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.