A Guide to the Ritchie Family Correspondence, 1795-1871
A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 22120d
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
There are no restrictions.
Preferred Citation
Ritchie Family Correspondence, 1795-1871. Accession 22120d. Personal Papers Collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Acquisition Information
Purchased from C. J. Carrier, Bridgewater, Virginia, 28 April 1943.
Biographical Information
Born 23 November 1797, John Ritchie lived in Rockbridge County , Virginia. He married Emily V. Hartsook (b. ca. 1821) of Orange County , Virginia, 15 March 1842. John Ritchie died 10 April 1861 and was buried at Timber Ridge Presbyterian cemetery. His brother James M. Ritchie (1803-1856) lived in Tennessee along with his wife Lucy and their children. John Ritchie's sisters Sarah Ritchie and Ann Fulton lived in Ohio with Ann's husband John Fulton (d. ca. 1849).
Scope and Content
Correspondence, 1795-1871, of the Ritchie family of Rockbridge County , Virginia, Ohio, and Tennessee, consisting mainly of letters to John Ritchie (1797-1861) from his brother James M. Ritchie (1803-1856) in Tennessee and from his brother-in-law John Fulton (d. ca. 1849) in Ohio. The letters include descriptions of travel and life in developing frontier areas. There is one letter from Claybourn Boyd, serving in the Union army as it passes through Rockbridge County .