Sixth Generation

82. John RATCLIFF was born in November 1795 in Chatham County, North Carolina. He died on 20 January 1829 at the age of 33 in Clinton County, Ohio.

John is said to have married Elizabeth Garner, 8 Jul 1819, Clinton Co, Ohio. She was the daughter of James & Mary (Moon) Garner, b. 1799, 6m 16d and died 1869, 9m 24d, buried at Newberry Friends Burial Grounds, Martinsville, OH.

Written in his wife's Bible: John Ratcliff died January 20, 1829, aged 34 years, 1 month.

Children of John and Elizabeth were Mary, Rachel, Edom, and Matilda.

John RATCLIFF and Elizabeth GARNER were married on 8 July 1819 in Clinton County, Ohio. Elizabeth GARNER, daughter of James Wyatt GARNER and Mary MOON, was born on 16 January 1799. She died in 1869 at the age of 70.

From The Clinton Chronicle, Clinton, Ohio, Vol. 7, No. 3
Elizabeth Garner Ratcliff had a Bible, published 1844, by The Associaion of Friends in America. The fly leaf says it was presented to her by Calvin Mason in 1848.
A sheet of paper inside the Bible states that John and Elizabeth Ratcliff were early settlers in Highland County, Ohio. The Bible came into possession of their grandson, Emerson B. West. He and his wife, Bessie (Kidd) West lived in Clinton Co, OH at the time of Emerson's death and the Bible was given to her sister, Alma (Kidd) Woods. It was placed in the Clinton Co Historical Museum.
Another loose sheet in the Bible: My grandfather, Ira Garner, married Margaret Lightfoot, nov 29, 1818. Their third child, Joseph Garner, was my father. Ira's other children were Elizabeth (died in infancy), Martha, Joseph, Milton, Rebecca, Jane (Aunt Jenny), Martin, Richard, Pleasant B., Mary Matilda, Asa, Charles. So Edom and Rachel were father's first cousins.

John RATCLIFF and Elizabeth GARNER had the following children: