George A. Crow was born May 11, 1821 in Burlington County, New Jersey. He married February 14, 1846 to Mary Ware. George Crow was a member of the Presbyterian Indian Mission located among the Pawnee, and first came to Nebraska in 1844. He returned in 1846. In 1856, he and his wife, Mary, moved to Nemaha County, Nebraska. George and Mary Crow and their family lived on a farm near Brownville.
George A. Crow is listed in Andreas' History of Nebraska as serving in 1861 in the Nemaha Cavalry Company formed by the farmers' Home Guard of the county under the leadership of John S. Minick. This Company was one of three combined in 1862 to form the Second Nebraska Cavalry Regiment, Company C. He also is shown in other areas of the county's history as one of the farmers in the area near Brownville who were members and officers in the Agricultural Society. George A. Crow died on December 24, 1908, in Nemaha, Nebraska.
These documents relate to George A. Crow:
Second Generation:
Susan Ogle Crow, daughter of George A. and Mary Crow, was born October 25, 1857 in Brownville, Nebraska. Susan was a schoolteacher in the Nemaha County schools. On January 26, 1879, she married John William Ritchey, who was born September 25, 1853 in Monticello, White County, Indiana. They were married in Auburn, Nebraska. John is said to have come to Nemaha County with his parents in 1864. John W. Ritchey and Susan O. Ritchey lived in Nemaha Village, and had two sons - Frank R. and Ralph C. Ritchey. John and Susan moved to Yuma, Yuma County, Colorado, in the 1914/1915 period. John and Susan (Crow) Ritchey both died in 1946, in Yuma, Colorado.
These documents relate to Susan Ogle Crow:
These documents relate to John William Ritchey and his family:
Third Generation:
Frank Reynolds Ritchey, son of John William and Susan (Crow) Ritchey was born on October 16, 1882 in Auburn, Nebraska. He married Elydia Pearle Hayes on August 17, 1904, in Auburn, Nebraska. Frank Reynolds Ritchey died February 18, 1966, in Yuma, Colorado.
Elydia Pearle Hayes was born October 31, 1883, in Center, Ohio. Her parents were David and Sarah L. (Krane) Hayes. David Hayes was born August 21, 1841 in Canfield, Ohio and died April 30, 1921, in Yuma, Colorado. Elydia attended school in Brownville, Nebraska, and graduated in 1901. She died on May 23, 1970, in Delta County, Colorado.
These documents relate to Elydia Pearle (Hayes) Ritchey:
Fourth Generation:
Edith May Ritchey was born October 4, 1907, in Yuma, Colorado. Her parents were Frank Reynolds and Elydia Pearle (Hayes) Ritchey. She married Howard N. Cash on October 31, 1926, in Denver, Colorado. Edith May died on November 3, 1957 in Lompoc, California.
Fifth Generation:
Vernon Hayes Cash was born December 3, 1937, in Santa Maria, California. His parents were Howard N. and Edith May (Ritchey) Cash. He married Nadine Lynne Peterson on March 29, 1958, in Long Beach, California.
Vernon Hayes Cash is the contributor of the information above. His statement is below:
VERNON HAYES CASH
I retired from the U.S. Navy after 21 years in 1977, and after 14 years retired from Union Oil Company in 1994. I then moved to the Albuquerque, NM, area to be near my daughter who lives in Santa Fe.
I became interested in my mother's family history after going through boxes of pictures and documents I had been trucking from place to place for thirty years. After a visit to my cousin's home in Lakewood, Colorado, where we went through the trunks and boxes she had from our grandmother Elydia's estate, my interest increased. Although my father's side of the family had been documented back to about 1690 by an aunt, I knew little about the Hayes/Ritchey/Crow lines.
The pictures and documents which have been contributed to the Nemaha County files for the NEGenWeb are just a small portion of the interesting historical information which our family has for these ancestors.
Note: These family documents and information have been supplemented by records from the 1860 and 1910 Federal Census records, and the Nemaha Co. chapter in Andreas' History of Nebraska.
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