major league player. He had graduated from UCLA, a superb athlete who In 1946, after a two year search for the ideal lettered in 4 sports, and was fresh from WW II black player, JACKIE was personally recruited Army service as a Lieutenant. He could run, by BRANCH from the Kansas City Monarchs field, throw, and hit for power, but did he possess of the Negro Baseball League. RICKEY was another even more rare quality? harshly criticized by his partners and other team Page 260 owners when he tried to sign ROBINSON. He experiment would contradict more than half a finally made an agreement that JACKIE would century of baseball culture. It was a sociological play one year with the Montreal Royals, a farm revolution of enormous magnitude. This was team of the Dodgers, before being brought up to accomplished at a time when strict segregation the major league. There he collected a home run was a fact of life in America. The Armed Forces and 3 singles in his first game, going on to win were still segregatedv as were most schools, the International League batting title. housing and transportation in southern states. On 15 Apr 1947, in his debut with the Thirty-two years after his death, our Cousin Brooklyn Dodgers as the first Black to play BRANCH RICKEY remains a genuine major league ball in the modern era, he American hero and civil rights pioneer. Major flawlessly handled 11 chances at first base. That League Baseball in 1947 was truly The American year he hit .297 and stole 29 bases, while Pastime. Other sports were relegated to relatively winning the ROOKIE OF THE YEAR award as minor status. RICKEY'S courageous action and voted upon by the Baseball Writers Association of ROBINSON's magnificent response to the America. In June, 1947, JACKIE stole home challenge paved the way for other black athletes to against the Pittsburgh Pirates, helping the Dodgers participate in professional sports. MICHAEL to a 4-2 win. This theft marked the first of 20 JORDAN and JERRY RICE might not be steals of home by ROBINSON during his major playing today were it not for what ROBINSON league career. On 23 July 1962, JACKIE and RICKEY successfully accomplished 50 years ROBINSON was inducted into the BASEBALL ago. HALL OF FAME in his first year of eligibility. He was the first African-American elected to Among his many other firsts, BRANCH that shrine. invented and manufactured the batting helmet now universally worn. The efficacy of this was brought home personally to your Editor, when 7 year old grandson, WILLIAM STANTON PIDD, was struck hi the head with a 70 mile an hour hard ball by the first mechanical pitch he ever faced in a batting cage. Thanks to the BRANCH RICKEY helmet, young WILL was able to shake off the blow and step up to swing at the next ball! Earlier issues of RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS contain additional coverage of WESLEY BRANCH RICKEY'S many contributions to the history of baseball. He was truly a Legend in His Own Time. See pages 1, 2 & 3 for the lead article in Issue #4, June 1991; also pages 40 & 41, Issue #5, Nov 1991; page 73, Issue #8, Oct 1992; and page 102, Issue #11, May 1993 Those attending RICKEY REVEL VHI at Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) Miamisburg, OH on 14 & 15 June 1997 will be treated to a keynote address by BRANCH A recent segment of the PBS Television BARRETT RICKEY, grandson of Cousin program, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, was devoted BRANCH. An accomplished baseball executive in to the story of JACKIE & BRANCH. Two his own right, BRANCH HI is currently historians extolled the virtues of Cousin BRANCH President of the American Association, a and credited him as a visionary whose noble venerable Mid-West AAA Baseball League. Page 261 MORE RICKEY E-MAIL ADDRESSES YES! E-MAIL IS HERE TO STAY! A growing number of RICKEY DESCENDANTS can be readily contacted at their E-Mail Addresses. If you have a computer, a modem and an Internet Service Provider (ISP), you can send electronic messages practically at the speed of.light-any time of the day or night. Forget about postage stamps or telephone long distance charges. E-Mail is quick, easy, inexpensive and reliable. People all over the world can send casual messages back and forth and/or collaborate on Family History research. You do NOT have to employ the same ISP to communicate with another RICKEY; i.e. someone using AOL can communicate with another using JUNO, PRODIGY, AT&T, COMPUSERVE, NETCOM, or any other military, government, educational or commercial ISP. Ail RICKEYS using E-Mail are encouraged to list themselves in INTERNET E-MAIL DIRECTORIES, especially FOUR 11, which is open to all for FREE. There you can even post your profile and interests for other like-minded folks to locate you. Checkout profile of Cousin STANTON RICKEY at: http://mvw.FOURll.com/ or you can send E-Mail to this directory at: [email protected] The following list of RICKEYS is in addtion to those published in Issue #26. Address Changes are identified by **. If you are not on this list (or if your address has changed) readers are encouraged to send their E-Mail Address to: [email protected] GAIL & WILLIAM BOHANNON [email protected] DAVENPORT, IA 52806 DAVID & BECKY ANN COPLAN [email protected] GIG HARBOR, WA 98329 ROBERT & VI GREENE [email protected] L0NGW00D, FL 32791 SHELLY HALLARD-BECKMAN [email protected] PICKERINGTON, OH 43147 BETTY J. HORN [email protected] MOAB, UT 84532 NEAL & SANDRA HURLEY nshurley@cdsnet. net MEDFORD, OR 97504 RALPH LACHBERG [email protected] TOORAK, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA o DERRE & RICHARD WINSTON MAYBURY [email protected] MANAMA, BAHRAIN RICHARD HOBSON MAYBURY [email protected] CHICAGO, IL JAMES MORRISON [email protected] ARTHUR & CLAIRE RICKEY [email protected] VERPLANCK, NY 10596 BRAD RICKEY [email protected] TILLAMOOK, OR 97141 BRANCH & DIANE RICKEY amerassn@earthlink. com MILFORD, OH 45150 DENIS RICKEY [email protected] STATESVILLE, NC 28687 2nd Lt DEVIN LAWRENCE RICKEY [email protected] FT RUCKER, AL36362 ELSTON & JoANN RICKEY [email protected] POCAHONTAS. AR 72455 **V. FRED & JOY RICKEY [email protected],edu BOWLING GREEN, OH 43402 JAMES HUSTON & BETTY RICKEY [email protected] ST CHARLES, IL 60174 KENNETH & CHARLENE RICKEY [email protected] TWIN FALLS, ID 83301 KENNETH J, RICKEY [email protected] OREGON CITY, OR 97045 LARRY G. RICKEY [email protected] WATONGA, OK 73772 USA RICKEY lisa@alaska. net JUNEAU, AK 99801 LONNIE RICKEY osbi504@pldi,net WATONGA, OK 73772 **MARY & ROGER RICKEY [email protected] COSTA MESA, CA 92626 PAUL & KATHY RICKEY [email protected] BELL, CA 90201 **ROBERT GLEN RICKEY [email protected] SHELTON, WA 98584 RONALD & TERESA RICKEY [email protected] POUGHKEEPSIE, NY 12603 RUSSELL & LENORE RICKEY [email protected] CHARLOTTE, NC 28212 SCOTT & CHANDLER RICKEY gap@pine-net. com BROKEN BOW, OK 74728 GENEAN KAY RICKEY ROSE [email protected] ELKHART, IN 46516 PAMELA B. SHOREY [email protected] WILLIMANTIC, CT 06226 Page 262 2ND LT DEVIN RICKEY, HELICOPTER PILOT Interested Young Ladies Can E-Mail This Righteous Dude at: [email protected] Second Lieutenant DEVIN LAWRENCE RICKEY is shown above at the controls of an Army Blackhawk Helicopter at Ft Rucker, AL. He is the son of RUSSELL JOSEPH RICKEY & LENORE ANN BURDETTE LACINA of Charlotte, NC. The photo was sent by his proud grandparents, ARTHUR JOHN ALOYSIUS RICKEY Sr (b. 10 May 1924, Mt Vernon, Westchester Co, NY) & CLAIRE KIRTMAN (b. 2 Dec 1924, Brooklyn, Kings Co, NY) of Verplanck, NY. Cousin ART refers to DEVIN as "The General". Portent of things to come? See lead article on page 239, Issue #25, Dec 1996, which related the story of DEVIN as our FIRST RICKEY to graduate from West Point. Since then, while surfing the internet, we have learned of another cousin scheduled to graduate from West Point in June, 1997. He is TIMOTHY SAMUEL RICKEY (b. 18 Sep 1975, Bowling Green, Wood Co, OH), son of VINCENT FREDERICK RICKEY (b. 17 Dec 1941, Peoria, Peoria Co, IL) & JOY ANN MC PHERSON (b. 29 Aug 1941, Newark, Licking Co, OH). Cousin FRED is the Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mathematics at Bowling Green (OH) State University. JOY is a part-time Instructor of Mathematics at BGSU. They are members of the Basking Ridge, NJ Clan. Down the road of time it will be interesting to see which of these lads is the first to make General Officer Rank. Undoubtedly, some other Rickey Family History Recorder will write that story someday. Are there any Volunteers out there! Page 263 CONFEDERATE RICKEY CIVIL WAR VETERANS During the Civil War most RICKEYS were