Person:James Ratcliff (11)

"Amaziah Ratcliff...was born in Ross county, Ohio, [now Vinton County] December 19, 1844, and is a son of Tobias Ratcliff, whose birth occurred in Ross county about 1815. The grandfather, Jesse Ratcliff, was also a native of the Buckeye state. Thomas [Tobias] Ratcliff was there reared and married, the lady of his choice being Sarah Ray, a native of Ross county and a daughter of James Ray, one of the early settlers there. Mr. Ratcliff engaged in teaching in early life and afterward followed farming in Ross county until 1852, when he came with his family to Sangamon county, Illinois, spending the first four years in Clear Lake township. He then located in Dawson upon a farm which at first comprised eighty acres. Subsequently he sold his property and removed to the village, where he spent his remaining days. His wife survived him for a number of years and passed away in Dawson in 1892 at the advanced age of eighty-four years. In the family are three living children: James, a carpenter by trade, residing in Dawson; Amaziah, of this review; and Eliza, wife of Walter Judd, a business man of Dawson." {'Past and Present of the City of Springfield and Sangamon County Illinois', 1904, <http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilsangam/1904/ratcliff.htm>}

 In the 1910 census for Mechanicsburg, Sangamon Co., Illinois, Edward N. Crane is 41 IL (WV, OH) 'laborer - odd jobs', married once for 19 years; with wife Annie 37 IL (OH, KY), married once, with 6 of 6 children living; children are Getrude 17; Rollen 14; Raymond 12; Edgar L. 10; Ollie L. 7; and Gladys G. 2.  [Uncle to Annie] James E. Ratcliff 67 OH (OH, OH), single, 'own income' is a boarder.
 He is listed in the Mechanicsburg Cemetery. {Sangamon Co. ILGenWeb, 2 Dec 2006,<http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmaga/sangamon/cemetery/mchnicsbrg.html>}