Person:Franklin Ritter (13)
Franklin Ritter
b.13 Apr 1847 Canaan twp, Wayne Co., Ohio
d.10 Nov 1927 Jackson twp., Seneca Co., Ohio, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 19 Apr 1838
  1. Theopolus Ritter1840 - 1850
  2. Levi Ritter1843 - 1849
  3. Franklin Ritter1847 - 1927
  4. Mary Ann Ritter1849 - 1850
Spouse and Children
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m. 28 Aug 1873
  1. Frederick Wilbur Ritter, Sr.1874 - 1957
  2. Mary Elizabeth Ritter1877 - 1952
  3. Elta Amelia Ritter1881 - 1952
  4. Henry Franklin Ritter1884 - 1939
  5. Emma Florence Ritter1886 - 1970
  6. Martha Ellen Ritter1889 - 1960
  7. William Carlos Ritter1892 - 1905
  8. Zella Adaline Ritter1894 - Aft 1930
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Facts and Events
Name Franklin Ritter
Gender Male
Birth[1] 13 Apr 1847 Canaan twp, Wayne Co., Ohio
Occupation[6] 1870 (near), Pleasant Lake, Steuben twp., Steuben Co., Indianaa store clerk
Marriage 28 Aug 1873 Hudson, Steuben Co., Indianato Elizabeth Clark
Other[7][17] 1876 Anecdote
Occupation[8] 1880 (near), Hudson, Salem twp., Steuben Co., Indianaa "shue" maker [SIC]
Other 25 Jun 1880 (near), Hudson, Salem twp., Steuben Co., IndianaCensus1880
with Elizabeth Clark
Residence[9][18] 1897 Hudson, Salem twp., Steuben Co., Indiana
Occupation[10] 1900 Bridgewater twp., Williams Co., Ohioa farmer on own account
Other 9 Jun 1900 Bridgewater twp., Williams Co., OhioCensus1900
with Elizabeth Clark
Occupation[11] 1910 Williams Co., Ohioa worker of odd jobs
Occupation[12] 1920 Jackson twp., Seneca Co., Ohio, United Statesa laborer at a feed mill
Other 16 Jan 1920 Jackson twp., Seneca Co., Ohio, United StatesCensus1920
with Elizabeth Clark
Occupation[13] 1927 Laborer
Death[2][14] 10 Nov 1927 Jackson twp., Seneca Co., Ohio, United States
Burial[3] 14 Nov 1927 Trinity cemetery, Scott twp., Sandusky Co., Ohio
Other[4][15] Anecdote
Other[5][16] Bio-hist
Physical Description? Height: 5' 10", Black hair
Reference Number 3490
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References
  1. ↑ United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T623)
    born April 1847.
  2. ↑ Death Registration, Record Type: microfilmed certificates
    Volume Number: 5502 Certificate Number: 65862.
  3. ↑ Death Registration, Record Type: microfilmed certificates
    Volume Number: 5502 Certificate Number: 65862.
  4. ↑ Ruth (Zimmerman) Brickner. Ruth (Zimmerman) Brickner, Interviewer: Kristina Kuhn, Informant Address:Tiffin, OH.
  5. ↑ June Zimmerman Kern. June's Zimmerman genealogy, Interviewer: Kristina Kuhn, InformantAddress: Fremont, OH. (2001).
  6. ↑ United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publications M593 and T132)
    Roll: M593_359; Page: 209; Image: 420; ancestry image: 15.
  7. ↑ Interstate Publishing. History of Steuben County, Indiana. (Interstate Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1885)
    page 731.
  8. ↑ United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T9)
    Roll: T9_312; Family History Film: 1254312; Page: 292D; EnumerationDistrict: 3; Image: 0349.
  9. ↑ Cazetteer and Complete Directory of Steuben County, Indiana. (Strong & Clapham, publishers, Columbia City, Indiana, 1897)
    page 84.
  10. ↑ United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T623)
    Roll: T623 1332; Sheet: 6B; Enumeration District: 102; page 25B; ancestryimage: 12.
  11. ↑ United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T624)
    Roll: 1241; Page: 108A; Ancestry image: 7; ED# 125.
  12. ↑ United States. 1920 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T625).
  13. ↑ Death Registration, Record Type: microfilmed certificates.
  14. ↑ at 11:30 a.m. heart disease several years. Contributory listed as"probably rheumatism of several years". Informant on certificate: MaryHeller
  15. ↑ Memory of Ruth Zimmerman Brickner: Franklin was kicked by horse in leg asa child. He had a running sore on his leg (never healing) His father wasnever happy with his son the "cripple". Franklin inherited a lot ofmoney, but "went through it" all making poor investments trying to "getrich quick". Grandpa Ritter had what they called a 99 year lease. Myaunt Mary (Ritter) and her man had that there in Amsden, it had belongedto Earl Ash. It would only be a small lot. They could build a house.Grandma didn't, but Mary and her man, they built a little house ontheirs. His name was (John) Heller. After they were dead their house wastaken off, and it went back on the farm. Ritters had a nice big garden.Their house had three bedrooms in it. Living room and two kitchens, Inever figured out what that was for, this back room they never used inwinter except to keep a big barrel of sauerkraut. That would stay goodand cold back there, very good. He preached, he teached. He had gone tocollege. There wasn't much of anything he couldn't do if he wanted to,back in those days. He walked up to Michigan every year and trap. Therewas a cabin he stayed in. There was nothing in it but a chair a tableand a place to lie down. He would carry his traps up there and he wouldtrap furs. He would stretch the furs on boards and after a certain time,he would sell them. Then he was making money in the winter, they donethat, not in the summer. Grandma would stay home with the kids and hewould go up there. I have often wondered how she lived while he wasgone, they had eight children. She did have the kids to help her, backthen the kids helped! Grandpa Ritter liked to catch snakes. He wasn'tafraid of the devil. He would drive a nail through their head and nailthem onto the barn. They would die, but they would whip their tails. Idon't know why he done that. His parents were very wealthy. They werefrom Indiana. That is how he went to college. He told me that on a farmone time he picked up a blue racer."
  16. ↑ Excerpt from June Kerns book, "Known as a very intelligent man, but not avery good husband, Traveled a lot. Came home long enough to make a baby,then move on again. Teacher and a Pharmacist. Spent time with theIndians in northern Michigan. could speak their language. He ran a tilemill in Michigan. A Brethren minister who went out with the boys onenight and was "red out" of the church. They lived in Stueben county, IN,where several of their children were born. They left Indiana around 1900and went to Michigan and then to Alvordton, OH. Later moved to Sanduskycounty near a small town called "Angus" on state route #635. They nextmoved to county road #32, south of Trinity EUB church. Next, they movedto Squires, OH, where they remained the rest of their lives."
  17. ↑ In Hudson, Indiana, a school house was erected in 1876. Frank Rittertaught the first term of school in this building
  18. ↑ listed as a "Clerk"
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