in the Union Army and typically came from OH, IA, IL, PA, NY and other northern states. On page 247, RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS, Issue #25, Dec 1996 we published the name of EDWARD L. RICKEY,. Major in the Missouri Confederate Cavalry. He was our sole Southern Veteran until finding the following RICKEYS listed on page 157, vol XIII (Randal to Shackford), ROSTER OF CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS, 1861-1865, edited by Janet B. Hewett and published in 1996 by Broadfoot Publishing Co, Wilmington, NC. NAME RANK & UNIT RIN # RICKEY, August Pvt, Co B, 20th AL Infantry Regiment 17268 RICKEY, Frederick Pvt, AL Cp. of Instr. Talladega 17269 RICKEY, J. F. Pvt, Co G, 42nd GA Infantry Regiment 17270 RICKEY, John Pvt, Co F, Perkins Bn, MO Infantry Regiment 17271 RICKEY, Joseph Pvt, Co G, 31st VA Cavalry Regiment 17272 RICKEY, Robert Pvt, Co G, 12th AL Cavalry Regiment 17273 1997 LATEST RICKEY POSTAL HEROES We continue to receive ADDITIONAL VOLUNTARY DONATIONS in support of RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS. Your assistance in defraying the costs of publishing and mailing is much appreciated. Publication of the names and addresses of contributors identifies our more Active Members, and also facilitates correspondence between Cousins. 1997 Heroes who also donated in 1996 are listed by name only. See Newsletter Issues #23, 24 & 25 for their mailing addresses. We are grateful for the generous response by the following SUPER-ACTIVE MEMBERS of our RICKEY FAMILY ASSOCIATION and hereby designate them as RICKEY POSTAL HEROES. MARY PHYLLIS RICKEY & LLOYD CARL 5765 HUNTER RD ENON, OH 45323 CATHERINE RICKEY COOPER 1220 BAY HARBOUR CIR DAYTON, OH 45458 NEAL & SANDRA HURLEY 2527 CONGRESS WAY MEDFORD, OR 97504 DERRE JO & RICHARD MAYBURY 6603 RIVER MILL DR SPRING, TX 77379 JANICE & CLYDE MESERVE 19019 COUNTY RD 5019 AGUILAR, CO 81020 CMSgt ROBERT & LOUISE RICKEY 3520 SE 160TH AVE PORTLAND, OR 97236 ETHEL RICKEY SNYDER 590 ISAAC PRUGH WAY #506 KETTERING, OH 45429 ROWENA RICKEY & BILL SOUDER 5436 STATE RTE 139 PORTSMOUTH, OH 45662 1997 DONATIONS were received from the following RICKEY POSTAL HEROES in addition to their generous contributions in 1996: EVELYN ANGIER, THOMAS & CYNTHIA DAYTON, MARIANNE NORTHRUP, HARRIETTE & COURTNEY PROCTOR, VIVIAN RILEY, BURTON & ALICE RICKEY, VIOLA RICKEY, WILBUR & BLANCHE RICKEY, ROBERT & MARJORIE STEVENS, and FLORA RICKEY WESLOWSKI & CHRIS WESLOWSKI. It's not too late to become a 1997 Postal Hero. Just mail in your Donation with the back page coupon on page 248, RICKEY ROOTS & REVELS, Issue #25, Dec 1996. Page 264 Rich Family History THE RICH FAMILY by R1 ch Boohor Copied, 1986, from the Original Scrolls by Lois lams Blake Historian, Noble County Historical Society Librarian, Noble County Genealogical Society -1- REICH/RICH 0 4*724 FETCH, Jaoob, born 1706 In Germany Pettied, March 1740 In German Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, on a 298 acre farm* Died, 22 January 1795, German Township Married: CRAFT, Ann, b. d. December 1795 Children: 1. Joseph Rich, jr. 2. Elizabeth, b. d. Married, Martin Vernon 3* Catherine, b. d. Married, Marshall Core 4. Thomas, b. 13 May 1772 d. Married, Mary Ann Berry 5* John, b. 1774 d, 12 September 1872 Married, Sarah Moore; came to Noble County, Ohio in 1811/12 6. George, b. 1775 d. 17/18 May 1818 Married, jane Moore-Jennings-Miley 7. peter, b. 1776 d. Married, Elizabeth Mason, moved to Columbians County, Ohio 8. Mary, b. 1778 d. Married, Benjamin Maple 9. Anna, b. 8 October 1780 d. 24 April 1860 Married, Jeremiah Snyder 10. David, b. 1786 d. 11 April 1866 Married, Margaret Morrison 11. Daniel, b. 25 November 1790 d. 3 October 1840 Married, Hannah Ammona 12. Sarah, b. d. Married, William Woodford 13. Abraham, b. 11 June 1792 d. 27 April 1873 Married, Anne Thompson Married, Catherine Johnston Stevens -2- ABRAHAM RICH Eighth son, and thirteenth child of Jacob Reich and Ann Craft Born, 11 June 1792j died, 27 April 1873 Married, 1813, to Anne Thompson, b. 5 Nov. 1798; d. 12 Deo. 1843. Children} 1. James, b. 6 April 1818; d. 7/12 July 1883 Married, Elizabeth "Betsy" Mlley (twin sister of Jane Miley), b. 23 Feb. 1824; d. 8 Feb. 1878 2. Anne, b, 29 November 1819; d. August 1860 Married, William Casner, b. 16 May 1897; d. 3 March 1876; buried in Jackman Cemetery 3. Rebecca, b. 10 December 1821; d. 9 March 1840 4. Jacob, b. 19 Feb. 1824; d. 9 Jan. 1900 Married, 26 May 1850, at 9 a.m. Sunday by lev. A. J. Flch, pittaburg Conference to Jane Miley, b. 23 Feb. 1824; d. 17 March 1917. 5. William, b. 2 May 1826; d. 11 July 189? Married, Margaret "Peggy" Mlley, sister to Betsy and jane, b. 10 Nov. 1830; d. 18 Dec. 1914 6. Mary, b. 17 May 1828; d.August 1865 Married, Marcus FinSey, b. d. 7. Thomas, b. 1 August 1830; d. 5 July 1920 Married Franclna Craft, b. d. 24 Dec. 1928 8. Abraham, b. 20 May 1834; d. 29 December 1917 Married, Elisabeth Millhon, b. 1 August 1834; d. 21 November 1908; first cousin of "Peggy", Jane and "Betsy" Miley 9. Mahetabel, b. 22 March 1837; d. 19 April 1914 Married, Edward Stephens, b. 25 January 1830; d. 19 May 1914 10. Elvira, b. 15 May 1839; d. 15 December 1841 Abraham married 2nd, Catherine Johnson Stevens, b. 18 August 1806; d. 27 April 1892 Children* 1. Johnson, b. 1849; d. 1930 Married, Isabella Hlllyer, b. 1850 -3- (Children of Abraham and Catherine cont»d) 2. John, b. 1 August 1851; d. 2 September 1936 Married, Rachel Laughlin 3. Lewis 4. Kathryn -4- (3) 1. JAMF5 PICK, b. 6 April 1818; d. 12 July 1883 m. 19 December 1844, Elizabeth »BetsyM Miley, b. 23 Feb. 1824; d. 8 Feb. 1878 Children! (4) 1. Zulnglas Rich, b. 8 March 1846; d. 17 Aug. 1931 m. 9 April 1874, Drueilia McVlcker, b. 22 March 1851; d, 27 February 1936 Children: (5) 1. oather Kingsley Rich, b. 28 June 1875; d. 23 Feb. 1957 (5) 2. Gilbert Rich, b. 5 June 1879; d. 28 Oct. 1941 m. June 1902, Carrie Olasford, b. 30 Jan. 1876; d. 19 January 1935 Children: (6) 1. Fideasa Marie Rich, b. 3 June 1903 m. 21 June 1924, Thomas Earl Stlers, b. 13 Mar. 1900 Children: (7) 1. Wilford Karl Stiera, b. 20 May 1926} d. 2 June 1960 m, 14 June 1950, Febccca Rose Rich, b. 13 June 1930 Children: (8) 1. Lucinda Kay Stiers, b. 16 July 1951 (8) 2. Ada Rachel Ptiers, b. 10 Jan. 1956 (7) 2, Myron Thomas Stiers, b. 10 Nov. 1927 IT. 4 June 1950, Elisabeth Jeannetta Allen, b. 28 December 1926 Chi Id rent (8) 1. Matthew Allan stiera (adopted), b. 29 August 1958 (8) 2. Elizabeth Anne Stiera (adopted), b. 20 October 1961 (7) 3. Ronald Kermit stiera, b. 12 Sept. 1934 m. 20 Aug. 1951, Geraldine Jones, b. 12 April 1933 Children? (8) 1. Josephine Marie Stiers, b. 27 Sept.1932 (8) 2. Kalua Janina Stiers, b. 6 Mar. 1954 (8) 3. Ronald Kerniit Stiers Jr. , b. 4 July 1956 (8) 4. Gregory Stiers (adopted), b. 22 Feb. 1963 (6) 2. Mildred Rich, b. 4 August 1907 m. 25 Dec. 1933, Martin King, b. Nov. 1902 Child! (7) 1. Carrie Ann King (adopted) (6) 3. Herbert Rich, b. 9 March 1913 m. 1 June 1935, Beulah Marie Ramage, b. 18 Nov. 1912 Children: (7) 1. Donald Herbert Rich, b. 7 Feb. 1938 »• 8 Nov. 1959, Patricia Irene Bates, b. 22 August 1939 Children: (8) 1. Anita Irene Pich, b. 3 Aug. 1960 (8) 2. Rhonda Marie Flch, b. 4 July 1964 (8) 3. Francis Herbert Bates Rich, b. 8 June 1974 -5- (Herbert Ric|ji and Beulah Ratnage cont'd) (7) 2. Janice Marie Rich, b. 5 Feb. 1941 m, 15 Dec. 1962, Dale Edward Niesz, b. 3 January 1939 Child: (8) 1. Linda June, b. 27 Aug. 1967 (7) 3* Linda Elaine, b. 4 Jan. 1955; d. 15 Jan. 1955 (4) 2. Rachel Anne Rich, b. 25 tec. 1850; d. 30 Jan, 1898 m. April 1870, Thomas Daniel McVicker, b. 17 Sept. 1844; d. 15 April 1920 Childr«n t (5) 1, Laura fteretrus vovicker, b. 11 Wov. 1873; d. 14 Sep. 1876 (5) 2. Wade Leacho McVicker, b. 10 Jan. 1876; d. 1942 (5) 3. James Leslie McVicker, b. 20 Oct. 1877? d. 1921 (5) 4. oral Dempster MeVicker, b. 30 Jan, 1884; d. 1945 (5) 5, Fred Rosscoe McVicker, b. 22 July 1892; d. 24 Feb. 1935 m. 17 Sept. 1917, Fthel Kear, b. 30 Dec. 1897 Children: (6) 1. Forest Ronald McVicker, b. 26 May 1921 m. 7 July 1943, Ruth Virginia Jacobs, b. 28 Jan, 1921 Children: (7) 1, Carol Ruth MCVioker, b. 5 May 1944 (7) 2. velrna Mae McVleker, b. Aug. 19, 1947 (7) 3. Mary Elizabeth McVicker, b. 11 Mer. 1951 (6) 2. Harold Kear McVioker, b. 3 May 1926 m. 13 July 1947kk Elisabeth Dearth, b. 5 Jan. Child t 1926 (7) 1. Beth Ann hcVicker, b. 13 June 1956 (6) 3. Elizabeth Joyce ^cVicker, t. 5 Nov. 1935 m. 17 Sept. 1943, Neal p. Pelrcer, b. 16 Mey 1935 Child t (7) 1. Lori Elizabeth Palmer, b. 14 June 1965 (4) 3. Margaret Jane Rich, b. 23 Apr. 1852; d. 2 June 1942 m. prank Morrison, b. 22 May 1856; d. 19 Sept. 1944 Children: (5) 1. Fthel May Forrisor, b. 8 November 1882; d, 1889 (5) 2. Delia M. Morrison, b. 3 February 1884 m. Lew fxnith, b. Jan. 1883; d. Nov. 1944 au 2nd, 14 Feb. 1953, Herbert L. Dugan, b. 19 June 1913; d. 25 July 1955 (5) 3. Frederick Lee Morrison, b. 22 July 1889; d. 21 Dec. 1902 (5) 4, Leatha Morrison, b. 1893; d. 1896 (4) 4. John W.Rich, b. 3 April 1859; d. 11 Kov. 1935 m. 31 March 1882, Mery Arnold, b. 16 Sept. 1858; d. 3 June Children: 1947 (5) 1. Cume Rich, b. 29 Oct. 1883 (5) 2. Elizabeth Alberta "Bessie" Rich, b. 27 Aug. 1886; d. 13 April 1965 K. 21 June 1920, Charles Armstrong, M.D., b. 25 Sept, 1886; d. 22 June 1967 -8- (F.lizabeth Rich and Chorles Armstrong cont'd) Child; (6) 1. Kary Kmma Armstrong, b. 13 Aug. 1924 (5) 3. Mabel Rich, b. 10 May 1888 m. 16 Oct. 1921, Wilbur Tilton Child: (6) 1. John Rich Tilton, b, 13 March 1926 m. Eileen Schneldmiller Children: (7) 1. John Rich Tilton (7) 2. Sue Tilton m. 2nd, Margaret Cameron Children* (7) 1. Carole Tilton (7) 2. James Arnold Tilton (5) 4. Loorala Rich, b. 1 reo. 1890; d. 20 Oct. 1897 (5) 5, Celia A. Fich, b. 9 Way 1892; d. 3 July 1892 (5) 6, Futh P. Fich, b. 5 Sept. 1893; d. 2 Oct. 1893 (5) 7. Lewis T?ich, b. 1 July 1898; d. 10 July 1898 (4) 5. Mary Rich, b. 4 March 1861 (4) 6. Welcome Rich, b. 8 March 1864? d. 10 July 1943 m. 26 June 1884, Tabitha Larrlok, b. 29 Dec. 1863; d. 9 April 1941 ChiIdrenj (5) 1. Clovls Rich, b. 5 July 1835; d. 4 fleet.188 5 (5) 2. Arthur Rich, b. 14 Feb. 1887 ID. 30 June 1909, Maud McCracken, b. 14 Jan. 1887f d. 7 sept. 1958 Child i (6) 1. Bather Rich, b. 15 Oct. 1917 m. 7 August 1937, John Snydar, b. 19 Aup. 1918 Child: (7) 1. Sylvia Oay Snyder, b. 27 April 1938 m. 8 Dec. 1956, John Newhart, b. 20 July Children: 1925 (8) 1. John Paul Newhart, b. 26 Oct. 1957 (8) 2. Jamas Arthur Newhart, b. 2 Dec. 1958 (3) 3. Mark Allen Rewhart, b. 22 July 1960 (8) 4. Robert Eric Newart, b. 14 Jan. 1962 (8) 5. Oene Brent Newhart, b. 28 July 1970 (5) 3. Olive E.Rich, b. 11 Dec. 1888; d. 24 Dec. 1896 (5) 4. Parmer Rich, b. £7 Oct. 1891 m. Vivian Cleary Children: (6) 1. James Rich, b. 19 April 1918 m. Doris Dickey Children; (7) 1. Stephen Rich (adopted) aon of Doris (7) 2. Barbara Rich (7) 3. Sarah Rich (6) 2. Jean Rich, b. 2 December 1927 m. Robert T. Suffrage Children: (7) 1. Kathleen Kara Suffrage (7) 2. Mark p, Suferage -7- (3) 2. ANNE RICH, b. 29 Nov. 1819; d. 27 July 1860, aged 41 years 7 months, 2 days, m. William Casner, b. 16 May 1807; d. 3 March 1876, aped 68 years, 9 months, 17 days. Buried in Jackinan burial plot, out road from Old Concord Church; also buried next to William and Ann Caaner (4) 1. Melissa, daughter of Wm. and A. Casner, d. 28 June 1860, aged 11 years, 2 Months, 28 days. (4) 2. Susanna, dau. of Wm. and A* Casner, d. 12 Sept. 1851, aged 2 years, 9 months. (4) 3. Adam, son of Wm. and A. Oasner, d. 31 Oct. 1851, aged 5 years, 26 days. (Cemetery visited 13 Oct. 1968; names and dates recorded by Emma Rich Booher, Howard Booher, Andy Olshawsky) Children! (4) 1. John Casner m. Sarah Ann Goodin Moved to Kansas (4) 2. Martha Casner m. John potts Children: (b) 1. Susan Potts m. Theodore r-oodin Children: (6) 1. Irene OootMr (f) 2. Perron Goodin (6) 3. (5) 2. Annn Pott* w Ar-.sbury Child? (6) 1.Oscar Ansbury m. 2nd, Edward Worton Children; (6) 1. Martha Jean Norton E. Pauline Norton (4) 3. Mary Casnflr m. William Thompson Moved to Missouri or Montana Child: (5) 1. Delia Thompson m. Samuel picholson Children: (6) 1. Lucille Nicholson *6) 2. (4) 4. Van Casner, Killed In Civil War (4) 5. Saraantha Casner, b. 1856; d. 1904 m. Justis Pifge, b. 1853 Children: (5) 1. Alice Plggs m. Richerd Peach No children (5) £. William Rlgjrs Never married -8- (Samantha Casner and Justis FIgga, cont'd) (5) 3. Bessie Riggs m. Charles pollard Chi Id j (6) 1. Helen ^ollsrd m. Max pollack Chile'' (7) 1. Jeffrey Pollack (5) 4. Joseph P5,crprs m. Ha Hie ?#ahoney Children: (6) 1. Charles Lawrence Rlgprs, b. 10 June 1916 (in Japan) (6) 2, Petty June Kisre-s m. John oerber Child: (7) 1. Nancy pee Berber (6) 3. Nancy Ruth Riggs m. Robert ftraning Children*. (7) 1. Cathy Jo Braning, b. 26 May 1940 (7) 2. Christopher Alan Brening-, b. Dec. 1950 (7) 3. Cay L#e Brening, b. 11 Jan. 1961 (5) 5. Ada Rigg3 m. Newton Thomas Child; (6) 1. Newton Eugene Thomas • m. Dorothy Dunlap Children t" (*7) 1. James Thomas (7) 2. Panels Thomas (7) 3. Nancy Thomas (4) 6. Abraham Oasner, b. 11 May 1858; d. March 1940 m. 20 Nov. 1891, Mary Emerson, b. 28 Mar. 1863; d. 14 October 1945 Children: (5) 1. Bertha Cnsner, b. 21 I/av 1893 (5) 2. George Casnar, b. 29 Pept. 1895; d. 1924 (5) 3. Ruth Caaner, b. 9 Nov. 1901 nu Kenneth Callahan Children j (6) 1. Howard Callnhan, b. 8 Oct. 1927 in. Wanda Harper Children; (7) 1. Linda Sue Callahan (7) 2. Ruth Etta Callahan (7) 3. Timothy Howard Callahan (6) 2. Lowatta Callahan, b. 1930 m. Donald L. Malernea Children: (7) 1. Christine Kaye Malernee 17) 2. William Donald Malernse *7) 3. Cynthia Gaye Malemee (7) 4. Edward Kenneth Malernee 4?) 5. Carol Mae Malernae (6) 3. Nancy Callahan, b. 23 July 1936 m. 9 March 1955, Jack Tlpton, b. 29 June 1934 -9- (Naney Callahan and Jack Tipton, ccmt'd) Children: (7) 1. Theresa Tipton, b. 7 July 1956 17) 2. Jackie Tipton Jr., b. 5 0>ot. 1958 (6) 4, William Callahan, b. 14 May 1938 m. Janice Kellar Children: (7) 1. Traoey Callahan (sirl) (7) 2. Todd Callahan (6) 5. Mary Kllen Callahan, b. 22 Jan. 1947 m. Jam^a Plaakr Child; (7) 1. fUrl ?? -10- (5) 5. REBECCA RICH, b. 10 Deoember 1821; d. 9 Maroh 1840 Burled on a hilltop on the fair-lly farm with sister, #lvira, and Mother, Ann« Thompson Rich -11. (3) 4. JACOB RICH, b. IS !-eb. 1824; d. 9 Jan. 1000 m. 26 May 1850, Jane Miley, b. 23 Feb. 1824j d. 17 Mar. Children: H17 (4) 1. Mary Isabel Rich, b. 12 June 1851; d. 17 Apr. 1918 '**" ra. 6 Jan. 1876, William Kyle Miley, b. 23 Nov. 1843; d. 22 Oct. lG'lfc Childj (5) 1. Saleata Miley, b. 13 Jun« 1883; a. 9 June 1916 m. 15 June 1904, Jesse Johnson, b. 29 Mar. 1877; d. 5 April 1951 Child; (6) 1. Mary Alberta Johnson, b. 19 May 1905 m. 3 Aug. 1928, Charles Ozier MarquiB, b. 21 August 1892 Children: (7) 1. Ralph Johnson Marquis, b. 29 Sept. 1929 m. 17 Sept. I960, Shirley Jones (7) 2. Martha Ann Marquis, b. 23 March 1931 m. 20 Decewber 1958, Vance DeLong Child: (8) 1. Kelly Ann DeLong, b. 11 Aug. 1964 (7) 3. Mary Lou Marquis, b. 6 Nov, 1932 m. 27 Doc. 1957, John <"»rier Child? (8) 1. Stephanie Jano Orler, b. 13 Mar. 1959 (4) 2, William Henderson Finn, b. 17 Oct. 1852; d. 15 Dec. 1924 " m. 29 Jan. 1884, Carrie Pichey, b. 3 Nov. 1860; d. 5 June 1890 Children: (5) 1. Laura Helen Rich, b. 2 Oct. 1887; d. 16 Mar. 1966 m. 1 f>ept. 1915, Edward pempaey Cleary, b. 24 Mar. 1803 Children t (6) 1. Edward William Cleary, b. 21 May 1919 m. 12 June 1946, Arita Hefferan, b. 9 June 1920 Children: (7) 1. John William Cleary, b. 12 Jan. 1954 (7) 2. Patricia Jane Cleary, b. 1 Feb. 1956 (7) 3. Kathryn Louies Cleary, b. 1 Feb. 1956 (6) 2. Mary Helen Cle&ry, b. 6 June 1922 m. 7 June 1951, John William Straker, b. 2 Oot. Children: 1921 (7) 1. Susan Cleary p.traker, b. 27 Mar. 1952 (7) 2. John Williair Straker, b. 2 Apr. 1958 (7) 3. Jane Helen Rtreker, b. 19 Juno 1956 (7) 4. Anne Elizabeth Straker, b. 25 May 1958 (5) 2. Mary Carolyn Rich, b. 10 Nov. 1889 m. 10 Sept. 1919, Albert Francis Turrell, b. 11 Oct. Children: 1894 (6) 1. Albert pogflr Turrell, b. 4 Nov. 1923 m. 24 April 1111, Joy Althoa decker, b. 27 May 1926 Child • (7) 1. wendy Anne Turrell, b. 4 June 1950 (6) 2. Jeanne Carolyn Turrell, b. 18 Oct. 1927 K. 9 August 1950, Wi 111 an McKinley, b. 17 Autt. 1922 -12- (Jeanne Turrell and William McKinley, cont»d) Child: (7) 1, Jenifer Robin McKinley *""•" William H enderaon Rich, married 2nd, 3 Oct. 1893, Mary Maywood Ouiler, b. 7 Deo. 1863; d. 17 May 1944 Children: (5) 1. Emma Faye Rich, b. 1 August 1895 m. 10 Sept. 1919, Howard Isaac Booher, b. 27 Nov. 1895; d. 5 August 1977 Children: (6) 1. Patricia Jane Booher, b. 20 May 1924 m. 16 Dec. 1944, Russell Edgar Curry, b. 1 Oct. Children: 1917 (7) 1. Mark Andrew Curry, b. 13 Jan. 1947 (7) 2. Brian Douglass Curry, b. 17 July 1948 V7) 3. Russell Edgar Curry Jr., b. 5 Nov. 1951 (7) 4. Jane Ellen Curry, b. 6 Nov. 1953 (7) 5. Jeffrey Macpherson Curry, 5. 