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William J.J. Ritchie

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William J.J. Ritchie

Birth
Clay County, Missouri, USA
Death
11 Jul 1908 (aged 78)
Willow Brook, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA
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Agency, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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He is eldest son of John Doherty Ritchie and Catherine Yates Ritchie, husband of Arminda Caroline Hall Ritchie. They had nine children.

Copy of obit in the St Joseph Newspress Sat. July 11, 1908 page 6

William J.J. Ritchie, seventy-seven years old and one of the pioneers of Buchanan co., died at the family residence at Willow Brook, ten miles southeast of the city, at 5:30 o'clock this morning. He was born near the farm where he died and had lived in this county all his life. A widow, three sons and three daughters survive him. The children are Mrs. James Dunlap, St. Joseph; Mrs. Wm. McCauley and Mrs. Henry McCauley, of Sparta; W.W. and J.D. Ritchie of Kansas City and James Ritchie of Willow Brook. The funeral will be at Willow Brook at 3 p.m. Sunday. Interment in Yates cemetery.

Wm. J.J. Ritchie was a Quarter Master Serg. Co. E 12th Reg. Mo. Cavalry Vol. enlisted July 21, 1863 at St. Joseph, Mo. Was discharged Jan. 4, 1866, served 1 yr. 5 mos. and 17 days.

There are no headstones for Wm JJ and Caroline my gg-grandparents.
He is eldest son of John Doherty Ritchie and Catherine Yates Ritchie, husband of Arminda Caroline Hall Ritchie. They had nine children.

Copy of obit in the St Joseph Newspress Sat. July 11, 1908 page 6

William J.J. Ritchie, seventy-seven years old and one of the pioneers of Buchanan co., died at the family residence at Willow Brook, ten miles southeast of the city, at 5:30 o'clock this morning. He was born near the farm where he died and had lived in this county all his life. A widow, three sons and three daughters survive him. The children are Mrs. James Dunlap, St. Joseph; Mrs. Wm. McCauley and Mrs. Henry McCauley, of Sparta; W.W. and J.D. Ritchie of Kansas City and James Ritchie of Willow Brook. The funeral will be at Willow Brook at 3 p.m. Sunday. Interment in Yates cemetery.

Wm. J.J. Ritchie was a Quarter Master Serg. Co. E 12th Reg. Mo. Cavalry Vol. enlisted July 21, 1863 at St. Joseph, Mo. Was discharged Jan. 4, 1866, served 1 yr. 5 mos. and 17 days.

There are no headstones for Wm JJ and Caroline my gg-grandparents.

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