He married Katherine Worick in Freeport IL on Mar 15,1868. By 1870, he and Kate and small son William were living in Blackhawk, IA. By 1880, they had moved to Madison and now had six children.
Jackson farmed most of his life. Five months before he died, he obtained a patient, #338784, on an invention for a brace for threshing machines and separators.
According to most sources, Jackson died at the age of 43 in Madison Township, Butler County, IA, but most likely it was in Dumont IA. He left a wife and eight children, the youngest only five months old.
He married Katherine Worick in Freeport IL on Mar 15,1868. By 1870, he and Kate and small son William were living in Blackhawk, IA. By 1880, they had moved to Madison and now had six children.
Jackson farmed most of his life. Five months before he died, he obtained a patient, #338784, on an invention for a brace for threshing machines and separators.
According to most sources, Jackson died at the age of 43 in Madison Township, Butler County, IA, but most likely it was in Dumont IA. He left a wife and eight children, the youngest only five months old.
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William Jackson Ritzman
1868–1957
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Emma Elizabeth Ritzman Thompson
1873–1952
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Charles Harrison Ritzman
1874–1963
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Robert Peter "Bert" Ritzman
1875–1948
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Ida Ludia Ritzman Crippen
1877–1959
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Dayton L Ritzman
1881–1959
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Ada E Ritzman Smith
1882–1977
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Mary Belle Ritzman Stewart
1886–1944
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Alice Ritzman
unknown–1870
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