31 Aug. 1955 (6) 2. John Bentley Booher, b. 18 Feb. 1928 m. Dorothy Marie Bouinlock, b. 27 Feb. 1927 Childrent W) 1. Lynne Marie Booher, b. 3 Deo. 1956 (7) 2. Beverly Jane Booher, b. 29 Sept. 1958 (6) 3. Stephen Rich Booher, b. 26 Nov. 1929 m. 4 June 1956, Elizabeth Hascall Davies, b. 22 October 1931 Children: *~ (7) 1. Geoffrey Hascall Booher, b. 15 May 1958 *+*• (7) 2. Judith Rich Booher, b. 20 June 1961 m. 2nd, 5 Aug. 1968, jean Glllespie Kyle, b. 24 May 1922 (5) 2. Jaoob Wallace Rich, b. 15 Apr. 1898; d. 16 Feb. 1967 m. 5 June 1924, Mary Frances McAuley, b. 29 May Children: 1904 (6) 1. William Hammond Rich, b. 26 Mar. 1925; d. 20 Deeember 1967 m. 29 Nov. 1949, Doris Jeannette Parka, b. 16 February 1931 Children: (7) 1. LOU Ann Rich, b. 11 May 1953 (7) 2. Craig Wesley Rich, b. 16 Apr. 1955 (7) 3. Christopher William Rich, b. 25 Dec. 1964 (6) 2. David Leslie Rich, b. 21 Feb. 1930 m. 8 Apr. 1951, Carolyn Jane Dettra, b. 7 May Children: 1934 N <7) 1. Marjorie Elaine Rich, b. 3 Aug. 1953 (7) 2. Nancy Jane Rich, b. 24 Sept. 1954 (7) 3. David Leslie Rich 2nd, b. 1 Oct. 1956 (7) 4. Cindy Lee Rich, b. 18 Nov. 1960 m. 2nd, Ruth Tompkins Roohester .„. (4) 3. Rachel Salesta Rich, b. 21 Oct. 1855; d. 25 May 1907 m. 26 December 1878, Levi Columbus Talbott, b. 6 July 1842; d. 7 Jan. 1920 Children t -13- (Fachel T?ich and Levi falbott, cont'd) (5) 1. Harold Henderson Talbott, b. 19 Aug. 1884; d. 18 July 1961 (5) 2. Eatella Faye Talbott, b. 26 Oct. 1889; d. 25 Aug. 1971' m. 5 June 1912, Jules Henri LeBlano, b. 28 Sept. 1881; d. 10 January 1956 Children: (6) 1. Rachel Faye LeBlano, b. 9 Sept. 1916 m. 1 Oct. 1949, Irby Velle Tedder, b. 12 Mar. Children: 1918 (7) 1. Bruce Talbott Tedder, b. 9 Feb. 1951 C7) 2. Stephen Henry Tedder, b. 14 Sept. 1952 (6) 2. Jules Henry LePlane, b. 4 Mar. 1920; d. 4 Oct. 1943 (4) 4. Abraham Miley Rich, b, 9 Sept. 1858 m. 21 Deoember 1882, Hannah Beatty Child j (5) 1. Dora Beatrice Rich, b, 11 Feb. 1884 ». 11 8tpt. 1902, Arthur Miller, b. 6 March 1879 / Child, (6) 1. Walter Rich filler, b. 21 Apr. 1904 m. 30 August 1923, Mary Matilda Franklin, b. 11 March 1907 Child: (7) 1. Qene Franklin Miller, b. 4 Aug. 1926; d. 23 August 1957 -14- (3) 5. WILLIAM PICH, b. 2 May 1826; d. 11 July 1894 ra. 18 Nov. 1855, Margaret Mlley, b. 10 Nov. 1830; d. 18 December 1914 Children! (4) 1. Justus Rich, b. 26 Nov. 1856; d. 11 July 1936 m. Mary Gooderal, b. 1858; d. 25 March 1942 Children! (5) 1. Dallas Pich, b. 30 May 1895; d. Nov. 1975 HI. 1st, 17 April 1920, Ada Hartup, b. 14 Oct. 1896; d. 11 sept. 1971 m. 2nd, Irene Long, b. 8 Oct. 1903 Children; (6) 1, Willard Rich, b. 3 Feb. 1921 HI. 16 Feb. 1946, Verlie Leota Trlpp, b. 14 Jan. Child: 1922 (7) 1. Kenneth Byron Rich, b. 27 Nov. 1946 m. 21 Apr. 1973, Carol Ann pridley, b. 25 January 1950 Child i (8) 1. Leslie Danielle, b. 23 Nov. 1976 (6) 2. Rebecca Rose Rich, b. 13 June 1930 m. 14 Jure 1950, Wilford Stiers, b. 30 May 1926 d. 2 June 1960 Children? (7) 1. Lucinda F. Stiers, b. 16 July 1951 (7) 2. Ada Rachel Stiers, b. 10 Jan. 1956 m. Sam Denver, and hes 1 child Pebecca Rich Stiers, divorced m. 2nd, 4 Sept. 1962, Clare Wl Oliphant, b. 26 March 1918 Children? (7) 1. Brian Rich Oliphant, b. 28 June 1963 (7) 2. Amanda Lu Oliphant, b. 26 Feb. 1965 (7) 3. Peter Rich Oliphant, b. 26 Oct. 1966 (5) 2. Lorena Rich, b. 16 Nov. 1896; d. 6 Sept. 1975 Unmarried (5) 3. Luoile Rich, b. 3 August 1898 m. 16 June 1925, Russell Cowden, b. 1 Oot. 1898 Children: (6) 1. E&nora Jean Cowden, b. 11 Jan. 1927; unmarriei Lieut. Commander, U.S. Navy Nurse Corps (6) 2. Richard Lee Cowden, b. 3 Nov. 1930 m. 28 Jan. 1954, Carolyn Donne11, b. 11 Aug. Children; 1932 (7) 1. David Russell Cowden, b. 29 Jan. 1957 (7) 2. Kimberly Sue Cowden, b. 10 June 1959 (7) 3. Donora Richard Cowden, b. 19 Maroh 1961 (7) 4. Clifford Adam Cowden, b. 23 Feb. 1962 (6) 3, William N. Cowden, b. 26 August 1933 m, 9 June 1960, Susan Grace Shepard, b. 5 Mar. Chlldrenj 1937 (7)f!l. Gary Lee Cowden, b. 28 Jan. 1962 (7) 2. Jerold Allen Cowden, b. 31 August 1963 -16- (4) 2. Esbon Rich, b. 12 June 1858; d. 11 May 1927 m. 1 March 1894, Jane Wilson, b. 3 Oot. 1864; d. sept* Children? 1939 (5) 1. Oanell Rich, b. 23 Nov. 1894; <3. 10 Feb. 1895 (5) 2. Olano Rich, b. 8 Feb. 1896; d. 19 Jan. 1949 (5) 3. Rodney Rich, b. 2 May 1900; d. 18 Oot. 1969 m. 23 Match 1929, Dencil Needles, b. 12 Feb. 1906 Children; (6) 1. Norma Jayne Rich, b. 27 Nov. 1930 m. 20 Dec. 1947, Elmer Spencer, b. 30 Apr. 1924 Chidrent (7) 1. Vickie Lynn Spencer, b. 19 Sept. 1948 m. 17 Aug. 1968, David Blanton, b. 15 Apr. ChiIdrent 1945 (8) 1. Natalie Rae Blanton, b. 19 Dec. 1969 (8) 2. Spencer Clay Blanton, b. 27 Sect. 1972 (6) 2. Joseph William Rich, b. 17 Sept. 1640/41 m. Carol Jean MoDorvon, b. 23 Sept. 1942 Child: (7) 1. Trenton William Rich, b. 13 Oct. 1964 (5) 4. Rex Rich, b. 11 Oct. 1902; d. 26 March 1972 ra. 10 May 1933, Pauline Bates, b. 18 Jan. 1909 d. 3 April 1953 Children? (f) 1. Don Rich, b. 11 April 1934 m. 16 Aug. 1956, Frika Kress, b. 2 Dec. 1935 Children: """ (7) 1. Rex Michael Rich, b. 21 Jan. 1959 <7) 2. Jeffry Ton Rich, b. 9 May 1961 (6) 2. Wilma Rich, b. 14 May 1938 m. 16 Jan. 1956, Raymond Roe, b. 10 Jan. 1937 Children) (7) 1. Melinda pelaine Roe, b. 11 June 1965 (adopt) (7) 2. Brenda Roe, b. 31 October 1966 (adopt) (6) 3* Carl Rich, b. 8 December 1940 m. 5 December 1970, Janie Shaffer Rochus Children! (7) 1. Carl Denver Rich, II, b. 3 December 1971 (7) 2. Rachel Ann Rich, b. 12 March 197S (6) 4. Carol Sue R£eh,b. 4 October 1945 m. 2 Dctober 1964, Ray McVicker, b. 24 July 1934 Children* (7) 1. Theresa Ray McVloker, b. 9 June 1965 (7) 2. Patricia McVicker, b. 23 March 1968 (7) 3. Lori McVicker, b. 2 August, 1969 (7) 4. Matthew Me Vicker, b. ? (6) 5. Mary ^ou Rich, b. 10 Dec. 1946 m. 17 April 1965, Philip Black, b. 4 July 1945 Children: (7) 1. Douglas Eric Black, b. 25 Sept. 1965 (7) 2. Trenton Black, b. 12 M»y 196? (7) 3. Philip Drew Black, b. 6 May 1968 (7) 4. Trevor Allen Blaok, b. 13 December 1969 (5) 5. Nellie Rich, b. 30 April 1909 HI. 19 April 1930, Xrvin Graham, b. 14 Dec. 1913 Chi Id rent (6) 1. aene Graham, b. 23 July 1930 m. 12 June 1953, Juanita Ouiler, b. 13 June 1932 -16- (Gene Graham and Juanita Guiler, con'td) Children* (7) 1. Gregory Eugene Graham, b. 28 July 1954 m. April 1974, Dawn Yienutaler Child j (8) 1. David Graham (7) 2. Gory Lee Graham, b, 26 August 1956 (7) 3. Flrby Gene Graham, b. 7 Aug. 1959 (7) 4, Kathy Lynn Graham, b. 27 May 1962 (7) 5. Picky Loy Graham, b. SO May 1965 (6) 2. Anna Beryl Graham, b. 9 Sept. 1936 ra. Fmil "Bud" Rich, b. 29 Oct. 1934 Chi Id rent (7) 1. Stephen Rich, b. 15 May 1953 ni. 16 June 1973, jeanle Archer, b. 14 Jan. ChiIds 1956 (8) 1. Jason William Rich, b. 18 June 1974 (7) 2. Theresa Rich, b. 17 November 1955 m. 27 Oct. 1973, Flm Weat, b. 26 May 1955 (7) 3. Rhonda Rich, b. 23 July 1959 (7) 4. Bud Allen Rich, b. 18 Ootober 1967 (4) 3. Albert Rich Ho Information (4) 4. Samantha Rich, b. 12 March 1862; d/ 4 July 1933 m. 4 November 1884, John Gibson, b. 29 Sept. 1860 Children t (5) 1. Ouy Gibson, b. 9 Jan. 1887j d. 4 Jan. 197© in. 10 August 1910, Britty Swain, b. 9 May 1891 Children: (6) 1. John Gibson, b. 29 May 1911; d, 16 July 1958 m. Ada Robins Children: (7) 1. Martha Gibson, b. 23 Sept. 1935 m. Robert Moore Children: (8) 1. Vicky Moore m. Greg shepherd Child r (9) 1. Amy Shepherd (8) 2. Deborah Moore (8) 3. Lori Ann Moore (7) 2. Kenneth Gibson, b. 26 April 1934 ra. Judith Rayner, divorced Child* (8) 1. Diana Gibson (6) 2. Pauline Gibson, b. 17 Nov. 1916 m. Harry snode Chi Id rent (7) 1. Gerald snode, b. 5 January 1937 m. Carol Law Children* (8) 1. Leigh Ann Snode, b. 20 Oct. 1958 (8) 2. Thomas Robert Snode, b. 26 Deo. 1961 (7) 2, Beverly Snode, b. 30 Apr. 1950 m. John Dick -17- (Beverly snode and John kick oont'd) Children: (8) 1. Lori Dick, b. 27 Nov. 1970 (8) 2. Jason Dick, b. 24 Nov. 1973 (7) 5. Larry Snoda, b. 23 Oct. 1948 m. Pita Sparks Child; (8) One due in Feb. 1976 (6) 3. Richard Gibson, b. 21 Sept. 1923 m. Mildred Clark, b. 9 Nov. 1926 Children; (7) 1. Terry Gibson, b. 14 Feb. 1946 m. Dana F.tiliions, 24 June 1968 No children, divorce m. 2nd, Febecca G.rbesie, 18 Oct. 1974 Chi Id j (8) 1. Douglas*? Aaron c-ibson, b. 2© Jrne 1975 (7) 2. Robert Gibson, b. 1 July 1949 m. 18 January 1969, Betty Davis Chi Wren: (b) 1. Robert Lynn Gibson, b. 20 Oct. 1969 (8) 2. Todd Allen Gibson, b. 29 Jan. 1975 (7) 3. Richard Gibson, b. 23 March 1959 (5) 2. William Gibson, b. 8 Dec. 1889; d. 27 July 1970 m. 22 December 1917, Taa MacCreig No children at. 2nd, Keeel Swenk Jameson No children (5) 3. Roqua Gibson, b. 22 July 18&3; d. 13 Aup. 1968 m. 25 October 1912, Johr, Snyder, b. 17 Mar. 1891 Child: (6) 1. John Snyder, b. 19 Aug. 1918 B. 17 Aug. 1937, Esther Rich, b. 15 Oct. 1917 Child: (7) 1. Sylvia Gay Snyder, b. 27 April 1938 m. 8 Dec. 1956, John Neuhart, b. 20 July Children: 1925 (8) 1. John Paul Neuhart, b. 26 Oct. 1957 (6) 2. Jaires Arthur Neuhart, b. 2 Dec. 1958 (6) 5. Mark Allen Meuhart, b. 22 July 1960 (8) 4. Eric Robert Neuhart, b. 14 Jan. 1962 (4) 5. Prank Rich, b. 14 Sept. 1864; d. 29 Feb. 1944 m. 30 October 1918, Paradine Finley, b. 20 May 1892 Child: (5) 1, Franklin Rich, b. 10 March 1923 m. Anita *>rokaw Child: (4) 6. Letonia Hich, b. 12 Aug. 1868; d. 4 Aug. 1902 m. Theodore Williams ChiIdt (5) 1. Don Williams, b. 20 October 1892 m. Ftta TFsner m. 2nd, 22 Sept. 1935, Futh May Winkler, b. 3 Apr. m. 2nd, William Mi ley 1902 Child: (6) 1. Norman Miley, b. 13 Oct. 1900; d. 20 Oct. 1963 -18- (Norman Miley cont'd) m. 28 Nov. 1923, Mary Culver, b. 18 July 1001; d* SO June 1969 ChildJ (7) 1. Mildred Mlley, b. 4 April 1930 m. 10 June 1950, Byron Laehley, b. 22 Jan. Children; 1925 (8) 1. Roae Mary Lashley, b. 9 Sept. 1960 (6) 2. f'arcella Kay Laehley, b. 5 Apr. 1955 {8) 3. Randy Lee Laehley, b. 6 May 1957 (8) 4. Mark Allen LflPhley, b. 15 May 1960 (4) 7. Minnie Rich, b. 11 Jan. 1873; d. 7 Feb. 1934 in. 30 Apr. 1898, Thoburn Peed, b. 3 Dec. 1872? d. 1 July 1968 Children? (5) 1. Walter Peed, b. 7 Feb. 1901; d. 19 June 1958 m. 27 June 1928, Hazel Duff, b. 4 Dec. 1901 Children t (6) 1. Robert Dean peed, b. 14 Dec. 1931; d. 15 Dec. 1931 (6) 2. Ellis peed, b. 25 July 1P32 (adopted) (5) 2. Ernest Reed, b. 7 August 1902 a. 7 Aug. 1942, Letha Augenatein, b. 6 May 1911 l (6) 1. Patricia Reed, b. 8 June 1944 (6) 2. James Reed, b. 16 January 1946 m. 31 December 1966, Diane Winkleman Children: (7) 1. Deborah Lynn Reed, b. 20 June 1967 (7) 2. Brenda Ellen Reed, b. 20 Nov. 1968 (7) 3. James Ernest Reed, b. 20 May 1971 (5) 3. Daughter died at birth, 15 Nov. 1915 (4) 8. Homer Rich, b. 11 May 18^5; d. 28 Aug. 1971 a. 27 Hov. 1900, Alice Dnnford, b. 22 July 1878; d. 23 July 1954 Children: (5) 1. Audrey Rich, b. 2P May 1901 m. 4 Sept. 1919, Ellis Long, b. 13 Nov. 1898 Children: (6) 1. Grace Long, b. 21 Nov. 1920 m. 2 Feb. 1939, Robert Wyacarver, b. 12 June Children: 1920 (7) 1. Ronald Fyscarver, b. 30 July 1939 tn. 17 Nov. 1962, Connie Timmons, b. 14 Oct. Children: 1943 (8) 1. Ronald Matthew Wyscarver, b. 3 Nov. 1963 (8) 2. William Chaa. Wyscarver, b. 12 Aug. 1965 (8) 3. Caroline Vysearver, b. 7 Aug. 1967 (7) 2. Garry Wyscarver, b. 3 Aug. 1942 m. 14 Aug. 1966, Dorothy oelbka, b. 9 Aug. Children: 1944 (8) 1. Christina Ann Wysoarver, b. 7 May 1966 (8) 2. Karen Elaine Wysearver, b. 8 May 1968 (8) 3. Holly Wyaoarver, b. 2 Sept. 1972 (7) 3. Joyce Wyscarver, b. 8 Pept. 1944 m. 2 Aug. 1964, Larry Wehr, b. 4 Sept. ?? -19- (Joyce Wysoarver and Larry Wehr, cont»d) Child t (8) 1. David Jason Wehr, b. 8 Sept. 1974 (7) 4. Richard Wyscarver, b. 30 Oct. 1952 (6) 2. Ileen Long# b. 31 Dec. 1925j d. 26 Sept. 1926 (6) 5. Melba Lee ^onp, b. 20 December 19?? m. 22 June 1947, Jawes P. Carpenter, b. 16 Jan. Children* 1927 (7)1. Steve Bruce Carpenter, b. 27 Nov. 1950 (7)2. Gordon Kim Carpenter, b. 26 Feb. 1953 (7)3. Brenda Kaye Carpenter, b. 29 Dec. 1954 (5) 2. William Rich, b. d. m. May 1932, Winifred W. Laahley, b. 19 July 1913 Chi Id rent »6) 1. Oenevieve Rich, b. 22 Deo. 1932 m. 25 Sept. 1951, Kenneth Tisdale, b, 5 June Childrent 1931 1, Kenneth Lee flattie, b, 9 April 1952 Lisa Jeen Tisdsle, b. 15 AUP. 1953 m. 6 Jan. 197?, David Ulrich Chi Id: (8) 1. TavJd Kenneth TTlrioh, b. 16 Aug. 1974 (7) 3. Joyce Fenee Tlsdal**, b. 9 July 1955 m. Steve Pivenrore, 30 July 1975 (7) 4. perry Daniel Tisdale, b. 3 May 1961 (7) 5. Lori Tisdale, b. 10 Nov. 1968 (6) 2. Furil "Bud« Plch, b. 29 Oct. 1934 m. Anna Beryl Graham, b. 9 Pept. 1936 Children? (7) 1. Stephen Pich, b. 15 May 1953 m. 16 June 1973, Jeanle Archer, b. 14 Jan. Child: 1956 (R) 1. Jason Rich, b. 18 June 1974 (7) 2. Terean Rich, b. 17 Nov. 1955 JR. Kim West, 27 Oct. 1973, b. 26 May 1955 (7) 3. Rhonda Rich, b. 25 July 1959 (7) 4. Buddy Rich, b. 18 Oct. 1967 (6) 3. Bonnie Rich, b. 4 Aug. 1956 m. £5 Feb. 1956, Ronald Groves, b. 15 Oct. 1935 Children: (7) 1. Allen Groves, b. 11 sept. 1957 (7) 2. Mark G oves, b. 18 Dec. 1962 (6) 4. Sandra Rich, b. 24 August 1940 n. 9 July 1961, Dr. Stephen poudna, b. E6 Oct. Children: 1940 (7) 1. Tresalee Ifinise Doudna, b. 23 Apr. 1962 Died at birth (7) g. philip Blair Doudna, b. 27 Mar. 1963 (7) 3, Stephen Stanley Doudna, b. 28 ApJ*. 1964 (7) 4. Daniel David Doudna, b. 6 Apr. 1966 (7) b. Aaron Poudne, b. 15 Sept. 1968 (7) 6. Nathan Doudna, b. 30 July 1971 (7) 7. Jonathan Doudne, b. 4 Dec. 1973 (6) 5. Darlene Rich, h. 17 Oct. 1945 m. Rept, 1963, Charles Hannusi, b. 17 Apr. 1943 Children: -20- (Darlene Rich and Charles Hannum cont'd) 1 7) 1. Son;} a Hannum 7) 2. B?1BI Hannum, b. 21 Sept. 1969 W) 3. Tins Hunnum, b. 21 Sept. 1969 (6) Rrenda Rich a* Charles Barnett Child s (7) 1. Adam Charles Barnett, b. 30 May 1973 -ei- (5) 6. MAPY BICH, b. 17 May 1828; d. August 1865 BI. 28 Pecember 1855, Marcus Finley C hildrenz (4) X. Abraham Eieh Finley, b. 8 Nov. 1654; d. 19 April 1932 (4) E. Elizabeth Ann« 1-inley, b. 26 February 18515; d. April 12, 19S1 (4) 3. Norval Pinley m Child? (5) 1. Roy Finley -22- (3) 7. THOMAS FICH, b. 1 August 1850j d. 5 July 1920 m. 27 April 1854, Franclna Craft, who d. 24 Dec. 1928 ChiIdrens (4) 1. Mary Rich, b. 5 October ... ; d. 3 April .... m. Johji Twville, separated and divorced; their child- ren, Alva and Elta raised by grandparents, Thomas and Francina Rich, went by name of Rich. Children: (5) 1. Alva Rich, b. 23 March 1878 m. Cora Carlton Children: 1. Wayne Rich m. Monica Corrigan Child} (7) 1. Joanna Rich m. Fred Gander Children! (8) 1. Cinda Gander 18) 2. Freddy Gander (6) 2. Ariwanna Rich m. Xrven Sensenbaugh Chlldi (7) 1. Suzanne Sensenbaugh (5) 2. Rita Rich, b. 17 July 1883; d. 22 Oct. 1958 m. Rufus Fogle, b. 1 Apr. 1878j d. 10 June 1930 Children! (6) 1. Clyde Fogle, b. 27 sept BJ. Ruby Edwards, b. 11 February .... Children? (7) 1. Carrie May Vivian Fogle, b. 26 June 1931; d. 8 September 1933 (7) 2. Beverly Evelyn Fogle, b. 28 April 1936 BU 2nd, Lillie Mae Caylor, b. 23 Feb. 1923 Children: (7) 1. Nancy Fogle, b. 5 Sept. 1943 (7) 2. Baby Fogle, died (6) 2. Miley Fogle, b. 16 March 1912 m. Aldene Tennant, b. 20 July 1913 So Children (6) 3. Veryl Fogle, b. 6 October m. Margaret Kdhnash, b. 4 Oot. 1918 Child: (7) 1, Virginia Fogle (6) 4. Evelyn Fogle, b. 22 July 1918 m. Joseph Stillion, b. 24 Feb. 1918 Children: (7) 1. Kenneth Joseph Stillion, b. 6 Mar. 1940 BI. Rilla Touvelle, divorce Children: (8) 1. Barbara Stillion (8) 2. Lori Stillion (8) 3. Brent Stillion (7) 2. Gerald Fugene Stillion, b. 6 May 1942 m. Carol Chiesa, b. 16 Feb. 1945 Children: (8) 1. Gerald Eugene Stillion II, b. 24 Mar. 1964 -23- (Gerald Stillion and Carol Chlesa, eont'i) (8) 2. Carrie May Stillion, b. 22 Oct. 1968 (7) 3. Carol Evelyn Stillion, b. 3 Oct. 1951 (7) 4. Marilyn .Tune Stillion, b. 24 Sept. 1953 (7) 5. Shirley Jolene Stillion, b. 29 Mar. 1958 (7) 6. Cheryl Darlene Stillion, b. Mar. 13, 1960 (6) 5. Mary Martha Fogle, b. 12 March 1923 m. Stephen Polasoak, b. 16 Jan. 1918 CM Id 4 (7) 1. Donald Stephen Polasoak, b. 21 June 1951 (4) 2. George w. Rich information (4) 3. Emmeline Rich m. Thomas McConnell Childrent (5) 1. Pierre McConnell m. Freda Watson Children? (6) 1. Dorothy McConnell m. clarence Booth Child: (7) 1. Barbara Booth (6) 2. Magel McConnell m. Douglas Rallahan Child: (7) 1. Douglas Hallahan Jr. (5) 2. Revere McConnell m. Delia LaPollette Children: C6) 1. Reto-Renaldo McConnell HI Baaalla (6) 2. A line do McConnell m. George Kuhnash (6) 3. Bmmagene McConnell m Jackson (6) 4, Betty McConnell m. Arthur gnyder (6) 5. Niles McConnell m. Evelyn Ambro -24- f3) 8. ABRAHAM RICH, b. 20 May 1834; d. 29 Dec. 1917 m. 11 Nov. 1858, Elizabeth Mlllhone, b. 1 Aug. 1834; d. 21 November 1908 First cousin of Miley sisters. Elizabeth was the daughter of John Kackley (Jacque Coquelln, Rev. Far Soldier) Chi Id ran i (4) 1. Martha Emily Rlob, b. 25 August 1860 ra. Flnley Arthur Frame Children; (5) 1. Girl, died in infancy (5) 2. Abraham Faymond Frame, b. 1893 BU Amelia Sneddon Children? (6) 1. May Frame (6) 2. Martha Naomi Frame (6) 3. Arthur Raymond Frame (5) 3. Roy David Frame, b. 1897 m. Grace Little Children, None m. 2nd, Mary Alwine Mason Children, None (4) 2. Margaret Odelie Rich, b. 24 October 1863 m. Albert Ecklebury Children: (5) 1. A girl, died in infancy (4) 3. Mahetabel, b. 12 Sept. 1867; d. 1940 m, Jacob Hayman, b. 1858 in Virginia; d. 1933 Children: (5) 1» Ortoal Kenneth Hayman m. Edna Perry Children: (6) 1. Robert Hayman m Child; (7) 1. Howard Kenneth Hayman (5) 2. Roy Abraham Fayman, b, 1895 m. Magel Shively, b. 1899 Children: (6) 1. John Jacob Hayman, b. 23 Dec. 1924 (6) 2. Anne Louise Hayman, b. 29 Mar. 1932 (5) 3. Paul Hayman, b. 1906; d. 1906 (5) 4. Howard Ward Hay-man, b. 1908 (twin) (5) 5. Herbert Hershal hayman, b. 1908 (twin) m. Gertrude Bates Children, None (4) 4. John Abraham Rich, b. Oct. 17/18 (midnight) 1880 m. Bernlce Tillett, b. 14 January 1886 Children: (5) 1. Lena M. (Mehetabel or May) Rich, b. 14 Apr. 1910 m. 1938, Louis Seider Children, None -25- (5) 9. MFHFTABFL PTCH, b. 22 March 1836/37; d. 19 Apr. 1914 HI. 21 March 1852, Edward Stephens Jr., b. 25 Jan. 1830 d. 12 May 1918 Children: (4) 1. Abraham B. Stephens, b. 22 March 1853; d. 2 Apr. 1942 m. X liov. 1877, Hannah Ellen Law, b. 25 Nov. 1859; d. 30 January 1916 Children: . (5) 1. Lillian Ophelia Stephens, b. 27 Feb. 1880; d. 9 September 1881 (5) 2. Wllliara Stephens, b. and 6, 19 September 1881 (5) 3. Leroy St. Clalr Stephens, b. 22 Dec. 1882; d. © June 1897; killed by lightning. (5) 4. Elsie Elmer Stephens, b. 29 Sept. 1884; d. 2 Apr, 1959 m. 25 Dec. 1911, Malissa Rigp-ins, b. 4 July 1883; d. 15 Nov. 1959 Children: (6) 1. Verda Feye Stephens, b. 10 Jan. 1915 m. Adan Hendricks, b. 29 May 1914 Children: (7) 1. Elsie Hendricks, b. 25 June 1932 in. lat Sept. 1956, Carl Heed Children: (8) 1. Rusty Ray Reed, b. 15 June 1957 (8) 2. Ricky Lynn Reed, b. 30 Dec. 1958 18) 3. Mickey Joe Reed, b. 20 Aug. 1961 (7) 2. Everett Hendricks, b. 20 July 1937 m. 1957, ¥arilyn Joann Elam Children: (8) 1. Sharon Kay Hendricks, b. 19 Nov. 1957 (8) 2. Tina Irene Hendricks, b. 4 Apr. 1959 (8) 3. Stephen Hendricks, b. 15 Apr, 1965 (7) 3. Stephen Minor Hendricks, b. 27 Nov. 1942 d. 27 Nov. 1942 (7) 4. Brenda Hendricks, b. 18 Nov. 1948 m. 15 Dec. 1964, William swedick Children: rv (8) 1. Brian Keith Swedick, b. 1965 (6);Roy Edward Stephens, b. 17 May 1916; d. 10 June 1931 (6) ». Minor Stephens, b. 22 Oct. 1918 m. Norma Potts, b. 14 Oct. 1922 Children: (7) 1. Gregory Alan Stephens, b. 27 Feb. 1943 m. Kara lee Gerber (7) 2. Sandra &ay Stephens, b. 14 May 1945 an. Carrol Brown (7) 3. Lee Don Stephens, b. May 22, 1947 (5) 5. Meta Faye Stephens, b. 12 May 188@; d. 7 Sept. 1970 m. 8 Apr, 1909, John Artemis Fard, b. 18 June 1880 d. 2 Feb. 1967 Children: (6) 1. Nellie Berniee Ward, b. 1 Nov. 1910 m. 14 June 1930, Ralph Bryan, b. 3 Apr. 1908 V6) 2. Leah Mildred Ward, b. 1 April 1919 n. Sherwood Meredith, b. 22 net -26- (Leah Ward and Sherwood Meredith cont*d) Child- (7) 1. Linda K. Meredith, b. 2 Aug. 1938 m. Dr. Richard Elrwrer, b. 12 Feb. 1933 Children: (8) 1. Ginalyn Zlmmer, b. 17 Jan. 1958 (8) 2. Robert Allen Zinar.er, b. 7 June 1962 (8) 3. Lori Ann Zimwer, b. 19 Oct. 1963 m. 2nd, William Lester Hoffman, b. 15 Feb. 1917 (5) 6. Bessie Marie Stephens, b. 1 Dec. 1893; d. 14 Aug. m. vora Hill 1918 No children (5) 7. Infant son, b. and d. 16 Sept. 1899 (4) 2. William Isaac Stephens, b. 13 Nov. 1854; d. Infancy (4) 3. Nicholas Stevens m. Addle Wilson Children: (5) 1. Ployd Stevens, b. 31 Dec. 1883; 6§ 1943 m. Ira Odle, 14 April 1907 (5) 2, Rosy Stevens ra. Charley Basil (5) 3. Myrtle Stevens si. Johnny Durbin (5) 4. Franklin Stevens (4) 4, Jacob «•% stevens, b. 22 September 1859 (4) 5, Walter Stephens, b. 22 Sept. 1859; d. 28 May 1916 m. Margaret Farley, b. 7 Sept. 1861; d, 21 May 1946 Chi Id rent (5) 1. Cozzie Bstella Stephens, b. 21 Aug. 1882; d. 7 June 1950 m. Walter Ballow, b. 8 Dec. 1880; d. 24 Aup. 1937 Children: (6) 1. Olive Ballow, b. Aug. 1903 (6) 2. Elvln Ballow, b. 1906 (5) 2. Roland Stephens, b. 2 Feb. 1884; d. 8 Oct. 1964 n. Myrtle Peters, b. 30 January 1879; d. 5 June 1958 Children: (6) 1. Eelmer Stephens, b. 13 Dec. 1910; 6. Jan. 1955 6) 2. Harold Stephens, b. 26 August 1913 6) 3. Wilma Stephens, b. 28 Oct. 1917 ! 6) 4. Doris Stephens, b. 27 July 1923 (t>) 5. Howard Stephens, b. 1 Jan (5) 3. Elmer Stephens m. Dana Kindernmn Child: (6) 1. Ladine Stephens, b. 1921 (5) 4. Gladys Stephens, b. 28 May 1897 m. Frank Barnes, b. 23 April 1894; d. 25 July 1955 Children: (6) 1. Marjorle Parnes, b. 14 July 1922 m. Leslie Hanover, b. June 1919 Children; (7) 1. John Hanover, b. 26 Mar. 1956 (adopted! (7) 2. Michael Hanover, b. June 1962 -27- (Walter Stephens and Margaret Burley cont'd) (5) 5. Homer Stephens, b. 28 Dec. 1894 w. Felsora Grounds, b. 1903 CW Idren: (6) 1. Gerald Stephens BW and has 3 children (6) 2. Melba Stephens m. Wlllsrd Kreft Children: (7) 1. Krlssle rreft ((7) 2. Kip Kreft (7) 3. Kim Kreft (7) 4. Kevin Kreft (5) 6. Maude Stephens, b. 14 December 1892 m. Dan Barker Child: (6) 1. Morcella Barker (5) 7. Archie Stephens, b. 15 yay 1905; d. 25 Oct. 1943 m. Minnie &addox Children: (6) 1. Richard Stephens (6) 2. Pauline Stephens (6) 3. Mary Stephens (4) 6. Drusilla Stephens, b. 11 Oct. 1861 IB. James Forbes Umpleby, who d. 26 March 1927 Child: (5) 1. Frank Umpleby, who deceased before 1986 Child: (6) 1. Eleanor Umpleby m. Forrest M. Tate (4) 7. Jasper Newton Stephens, b. 5 Feb. 1855; d. 1943 m. Ethel Burley, b. 1888 Children: Unknown (4) 8« Ida Pelle Stephens M. James Stlltz Children* (5) 1. Shenran Stlltz, b. 12 A*ur. 1888; d. 23 Nov. 1966 K. Alice Hott Children? (6) 1. Lucille Stlltz, m. Telber vogel (6) 2. Forbus Ptlltz (5) 2. Delia Mae Stiltz, b. 12 Oct. 1887; d. 7 Oot. 1965 m. Earl Cook Children: (6) 1. Earl Cook (6) 2. Inez Cook m. 2nd, Carter Leach No children (4) 9. Norman Stephens m. Grace Hamilton (Norman Stephens and Grace Hamilton cont'd) Children: (5) 1. Alva Stephens m, Mary Gallegher, 18 Sept. 1936 Children: (6) 1. Jac-es Stephens (6) 2. Mary Stephens (5) 2. Opal Stephens, b. 1899; d. 2 Nov. 1909 -29- (3) 10. FLVIFA BICH, b. 15 May 1839; d. 15 December 1841 Buried on g hilltop on the fairlly farm with sieter, Rebecca and mother, Anne Thompson Rich -30- ABRAHAM PICF f 1792-1873) m. 2nd, Catherine Johnson Stevens, b. 18 Aug. 1806 d. April 27, 1892 Childrenj (3) 1. JOHWSON RICH, b. 3849; d. 1930 in. 19 Oct. 1871, Isabella Hlllyer, b. 1850 Childs (4) 1. Fyrta Rich m. Charles Graham Childrenr (5) 1. Helen Craharr m. Charles Secrest Williams Child: (6) 1. D«lores Williams (3) 2. JOHN "JFSS" FICH, b. 1 Aug. 1851; d. 2 Sept. 1936 ra. 2 Dec. 1875, Rachel Laughlin, b. 2 Dec. 1875; d. 13 March 1934 Children: (4) 1. Thurman Laughlin Rich, b. 14 Jan. 1880; d. 7 May 1953 m. 17 Dec. 1905, Louvia Shafer, who d. 17 Nov. Child: 1917 (Obit) (5) 1. Paul Rich, b. 14 Feb. 1907 m. Edna Alexander, b. Nov. 1907, divorce m. 2nd, 3 May 1960, Helen Kadford rroy, b. 26 Fov. 1901 (4) 2. Orpha Catherine Pich, b. 1861; d. 1936 (4) 3. Chauncey Filliam Rich, b. 17 Jan, 1887 n. 1 Sept. 1925, Hazel Franklin, b. 16 July 1895 Children? (5) 1. Nadine Pich, b. 21 May 1927; d. 1 Feb. 1929 (5) 2. Ardith Jane Pich, b. 14 June 1931 m. 1 Dec. 1949, John Crayton Mi ley, b. 27 July Children: 1915 (6) 1. John William Mi ley, b. 14 Oct. 1951 (6) 2. Wayne Fordyce Miley, b. 13 Feb. 1953 (6) 3. Jane Flizabeth Miley, b. 17 Dec. 1956 (6) 4. Paul Lewis Miley, b. 15 July 1958 (6) 5. Robert Crelghton Miley, b. 10 Aug. 1961 (5) 3. Norroa Vivian Rich, b. 16 June 1934 m. 8 July 1951, Jack F. Kiley, b. 12 Sept. 1927 Children (6) 1. Jeffrey Raymond &iley, b. 19 Apr, 1*952 (6) 2. Jerry Allen Miley, b. 30 March 1954 (6) 3. Vivian Elaine Miley, b. 5 March 1955 (6) 4. Catherine Loralne Miley, b. 16 Feb. 1957 (6) 5. Dwight Edward Miley, b. 10 Nov. 1958 (6) 6. Linda Arline Miley, b. 25 Sept. 1960 (6) 7. Myra Lynn Miley, b. 22 Nov. 1961 (4) 4. Katie Naomi Rich, b. 18 Sept. 1888; d. 22 Apr. 1977 m. Fred McWillinms, b. 20 Sept. 1887; d. 18 Nov. Child: 1957 (5) 1. John R. J'cyilliams, b. 28 Sept. 1916 m. 14 Jan. 1940, Frances Wilson, b. 1 Apr. 1918 -31- (3) 3. LEWIS RICH, b. 1859; d. 1933 m. Alice "Allie" Robinson, 9 Feb. 1888 Children: (4) 3 who died in Infancy Twins ??? m. 2nd, Amy Bates, b. 1881; d. 1948 Child: (4) 1. Merle Rich, b. 17 Dec. 1917 m. Richari Archer divorce m. 2nd, Carl Boatlck, b. 30 Oct. 1914 Child: (5) 1. Karen Berylena Bostick, b. 27 March 1948 (3) 4. CATHBRIHE RICH, 1854-1937 (GS) m. Philip F. Barry, 16 May 1872, 1850-1930 (GS) Child; f4) 1. Eva Barry* 1873-1974 (OS) m. Walker George, 1870-1934 (GS) Children? (5) 1. Kathryn George, b. 11 June 1902; <3. 28 July 1982 m. Fyte Falkenshqw, b. 1894j d. 1965 Child: (6) 1. George Walkenshaw, b. 13 Jan. 1922; d. 8"April 1984 ai. Donnadene Toodford Children: (7) 1. Barry 0. Walkenshsw (7) 2. Philip S. Walkenshaw (5) 2. Gertrude George Hever married (Living 1986) IM3EX Alexander Black Edna, 30 Douglas Eric, 15 Allen Mary Lou (Rich) 15 Elizabeth Jeannette, 4 Philip, 15 Ambro Philip Drew, 15 Evelyn, 23 Trenton, 15 Ammona Trevor Allen, 15 H annah, 1 Blanton Ansbury David, 15 , 7 Natalie Pae, 15 Oacar, 7 Spencer Clay, 15 Archer Vickie Lynn (Spencer) 15 Jeanie, 16,19 Booher Richard, 31 Beverly Jane, 12 Armstrong Dorothy Marie, 12 Chnrles, 5 (Bouinlock) Elizabeth Alfcerta, 5 Elizabeth H. (Davles), 12 Mary Emma, 6 Erana Faye (Rich), 12 Arnold Geoffrey Eascall, 12 Mary, 5 Howard Isaac, 12 Augensteln Jean rrillespie(Kyle) ,12 Letha, 18 John pently, 12 Judith (Rich), 12 Ballow Lynn Marie, 12 Cozzie Estella, 26 Patricia Jane (Curry), 12 (Stephens) Stephen Rich, 12 Klvln, 26 Booth Olive, 26 Barbara, 23 Walter, 26 Dorothy (McConrell), 23 Barker Clarence, 23 Don, 27 Boatick Marcella, 27 Carl, 31 Maude (Stephens), 27 Karen Berylene, 31 Barnes Bouinlock Frank, 28 Dorothy Marie, 12 Gladys (Stephens), 26 Brening Marjorie, 26 Cathy Jo. , 8 Barnett Cay Lee, 8 Adam Charles, 20 Christopher Alan, 8 Brenda (Rich) 20 Nancy Ruth (HIK-PS), 8 Charles, 20 Robert, 8 Barry Brokaw Catherine (Rich) 51 Anita, 17 Eva, 31 Brown Philip H., 31 Carrol, 25 Basil Bryan Charley, 26 Nellie Bernice (Fard), 25 Rosy (Stevens) 26 Ralph, 25 Bates hurley # Amy, 31 Fthel, 27 Batrlcia,Irena, 4 Margaret, 26 Pauline, 15 Beatty Callahun v Hannah, 13 Howard, 8 Berry Janice (Kellar), 7 Mary Ann, 1 Kenneth, 8 •Gertrude, 24 Callahan Core Linda Sue, 8 Marshall, 1 Corrigan Lcmatta, 8 Monica, 22 Mary Ellen, 9 Cowden Fancy, 8 Carolyne (Donne11), 14 Ruth (Casner), 8 Clifford Adam, 14 Futh Etta, 8 David Russell, 14 Timothy Howard, 8 Donora Richard, 14 Todd, 9 Elnora Jean, 14 Tracey, 9 Gary Lee, 14 Wanda (Haeper) 8 Jerold Allen, 14 William, 9 Kimberly Sue, 14 Cameron Lucile (Fich), 14 Margaret, 6 Pichard Lee, 14 Carlton Fussell, 14 Cora, 22 William N,, 14 Carpenter Craft, Anr.e, 1 Brenda Kaya, 19 Francina, 2-22 Gordon £1$, 19 Croy Jama8 P., 19 Helen Fadford, 30 Melba Lee (Long) 19 Culver Steve Bruce, 19 Msry, 18 Caaner Curry Abraham, 8 Adam, 7 ^rian Fouglas, 12 Anne (ffich) 7, 2 Jane Ellen, 12 Rertha, 8 Jeffrey MacPherson, 12 (>e orge, 8 Mark Andrew, 12 'Ruth, 8 Patricia Jane(Booher), 12 John, 7 Russel Fdgg», 12 Martha (Potts), 7 Ruesel Edgar Jr., 12 Mary, 7 Mary (Emerson), 8 Melissa, 7 Danford Samantha (Riggs), 7 Alice, 18 ^arah Ann (floodin), 7 Davies Susanna, 7 Elizabeth Hascall, 11 Van, 7 Travis William, 7 Betty, 17 Caylor Dearth " Li 113 e Mae , 22 Elizabeth, 5 Chleaa, Carol, 22 Delong Clark Kally Ann, 11 Mildred, 17 Martha Ann (Marquis), 11 Cleary Vance, 11 Arita (Hefferon), 11 Denver Fdward Dempaey, 11 ram, 14 Fdward William, 11 Dettra John William, 11 Carolyn Jane, 12 Kathryn Louise, 11 Dick Mary Helen, 11 Beverly (Snode), 16 Laura Helen (Rich), 11 Jason, 17 Patricia Jane, 11 John, 16 Vivian, 6 Lori, 17 Cook Lickey Delia Mae (Stiltz), 27 Doris, 6 Earl, 27 Donne 11, Carolyn, 14 Inez, 27 Doudna Aaron, 19 Eoudna Frame Daniel David, 19 Martha %omi, 24 Jonathan, 19 Mary Alwine (Mason), 24 Nathan, 19 May, 24 Philip Blair, 19 Roy David, 24 Sandra (Rich), 19 Franklin Stephen, Dr., 19 Hazel, 30 Stephen Stanley, 19 Mary Matilda (Miller), 13 Tresalee Denise, 19 Frldley Duff Carol Ann, 14 Hazel, 18 D*gan Herbert L»» 5 Gallagher Dunlap Mary, 28 Dorothy (Thomas), 8 Gander Durbin Cinda, 22 Johnny, 26 Fred, 22 Myrtle (Stevens), 26 Freddy, 22 Joanne (Rich), 22 Garbasie Ecklebury, Albert, 24 Rebecca, 17 Margaret 0., 24 rje lbka Edwards Dorothy, 18 puby, 22 George Elam Kva (Barry), 31 Marilyn Joann, 25 Gertrude, 31 Kathryn, 31 Walker, 31 pinley aerber Abraham, 21 Petty June (pifre-s), 8 Elizabeth Ann, 21 John, 8 Maroua, 2, 21 Karalea, 25 Mary (Rich), 21 Wancy Dae, 8 Horval, 21 Gibson Paradine, 17 Ada (Robins), 16 Boy, 21 Betty (pavis), 17 Fogle Britty (Swain), 16 Aldene (Tennant), 22 Dana (Stillion3,), 17 Peverly Evelyn, 22 Diana, 16 Carrie May Vivian, 22 Douglas Aaron, 17 Clyde, 22 Guy, 16 Elta (Rich), 22 Haeel (ffameson), 17 Evelyn, 22 Isa (MacCraig), 17 Lillle May (Caylor), 22 John, 16 Margaret (Kuhnash), 22 Judith (Rayner) , 16 Mary Martha, 23 Kenneth, 16 Mi ley, 22 Martha, 16 Fancy, 22 Mildred (Clark), 17 Ruby (Edwards), 22 Pauline, 16 Hufus, 22 Rebecca (Garbesle), 17 Veryl, 22 Richard, 17 Virginia, 22 Robert, 17 Pram* Robert Lynn, 17 Abraham Raymond, 24 Roqua, 17 Amelia (Sneddon), 24 Samantha (Rich), 16 Arthur Raymond, 24 Terry, 17 Finley Arthur, 24 Todci Allen, 17 Grace (Little), 24 William, 17 Martha Emily (Fieh) 24 Glaeford Carrie, 4 Gooderal Hartup Mary, 14 Ada, 14 Goodin Hayman Irene, 7 Anne Louise t 24 Sarah Ann, 7 Edna (Perry), 24 Theodore, 7 Gertrude (Bates), 24 vernon, 7 Herbert Fershal, 24 Graham Howard Fonneth, 24 Anna Beryl, 16, 19 Howard Ward, 24 Charles, 30 Jacob, 24 David. 16 John Jacob, 24 Dawn,vvienstaler), 16 Ma«tel (Shiveley) 24 Gary Lee, 16 Mahetabel (Rich), 24 Gene, 15 Orval Kenneth, 24 Gregory Eugene, 16 Paul, 24 Irvin, 15 Robert, 24 H elen, 30 Foy Abraham, 24 Juanita (Guilor) 15 Hefferan Fathy Lynn, 16 A.rita, 11 Kir by Gene, 16 Hendrlcks Myrta (Rich), 30 Aaam, 25 Nellie (Rich), 15 Brenda, 25 Ricky Loy, 16 Flsle, 25 Grier Everett, 25 John, 11 Marilyn **oann (Elam), 25 Mary Lou (Marquis), 11 Sharon Kay, 25 Stephanie Jane, 11 Stephen, 25 Grounds Stephen yinor, 25 Be Isora, 27 Tina Irene, 85 Groves Verda Faye (Stevens), 25 Allen, 19 H ill Bonnie (Rtch) 19 "essio Marie (Stephens), 26 Mark, 19 Vora, 26 Ronald, 19 Hillyer Guile r Isabella, 2, 30 Juanita, 15 Hoffman, Win. Lester, 26 Mary faywood, 12 Itott Alici, 27 ffallahan Douglas, 23 Jackson Douglas jr., 23 , 23 ragel (iTcGonnell), 23 Fntnaprene (Fcconnell), 23 H amiIton Jacobs Grace, 27 Puth Virginia, 5 Hannum Jameson Charles, 19 Hazel Swank, 17 Darlene (R«ch), 19 Jennings Sonja, 20 Jane Foore, 1 Tim, 20 Johnson Tina, 20 Catherine, 30 H anover Jesse, 11 John, 26 Mary Alberta, 11 Marjorle (Barnes), 26 S§lesta (Miley), 11 Michael, 26 Johnston Leslie, 26 Catherine, 1 H arper Jones Wanda (Callahan), 8 Oeraldlne 4 Jones Long Shirley (tfarouis), 11 Crace, 18 Ileen, 19 Irene, 14 Melba Lee, 19 ^thel, 5 Jan5.ce, 9 Maccraig Kinderman Isa, 17 Dana, 6 Ifoddox g Minnie, 27 Carrie firm, 4 Mahoney Martin, 4 Hallie, 8 Mildred, 4 Malernee Kreft Carol Mae, 8 Kevin, 27 Christina Kaye, 8 Kim, 27 Cynthia Oaye, 8 Kip, 27 Donald L., 8 Edrard Kenneth, 8 Krissie, 27 Kelba {Stephens} , £7 Lowatta (Callshan(, 8 Willard, 27 Filliam Donald, 8 Kress Maple Erlka, 15 Benjamin, 1 Fuhnash Marquis Almedo (MConnell), 25 Cherlep ozier, 11 Ceorge, 23 Martha Ann, 11 Margaret, 23 VBTJ Alberta (Johnson) 11 Mary Lou, 11 Jean (illlespie, 12 Pslph Johnson, 11 Shirley (Jones), 11 Mason LaPollett* Elizabeth, 1 Delia, 23 Ifary Alwlne, 24 Larrlck Tabitha, 6 Leah Mildred (Ward), 25 Leshley Linda K., 26 Byron, 18 fherwood, 24 Mark Allen, 18 ey Marcella Kay, 18 Ardith Jane (Pich), 3( Mildred (Miley) ] Catherine Loraine, 30 Randy Lee, 18 Pwifht EdEdwrw d 30 Pose Mary, 18 Fliiabeth, 2 Winifred W., 1© were, £, 11 Laughlin Jsre Elizabeth, 30 Rachel, 3,30 Jack R., 30 Law Jeffry Rayironc, 30 Carol, 16 Jerry Allen, 30 Hannah Filers, 25 John Crayton, 30 Leach John William, 30 Carter, 27 Linda jirlire, 30 LeBlanc kex-garet, 2, 14 Jules ffenri, 12 Very (Culver), 13 Jules Hpnry, 13 Mary Isabel (Rich), 11 Fnchel Faye, 13 Kildrei, 18 Little ryrs Lynn, 30 Trace, 24 Forme Vivian (Rich), 30 Long F orman, 17 Audrey (Pich) 18 Pavl Lewis, 30 Fills, 18 Pobert Creighton, 30 Miley Mc&inley Salesta, 11 William, 11 Vivian Elaine, 30 McVieker Wayne Fordyce, 30 Beth Ann, 5 William, 11 Carol Ruth, 5 William Kyle, 11 Carol Sue, 15 Miller Drucilla, 4 Elizabeth (Dearth), 5 Arthur, 13 Elisabeth Joyce, 5 Dora Beatrice (Rich) 13 Ethel (Kear), 5 Gene Franklin, IS Fore81 Ronald, 5 Mary Matilda (Franklin) 13 Fred Rosscoe, 5 Walter Rich, 13 Harold Kear, 5 Millhon (3) James Leslie, 5 Elizabeth, 2, 24 Laura Beretus, 5 Moore Lori, 15 Deborah, 16 Mary Elizabeth, 5 jane (Jennings^ 1 Jane (Mlley), 1 Matthew, 15 Lori Ann, 16 Oral Dempster, 5 Martha (Gibson), 16 Patricia, 15 Robert, 16 Rachel Ann, 5 Sarah, 1 Ray, 15 Vicky, 16 Ruth Virginia (Jacobs), 5 Morrlaon •Theresa Ray, 15 Delia H., 5 Thomas Daniel, 5 Ethel May, 5 Velma Mae, 5 Frank, 5 Mewl Illam8 Frances (Wilson), 30 Frederick Lee, 5 Fred, 30 Leatha, 5 John R., 30 Margaret, 1 Katie Naomi (Rich), 30 y Mary Frances, 12 Neddies McConnell Dencil, 15 Aimedo, 23 Hewhart Betty, 23 Gene Brent, 6 Delia (LaFollette), 23 James Arthur, 6, 17 Dorothy, 23 John, 6, 17 flmnagene , 23 John Paul, 6, 17 Fmmeline (Rich), 23 Mark Allen, 6, 17 Evelyn (Ambro), 23 Robert Eric, 6,17 reda (Fateon), 23 Sylvia Gay (Snyder), 6, 17 Sagel, 23 Nicholson Wilea, 23 Delia (Thompson), 7 Pierre, 23 Lucille, 7 Feto-Fenaldo, 23 Samuel, 7 (Basalla), 23 Nies z Fevere, 23 Dale Edward, 5 Thomas, 23 Janice Marie (Rich), 5 Mccracken Linda Jane, 5 Maud, 6 Norton MoDorvon Anna (Potts), 7 Carol Jean, 15 Edward, 7 McKinley Martha Jean, 7 Jeanne Carolyn (Turrell), 11 Pauline, 7 Jenifer Robin, 11 0(3 Reed 4ra, 26 Letha (Augustine), 18 Oliphanfc Micky Joe, 25 Amanda Lu, 14 Minnie (Rich), 18 Brian Rich, 14 Patricia, 18 Clare r., 14 Ricky Lynn, 25 Peter Floh, 14 Robert Dean, 18 Rusty Ray, 25 Palmer Thoburn, 18 Lori Elizabeth, 5 Walter, 18 Neal F., 5 Rich Abraham, 1,2,24 Parks Ada (Hartup), 14 loris Jeanette, 12 Albert, 