Miles Ritchie

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MILES RITCHIE

MILES RITCHIE was born 1849 in Perry County, Kentucky, the son of ISOM RITCHIE and MARTHA PATRICK. He married VICY JANE ACORD born 1857 in Friley Creek, Arkansas in 1873 in Johnson Co, Arkansas. She was the daughter of WILLIAM G ACORD and MARTHA CASEY.

MILES RITCHE farmed on Mulberry Creek for many years. Miles died Jan 9^th, 1917 at the age of 68 years. He died of a massive heart attack. After his death, MILES is buried in the Yale Cemetery in Johnson Co, Arkansas, near his brother WALLACE RITCHIE and their father ISOM RITCHIE the son of ALEXANDER CROCKET RITCHIE and SUSAN ELIZABETH (GRIGSBY) RITCHIE. Vicy moved with her son Zed Ritchie and his family to Kuna, Idaho. She lived there until her death on April 20^th, 1938, she was living with her son Zed Ritchie and his wife Alice and several of their children, when she died.

MILES and Vicy Ritchie’s Children:

1.MILES HENRY RITCHIE was born July 22^nd, 1872 in Arkansas, he married BLANCHE KAYLOR on September 22, 1897 in Arkansas, BLANCHE was fun and feisty. No Children.

2. SARAH ANN RITCHIE was born April 9^th, 1877, her first husband died, she returned to her mother and father and there she met
HENRY WEATHERBY,, she married HENRY WEATHERBY, April 15th, 1906, she taught him to read and write, he was an avid
reader of the Bible, he found the plan of salvation in the Bible, but didn’t know about the Church of Christ until he moved to
Meridian, Idaho, he heard Jack Free preaching on the radio, Henry was the one that shared the Gospel with the whole Harris family
and many others and bought them to Christ. Something that we are all grateful for.

HENRY WEATHERBY and SARAH ANN (RITCHIE) WEATHERBY were wonderful people, Henry was very intelligent, but back in
those days sons had to work, not go to school. Henry and Sarah weatherby are buried in the Kuna Cemetery in Kuna, Idaho.

3. JOHN WILLIAM RITCHIE was born Feb 9^th, 1879 in Arkansas, he married FLORENCE HARRIS the daughter of ROBERT H
HARRIS and DUCENA ELIZABETH UPTON, FLORENCE was born April 18^th, 1877, JOHN WILLIAM RITCHIE died Jan 13^th, 1959
in Arkansas, FLORENCE died May 30^th, 1956, they are both buried in Arkansas.

4. JAMES MONROE RITCHIE was born March 13^th, 1881 in Arkansas, JAMES RITCHIE married NANCY ASHER, Nancy was a real
nice lady, a good housekeeper and always had a big garden and JIM and NANCY lived on Thorn Creek near Idaho City.JIM worked
at the sawmill at Thorn Creek and lived in a sawmill shack, like everyone else did. JIM was a good looking man and quite a singer,
he sung with the Stamps Quartet, they were very famous at one time, both JIM and NANCY died in Idaho and are both buried in
the Kuna Cemetery in Kuna, Idaho.

5..MARTHA JEAN RITCHIE born Oct 15^th, 1883, in Yale, Arkansas, she died Dec, 1968 in Boise, Idaho, MARTHA married JOHN
HENRY HARRIS on June 20^th, 1901 in Pettigrew, Arkansas, John was born Oct 30^th, 1883 in Madison Co, Arkansas, the son of
JOHN N HARRIS born 1851 and MAHALA UPTON, 1855 and he died 1958 in Boise, Idaho, they are both buried in Morris Hill
Cemetery in Boise, Idaho.they had 11 children.

6. WALLACE RITCHIE was born Dec 22^nd, 1885 in Arkansas, he died Jan 4^th, 1918 of appendicitis, he married EDNA WAGES.

7.. MITTY RITCHIE born Nov 15^th, 1887, she died an infant, 2 or 3 years old.

8. CHARLES EDWARD RITCHIE born Oct 10^th, 1893, he died an infant, a baby.

9. ZED PORTER RITCHIE was born Sept 4^th, 1896, he died Oct 10^th, 1980 in Boise, Idaho. Zed married ALICE DAY the daughter of
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON DAY and SARAH CATHERINE McCARTHY, They had a home in Kuna, Alice had a big garden and
vegetables and made a lot of family quilts.