History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., 
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p. 
626.

JEFFERSON RITCHEY, born in Spencer County, Ind., Feb. 28, 1840, is a son 
of William Ritchey, who brought his family to Kentucky in 1840.  He was 
married in October, 1857, to Mary E. Burnett, daughter of William 
Burnett, of Hancock County, Ky.  Nine children were born to them, all 
now deceased.  One daughter, Mary, was married and left one child, also 
now deceased.  His wife died April 14, 1880.  Mr. Ritchey is now left 
alone and makes his home with Uncle Reuben N. Barker.  He was a soldier 
in the Confederate army during the late war, and was wounded and left 
for dead on Shiloh battle-ground.  He afterward returned home and 
enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Twentieth Indiana Infantry, U. S. 
A., and served till the close of the war.

Ritchey Burnett Barker
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Spencer-IN Hancock-KY

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