16 Peach Alice (Danford), 18 Alice (plgga), 7 Alice (Robinson), 31 Richard, 7 Alva, 22 Perry Amy (Bates), 31 Edna, 24 Ann (Craft), 1 peters Ann (Thompson), 1,2,3,10 Myrtle, 25 Anna (Snyder)ij 1 Pleak Anna Beryl (Graham), 16,19 James, 9 Anne (Casner, 2,7 Mary Ellen (Callahan)$ Anita Irene, 4 Polaacak Ardith Jane, 30 Donald Stehhen, 23 Arthur, 6 Mary Martha (Fogle) 23 Ariwanna, 22 Stephen, 23 Audrey, 18 Pollack Barbara, 6 Helen (pollard), 8 Bernice (Tillett), 24 Jeffrey, 8 Beulah Marie (Ramage), 4 Max, 8 Bonnie, 19 (pollard) Brenda, 20 Bessie (Riggs) 8 Charles, 8 Bud Allen, Iff, 19 Helen, 8 Carl, 16 potts Carl Denver Tl, 15 Anna, 7 Carol Ann (Pridley), 14 John, 7 Carol Jean (McDorvon), 15 Carol Sue, 15 Martha (Casner) 7 Carolyn Jean (Dettra), 12 Norma, 25 Carrie (Olasford), 4 Susan, 7 Carrie (Richey), 11 Catherine, 31 Ramage Catherine (core), 1 Catherine (Johnston),1,2 peulah Marie, 4 Catherine (Stevens), 2 Rayner Celia A., 6 Judith, 16 Vhauncey William, 30 Reed Christopher William, 12 Brand a Ellen, 18 Cindy Lee, 12 Carl, 25 Clovla, 6 Deborah %nn, 18 Cora (Carlton), 22 Diane (Winkleman), 18 Craig Wesley, 12 Ellis, 18 Cuma, 5 Elsie (Hendrlcks), 25 Dallas, 14 Ernest, 18 Darlene, 19 Hazel (Duff), 18 Daniel, 1 James, 18 David, 1 James Ernest, 18 David Leslie, 12 Rich Rich David Leslie 2nd, 12 William (Joseph), 15 Dencll (Keedles), 15 Justus, 14 Don, 15 Kathryn, 3 Donald Herbert 4 Katie fcaomi, 30 Doris (Dickey), 6 Kenneth Byron, 14 Laura Helen, 11 Doris J. (Parks), 12 Lena K, 24 Druailla (MeVlcker), 4 Letonia, 17 Edna (Alexander, 30 Leslie Danielle, 14 Elizabeth (Mason), 1 Lewis, 3, 6, 31 Elizabeth (Miley), 2, 4 Linda Elaine, 5 Elizabeth (Millhon), 2, 24 Loomis, 6 Elizabeth (Vernon), 1 Lorena, 14 Elizabeth (Armstrong), 5 Lori Ann, 2 Elta, 22 Louvla (Shafer), 30 Elvira, 2, 10, 29 Luclle, 14 Emma Faye, 12 Mabel, 6 Emmaline, 23 Mahetabel, 24, 25 Erika (Kress), 15 Mahetabel (Stevens), 2 Esbon, 15 Margaret (Miley), 2, 14 Euril tBud", 16, 19 Margaret (Morrison), 1 Fldessa Marie (Stiers), 4 Margaret Jane (Morrison, 15 Francina (Craft), 2, 22 Margaret Odella, 24 Francis H» B., 4 Marjorie Elaine, 12 Frank, 17 Martha Emily, 24 Franklin, 17 Mary, 6, 21, 22 Ganell, 15 Mary (Arnold), 5 Gfenevieve, 19 *ary (Finley), 2 George, 1 Mary (Goderal), 14 George r., 23 Gilbert, 4 Vary (ruiler), 12 Gleno, 15 Vary (Maple), 1 Hannah (Ammons), 1 *ary Ann (Rerry), 1 Hazel ( Franklin), 30 Mary Carolyn, 11 Helen (Croy), 30 Mary Frances (McAuley), 12 Herbert, 4 Mary Isabel (Miley), 11 Homer, 18 ¥ayy Lou, 15 Isene (Long), 14 Maud (McCracken), 6 Isabella (Hillyer), 2, 30 Merle, 31 Jacob, 1, 2, 11 Mildred (King), 4 Jacob Wallace, 12 Minnie, 18 James, 2, 4, 6 Monica (Corrigan), 22 ««ane (Miley), 2, 11 Myrta, 30 «*ane (Moore), 1 Nadlne, 30 Jane (Wilson), 15 Nancy Jane, 12 Janice Marie (Hiesz), 15 Nellie, 15 Janle (Rochus), 15 Norma Jayne, 15 Norma Vivian, 30 Jason William, 16, 19 Olive, 6 Jean (Suferage), 6 Orpha Catherine, 30 Jeanie (Archer), 16, 19 Other Kings ley, 4 Jeffry Don, 15 Paradlne (Finley ), 17 Joanna, 22 Parmer, 6 John,1,3 Patricia Irene (Pates), 4 John Abraham, 24 1 Paul, 30 John "Jess *, 30 Pauline (Bates), 15 John W., 5 Peter, 1 Johnson, 2, 30 Rachel (Laughlln), 8,30 Joseph Jr., 1 Rich Rochus Rachel Ann, 15 Janle (Shaffer), 15 Rachel Anne (McVlcker), 5 Roe Rachel Salesta, 12 Brenda, 15 Febecca, 2, 10 Melinda Relaine, 15 Rebecca Rose (Stiers), 4, lft Raymond, 15 Rex, 15 Wilma (Rich) 15 Rex Michael, 15 Rhonda, 16, 19 Rhonda Marie, 4 schneldmiller, Eileen, 6 Rodney, 15 Selder Ruth (Rochester), 12 Lena M. (Pich), 24 Ruth (Tompkins), 12 Louis, 24 Ruth p., 6 Sensenbaugh Samantha, 16 Ariwanna (Rich), 22 Sandra, 19 Irven, 22 Sarah, 6 Suzanne, 22 Sarah (Moore), 1 Sha#er Sarah (Woodfordv 1 Louvia, 30 Stephen, 6, 16, 19 Shepard, Susan Grace, 14 Tabitha (Larrlck), 6 Shepherd Teresa, 19 Amy, 16 Theresa, 16 Greg, 16 Thomas, 1, 3, 22 Vicky (tfoore), 16 Thumnan Laughlin, 30 Shively Trenton William, 15 Magel, 24 Verle Leota (Tripp), 14 Sivemore Vivian (Cleary), 6 Joyce R. (Tlsdale) 17 Wayne, 22 Steve, 19 Welcome, 6 Smith Willard, 14 X*w, 5 William, 2, 14, 19 Sneddon William Hamnond, 12 Amelia, 24 William iienderson, 11, 12 Snode Wllma, 15 Reverly, 16 Winifred F. (Laahley), 19 Carol (Law), 16 Zuinglaa, 4 Gerald, 16 Richey Harry, 16 Carrie, 11 Leigh Ann, 16 Riggins Pauline (Gibson), 16 Mallssa, 25 Pita (Sparks), 17 Rigga Thomas Robert, 16 Ada, 8 Larry, 17 - Alice, 7 Pnyder Resale, 8 Arthur, 23 Betty June, 8 Betty (McCormell), 23 Charles Lawrence, 8 Father (Rich), 6, 17 Ha Hie (Mahoney) , 8 Jeremiah, 1 Joseph, 8 John, 6, 17 Justus, 7 Sylvia Gay, 6, 17 Nancy Futh, 8 Sparks Samantha (Casner), 7 Rita, 17 William, 7 Spencer Robins Elmer, 15 Ada, 16 Norma Jayne (Rich), 15 Bobinson Vickie Lynn, 15 31 Stevens Ruth (Tompkins), 12 Catherine Johnston, 1,2,30 Edward, 2 Stephens Stephens Abraham B«, 25 yerda Faye, 25 Addle (Wilson) 26 Walter, 26 Alva, 28 William, 25 Archie, 27 rllllam Isaac, 26 Belsora (Grounds), 27 Fllnrn, 26 Bessie Marie, 26 Stlers Cozzle Estella, 26 Ada Rachel, 4, 14 Dana (Kinderman), 26 Elizabeth Anne, 4 Delmer, 26 Elizabeth Jeanetta (Allen), 4 Doris, 26 Fldessa Marie (Rich), 4 Drusilla, 27 Ceraldine (Jones), 4 Fdward Jr., 25 Gregory, 4 Elmer, 25 Josephine Marie, 4 Elsie Elmer, 25 Kalua Janina, 4 Ethel fBurley), 27 Lucinda Way, 4, 14 Floyd, 26 Matthew Allen, 4 Franklin, 26 Myron Thomas, 4 Gerald, 27 Rebecca Rose (Rich), 4, 14 Gladys, 26 Ronald Kermit, 4 Grace (Hamilton), 27 Ronald Kermit Jr., 4 Gregory Alan, 25 Thomas Earl, 4 Hannah Ellen (Law), 25 Wilford Earl, 4, 14 Harold, 26 Stilllon (s) Homer, 27 Barbara, 22 Howard, 26 Brent, 22 Ida Belle, 27 Carol (Chiesa), 22 Ira Oale, 26 Carol Evelyn, 23 Jacob W., 26 Carrie May, 23 James, 28 Cheryl Tarlene, 23 Jasper Newton, 27 Dana (©lbson) 17 Karalee (Gerber), 25 Evelyn (Fogle), 22 Ladlne, 26 Herald Eugene, 22 Lee Don, 25 "erald Fugene IT, 22 Lorop St. Clalr, 25 Joseph, 22 Lillian Ophelia, 25 Kenneth Joseph, 22 Mallssa (Rlgglns), 25 Lori, 22 Margaret (Burley), 26 Marilyn June, 23 Mary, 27, 28 Pllla (Touvelle), 22 Mary (Gallagher), 28 Shirley Jolene, 23 Faude, 27 Stilts Melba, 27 Alice (Hott), 27 Feta Faye (Ward), 25 Delia Mae, 27 Mlnrle (Maddox), 27 Forbus, 27 Minor, 26 Ida Belle (Stephens), 27 Myrtle, 26 Jarce s, 2§ Myrtle (peters, 26 Lucille, 27 Nicholas, 26 Sherman, 27 Norma (potts), 25 Btraker Norman, 27 Anne Elizabeth, 11 Opal, 28 Jane Helen, 11 Pauline, 27 John William, 11 Pichard, 27 Mary Helen (Cleary), 11 Roland, 26 Susan Cleary, 11 Rosy, 26 Suferage Roy Edward, 25 Kathleen Hera, 6 Sandra Kay, 25 Mark A., 6 Robert T., 6 Swain Tiadale Gritty, 16 Lori, 19 Swedick Perry Daniel, 19 Beenda (Hendricks), 25 Touvelle, John, 22 Mary (Rich), 22 prlan Keith, 25 Fllla, 22 William, 25 Tripp, Verlie Leota, 14 Turre11 Talbott Albert Francis, 11 Bstella Paye, IS Albert Roger, 11 Harold Henderson, 13 Jeanne Carolyn, 11 Levi Columbus, 12 Joy Althea (Wacker), 11 Rachel Salesta (Pich),12 Mary Carolyn (Rich), 11 fate Wendy Anne, 11 Eleanor (tjtopleby), 27 Forrest M., 27 Tedder Ulrich Pruce Talbott, 13 David, 19 Trby velle, 13 David Kenneth, 19 Fachel Faye (LeBlanc), 13 Lisa Jean (Rfch), 19 Stephen Henry, 13 Utapleby Tennant Prusllla (Stevens), 27 />ldene, 22 Fleanor, 27 Thomas Frank, 27 Ada (Piggs), 8 Jares Forbes, 27 Dorothy (Punlap), 8 Usner Jame s, 8 Ftta, 17 Nancy, 8 Newton, 8 Vienstaler Fewton Fugene, 8 Dawn, 16 Pamela, 8 Vogel Thompson Delber, 27 Anne, 1 Lucille (Stlltz), 27 Bella, 7 tfary (Caaner), 7 William, 7 Wacker, Tillett, Bernice, 24 Joy Althea, 11 Tilton Walkenshaw Carole, 6 Barry 0., 31 Flleen (Sehneidmiller), 6 Donnadene (Woodford), 31 •TameB Arnold, 6 George, 31 John Rich, 6 Kathryn (George), 31 Mabel (rich) 6 Kyte, 31 Margaret (Cameron) 6 Philip s., 51 Sue, 6 Ward Wilbur, 6 John Artemus, 25 Tiimrona Leah Mildred, 25 Connie, 18 Mete Faye (Stephens), 25 Tipton Nellie Bernice, 25 Jack, 8 Watson Jackie Jr., 9 Nancy (Callahan), 8 Freda, 23 Theresa, 9 David Jason, 19 Tisdale Larry, 18 Cerevleve (Rich) 19 West Joyce Renee, 19 Flm, 17, 19 Kenneth, 19 Teresa (Rich), 19 Kenneth Lee, 19 Williams Lise Jean, 19 Charles Secrest, 30 Williams Do lore3, 30 Don, 17 Etta (TTsner), 17 Helen (Graham), 30 Letonia (Rich), 17 Ruth (Winkler), 17 Theodore, 17 Wilson Addle, 26 Frances, 30 Jane, 15 Winkleman Diane, 18 Winkler Ruth May, 17 Woodford Donnadene, 31 rilliam, L Wyacarver Caroline, 18 Christina Ann, 18 Connie (Tlmmons), 18 Dorothy (r*elbka), 18 Gerry, 18 r?race (Long), 18 Roily, 18 Joyce, 18 Joyce (Wehr), 18 Karen Elaine, 18 Robert, 18 Ponald, 18 Ronald Matthew, 18 Richard, 19 Fill!am Charles, 18 Z inane r Ginalyn, 26 Linda K". (Meredith), 26 Lori Ann, 26 Dr. Richard, 26 Fobert Allen, 26