Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1887 — OBITUARY, [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY,

MRS. MARY C. RITCHEY. Mrs. Mary C. Ritchey, wife of Dr. Samuel Ritchey, died at her home in Jordan tp., last Thursday morning, Feb. 24, after a long, illness. She was born in Kentucky in 1820, and her age at her death was nearly 67 years. He maiden name was King, She married; Samuel Ritchey in 1836, and was the mother of eight children, five of whom are now living. Her husband, with whom she lived for more than fifty years, also survives her. She joined the Presbyterian church when young and was a member in Rensselaer at the time of her death.