Wife of John Martin Abbott Sr. and daughter of James Ritchie and Cora Lucy Cox.
Pearl and her sister Edna lost both their parents at a young age and were raised by their grandparents Wm JJ Ritchie and Amanda Caroline Hall. Her grandmother Amanda Ritchie died when she and her sister were teenagers leaving them alone again. Her sister Ethel married Jake Heitman and as far as I can tell Pearl worked in St Joseph for a short time then moved to Kansas City, met and married John Abbott. I know she stayed close to her mothers family (Cox), aunts and cousins throughout her life and the McCauley's her fathers sisters Harriet and Florence Ritchie married brothers William and Henry McCauley. I remember as a child driving to Willow Brook and Sparta to visit with relatives. I was so young I have a vague memory of a white house on a hill and the driveway went up and was a big porch... but was not Harriet McCauley's house I believe was her sister Florence!
I just found where Pearl Ritchie and John Abbott had a double wedding with her cousin Ophra Ritchie (daughter of John Donald Ritchie brother to her dad and wife Carrie). Ophra Ritchie married James Slaughter in Kansas City the same date and place January 8 1918.
We called our grandmother Abby and she died when I was only 9 or 10 yrs old, but I remember her as always dressed up and very pretty. In looking back and seeing her pictures she was always in a dress and her hair was done. She and my grandfather owned the Abbott Barber and Beauty Shop in Kansas City, Mo., am not sure if she did hair there but remember the curling irons and dryers in a section away from the barber chairs. Mostly remember my grandfather cutting hair. He like to sing and yodel!
Pearl died of breast cancer after one surgery it wasadvanced, my mom said she refused to have more surgery later even when it spread. I believe she lived about four years with it before she died at her home.
We lived in Olathe, Kansas when my dad was called and told she was dying. We drove from Olathe to their house, my sister and I sat outside in the car and waited while my parents were in the house. Will never forget that night. Our parents thought we were to young to be in the house and were no babysitters in those days..
I recently changed her birthday. On her mar. lic. she states she is age 18 as of 17 Jun 1917 and that was on 8 Jan 1918 along with the 1900 census dated 12 June 1900 that says she was born June 1899 being 11/12 mos old in it.
Pearl and her sister Edna lost both their parents at a young age and were raised by their grandparents Wm JJ Ritchie and Amanda Caroline Hall. Her grandmother Amanda Ritchie died when she and her sister were teenagers leaving them alone again. Her sister Ethel married Jake Heitman and as far as I can tell Pearl worked in St Joseph for a short time then moved to Kansas City, met and married John Abbott. I know she stayed close to her mothers family (Cox), aunts and cousins throughout her life and the McCauley's her fathers sisters Harriet and Florence Ritchie married brothers William and Henry McCauley. I remember as a child driving to Willow Brook and Sparta to visit with relatives. I was so young I have a vague memory of a white house on a hill and the driveway went up and was a big porch... but was not Harriet McCauley's house I believe was her sister Florence!
I just found where Pearl Ritchie and John Abbott had a double wedding with her cousin Ophra Ritchie (daughter of John Donald Ritchie brother to her dad and wife Carrie). Ophra Ritchie married James Slaughter in Kansas City the same date and place January 8 1918.
We called our grandmother Abby and she died when I was only 9 or 10 yrs old, but I remember her as always dressed up and very pretty. In looking back and seeing her pictures she was always in a dress and her hair was done. She and my grandfather owned the Abbott Barber and Beauty Shop in Kansas City, Mo., am not sure if she did hair there but remember the curling irons and dryers in a section away from the barber chairs. Mostly remember my grandfather cutting hair. He like to sing and yodel!
Pearl died of breast cancer after one surgery it wasadvanced, my mom said she refused to have more surgery later even when it spread. I believe she lived about four years with it before she died at her home.
We lived in Olathe, Kansas when my dad was called and told she was dying. We drove from Olathe to their house, my sister and I sat outside in the car and waited while my parents were in the house. Will never forget that night. Our parents thought we were to young to be in the house and were no babysitters in those days..
I recently changed her birthday. On her mar. lic. she states she is age 18 as of 17 Jun 1917 and that was on 8 Jan 1918 along with the 1900 census dated 12 June 1900 that says she was born June 1899 being 11/12 mos old in it.
Wife of John Martin Abbott Sr. and daughter of James Ritchie and Cora Lucy Cox.
Pearl and her sister Edna lost both their parents at a young age and were raised by their grandparents Wm JJ Ritchie and Amanda Caroline Hall. Her grandmother Amanda Ritchie died when she and her sister were teenagers leaving them alone again. Her sister Ethel married Jake Heitman and as far as I can tell Pearl worked in St Joseph for a short time then moved to Kansas City, met and married John Abbott. I know she stayed close to her mothers family (Cox), aunts and cousins throughout her life and the McCauley's her fathers sisters Harriet and Florence Ritchie married brothers William and Henry McCauley. I remember as a child driving to Willow Brook and Sparta to visit with relatives. I was so young I have a vague memory of a white house on a hill and the driveway went up and was a big porch... but was not Harriet McCauley's house I believe was her sister Florence!
I just found where Pearl Ritchie and John Abbott had a double wedding with her cousin Ophra Ritchie (daughter of John Donald Ritchie brother to her dad and wife Carrie). Ophra Ritchie married James Slaughter in Kansas City the same date and place January 8 1918.
We called our grandmother Abby and she died when I was only 9 or 10 yrs old, but I remember her as always dressed up and very pretty. In looking back and seeing her pictures she was always in a dress and her hair was done. She and my grandfather owned the Abbott Barber and Beauty Shop in Kansas City, Mo., am not sure if she did hair there but remember the curling irons and dryers in a section away from the barber chairs. Mostly remember my grandfather cutting hair. He like to sing and yodel!
Pearl died of breast cancer after one surgery it wasadvanced, my mom said she refused to have more surgery later even when it spread. I believe she lived about four years with it before she died at her home.
We lived in Olathe, Kansas when my dad was called and told she was dying. We drove from Olathe to their house, my sister and I sat outside in the car and waited while my parents were in the house. Will never forget that night. Our parents thought we were to young to be in the house and were no babysitters in those days..
I recently changed her birthday. On her mar. lic. she states she is age 18 as of 17 Jun 1917 and that was on 8 Jan 1918 along with the 1900 census dated 12 June 1900 that says she was born June 1899 being 11/12 mos old in it.
Pearl and her sister Edna lost both their parents at a young age and were raised by their grandparents Wm JJ Ritchie and Amanda Caroline Hall. Her grandmother Amanda Ritchie died when she and her sister were teenagers leaving them alone again. Her sister Ethel married Jake Heitman and as far as I can tell Pearl worked in St Joseph for a short time then moved to Kansas City, met and married John Abbott. I know she stayed close to her mothers family (Cox), aunts and cousins throughout her life and the McCauley's her fathers sisters Harriet and Florence Ritchie married brothers William and Henry McCauley. I remember as a child driving to Willow Brook and Sparta to visit with relatives. I was so young I have a vague memory of a white house on a hill and the driveway went up and was a big porch... but was not Harriet McCauley's house I believe was her sister Florence!
I just found where Pearl Ritchie and John Abbott had a double wedding with her cousin Ophra Ritchie (daughter of John Donald Ritchie brother to her dad and wife Carrie). Ophra Ritchie married James Slaughter in Kansas City the same date and place January 8 1918.
We called our grandmother Abby and she died when I was only 9 or 10 yrs old, but I remember her as always dressed up and very pretty. In looking back and seeing her pictures she was always in a dress and her hair was done. She and my grandfather owned the Abbott Barber and Beauty Shop in Kansas City, Mo., am not sure if she did hair there but remember the curling irons and dryers in a section away from the barber chairs. Mostly remember my grandfather cutting hair. He like to sing and yodel!
Pearl died of breast cancer after one surgery it wasadvanced, my mom said she refused to have more surgery later even when it spread. I believe she lived about four years with it before she died at her home.
We lived in Olathe, Kansas when my dad was called and told she was dying. We drove from Olathe to their house, my sister and I sat outside in the car and waited while my parents were in the house. Will never forget that night. Our parents thought we were to young to be in the house and were no babysitters in those days..
I recently changed her birthday. On her mar. lic. she states she is age 18 as of 17 Jun 1917 and that was on 8 Jan 1918 along with the 1900 census dated 12 June 1900 that says she was born June 1899 being 11/12 mos old in it.
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