RITCHIE, Hannah (Helstrip) Beall

Date of birth:  1833 – Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
Date of death: 7 Apr 1900 – Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, April 13, 1900,
Volume XL Number 41, page 1 column 3

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The remains of Mrs. Hannah Ritchie, whose death occurred Saturday morning at Indianapolis, were brought to Frank­lin Tuesday morning for burial. A large number of friends from Indianapolis accompanied the remains. Mrs. Ritchie was born in Cincinnati, O., in 1833. She was married to John Beall for many years, she and her husband resided in Franklin. After Mr. Beall’s death she married Gen. [sic] John Ritchie and moved to Topeka, Kansas, where in 1887 she was again left a widow. She then returned to Indian­apolis and made her home with her daughter, Mrs. S. L. Houston [Carrie Beall].

Link to Hannah (Helstrip) Beall Ritchie’s grave

Note: Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899–2011, Indianapolis, Center Township, Marion County, Certificate and Record of Death, page 363 records that Hannah Ritchey [sic] died at about 7:45 o’clock a. m. on 7 Apr 1900 at her residence, 1114 N. Alabama [Indianapolis] from pneumonia of twenty-nine days’ duration, aged sixty-seven years. She was female, white, and widowed, born in Cincinnati. Her father’s name was Thomas Helstrip and her mother’s maiden name Sarah Barnett, both born in Ohio. The informant was a member of the family. She was buried in Franklin, Indiana on 10 Apr 1900, F. A. Blanchard, undertaker.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson