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1 NAME Bradley L. Ratliff
1 ADDR 5392 Blacklick Eastern Road
2 CONT Pickerington, OH 43147
1 PHON (614)  837-5833
0 @I1@ INDI
1 NAME Bradley Lee /Ratliff/
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT
2 CONT
2 CONT                                               LIFE STORY OF BRADLEY
2 CONT LEE RATLIFF, The Author
2 CONT
2 CONT I was born of my mother Ruth Louise Ratliff(Funke) and my father
2 CONT Bradley William Ratliff on November 12, 1933 during the great
2 CONT depression. Dr. Wentz of Pataskala, Oh brought me into this world on
2 CONT the farm 2 miles North of Pataskala, Ohio, on State Route 310. I was
2 CONT born in the upstairs room of the original house that my father and
2 CONT mother purchased and then moved from Cable Road south of Jersey, Ohio
2 CONT to the farm they had purchased in 1932. The original house where I was
2 CONT born had poplar lap siding and was later stoccoed, when it was moved
2 CONT by tractors approximately 3 to 4 miles. Our farm was called Paw Paw
2 CONT Hill because of a grove of Paw Paw trees back of the house. Pictures
2 CONT of the house are contained herein. The house, I am sad to say was torn
2 CONT down in 1991.  I can truly say that I have lived an interesting and
2 CONT full life.  As a child I recall making our own toys such as sleds,
2 CONT guns, stilts to walk on, and pole vault sticks out of wood and many
2 CONT other things. The farm contained sixty-three acres and had a large
2 CONT barn which was moved by horses walking in a circle turning a windlass
2 CONT to move it north from its original location about one quarter mile.
2 CONT Few people today would know how to move a barn that is approximately
2 CONT 35 to 45 feet and weighing around 10 to 20 tons with a horse.
2 CONT Pictures of the barn are contained herein also.
2 CONT
2 CONT We had live stock just like all farmers at that time, such as
2 CONT chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, cows that we milked, horses that we
2 CONT worked the farm with, hogs for meat, etc.
2 CONT
2 CONT I have a vivid memory of my mother standing in front of the wood and
2 CONT coal burning cook stove in the kitchen.  She would prepare food for
2 CONT our meals, make jelly, jams from berries that my brothers and I would
2 CONT gather, make home made bread from scratch, bake pies, and can meat,
2 CONT vegetables, and fruit for food to be eaten during the winter.
2 CONT
2 CONT My brothers and I worked the farm while my father worked for the
2 CONT Pennsylvania Rail Road in Columbus, Oh.  We milked the cows, fed the
2 CONT live stock, hoed the corn fields, cut corn in the fall with a large
2 CONT knife, putting it into shocks and then during the winter on Saturdays,
2 CONT would husk each ear by hand in the field.  We were too busy to get
2 CONT into much trouble, however, being boys, we did manage to create some
2 CONT trouble from time to time. In the summer time we put up loose hay and
2 CONT later baled hay into the barn to feed the stock during the winter.
2 CONT Our favorite recreation on hot days was to go to the farm across the
2 CONT road about half a mile by bicycle through the fields to a spring fed
2 CONT creek to swim, take a bath and cool off.  In the winter when there was
2 CONT snow on the ground my brother and I would hook up the mare named Queen
2 CONT to a sleigh that held four people and ride thru the fields as fast as
2 CONT the horse would go.  The sleigh finally broke one day when one of our
2 CONT neighbors was riding with us and the back section of the sleigh fell
2 CONT along with the back seat and the passengers into the snow. We and some
2 CONT of our neighbors used sleds and skies to go down the hill that we
2 CONT called the Indian Mound, located across the road from Wayne's current
2 CONT home.
2 CONT
2 CONT I recall the excitement created when wheat thrashing time came. There
2 CONT were no combines invented yet, so the wheat was cut with a binder into
2 CONT small bundles, then stacked into shocks of 15 to 20 bundles in such a
2 CONT way that it would repel some of the water during rains until the time
2 CONT came to thrash.
2 CONT
2 CONT Bob Peters who lived south of Jersey, Oh owned a Steam Tractor and a
2 CONT thrashing machine and did custom work for many farmers in the area.  I
2 CONT remember seeing the large tractor puffing smoke and steam coming up
2 CONT route 310 and up our driveway. Other neighbors helped each farmer do
2 CONT his wheat because many hands were needed to bring the shocks of wheat
2 CONT out of the field by horses and wagon and then it had to be thrown into
2 CONT the hopper of the thrashing machine. Others would then sack up the
2 CONT wheat when it came out of the holding hopper. We also butchered hogs
2 CONT and beef and would can some and cure some with mortons salt. I feel
2 CONT fortunate to have lived on the farm where so much excitement was going
2 CONT on, although it was hard work sometimes. But I believe that hard work
2 CONT builds good character in a person.
2 CONT
2 CONT My brother Wayne and I when we were about six or seven years old took
2 CONT a trip from Columbus, Oh to Glade Spring, Va on the Norfork & Western
2 CONT Rail Road passenger train. Mom and Dad put a paper tag on both of us
2 CONT for the Rail Road conductors to read, to make sure we got on and off
2 CONT of the correct trains. One could not dream of such a trip in todays
2 CONT society, with so much crime going on. At that time, about 1939 or 1940
2 CONT it was safe  to let kids travel without having harm come to them. We
2 CONT have come a long way as a society in some respects, but have regressed
2 CONT to a jungle type society of rape, robbery, murder, and other crimes
2 CONT today, committed by certain elements that thrive by praying on others.
2 CONT  God help us.
2 CONT
2 CONT I attended school for 12 years in the Old Pataskala School graduating
2 CONT in 1951 with 15 other students. I spent almost three years in the U S
2 CONT Army, mostly in Europe in the occupation forces of Germany.  My port
2 CONT of debarkation was Hamburg, Germany. I did not know at that time that
2 CONT my mothers Great, Great Grandfather came from Hamburg, Germany. I
2 CONT traveled to Germany on the troop ship General J W Haun, a Merchant
2 CONT ship. That trip was one of the most miserable two weeks that I have
2 CONT ever spent in my life.  Just about everyone was sea sick. The ship
2 CONT only made 10 knots and it went up over huge waves, shuttering,
2 CONT creaking and shaking from the wave pressure and the screws coming out
2 CONT of the water. When we entered the harbor in Hamburg it was winter time
2 CONT and I remember the ice piling up along the ship as the tug boats
2 CONT turned us around prior to docking. I was stationed in a place called
2 CONT Wildflecken near the Russian sector. It was very mountainous and high
2 CONT in elevation. There were many old German barracks used by the German
2 CONT SS Troops that we stayed in. Some old horse stables used by the German
2 CONT Army during and prior to the second war were still there with horse
2 CONT bones in them. Being in the Army was not always a pleasant experience,
2 CONT but the engagement and participation in events, training, and
2 CONT knowledge gained from the experience can not be duplicated any where
2 CONT else in life. Most men do not have any regrets about the time served.
2 CONT
2 CONT Another unusual event occurred in the early 1950s when I thumbed my
2 CONT way from California to Ohio and arrived with 23 cents in my pocket. My
2 CONT father found that to be extremely amusing and laughed about it
2 CONT whenever the subject was brought up. On another occasion when I was in
2 CONT my early teens, I was riding our pony "Prince" into the back yard
2 CONT toward the back of the house. My father was sitting in the kitchen and
2 CONT jokingly opened up the kitchen door and told me to ride Prince into
2 CONT the kitchen, so I did, and my mother, as you would expect, got very
2 CONT upset and ran me and the pony out of the house.  Recreation consisted
2 CONT of horse back riding, horse shoe pitching games, camping out in the
2 CONT woods, running a trap line in the winter, hunting, and an occasional
2 CONT fist fight with one of my brothers.
2 CONT
2 CONT I was always fascinated by steam locomotives. The trains would stop in
2 CONT Pataskala to let off passengers and freight. We received some farm
2 CONT implements by Rail Road Express.
2 CONT
2 CONT The trains that did not need to stop at Pataskala would blow their
2 CONT steam whistle as they raced through town.  A watchman would stand at
2 CONT the crossing with a sign on a pole reflecting the words "Stop RR Xing"
2 CONT  He stayed in a little building close to the tracks about 4 feet
2 CONT square with a coal burning stove inside to keep warm by in the winter.
2 CONT Much war material and machines were sent by rail from the Government
2 CONT Depot in Whitehall. During the war a train would pass at least every 4
2 CONT to 5 minutes going one way or the other.
2 CONT
2 CONT I was fortunate to have had a good career with the Postal Service from
2 CONT 1957 to 1989. I was promoted five times, with positions in Finance,
2 CONT Personnel, becoming Employment Officer for the Columbus Office and
2 CONT central Ohio area, and then went into contracting of transportation of
2 CONT mails with private contractors.
2 CONT
2 CONT The good Lord has blessed me with a good wife Beverly, and a father
2 CONT and mother who I know set examples for us boys that kept us from going
2 CONT beyond certain bounds of morality. I am a firm believer that one needs
2 CONT the divine creators direction in our lives to control our sin nature.
2 CONT
2 CONT Being a adventuresome sort of person, I took a temporary position with
2 CONT the U S Forest Service, Fish and Wildlife Division in the summer of
2 CONT 1992 in South East Alaska. I worked with the Rangers and Wildlife
2 CONT Biologist in the Tongas National Forest, Misty Fjords out of
2 CONT Ketchikan.
2 CONT
2 CONT My job was to observe grizzly and brown bears and their habits, trap
2 CONT salmon and tag, count, and record species and release them up stream
2 CONT in rivers to spawn. This was another experience that one cannot put
2 CONT into words sufficient to reflect the experience. My diary is available
2 CONT of my day to day experiences for anyone interested, along with photos
2 CONT and video tapes of fish, bears, eagles, otters, seals, and views of
2 CONT beautiful terrain found nowhere else.
2 CONT
2 CONT In closing I want to thank my Mother and Father for raising me to have
2 CONT certain values in life which I know have guided my life. I am
2 CONT fortunate to have had a job that allowed me to retire at age 56 and to
2 CONT be able to relax and enjoy my remaining years. I look forward to many
2 CONT more exciting experiences in the future.
2 CONT
2 CONT The following are quotes from individuals that I found interesting and
2 CONT contributed to my endeavor to find out about my ancestors.
2 CONT
2 CONT "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to
2 CONT their ancestors." Edmund Burke 1790 .
2 CONT
2 CONT "The Knight's bones are dust, and his sword rust;  His soul is with
2 CONT the Saints, I trust." it's still nice to dream . . . Samuel Coleridge.
2 CONT
2 CONT From the book "Keepers of the Name and the Blood" by the Ratliff or
2 CONT Ratcliffe Foundation "Smily Ratliff."
2 CONT
2 CONT "Pro Nobis Non Est Alia Via"
2 CONT
2 CONT For God and for the empire
2 CONT find the courage to be just and
2 CONT the wisdom to be merciful.
2 CONT
2 CONT Let your high endeavor be an inward
2 CONT light that makes the path before
2 CONT always bright.
2 CONT
2 CONT Take no strong drink, for it weakens
2 CONT the body, corrupts the brain and
2 CONT destroys the soul.
2 CONT
2 CONT Beware of the enemy - he is dangerous,
2 CONT but he is outside the gates.
2 CONT More dangerous is that friend that
2 CONT warms himself at our fires,
2 CONT for he is inside the gates.
2 CONT
2 CONT The unforgivable:
2 CONT To disgrace the name,
2 CONT To be lazy and worthless to the family,
2 CONT Failure to defend the empire.
2 CONT
2 CONT To you we leave the name and blood.
2 CONT Be it yours to glorify, for if you should fail,
2 CONT we who die, we can never sleep,
2 CONT though the grass grows on Dilston lands (a manor of Ratliffs)
2 CONT
2 CONT Live by the tenets written herein
2 CONT and women will adore thee;
2 CONT men will admire thee;
2 CONT and God will adorn thee.
2 CONT
2 CONT History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past,
2 CONT trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes and kindle with
2 CONT pale gleams the passion of former days.
2 CONT
2 CONT By; Sir Winston Spencer Churchill
2 CONT
2 CONT "What's in a name?  That which we call a rose;
2 CONT by any other name would smell so sweet."
2 CONT
2 CONT By William Shakespeare
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 Nov 1933
2 PLAC Pataskala, Ohio
1 FAMS @F129@
1 FAMS @F90@
1 FAMC @F1@
0 @I2@ INDI
1 NAME Bradley William /Ratliff/
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT
2 CONT Life Story of Bradley William Ratliff
2 CONT
2 CONT Bradley William was born on a farm several miles outside of Glade
2 CONT Spring, Va. in 1898 in a small one room cabin built by his father out
2 CONT of saw mill slabs. The cabin had a large fire place which was used as
2 CONT the only source of heat and cooking. He was the eighth child born of
2 CONT 10 children, 5 boys and 5 girls. They washed their clothes outside in
2 CONT a large iron kettle suspended over a wood burning fire.  They would
2 CONT boil the clothes and add home made soap made out of wood ash lye and
2 CONT rendered animal fat.
2 CONT
2 CONT Tragedy struck the family on January 19, 1896 prior to Bradley Wm.
2 CONT being born.  On that fateful day Mamie the oldest child at age 11 was
2 CONT attending to the fire and washing clothes when her clothes caught on
2 CONT fire. She ran for help, fanning the flames and causing her death.
2 CONT Mamie is buried in the Ferris Cemetery, near Glade Spring, Va.
2 CONT
2 CONT He attended school in a one room school named Cooper School. A picture
2 CONT of the old school is in the book attached.  It is still standing today
2 CONT filled with hay near Glade Spring, Va. Abby Hutton was the teacher.
2 CONT My father said there were only seven students all together in grades
2 CONT one though eight and were all taught together. They had a fireplace to
2 CONT keep warm and carried water in a bucket from a nearby spring.  Most of
2 CONT the students were Ratliffs.
2 CONT
2 CONT I found it interesting that the families of Hutton and Ratliff were
2 CONT very closely associated. When Great Great Grandfather Richard Sanders
2 CONT Ratliff died on December 8, 1909 near Glade Spring, the attending
2 CONT physician and family doctor was Dr. Tom D Hutton, uncle of Abby
2 CONT Hutton.  When my father Bradley William attended school at the Cooper
2 CONT School, they had double desks and two students sat together on a
2 CONT bench.  Tom Hutton, son of Dr. Tom D. Hutton, sat with my father
2 CONT Bradley William from approximately 1904 to 1912 and were best friends.
2 CONT There were no pencils or paper at that time. Slate was used to write
2 CONT on. I went with my father to visit Tom Hutton in Abingdon, Va in 1986.
2 CONT Tom was a county judge for years and was still a practicing attorney,
2 CONT although somewhat limited due to age. Tom and my father both, at age
2 CONT 88 in 1986, shared stories and laughed at some of the pranks they did
2 CONT in school. Tom's office looked like a museum. Everything was old
2 CONT including the law books and furniture covered with dust. The handle on
2 CONT his desk door had fallen off. In order to open it up to show us
2 CONT something, I noticed that he had bored a hole through the door to put
2 CONT his finger in to open the door. Dad and I laughed after leaving his
2 CONT office. Dad told me Tom had made the hole with his pocket knife.  Tom
2 CONT has since died and is remembered as an outstanding public figure in
2 CONT the community.
2 CONT
2 CONT According to his journal, Dad entered the National Business College
2 CONT the 20th day of October, 1916 in Roanoke, Va. and left the 27th day of
2 CONT April 1917. He arrived in Columbus, Ohio on July 28th, 1917.   Dad was
2 CONT 19 years old when he moved to Ohio; his older brother Hugh was already
2 CONT living and working there. He had just finished going to Roanoke
2 CONT Business School and was looking for work.  It took him three weeks to
2 CONT find a job with the Pennsylvania Rail Road in Columbus, Oh. He worked
2 CONT as a blacksmith helper for 25 cents per hour for six months, and then
2 CONT worked on air brakes for the next three years. In 1922, the
2 CONT Pennsylvania R R went on strike and he was out of work. He then went
2 CONT to work with the Baltimore and Ohio R R freight house on Naughten
2 CONT street in Columbus where my Grandfather Earl Funke worked as a
2 CONT foreman.  He left the B & O after three years to return to the
2 CONT Pennsylvania R R to work in the shop on north 20th street as a
2 CONT pipefitter on steam locomotives.  He remained there for 45 years and
2 CONT retired in 1963.
2 CONT
2 CONT During his career with the Penn R R he went through many layoffs
2 CONT periods.  At one time, the shops were completely closed down for ten
2 CONT months; some 2,500 men were out of work with the Pennsylvania R R.
2 CONT There was no unemployment insurance at that time.
2 CONT
2 CONT On the 10th day of September 1924 my father married a beautiful young
2 CONT lady, Ruth Louise Funke, who is my mother.  See attached wedding
2 CONT pictures.
2 CONT
2 CONT In 1925, he went back home to Virginia to find work and managed to
2 CONT find a job at the silk mills in Roanoke, Va, where his sister Grace
2 CONT and her family lived, making 45 cents per hour.
2 CONT
2 CONT Returning to Ohio he did whatever he could to earn a living during
2 CONT layoff periods. He did work around the home cleaning up the farm,
2 CONT chopping wood, for 15 cents per hour and painting for 25 cents per
2 CONT hour, on neighboring farms earning about eight and nine dollars per
2 CONT week.
2 CONT
2 CONT Dad and Mom were very thrifty, saving their money fortunately, and
2 CONT wanted to get out of the city. In 1932 they bought sixty-three acres
2 CONT of vacant land for $2000., 2 miles north of Pataskala on Route 310.
2 CONT They bought a little house and moved it to the farm and lived in it
2 CONT for three years, while building the new house. Myself Bradley Lee, and
2 CONT my brother Wayne Robert were born in the upstairs room of the old
2 CONT house.
2 CONT
2 CONT The lumber for all of the framing came out of the woods on the back of
2 CONT the property. Bob Peters who owned a steam engine, set up a saw mill
2 CONT in the woods and sawed out all the framing lumber.  We moved into the
2 CONT new house in 1934 with no plumbing and a wood stove for heat.
2 CONT
2 CONT Dad drove a model T Ford 50 miles round trip to work each day with no
2 CONT heater even in the winter. Later he had a 1930 model A Ford, a 1941
2 CONT Ford, a 1948 Ford.
2 CONT
2 CONT Dad had his money in the Buckeye Federal Savings and Loan and during
2 CONT the depression and subsequent bank failures, he tried to get his money
2 CONT out. It was nearly a year before he was able to draw any of it out.
2 CONT $15 dollars was the limit for each withdraw. He recalled a scene at
2 CONT the bank; the teller said "people would come in and draw money out,
2 CONT and take it downstairs and put it in safety deposit boxes." He replied
2 CONT to the teller, "What's the matter with that ?, I've got a safety
2 CONT deposit box downstairs and that's what I'm going to do with my money.
2 CONT He said "I'll bet the next legislature will fix it so you won't be
2 CONT able to draw all your money out and close down the Banks." Dad replied
2 CONT " yea, and the legislature will also fix it so when you put one
2 CONT hundred dollars in the bank, you can get one hundred back out." The
2 CONT teller pounded his fist on the counter and Dad pounded his right back,
2 CONT close to his nose. Finally he got all his money back after a year.
2 CONT
2 CONT Dad voted Republican in 1920, 1924, and 1928. But then voted for FDR
2 CONT in 1932. FDR started a lot of work up, but he had to appropriate a lot
2 CONT of money for it and of course had to go into debt. He started the debt
2 CONT and we have never been able to get out since.
2 CONT
2 CONT Bradley registered for the draft in 1918 for World War 1 but the war
2 CONT ended that November. He was too young for the 1st war and too old for
2 CONT the 2nd war. He remembers hearing about Pearl Harbor in 1941 over the
2 CONT radio and summed up his feelings in one word. "unbelievable" Another
2 CONT almost unbelieveable thing happened in 1945 when we heard the news
2 CONT from some of the men at the shop, that the military dropped something
2 CONT on the Japanese that burned them up. Speaking of the A-bomb of course.
2 CONT
2 CONT Dad and Mom were better off then most people during the depression
2 CONT because they had their land which was paid for and provided food. Many
2 CONT people put out city gardens in Columbus and divided up the land among
2 CONT the needy. Seed was provided and the people did the work. I think we
2 CONT need a little of this kind of program today for some who receive
2 CONT welfare all their lives and never work.  Good hard honest work never
2 CONT hurt anyone.
2 CONT
2 CONT The following children were born to Bradley W. and Ruth L Ratliff:
2 CONT
2 CONT Byron Richard dob 9 November 1928, at Columbus Oh. Died of a ruptured
2 CONT blood vessel in his brain, on 25 January 1990. He was married to
2 CONT Eileen. He is buried in the Forest Lawn Cemetery.
2 CONT
2 CONT Alan William dob 30 May 1931, at Columbus, Oh. Betty Reese his first
2 CONT wife died of cancer and he married Elizabeth.
2 CONT
2 CONT Bradley Lee (Author of this book) dob 12 November 1933, See life story
2 CONT in notes for myself.
2 CONT
2 CONT Wayne Robert dob 2 February 1935, at Pataskala, Oh, married to Jane
2 CONT Lines.
2 CONT
2 CONT This is 1992 now and my father's health has deteriorated over the past
2 CONT two years to a point where he can not walk and stand and can not
2 CONT remember where he is.
2 CONT
2 CONT Dad and Mom have been married 68 years now and Dad is now 94 years
2 CONT old.   I remember my father as a very hard working man who devoted his
2 CONT time, love and energy to his family.
2 CONT
2 CONT My father passed away at 8:00 PM, December 30, 1992.  My wife Beverly,
2 CONT and I, My brother Allan, and my brother Wayne and his wife Jane were
2 CONT with him and witnessed his death. It was a very traumatic experience
2 CONT for us all.  One feels completely helpless at a time like this, and I
2 CONT wanted desperately to do something to help.
2 CONT
2 CONT I know he has gone to be with the Lord, his suffering is over now and
2 CONT he is at complete rest.
2 CONT
2 CONT I'm thankful that my father had good health until about a year ago,
2 CONT which allowed me to spend some time with him. It was difficult for me
2 CONT and I suppose for many children to relate to their father and show
2 CONT love during our growing up period. In his last years I was able to
2 CONT take him fishing and on short trips in the country and to share
2 CONT stories with him. I think a very close bond was formed between us
2 CONT during this period.
2 CONT
2 CONT Upon his passing, Wayne made a statement "This is the end of an era"
2 CONT which caused me to reflect upon his long life of 94 years 3 months and
2 CONT 8 days. and to the changes he had seen. He witnessed the invention of
2 CONT the Automobile, radio, television, airplanes and the flight to the
2 CONT moon and he was 9 years when Indian chief Gernimo died, at age 80, in
2 CONT 1907, the same year that Great Grandfather Richard Sanders Ratliff
2 CONT died. Gernimo was the last Indian Chief along with 36 braves to fight
2 CONT the U S Calvary in, I think, 1866 or 1867.
2 CONT
2 CONT He was 11 years old when his grandfather Richard Sanders Ratliff died
2 CONT and recalled many stories told to him about the Civil War in which
2 CONT Richard S. had fough.
2 CONT
2 CONT I now know the death dates of my Father, Grandfather Richard
2 CONT Grandville, Great Grandfather Richard S Ratliff, and Great Great
2 CONT Grandfather Ennis Ratliff.  They all strangely passed away in the
2 CONT month of December.
2 CONT
2 CONT My father loved the outdoors and nature, so in closing of his life
2 CONT story, I chose the following poem for him:
2 CONT
2 CONT Somewhere, under a bluer sky,
2 CONT In a higher realm than where eagles fly,
2 CONT In a land of beauty beyond our knowing,
2 CONT And mountains of unearthly grace,
2 CONT Our loving Lord has made a place. . .
2 CONT and one day, through an opening door,
2 CONT We find that glorious evermore.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 Sep 1898
2 PLAC Glade Spring, Va
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 Dec 1992
2 PLAC Oaks Home, Pataskala, Oh
1 BURI
2 DATE 2 Jan 1993
2 PLAC Forrest Lawn, Columbus, Ohio
1 FAMS @F1@
1 FAMC @F2@
0 @I3@ INDI
1 NAME Ruth Louise /Funke/
1 SEX F
1 NOTE
2 CONT My mother Ruth Louise Funke was born January 20, 1907 in Zanesville,
2 CONT Oh, the daughter and only child of Earl John Lewis Funke and Mary
2 CONT Leota McCall (Funke).
2 CONT
2 CONT My mother's earliest memories include a home on the edge of Zanesville
2 CONT that had a barn out back and her father Earl built her a playhouse in
2 CONT one of the old stalls inside the barn. Then they lived in a house on
2 CONT Dugway Street, that overlooked the Muskingum River. This street was
2 CONT dug out of the bank along the river for the road. She remembers also
2 CONT visiting with her grandmother Lucinda Moore who was a Greenwell. She
2 CONT and Charles owned a livery stable in Zanesville, Oh at one time. Their
2 CONT house was also built along the river on a bank. It had three stories
2 CONT with the kitchen on the first floor. When meal time came Lucinda would
2 CONT ring a hand held dinner bell so the family could hear it on all three
2 CONT floors of the house.  Lucinda gave the bell to Katherine Moore
2 CONT (McCall) my Great Grandmother, who gave it to her daughter, Leota, my
2 CONT grandmother, who passed it to my mother, who gave it to my brother
2 CONT Byron, and upon his passing away, his wife Eileen gave the bell to me.
2 CONT
2 CONT Mom lived in Zanesville until about 1912, after which they moved to
2 CONT Columbus when she was about 6 years old. They lived on the Hill Top of
2 CONT Columbus for a short time. Her father Earl had a long journey to get
2 CONT to work at the Freight House of the B & O Rail Road at North 4th
2 CONT Street and Naughten Street.  So they found an apartment in the Old
2 CONT Philadelphia Building located on the south side of West Broad between
2 CONT Front Street and the river. They lived on the second floor and had a
2 CONT big bay window and could see the Broad Street Bridge and the river
2 CONT from there. She remembers horses, buggies, street cars, and Model T
2 CONT Fords running around on the streets of Columbus.
2 CONT
2 CONT I have a book entitled Views of Columbus with pictures and names of
2 CONT the buildings in Columbus, Oh in 1895. Autos were not in existence at
2 CONT that time and, as a result, only street cars, horses, buggies, and
2 CONT wagons appear in the pictures.
2 CONT
2 CONT In 1913 the infamous flood hit Columbus. Mom remembers watching it
2 CONT rain more than she had ever seen before. She and her mother watched
2 CONT out of the window as the water poured out into the bottoms on the west
2 CONT side of the river. A large crowd of people came down front street
2 CONT spreading a rumor that Griggs Dam was ready to break and flood
2 CONT Columbus. She and her mother decided to go find Earl at work, and
2 CONT started up the street where crowds of people were in panic about the
2 CONT flood and some were trying to get into the Statehouse which is up high
2 CONT and above the river. Earl took them back to the apartment saying it is
2 CONT safer here than on the street.  They watched houses floating down the
2 CONT river. She looked out of the kitchen window just as the Rich Street
2 CONT bridge came crashing down into the river.  Charlie Greenwell, a
2 CONT brother to my Great Great Grandmother, Lucinda Greenwell,(Moore),
2 CONT owned a cottage on East 3rd Ave. and rented it to Earl and Leota.
2 CONT Charlie lived at Naughten and Front Street in a little shack, as mom
2 CONT calls it, on the present location of the Nationwide Building. They
2 CONT then moved to East 3rd Avenue and mom started to school at the Old
2 CONT Milo Grade School in 1913. They lived across the street from the
2 CONT Jennings Mantel Factory which made mantels for gas lights. Leota got a
2 CONT job making these mantels at home, doing the shaping and sewing. Mom
2 CONT often played with the Jennings children.
2 CONT
2 CONT An accident happened when my mother was playing with some kids along
2 CONT 3rd Avenue, which was not paved at that time. Large curb stones were
2 CONT being put in the ground. These stones weighed several hundred pounds
2 CONT each and some were not yet in the ground. Some were standing on edge
2 CONT and while running around playing among them, one of the boys pushed
2 CONT one of the stones and it fell on her right leg and crushed the bone.
2 CONT
2 CONT Months later she could not walk with that leg. An old man that lived
2 CONT close by who was a Civil War veteran, took interest in her and began
2 CONT to help her stand on that leg and encourged her to learn to walk on
2 CONT it. After a long period of time she completely recovered, thanks to
2 CONT her friend who helped.
2 CONT
2 CONT There was a circus grounds at 5th and Cleveland Avenue where Timkins
2 CONT is now located. Circuses were common at that time and created much
2 CONT excitment when they came to town.
2 CONT
2 CONT Mom's mother Leota was impatient to move on and so they moved to New
2 CONT Jersey where Leota's sister Lillian Gray and her husband Walter Gray
2 CONT lived. He had been employeed at a pottery plant in Zanesville and
2 CONT moved to New Jersey to work at pottery there. A picture is in the book
2 CONT of their daughter Edna with a Catholic nun who is a neighbor in Perth
2 CONT Amboy, N.J. This was about 1915 when we moved to New Jersey. Uncle
2 CONT Walter got Earl a job at the pottery plant and her mother worked at a
2 CONT McCorys store.
2 CONT
2 CONT Their apartment was upstairs over the store. Her dad was not happy
2 CONT about living and working there and so he got in touch with the B & O
2 CONT Railroad in Columbus and they let him come back to work with them. We
2 CONT moved back to Columbus and lived on Highland Ave. in the north end.
2 CONT
2 CONT Annie Webster, a neighbor to mom's mother and her husband called
2 CONT "Pappy" owned a Pawn Shop in Zanesville, Ohio. When mom was visiting
2 CONT there Pappy showed her a pair of bracelets that a French Sailor had
2 CONT pawned and never returned to claim. These bracelets had precious
2 CONT stones in them. Over the years some of the stones and parts were lost.
2 CONT Mom took the parts and stones she had left to Lazarus Jewelry Dept.
2 CONT and they had enough parts and stones to reconstruct one bracelet.
2 CONT
2 CONT After that, they lived several other places in Columbus.  One was on
2 CONT 4th Street near where her dad worked.  It was convenient for him to
2 CONT walk to work. Mom remembers seeing old women carrying tin cans and
2 CONT going to the saloon to get beer ever day. Her mother worked in stores
2 CONT and restaurants to help with the bills.  Mom went to 2nd Ave. School
2 CONT at that time in the 3rd grade. Then they moved to Hamlet Street and
2 CONT lived there from the time she was 8 up until she was about 15 years
2 CONT old. The row houses where they lived had no electric and no bathrooms.
2 CONT  There were periods of time in which mom lived in McConnelsville with
2 CONT her Grandmother and their children, and went to school in
2 CONT McConnelsville.  Mom remembers the steam boats running up and down the
2 CONT river and taking rides on them. One of the boats was named Valley Gem,
2 CONT and another the Lorena both built in 1890. See pictures of these boats
2 CONT in book. There is more information and pictures of boats under Mom's
2 CONT Grandfather, George Washington Funke who worked on these steam boats.
2 CONT Somehow mom's mother met Hugh Ratliff, my father's brother who lived
2 CONT in a double house and one side was empty. It had electric and a
2 CONT bathroom so they moved into it in about 1921. She attended East High
2 CONT School, which was located one street below Broad Street, for one
2 CONT semester. New East High was completed, which is the present one, and
2 CONT she graduated from there in 1924.
2 CONT
2 CONT When mom was 15 years old she met Hugh's brother, Bradley Ratliff, my
2 CONT father, while living in the double.They started dating shortly
2 CONT thereafter and went to the old James Theater often on Broad Street
2 CONT near the State- house to watch silent movies. Talkies had not come
2 CONT about yet.  Hugh and his wife Lulu, mom and dad, not yet married,
2 CONT mom's parents and Lulu's sister and husband took a trip to Houton
2 CONT Lake, Michigan and Clear Lake, in 5 Model T Fords, getting stuck often
2 CONT on the unpaved roads. They fished, and camped at the lake. See picture
2 CONT of them on a bridge in Michigan.
2 CONT
2 CONT Earl bought a Model T Touring Car and they took a trip down by
2 CONT Dresden, Ohio and when they went up over a Rail Road crossing the car
2 CONT bounced and the steering wheel came off in his hands. Mom said she
2 CONT will never forget the look in her dads eyes as he sat in the car with
2 CONT the wheel in his hands trying to steer and stop the car. Fortunately
2 CONT no damage was done.
2 CONT
2 CONT Dad and Mom became engaged and married in the Methodist Church on 12th
2 CONT Avenue on September 10, 1924.
2 CONT
2 CONT Dad had been working at the Pennsylvania Railroad Shops on North 20th
2 CONT St. but they went on strike and he was out of work when they got
2 CONT married.  Dad got the job with the PRR because his brother, my uncle
2 CONT Hugh Ratliff worked there.
2 CONT
2 CONT Mom took piano lessons as a child at a Catholic school in Columbus,
2 CONT starting when she was about 7 years old.
2 CONT
2 CONT Mom and Dad had a 1924 Model T Ford Coup that they traveled in. There
2 CONT is a picture of them in this car in the book.
2 CONT
2 CONT In 1925 Mom while they lived with her mom and dad, mom became pregnant
2 CONT and became very ill, causing her to loose her sight and could not move
2 CONT her hands or fingers, could not walk and could not eat. Her heart
2 CONT enlarged and took spells of excelerated rythm. She and the family
2 CONT thought she was dying. They took her to the hospital and the doctors
2 CONT took the baby to save her life. It took about two more years before
2 CONT she was able to walk again and go outdoors. I saved her crutches out
2 CONT of the old dairy building when the farm was sold, and they are in my
2 CONT basement now.
2 CONT
2 CONT By 1928 mom had overcome all of her illnesses enough that the Doctor
2 CONT told her it was alright to try to have children again. She became
2 CONT pregnant with Byron then and he was born in 1928 in Columbus. Alan was
2 CONT born in 1931, in Columbus also. I, Bradley Lee, was born in the
2 CONT upstairs of the old house on November 12, 1933 on the farm one and one
2 CONT half miles north of Rt 16 and Pataskala. Wayne also was born in the
2 CONT house on the farm February 2, 1935.
2 CONT
2 CONT The purchase of the farm and life on the farm is described in the
2 CONT notes of myself and my father.
2 CONT
2 CONT There is a separate book containing Byron's life and his military
2 CONT service in Korea. Byron died at age 61 of a ruptured blood vessel in
2 CONT his brain.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 Jan 1907
2 PLAC Zanesville, Ohio
1 FAMS @F1@
1 FAMC @F3@
0 @I4@ INDI
1 NAME Richard Granville /Ratliff/
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT Richard G. was the third born child of Richard Sanders Ratliff and Ann
2 CONT Stump, with date of birth of March 26, 1865, one month before the
2 CONT Civil War ended.  He was born in Burke's Garden, Tazwell County, Va.
2 CONT
2 CONT At the approximate age of 16, he and the family moved out of Tazwell
2 CONT County and eventually ended up in Washington County, Va. I have been
2 CONT told by members of the family that they traveled with the Stump family
2 CONT by covered wagon going south through Saltville,  Virginia over very
2 CONT high mountains and rugged terrain. I have traveled this route and it
2 CONT is a beautiful trip. They settled around Glade Spring Virginia.
2 CONT
2 CONT Richard G. Married Florence Matilda Farris, who as I remember, was a
2 CONT kind and gentle lady. She did most of the cooking for this large
2 CONT family which included some grandchildren.
2 CONT
2 CONT Grandpa and Grandma left on a horse from Glade Spring, Va and traveled
2 CONT on a trail which is now the Lee Highway or route 11 to Blountville,
2 CONT Tennessee, in Sullivan County where they were married on November 10,
2 CONT 1884. They traveled through Abington Va, passed by the cave where
2 CONT Daniel Boone camped one time and his dogs were attached by wolves. A
2 CONT copy of the marriage certificate is in the book.
2 CONT
2 CONT Grandpa Richard G. was a kind and gentle man, and a hard working
2 CONT person.  Primarily a farmer, but also worked for short periods of time
2 CONT for the Rail Road driving spikes by hand as a section hand, out of
2 CONT Glade Spring, Virginia.
2 CONT
2 CONT Grandpa purchased a small area of land and built a small cabin on it
2 CONT out of saw mill slabs. The fireplace was the only source of heat and
2 CONT cooking.
2 CONT
2 CONT They had ten children; my father Bradley William, the eighth child
2 CONT born, September 22, 1898.  Other children were:
2 CONT
2 CONT Mamie R. born 27 Aug 1885, burned to death 19 Jan 1896, Buried Ferris
2 CONT Cemetery.
2 CONT
2 CONT Bertha N. born 2 Nov 1888, died 1 Apr 1945. Never married Hugh F. born
2 CONT 30 Apr 1887, died 2 Aug 1978, married Lulu, had no children. Died and
2 CONT buried in Arizona.
2 CONT
2 CONT Conley born 6 Jul 1890, died 9 Jun 1979, Divorced, had one child named
2 CONT Garland that Conley raised at the home place. Garland's home was in
2 CONT Johnson City, Tennessee as of 1983. Conley is buried in Glade Spring,
2 CONT Presbyterian Cemetery.
2 CONT
2 CONT Herbert born 1 Jun 1892, died 26 Sept 1975, buried in Glade Spring
2 CONT Pres. Cemetery, married to Maggie and had two children, James and
2 CONT Pauline. Maggie died during a flu epidemic, and the children were
2 CONT raised at the home place by Herbert. Maggies' stone marker reads:
2 CONT Maggie Ratliff at Rest 1896 to 1920 and is in the Ratliff Family lot
2 CONT beside her husband Herbert in the Presbyterian Cemetery. James married
2 CONT Virginia and is currently living in Columbus. James died of a brain
2 CONT tumor at age 60. James and Virginia had one son named David. Pauline
2 CONT married Dishman and had two children that I know of named Nancy and
2 CONT Ruth Dishman. The family lives in Bristol, Virginia as far as I know.
2 CONT
2 CONT Carrie Lee born 6 Jun 1896, died 4 Feb 1983, Glade Pres, Cemetery.
2 CONT Never married.
2 CONT
2 CONT Grace, born 23 Apr 1894, married a Dickerson, died in Roanoke, Va,
2 CONT where she lived and raised the children. The children names are:
2 CONT Clyde of Staunton, Va, Ballard, Cecil, J. G., Bradley William, and
2 CONT Margaret. They lived in: Clyde in Staunton, Va, Margaret in Richmond,
2 CONT and all others in Roanoke. Cecil had, I think, passed away prior to
2 CONT 1983.
2 CONT
2 CONT Bradley William born 22 Sept 1898, my father died 30 Dec 1992,
2 CONT Columbus, Oh. Wife and my mother Ruth L. (Funke) Ratliff, four boys,
2 CONT Byron Richard,  Alan William, myself, Bradley Lee, and Wayne Robert.
2 CONT
2 CONT Basil, born 26 Jun 1901, died 26 Feb 1990, Glade Pres. Cemetery.  Wife
2 CONT Mary, had six children, Marion, Francis, Harold, Paul, Betty, and
2 CONT Bobby.
2 CONT
2 CONT Elizabeth Viola, born 16 Jul 1903, married Earnest Lester and had ten
2 CONT children, Roland, Beatrice, Lucille, Martha, June, Jay, Ann, Agnes
2 CONT Fred, and Scott.
2 CONT
2 CONT On or about 1885, Grandpa and Grandma were able to purchase a few
2 CONT acres across the road from where the cabin was, and built a house
2 CONT consisting of one large bedroom upstairs, one large first floor
2 CONT bedroom, living room, kitchen with a wood burning cook stove and a
2 CONT large, long, dining room, to hold all of the family. A home made table
2 CONT about 15 feet long was used. I remember many meals served by grandma
2 CONT and other ladies of the family.  Homemade biscuits, real home churned
2 CONT butter, and home made wild strawberry jam was my favorite.  There is a
2 CONT picture in the book of the family standing in front of the house. No
2 CONT electric was put into the house until about 1950. We got water from
2 CONT the spring across the road near where the original cabin home was.
2 CONT There is a rock quarry down the hill and along the road in front of
2 CONT the location of the original cabin. Water was not piped into the front
2 CONT yard until about 1975, and was never put into the house because they
2 CONT did not want it in the house. My dad tried to convince them to have
2 CONT plumbing put in, and offered to pay for it, but Uncle Conley just did
2 CONT not want it.
2 CONT
2 CONT I have vivid memories of staying at the house, the smell of kerosene
2 CONT lamps burning and helping my uncles Herbert and Conley set out tobacco
2 CONT plants in the field.
2 CONT
2 CONT There was an orchard, a two holer outhouse, a spring house to keep
2 CONT butter and other food cool, a smoke house to smoke hams and bacon in,
2 CONT and a large barn that housed chickens, ducks, horses, machinery tools,
2 CONT hay and feed for the animals.  It was also used to dry tobacco plants
2 CONT prior to being transported to the tobacco auction barn.
2 CONT
2 CONT I helped grandma churn butter in a wood churn, by pushing the handle
2 CONT up and down for about 20 minutes to separate the butter from the
2 CONT cream.  Uncles Conley, Herbert, Dad and I would help harness up the
2 CONT old mare Nell, and hook her up to the singletree on the wood sled,
2 CONT measuring about 4 feet by 7 feet with runners on the bottom. It was
2 CONT used to transport farm supplies of all kinds around the farm. On
2 CONT saturdays we would go to the spring with the horse and sled with a 40
2 CONT gallon wood barrel on it and get water to take back to the house so we
2 CONT could all take a bath.  We also would hitch up the horse to the wagon
2 CONT and take corn to the old Debusk Mill, powered by a water wheel. The
2 CONT old mill is still standing,  minus the water wheel, lost during a
2 CONT flood. Uncle Basil worked at the mill for many years grinding wheat,
2 CONT corn, and oats into flour and meal for the local farmers. The water
2 CONT wheel turned a large stone grinding wheel to pulverize the grain. The
2 CONT dam beside the mill house is still in good shape today. In 1990, I
2 CONT rode one of my aunt Viola's horses across the river below the dam, at
2 CONT a place that used to be a ford.
2 CONT
2 CONT I have a book named "Memoirs of an Old Man" written be Mahlon L.
2 CONT Robinson, now deceased, who was a friend of the family. I once talked
2 CONT with his wife Mrs. Robinson after a church service in about 1987 in
2 CONT Glade Spring, Va. She is a fine lady, in her ninety's now, if the good
2 CONT Lord has not taken her home by now.  This book reveals how life was in
2 CONT and around Glade Spring during and prior to the Civil War days.  I was
2 CONT only three years old when Grandpa died, and do not remember him, but I
2 CONT have been told by many members of the family that he was a fine
2 CONT gentleman, loving, quiet, slow to anger, and a hard working man.
2 CONT
2 CONT I have regrets, sometimes, when thinking about some of my family that
2 CONT I did not have the privilage to know personally. Maybe someday when my
2 CONT time comes to depart this old world, I may be reunited with them all.
2 CONT The prospect of being reunited someday with our departed loved ones is
2 CONT certainly something positive to look forward to as we grow older.
2 CONT
2 CONT Grandpa Richard Granville fell and broke his hip, and as a result
2 CONT developed pneumonia and died December 16, 1937 and is buried beside
2 CONT Grandma Florence in the Glade Spring Presbyterian Cemetery. See
2 CONT pictures of their graves markers in the book.
2 CONT
2 CONT I had a great respect for my father, when I found out that he often
2 CONT helped out the family that lived in the old home place financially,
2 CONT and upon the death of Grandpa and Grandma he waived any right to
2 CONT inheritence, thus leaving his brothers and sisters with what little
2 CONT there was of property. You may want to review my copy of the 1900
2 CONT census, which lists
2 CONT all of the family members alive in 1900.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 Mar 1865
2 PLAC Burke's Garden, Va
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 Dec 1937
2 PLAC Glade Spring, Va
1 BURI
2 DATE 19 Dec 1937
2 PLAC Glade Spring Presb.Church Yard
1 FAMS @F2@
1 FAMC @F4@
0 @I5@ INDI
1 NAME Florence Matilda /Farris/
1 SEX F
1 NOTE Florence Matilda Farris (sometimes spelled Faris), was born April 14th
2 CONT 1865 and was married to Richard Granville Ratliff on Novermber 10,
2 CONT 1884 in Sullivan County Tennessee near Blountville. See copy of
2 CONT marriage certificate attached. I will refer you to the notes of her
2 CONT hunband Richard Granville Ratliff for more information.
2 CONT
2 CONT The Farris family come from Jamestown to Seven Mile Ford, Va
2 CONT originally.  John Farris and Rachel Elizabeth Vaught are her parents.
2 CONT
2 CONT John Ratliff, brother to Grandville R., married Florence's sister,
2 CONT Mary A. Farris.
2 CONT
2 CONT I refer to notes of the ascending ancestors of the Farris family
2 CONT because much is known about the family.
2 CONT
2 CONT I remember my grandmother as a kind, hard working, wonderfully gentle
2 CONT lady, who had the absolute respect and love of the whole family.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 Apr 1865
2 PLAC Glade Spring, Va
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 Feb 1950
2 PLAC Glade Spring, Va
1 BURI
2 DATE 14 Feb 1950
2 PLAC Glade Spring Presb.Church Yard
1 FAMS @F2@
1 FAMC @F5@
0 @I6@ INDI
1 NAME Earl John Louis /Funke/
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT Earl John Funke was born October 31, 1886 in Zanesville, Oh, the son
2 CONT of George Washington Funke and Clara Louise Dennick.  Some in the
2 CONT family chose to change the spelling to Funk.  Likewise, the Dennick
2 CONT name was changed by some of the family to Denny. Both names are german
2 CONT however.  The original german spelling was Funck and Doenick.
2 CONT
2 CONT Although Earl was born in Zanesville, the family moved to
2 CONT McConnelsville, and lived in the Dennick family home for about five
2 CONT years and then moved to Zanesville about 1901.  After moving to
2 CONT Zanesville, Earl married Mary Leota McCall on May 24th, 1906. There is
2 CONT a picture of Earl and his five sisters in the book. See notes on his
2 CONT father for names of sisters.
2 CONT
2 CONT Earl was the only son of George W. and Earl had no sons, so this line
2 CONT of the Funke family ended with Earl. They had only one child, my
2 CONT mother Ruth Louise Funke, born January 20, 1907 in Zanesville, Ohio.
2 CONT
2 CONT Earl was exceptionally good at working with his hands on small
2 CONT intricate things such as doll furniture he made for this sister
2 CONT Dorothy.  He also made hand stitched pillows for each of his sisters,
2 CONT one of which my aunt Dorothy still has in her home.  Earl also liked
2 CONT to draw and once made a miniture stage with figures on it, of which he
2 CONT made clothing for the
2 CONT figures.
2 CONT
2 CONT Earl as well as his sisters and mother had a difficult life because of
2 CONT their fathers inability to provide for them due to drinking. Their
2 CONT father became abusive to their mother Clara and she eventually
2 CONT separated from him and were divorced about 1903.
2 CONT
2 CONT Earl is listed in the Zanesville, Oh city directory in 1901 and again
2 CONT in 1905 indicating he was living at 151 S. 6th St. and 125 Marietta Rd
2 CONT with his mother Clara and was working at the A E Tile Co.  In 1907
2 CONT Earl is listed as working for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and
2 CONT living with his mother and two sisters, Elsie and Hazel M. and Leota
2 CONT his wife at 826
2 CONT Marietta Road.
2 CONT
2 CONT There is a picture in the book taken of Earl and Leota with their
2 CONT Model T Ford in about 1924 on a bridge near Houton Lake, Michigan
2 CONT taken while on a fishing and camping trip with the family.
2 CONT
2 CONT At one point in time my mother remembers that she, Earl and Leota
2 CONT traveled to New Jersey and Earl got a job working in a pottery plant
2 CONT where Walter Gray, brother-in-law to Earl worked. He did not like it
2 CONT and returned to Ohio and got a job with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
2 CONT freight house on North 4th Street and Naughten Street in Columbus, Oh.
2 CONT There is a picture taken in about 1922 or 1923 of all the workers at
2 CONT the B & O Freight House in the book. In the picture is My Father
2 CONT Bradley W. Ratliff 3rd row from bottom, 4th person from left, Fred
2 CONT Head, husband of Helen, sister to Earl, and my grandfather Earl in 3rd
2 CONT row and 11th person from the left.  Earl also was the platform foreman
2 CONT at this time.
2 CONT
2 CONT Earl and Leota unfortunately were not able to get along, and divorced
2 CONT after my mother was married in about 1925. Earl remarried a lady named
2 CONT Edith Roach who worked for the B & O also and was a friend of Earl's
2 CONT sisters.
2 CONT
2 CONT I never had the pleasure of meeting my grandfather Earl, but I have
2 CONT been told by his sisters that he was a good and loving brother to
2 CONT them.
2 CONT
2 CONT Earl in later life became active as a Mason and Eastern Star's
2 CONT organization. Earl died August 29, 1960 and is buried beside his 2nd
2 CONT wife Edith in the Forest Lawn Cemetery in the Mason Section, located
2 CONT East of Columbus, Oh on Broad Street.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 31 Oct 1886
2 PLAC Zanesville, Oh
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 Aug 1960
2 PLAC Columbus, Oh
1 BURI
2 DATE 1 Sep 1960
2 PLAC Forrest Lawn Cem.Columbus, Oh
1 FAMS @F3@
1 FAMC @F6@
0 @I7@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Leota /McCall/
1 SEX F
1 NOTE
2 CONT Mary Leota McCall was the daughter of John H. McCall and Katherine L.
2 CONT Moore, born July 1, 1888 in Zanesville, Ohio.
2 CONT
2 CONT Born in a catholic family she attended a catholic school. She had
2 CONT three sisters named Lillian, Cindy or Lucinda, and Annie, and a
2 CONT brother named Harlan who died at six years of age from small pox.
2 CONT
2 CONT Leota married Earl John Funke on May 24, 1905 in Zanesville, Oh. She
2 CONT had one child, my mother, Ruth Louise Funke, born January 20, 1907 in
2 CONT Zanesville, Ohio.
2 CONT
2 CONT There is a picture of Leota and Earl in the book taken at Houghton
2 CONT Lake, Michigan while on a camping and fishing trip in 1922 or 1923 in
2 CONT their Model T Ford car on a bridge. My uncle Hugh Ratliff and wife
2 CONT Lula, her sister and husband John and Lee Hook, and two men they knew
2 CONT from the Penn R R shop, my father and mother Ruth and Bradley Ratliff,
2 CONT about five cars in all would travel to Houton Lake together. They
2 CONT would sometimes get stuck in the middle of the road. Route 23 in
2 CONT Michigan was sand and dirt and sometimes mud. No roads were paved at
2 CONT that time. There was a road between two lakes and the water would
2 CONT somtimes rise and they would stand in water up to their knees to fish.
2 CONT They would catch sack fulls of fish and have big fish fries. They also
2 CONT would camp and fish along the Mushingum River near Dresdon, Ohio
2 CONT often.
2 CONT
2 CONT Leota and Earl moved to the north end of Columbus in about 1929, and
2 CONT separated shortly thereafter, and then divorced.
2 CONT
2 CONT Leota remarried a man named Holland, and later divorced him.  After
2 CONT the divorce Leota stayed most of the time with her mother Katherine
2 CONT helping her run the boarding house in Zanesville. They spent much time
2 CONT also at their cottage located eleven cottages down from the old
2 CONT crystal swimming pool at Buckere Lake. When I was a child I remember
2 CONT going to the cottage to swim, fish, and water ski behind a Christcraft
2 CONT speed boat made of beautifuly varnished wood with a 4 cylinder Crysler
2 CONT marine engine in it.
2 CONT
2 CONT Leota spent most of her time around 1953 to 55 caring for her mother
2 CONT Katherine, who had fallen down and broken her hip as I remember and
2 CONT was unable to ever walk again. She was given morphine to reduce the
2 CONT pain, because the hip never healed.
2 CONT
2 CONT I remember Grandmother Leota coming to visit us on the farm driving a
2 CONT 1938 Buick that was especially built for her mother by General Motors.
2 CONT  She went to Florida often and sometimes returned with sacks of
2 CONT oranges and bananas for our family.
2 CONT
2 CONT Leota was involved in an automobile accident in which she severly
2 CONT crushed her ankle and she never was able to walk very well after that.
2 CONT
2 CONT After her mother died in 1955 she lived with her sister Annie in
2 CONT Florida and for short periods of time with my mother and father on the
2 CONT farm.
2 CONT
2 CONT Grandmother Leota died while living in Safety Harbor, Florida on
2 CONT February 8, 1970 and is buried there.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 Jul 1888
2 PLAC Zanesville, Oh
1 DEAT
2 DATE 8 Feb 1970
2 PLAC Safety Harbor, Fl
1 BURI
2 DATE 10 Feb 1970
2 PLAC Safety Harbor, Fl
1 FAMS @F3@
1 FAMC @F7@
0 @I8@ INDI
1 NAME Richard Sanders /Ratliff/
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT Richard Sanders Ratliff (Ratcliff) was born in Russell County, Va Nov.
2 CONT 1842. He had the following brothers and sisters that were listed on
2 CONT the 1850 Census: Oscar born 1835 Silas O. born 1838, Rachel born 1840,
2 CONT John born 1844,Marjory born 1846, as shown on the census of Russell
2 CONT County 1850.
2 CONT
2 CONT My father stated to me that there was a brother also born in 1852
2 CONT which would not appear on this census, named Augustus and called by
2 CONT his nick name "Gus." On this census, Ann Ratliff appears as head of
2 CONT household.  Enis Ratliff father of the children and husband of Ann did
2 CONT not appear because he died in December 1849.  See more detail in Enis
2 CONT Ratliff notes.
2 CONT
2 CONT All of the children as far as I know were born in Burkes Garden,
2 CONT Tazwelle, Co, Va.  After the death of their father the children were
2 CONT put into other homes of family and friends to be raised. Oscar was
2 CONT raised  in the Yost household .  Richard and Ann married in 1860 and
2 CONT raised Augustus who was 8 in 1860.  He was still living with Ann and
2 CONT Richard in 1870 on the census and age 18.
2 CONT
2 CONT Richard's wife was Ann Stump who was born in Tazwell County on June 6,
2 CONT 1840.  Ann had brothers and sisters as follows: Davie, Henry, and
2 CONT Grandville as brothers and one sister that I know of named Elizabeth
2 CONT who later lived in Fleet, Va, Washington County.
2 CONT
2 CONT Richard and Ann married about 1860 and lived in Burkes Garden,
2 CONT Tazwell, County, Va. He was a farmer by trade as were most western
2 CONT Virginians.
2 CONT
2 CONT In Burkes Garden the families of Ratliff, Stump, McMeans and Yost were
2 CONT very closely associated and were neighbors. There were several
2 CONT marriages between these families. Ann's father  Bartley Stump and her
2 CONT mother  Polly Yost, married about 1839.  My father told me that
2 CONT Richard and Ann were married in Russell County, VA, but I have been
2 CONT unable to find the record. I have been told that the early mariage
2 CONT records were taken from the court house and never returned. " How sad
2 CONT " The marriage would have ocurred most likely in 1860.
2 CONT
2 CONT There is a book that is not now available called "Sketches of Burke's
2 CONT Garden", by Ida R. Greever that is a history of the Garden. It is
2 CONT truly a beautiful place to see.  I last visited there in 1986 with my
2 CONT wife, and Mother and Father.  I had a copy of this book made at the
2 CONT Tazwell library.
2 CONT
2 CONT Richard S and Ann appear on the Tazwell County census in 1860, soon
2 CONT after their marriage listing Augustus at age 8 his brother, and no
2 CONT children yet.
2 CONT
2 CONT On the Tazwell census in 1870, Richard and Ann are listed with
2 CONT children Maryland, John, Richard Granville my grandfather, Robert,
2 CONT William, and his brother Augustus at age 18. I think George was born
2 CONT shortly after this census was made.
2 CONT
2 CONT No family graves were found in Burke's Garden, but that is not
2 CONT unusual.  It was an isolated community surrounded by very steep
2 CONT mountains and the only access was over these mountains by horses.
2 CONT Steps were built into the steep slopes by placing logs and dirt for
2 CONT the horses to step on to pull waggons up.  Poles were placed through
2 CONT the spokes of the wheels in order to slide the wheels for breaking
2 CONT while going down the slopes.  This informaiton is contained in the
2 CONT book entitled "Sketches of Burkes's Garden.  As a result of the
2 CONT difficult transportation in and out of there, to bring carved head
2 CONT stones in, and the costs associated with it, it is my theory that
2 CONT either crude stones, or wood markers were used and consequently the
2 CONT markers disappeared with age.
2 CONT
2 CONT Ratliff and Stump families moved together to Washington County
2 CONT sometime after 1870. I think the following children were born after
2 CONT moving to Washington County: Maggie, Molly, Kate, Edward, Walter, and
2 CONT George.
2 CONT
2 CONT The dates of births of each child as reflected on the 1870 census of
2 CONT Tazwell County and the 1900 census of Washington County, Va are as
2 CONT follows: 1- Maryland, January 1861 is shown living at home at age 39
2 CONT yrs.  in 1900. 2- John M. born Dec. 1862, married Mary Farris sister
2 CONT to my grandmother Florence M. Farris. They had children: Gertie,
2 CONT Virgie, Archie, and Elmer. John used the spelling Ratcliffe on most
2 CONT records.  3- My grandfather Richard Granville was born 26 Mar 1865
2 CONT (See his story) 4- Robert was born in 1867. 5- William was born 1869.
2 CONT 6- Walter born in July 1878.  7- Maggie born July 1880.  8- George
2 CONT born January 1883.  9- Kate, 10- Edward, and 11- Molly I have no dates
2 CONT of birth. Molly married Marsh Turner, a neighbor, after his first wife
2 CONT died.
2 CONT
2 CONT My father told me of going to see Richard's brother John one day by
2 CONT horse and buggy. John was a farmer and  lived near Fleet which is near
2 CONT Glade Spring.  He was a short man wearing an old floppy hat, bib
2 CONT overhauls, and leaned over a fence while talking to Dad and Grandpa.
2 CONT
2 CONT Augustus left the family sometime after 1870 and dad said he went
2 CONT through Big Stone Gap into Kentucky, on a horse,  and never returned,
2 CONT that he knew of.  Richard S received a letter many years later saying
2 CONT he had seven girls and one boy.
2 CONT
2 CONT I was told that Richard's father, Enis Ratliff  died December 1849 of
2 CONT disease, and the children were placed into other families.
2 CONT
2 CONT
2 CONT
2 CONT       THE WAR YEARS
2 CONT
2 CONT On September 3, 1861, Richard S, brother John and Ann's brother-laws
2 CONT Davie, Henry, and Granville Stump enlisted at Big Sevill.  They were
2 CONT placed in Company L of the 45th Regiment until January 15th, 1862,
2 CONT when he was assigned to the 23rd Battalion Virginia Infantry as
2 CONT Company C. The Regiment was reorganized on May 14th, 1862.   I have a
2 CONT book entitled "23rd Battalion Virginia Infantry by J. L. Scott of the
2 CONT history of the 23rd Battalion. Richard is listed as a member and
2 CONT reflects this entry "Ratcliff, Richard S. Co. C Enlisted 9/3/61 in
2 CONT Jeffersonville. He served as a teamster. Present until detached as a
2 CONT wagoneer 11/29/63. Present 4/64 until wounded at New Market, Va on
2 CONT 5/15/64. He entered the Danville Hospital on 6/17/64. Present on final
2 CONT roll." Most men in the last few weeks prior to General Lee's surrender
2 CONT deserted due to hunger and sickness and returned to there homes.
2 CONT .
2 CONT There were only some 8000 Confederate Soldiers left when Lee
2 CONT surrendered at Appomatox. "It is estimated that some 300,000 served
2 CONT for the Confederate States of America and the Northern Army had 600,
2 CONT 000 plus. On the final day of February 1865, Echols' Brigade of two
2 CONT battalions and one regiment numbered only 35 officers and 491 men
2 CONT present for duty out of aproximately 5,000 plus earlier in the war.
2 CONT
2 CONT As the men of the 23rd Battalion wintered near Saltville the troops
2 CONT that remained with General Wharton in the Shenandoah Valley were
2 CONT attacked and overwhelmed at Waynesboro on March 2, 1865.  Most of the
2 CONT ragged troops under Wharton and Jubal Early were captured or scattered
2 CONT into the mountains. The next day Richard deserted and took the
2 CONT required oath on 3/3/65. Lee surrendered 4/10/65. Richard served from
2 CONT 9/61 to 3/65, the entire war except for the last month. Also listed in
2 CONT the 23rd were the following Ratliff and Ratcliffs : Richard H. Co. D,
2 CONT Howard S. Co D, Jeff M. Co D and Henderson all of Tazwell County
2 CONT Virginia. Richard's cousin Edward McMeans served in Co C with Richard.
2 CONT
2 CONT Richard is also listed in the book entitled "The 45th Virginia
2 CONT Infantry in which he served early in the war until his company was
2 CONT incorporated into the 23rd Battalion. Brother-in-laws Stumps are
2 CONT mention also in the 45th book. The Stumps served all of there time in
2 CONT the 45th.
2 CONT
2 CONT The following stories were told by Great Grandpa Richard S. to my
2 CONT father who told them to me. My father was 11 years old when Richard
2 CONT died 1909.
2 CONT
2 CONT Dad said Grandpa would have a good laugh when telling about one
2 CONT occasion when he was leading a patrol near Yankee lines when they
2 CONT unexpectly encountered a Yankee patrol in a clearing. In all the
2 CONT excitment they all fired their black powder rifles at each other
2 CONT creating a cloud of black smoke. Being unable to see for the smoke, he
2 CONT waited a few minutes for it to clear to see what happened. When he
2 CONT could see, there was no one left, both sides after firing their guns,
2 CONT ran off into the woods. Richard said he was the only one dumb enough
2 CONT to stay, and instantly ran off into the woods also.
2 CONT
2 CONT Richard also related a story of his carrying a sick and wounded friend
2 CONT across a river to save his life. I think this was the New River.
2 CONT
2 CONT Grandpa Richard on another occasion was laying behind a split rail
2 CONT fence made of oak exchanging rifle fire with the yankees when a minnie
2 CONT ball ricocheted off one of the oak rails and went though his friends
2 CONT back causing his death by loss of blood.
2 CONT
2 CONT Brother John accidently shot off three fingers of one hand, while
2 CONT serving as a picket. He set his gun upon a stump,  which jarred the
2 CONT gun and having his hand over the muzzle, lost his fingers.  Brother
2 CONT John is listed in the 23rd Battalion book as being shot by accident
2 CONT while on picket duty and after losing his fingers apparently was
2 CONT unable to fire his rifle and was listed as serving as a nurse to the
2 CONT sick and wounded.
2 CONT
2 CONT There is also a story told by Grandpa Richard S. that someone in the
2 CONT family, and I think it was Augustus (Gus) brother to Richard, went
2 CONT looking for the five boys near the end of the War. He found them all
2 CONT and Grandpa Richard told him when he arrived that "The war is over and
2 CONT it is time to go home at last." Gus had a horse, which he brought from
2 CONT home and all the boys took turns riding the horse home to Burke's
2 CONT Garden, Va, in March of 1865.
2 CONT
2 CONT Update: On March 14, 1993 I received the long awaited information from
2 CONT the Civil War Records division of the Virginia Library. The record
2 CONT indicate that Richard S. Ratliff applied for a pension from the State
2 CONT of Virginia in 1900 soon after the law was passed to give pensions to
2 CONT disabled Virginia veterans of the Civil War. The record reflects that
2 CONT Richard was wounded at the Battle of New Market, Virginia while
2 CONT serving with Company C of the 23rd Infantry Battalion of Virginia.
2 CONT
2 CONT Location of the wound is not reflected, however, the examining
2 CONT physician indicated that the wound caused permanment damage from which
2 CONT he never fully recovered. He did however, recover to the extent that
2 CONT he was able to rejoin his military unit and remained there until March
2 CONT 1865.  The wound was of a nature that was progressively debilitating
2 CONT over the period from 1865, the date of discharge, to about 1880 at
2 CONT which time he became physically unable to walk at age 48 years. Great
2 CONT Grandfather lived this way until his death in December 1909. The New
2 CONT Market battle was an historical event at New Market. A museum and a
2 CONT film of the battle reenacted are at the museum. I was there in 1971
2 CONT but did not know that my great grandfather participated in the battle
2 CONT and was wounded there. His pension application was accepted and he was
2 CONT awarded the sum of $30.00 per year.  We visited the New Market
2 CONT Battlefield in 1994 where Great Grandfather Richard was wounded on May
2 CONT 15, 1864. Each year on May 15, a reactment of the battle takes place.
2 CONT Decendents of soldiers are especially welcome.  The following is a
2 CONT brief discription of the battle and location of Richards' unit:
2 CONT
2 CONT The battle took place roughly between the Smith Creek east of New
2 CONT Market  and east of Route 11, and extending west to the North Fork of
2 CONT the Shenandoah River. Confederates were on the south side of town and
2 CONT the Federals to the north. The battlefield was approximately 8 Sq.
2 CONT miles in area. The chain of command of Richards' unit was: C.S.
2 CONT Western Department of Virginia, Maj. General, John C. Breckinridge,
2 CONT Inf. Division.
2 CONT
2 CONT Next was the 1st Brigade, Brid. General, John Echols. Next was the
2 CONT 23rd Virginia Battlion, Inf., Col. Clarence Derrick. Next was Company
2 CONT "C" of the 23rd. in which Richard was a member. There were
2 CONT approximately 4500 Confederate troops and 6,000 Federals. The 23rd was
2 CONT on the right flank near Smith Creek South of Luray Rd. They advnced
2 CONT through New Market North engaging the 54th Pennsylvania Inf. The 54th
2 CONT suffered 32 killed 180 wounded, and 42 captured, a loss of 45% of the
2 CONT unit. Richard was wounded that day May 15, 1864 by a minnie ball and
2 CONT when the battle ended was taken to the Bushong farm house along with
2 CONT all wounded men. He was nursed by the local town folk.[see picture of
2 CONT original house}. Later he was taken by wagon to the Danville, Va
2 CONT Military Hospital, arriving there on June 11, 1864. He developed
2 CONT pneumonia and nearly died.  Later recovering and rejoined the 23rd for
2 CONT the duration of the war. I have several books, maps, and much
2 CONT information on the Battle and other engagements during the war in
2 CONT which the 23rd Inf. participated for anyone interested in reading
2 CONT them. Also see pictures at end of these notes.
2 CONT
2 CONT After moving to Glade Spring in Washington County,  sometime around
2 CONT 1869,  Grandpa Richard played his fiddle on Friday nights for square
2 CONT dances.  Dad said he always kept his fiddle back of the stove on a
2 CONT shelf but he didn't know what happened to it.
2 CONT
2 CONT After Grandma Ann died, about 1882, Richard lived on the Craig place
2 CONT in a rented house with his children, Maryland, Walter, Maggie and
2 CONT George as reflected on the 1900 census of Washington County. The house
2 CONT where they lived is still standing along route 11, Lee highway
2 CONT although it has not been lived in for many years.
2 CONT
2 CONT Grandpa Richard died on December 3, 1909. A J Huff was his
2 CONT administrator (see copies of his estate settlement, in the book).
2 CONT Grandpa in his last years became severely crippled and could not walk
2 CONT for the last 12 years of his life due to the complications arising
2 CONT from the war wound.
2 CONT
2 CONT The court record shows his only assets were a $36.00 check from the
2 CONT State of Virginia for his military service pension.
2 CONT
2 CONT Grandpa Richard and Grandma Ann are buried together in the Stump
2 CONT family area in the church yard of the Glade Spring Presbyterian
2 CONT Church. (See pictures of Ann's Head Stone.) Richard's stone has
2 CONT disappeared due to age and, I am in the process of having a new marker
2 CONT made. I will place the marker on his grave sometime during 1994.
2 CONT
2 CONT Grandpa Richard was a tall slender handsome Virginian. ( His picture
2 CONT is in the book taken in the 1860's).
2 CONT
2 CONT Also listed in the military history of the 45th and 23rd are the
2 CONT following men who are related to Richard S. by blood and marriage:
2 CONT Also listed and identified with an astrix are some of whom may and may
2 CONT not be related.
2 CONT
2 CONT Frances Ratcliff Co D.*
2 CONT Joseph Ratcliff Co D.*
2 CONT John R. Ratcliff Co D. *
2 CONT Joseph E Ratcliff Co. H. *
2 CONT
2 CONT Great Grandfather Richard, Co L enlisted 9/3/61. Transferred to the
2 CONT 23rd Battlion. Took oath 3/3/65 at end of war in order to be released
2 CONT from duty. Age 23 years, tall, blue eyes, fair hair.
2 CONT
2 CONT Silas O. Ratliff, Co H, age 25 in 1850 TCC enlisted 9/3/61. Died of
2 CONT disease June 1862.
2 CONT
2 CONT Granville H. Stump Co L Age 14 in 1850 TCC brother-in-law of Richard
2 CONT S. brother to Richards wife Ann Stump. Served with Richard during a
2 CONT part of the war.
2 CONT
2 CONT J. Stump cousin or broth-in-law Co. H.
2 CONT
2 CONT Joseph B. Stump Co H, Captured at Waynesboro 3/2/65, POW at Ft.
2 CONT Delaware
2 CONT
2 CONT Henry Adam Yost son of John Yost Sr. and Adeline Cooper. This is Ann
2 CONT Stump (Ratliff) cousin. Captain in Co. K Captured at Piedmont 6/5/64.
2 CONT POW camp Morton and Johnson's Island in Lake Erie.
2 CONT
2 CONT George W Yost, Co L, served entire war with Richard. Uncle
2 CONT
2 CONT James R. McMeans Co H, wounded, captured, and POW
2 CONT
2 CONT J. G. McMeans Co H , wounded, captured, and POW
2 CONT
2 CONT Edward McMeans, a cousin, Co L. served entire war with Richard.
2 CONT Richards' mother Anny was a McMeans.
2 CONT
2 CONT I am reminded of a part of a quote at the end of Smily Ratliff's book
2 CONT entitled "Keepers of the Name and the blood" which states "The
2 CONT unforgivable:  To disgace the name, To be lazy and worthless to the
2 CONT family, Failure to defend the empire. To you we leave the name and the
2 CONT blood. Be it yours to glorify, for if you fail, we who die, we can
2 CONT never sleep, though the grass grows on Dillston lands."
2 CONT
2 CONT Even though this was written of the Ratliff family in England hundreds
2 CONT of years ago, I think it justly applies to Great Grandpa and others
2 CONT who fought and some died for what they believed, by "defending the
2 CONT empire" and more specifcally defending there homes and families from
2 CONT the invasion of the Northern army.
2 CONT
2 CONT One must read the history of the Civil War to understand both view
2 CONT points before making a judgement as to what was right. Keep in mind
2 CONT that the reason the war was started was not slavery as most northern
2 CONT liberal writers would have one believe, but was over secession which
2 CONT was a constitutional right. Very few Confederate soldiers ever owned
2 CONT any slaves.
2 CONT
2 CONT I recommend that for those who are interested, and to get the southern
2 CONT view point, should read the following books concerning the war: 23rd
2 CONT Battalion Virginia Infantry by J L Scott. The Historical Society of
2 CONT Washington County, Va. bulletin Series II, No. 30 dated 1993. The 45th
2 CONT Virginia Infantry Regimental Histories Series all of which I posess.
2 CONT All of these books may be purchased if you desire to have any of them
2 CONT from the publishers. I have the addresses.
2 CONT
2 CONT In March 1994 I received confirmation that the Veterans Administration
2 CONT has approved my request to supply a new head stone for Richard. I will
2 CONT be placing the stone on his grave this year sometime. (See pictures of
2 CONT it at end of story). I appreciate the interest they had in preserving
2 CONT a part of history by providing the stone free. I received the Head
2 CONT Stone, took it to the grave site and installed it in October 1994.
2 CONT
2 CONT I feel great compassion for Great Grandpa and other family members as
2 CONT well who suffered during the war. Great Grandpa was not able to walk
2 CONT for the last 10 years of his life as a result of his war wound. I can
2 CONT only hope that the good Lord has a special place for him and other
2 CONT family members.
2 CONT
2 CONT "The Knight's bones are dust, and his sword rust;  His soul is with
2 CONT the saints, I trust." . . . . Samuel Coleridge, England
1 BIRT
2 DATE Nov 1842
2 PLAC Russell County, Va
1 DEAT
2 DATE 3 Dec 1909
2 PLAC Glade Spring, Va
1 BURI
2 DATE 6 Dec 1909
2 PLAC Glade Spring, Va Presb. Church Yard
1 FAMS @F4@
1 FAMC @F8@
0 @I9@ INDI
1 NAME Ann L. /Stump/
1 SEX F
1 NOTE
2 CONT
2 CONT Ann'a family must have been in Tazwell, Va area for many years because
2 CONT I have land deeds and wills for her parents and grandparents, dating
2 CONT back to the late 1700's.
2 CONT
2 CONT Great Grandma Ann was born 6 June 1840, married Richard Sanders
2 CONT Ratliff in about 1860.  They had children as listed in notes of her
2 CONT husband Richard.
2 CONT
2 CONT Ann's parents were Bartley H. Stump and Polly Yost.
2 CONT
2 CONT On the 1870 census Richard and Ann are listed with their children and
2 CONT one adult Grandmother named Rebecca Stump.
2 CONT
2 CONT Ann is buried in the Glade Spring Presbyterian Church Yard in the
2 CONT Stump family area beside her husband Richard S. Ratliff.  A picture of
2 CONT the grave stone in attached.
2 CONT
2 CONT This is the first mention of the Stump name, and several generations
2 CONT are shown on the tree. The origan of the name is German, spelled,
2 CONT Stumpf.
2 CONT
2 CONT I once talked with some of my Stump relatives in Glade Spring, Va
2 CONT after a church service. I intend to follow up and hope to obtain more
2 CONT information on the family than I now have and provide them with what I
2 CONT have now.
2 CONT
2 CONT On 1880 Washington County Census, Holston District, Anne was shown age
2 CONT 40 with husband and children, which indicates she died after 1880.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 Jun 1840
2 PLAC Lee County, Va
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Glade Spring Va
1 BURI
2 PLAC Glade Spring Presb.Church Yard
1 FAMS @F4@
1 FAMC @F9@
0 @I10@ INDI
1 NAME John /Farris/
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT John Farris was born September 12, 1829, the son of Conrad Farris and
2 CONT Elizabeth Robinson. John married Rachel Elizabeth Vaught on October
2 CONT 13, 1840.
2 CONT
2 CONT After the Stump and Ratliff families moved to Washington County about
2 CONT 1869, a close association between the Ratliff, Stump and Farris began
2 CONT in and around Glade Spring, and Seven Mile Ford, Va as evidenced by
2 CONT the marriages shown below.
2 CONT
2 CONT John and Rachel had eleven children born between 1860 and 1881.
2 CONT Florence M. (My Grandmother) was the fourth child born April 14, 1865.
2 CONT
2 CONT George W. born 9/1/1860, married Tressey Spence 7/25/1880, Tressey
2 CONT died and George married Annie Louder Pratt 3/13/1891.
2 CONT
2 CONT Mary A. born 9/22/1861, married John Ratliff, brother to my
2 CONT Grandfather Grandville Richard Ratliff.
2 CONT
2 CONT Missouri V. born 1/29/1863, married my Great Uncle Will Stump, cousin
2 CONT to my Grandfather.
2 CONT
2 CONT This fine lady, Florence Matilda Farris, My Grandmother was born on
2 CONT 4/14/1865, married Grandfather Grandville Richard Ratliff on November
2 CONT 10, 1884 in Sullivan County, Tennessee.
2 CONT
2 CONT Julia C, born 1/26/1869, married T W Hayes.
2 CONT
2 CONT Betty G. born 6/16/69, married W A Briggs
2 CONT
2 CONT Snead, born 5/21/1871, married Lena Moore.
2 CONT
2 CONT Fannie M. born 3/19/1873, married Mr. Cole.
2 CONT
2 CONT William M, born 3/11/1875, also known as Mitch married Laura Scott.
2 CONT Mitch died in 1924.
2 CONT
2 CONT Amelia, born 11/5/1877, married Walter Gregory.
2 CONT
2 CONT John M. born 1/6/1881, married Rowena Scott.
2 CONT
2 CONT The Farris cemetery is located along the Lee Highwas, Rt 11, North
2 CONT East of Glade Spring, Va on the Gale Farris farm. The following family
2 CONT is buried there:
2 CONT
2 CONT Farris's are; John 12 Sept 1829 to 27 June 1900.
2 CONT Terressa A. w/o G W Farris, 17 Sept 1862 to 20 July 1890.
2 CONT Garfield  s/o G W & T A Farris, 28 Mar 1882 to 25 Dec 1905.
2 CONT Cloyd L. s/o J M & P O Farris, 9 Sept 1904 to 13 Aug 1905.
2 CONT Vance J. s/o J M & P O Farris, 14 Jun 1906 to 15 Jun 1908.
2 CONT
2 CONT Ratliff's are;
2 CONT Mamie d/o Grandville Richard Ratliff and Florence Matilda, my
2 CONT Grandparents. Mamie the first born child, was born 27 Aug 1885, and
2 CONT burned to death on 19 Jan 1895 at age 9.
2 CONT
2 CONT Carrie L. d/o J D & M A Ratliff, 16 Oct 1887 to 26 Dec 1889
2 CONT
2 CONT Stump's are;  Cloyd C. s/o W D and M V Stump, 25 Sept 1886 to 8 Nov
2 CONT 1899
2 CONT
2 CONT Vaught's are; Polly, w/o John Vaught, my Great Great Grandmother, 8
2 CONT Dec 1819 to 6 April 1901.
2 CONT
2 CONT The following information as supplied by the Farris Family to me about
2 CONT the family and the Civil War history:
2 CONT
2 CONT John was a member of the local Confederate Regiment, a Blacksmith by
2 CONT trade. Among his duties was the making of log chain to shoot in
2 CONT cannons at the Yankees. The chain was used in the absence of other
2 CONT ammnunition as artilliery. In many towns in the area, church bells and
2 CONT school bells were melted down to make amnunition for cannon.
2 CONT
2 CONT John also repaired horse drawn equipment for the army, and any other
2 CONT duties that required his trade.  The yankee soldiers took horses and
2 CONT cattle from the farmers in Smyth County.
2 CONT
2 CONT We had relatives living in both Smyth and Washington County at the out
2 CONT break of the war in 1861. Biscentennial History of Washington County
2 CONT by J. Allen Neal [1976] records that many local men responded to the
2 CONT call of the Confederate States of America, one of whom was John
2 CONT Farris.
2 CONT
2 CONT As quoted "Frightful anxiety gripped the home folks as rumors and
2 CONT accounts arrived from the fighting front. Washington County enlistees
2 CONT suffered much bloodshed at the Battle of Saltville and Stonemon's
2 CONT Raid.  However, the full impact of war tragedy came in the summer of
2 CONT 1862, when General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Northern Virginia
2 CONT Army crossed the Potomac River.
2 CONT
2 CONT In Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862, Lee had with him the 37th
2 CONT Regiment [infantry] of Virginia Volunteers filled with Washington
2 CONT County men. The September 17th fight may well have been the worst day
2 CONT in the war years for soldiers and families from Washington County
2 CONT according to the one day casuality list."
2 CONT
2 CONT The following is a history compiled by an uncle named Duglas Farris in
2 CONT 1965:
2 CONT
2 CONT A cousin, Major Wilson Farris son of Thomas and Mary Dugan Farris
2 CONT entered the service of the Confederacy early in the war and was a
2 CONT member of Stonewall Jackson's 48th Virginia Regiment and distinguished
2 CONT himself for his bravery in many hard fought battles, attaining the
2 CONT rank of Major.
2 CONT
2 CONT At the battle of Spotsylvania, April 12, 1864, he was wounded. The
2 CONT lead ball passing though his body, from which he never fully
2 CONT recovered.
2 CONT
2 CONT A brother of Major Wilson Farris, William H. Farris, was a Confederate
2 CONT soldier also and was captured at the Battle of the Wilderness and died
2 CONT in a yankee prison in Elmira, New York.
2 CONT
2 CONT Other Farris's listed in the 37th Virginia Regiment Company F were
2 CONT Private Jacob M. Farris, Inf., and Private Samuel Farris, Inf., killed
2 CONT at Chanselorsville, May 3, 1863. It should be noted the the Farris
2 CONT name was sometimes spelled with one R.
2 CONT
2 CONT See associated notes on John Farris's father Conrad Farris, who was
2 CONT also killed in the Civil War at a toll gate in Smyth County.
2 CONT
2 CONT I am reminded of a part of a quote at the end of Smily Ratliff's book
2 CONT entitled "Keepers of the Name and the Blood" which states:   "The
2 CONT Unforgivable: To disgrace the name, To be lazy and worthless to the
2 CONT family, Failure to defend the empire. To you we leave the name and the
2 CONT blood. Be it yours to glorify, for if you fail, we who die, we can
2 CONT never sleep, though the grass grows on Dillston lands." Even though
2 CONT this was written of the Ratliff family in England, I think it justly
2 CONT applies to my Farris family ancestors who fought and some died for
2 CONT what the believed, by "defending the empire."
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 Sep 1829
2 PLAC Washington County Va
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 Jun 1900
2 PLAC Washington County Va
1 BURI
2 DATE 30 Jun 1900
2 PLAC Farris Cemetery Wash.Co.
1 FAMS @F5@
1 FAMC @F15@
0 @I11@ INDI
1 NAME Rachael Elizabeth /Vaught/
1 SEX F
1 NOTE
2 CONT Rachel was the daughter of John and Polly Vaught, born January 5,
2 CONT 1840, married John Farris on October 13, 1859 in Smyth County, Va.
2 CONT
2 CONT My Mother, Ruth Funk Ratliff remembers going to visit Grandmother
2 CONT Vaught soon after she and my father were married in 1924.
2 CONT
2 CONT As of the date of this writing, I do not have any further information
2 CONT on the Vaught family.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 5 Jan 1840
1 FAMS @F5@
1 FAMC @F18@
0 @I12@ INDI
1 NAME George Washington /Funke/
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT George Washington Funke, so named because he was born on George
2 CONT Washington's birthday in 1862, the son of Lewis Funke of Hamburg,
2 CONT Germany and Margaret Fletcher Crozier of Zanesville, Ohio. The German
2 CONT spelling is Funck.
2 CONT
2 CONT George was born in Memphis, Tn during the Civil War. His parents ran a
2 CONT bakery there. He had 5 brothers and sisters listed in notes on his
2 CONT father Lewis Funke.
2 CONT
2 CONT As a child in Memphis, Tn the family had a black nanny to help raise
2 CONT the children. It was well known in Memphis that the Funke family were
2 CONT northerners and were not trusted. Eventually the bakery was taken over
2 CONT by the Confederates in order to feed the army. As a result of this the
2 CONT family went broke after losing the bakery and returned to Zanesville,
2 CONT Oh.
2 CONT
2 CONT In my research in the Zanesville Library. George first appeared on the
2 CONT 1882 directory of Zanesville as a boiler maker living at 111 South,
2 CONT and Louis, and Emma who is a sister of George at the same address. The
2 CONT only other Funke was Louis C., George's father, watchman living to 6th
2 CONT and South. In 1893, 11 years later there is Miss Anna Virginia Funke,
2 CONT Frank  F. Funke, son, working at Griffith and Wedge Co., Maggie his
2 CONT sister, or
2 CONT Margaret Funke. Maggie married Harry Finneral.
2 CONT
2 CONT George was a handsome looking man with light red hair. There was a
2 CONT well known artist in the Zanesville area named "Christy" that paid
2 CONT George to pose for him so he could paint his portrait. I'm going to
2 CONT check on this at the Zanesville Gallery when time permits to see if
2 CONT maybe a picture of him is possibly there.
2 CONT
2 CONT George married Clara Louise Dennick, January 23, 1884, sometimes
2 CONT spelled Denny. The original german spelling was Doenick. The Dennick
2 CONT family was from McConnelsville, Ohio.
2 CONT
2 CONT George and Clara lived in Zanesville, Ohio where they had eight
2 CONT children as listed in the family bible (Copy attached) and shown under
2 CONT his wife's notes Clara Louise Dennick.
2 CONT
2 CONT About 1903 in Zanesville George and Clara separated and divorced
2 CONT because of his drinking and abuse of his wife.
2 CONT
2 CONT George was widely known for his ability to repair steam engines and
2 CONT for making boilers for steam engines on river boats. Steam boat
2 CONT traffic was as a peak in the late 1800's and early 1900's, and George
2 CONT was much in demand and made very good money at his work.
2 CONT
2 CONT See the newspaper articles and pictures of Steam Boats, attached, some
2 CONT of which George would have worked on. My mother Ruth, the Funke's and
2 CONT Dennicks all have ridden on these boats. Two boats in particular named
2 CONT the Valley Gem, and Lorena both built in 1890 operated between
2 CONT Marietta, Philo, Multa, McConnelsville, and Zanesville, Ohio. Pictures
2 CONT of these two boats are attached.
2 CONT
2 CONT George was a jolly and outgoing sort of person as described by my Aunt
2 CONT Dorthey and was fun to be with. Aunt Dorthy said she and a sister
2 CONT stayed overnight with him on one occasion in the Hotel where he lived.
2 CONT George however never supported the children after the divorce.
2 CONT
2 CONT I have choosen to insert two stories at this point told to me by my
2 CONT aunt Dorothy and my mother that they found to be amusing about
2 CONT George's sister Margaret or Maggie as she was called.
2 CONT
2 CONT Maggie Funke (Finneral) sister to George Washington Funke for a time
2 CONT ran a Old Folks Home in Zanesville. Maggie and her husband wanted Aunt
2 CONT Dorothy to visit them where they lived in a cottage back of the Old
2 CONT Folks Home in the woods. My great great grandmother Margaret Crozier
2 CONT also lived with them at that time. Dorothy now about 12 years old took
2 CONT a girl friend and went up to their cottage to spend the night with
2 CONT Maggie's daughter who was about Dorothy's age. Dorothy said she was so
2 CONT stingy with the food that she cooked an egg and divided it up between
2 CONT her and her girl friend.  They were hungry for lack of food. Maggie
2 CONT would not let them leave and apparently intended to keep them
2 CONT indefinitely. Maggie let them go to church on sunday and on one
2 CONT occasion on sunday she saw her brother Earl my grandfather, on a
2 CONT street car and started crying and ask him to help her get away, but
2 CONT Maggie would not allow them to leave. Dorothy and her friend planned
2 CONT an escape one night and at about 2 O'clock in the morning they packed
2 CONT their suitcase and sneaked out of the house into the dark woods and
2 CONT made good their escape. They made their way into town where there was
2 CONT a street car running and took it to the bus station and finally to
2 CONT Dorothy's sisters home. Maggie lived to be 99 years old and is buried
2 CONT in Greenwood Cemetery, section 16 in the Fineral lot along with her
2 CONT husband Harry Fineral, his father Hugh Fineral and two sister Mary
2 CONT Parker Hamond and Orville Parker, Mary Monlux wife of Hugh Fineral,
2 CONT and Jane Biggar.
2 CONT
2 CONT Maggie or Margaret Funke (Fineral), sister to George Washington Funke,
2 CONT is the only member of the Funke family that has a marker in the
2 CONT Greenwood Cemetery. All others either did not have markers and they
2 CONT have worn away with age and elements.
2 CONT
2 CONT On another occasion Maggie had a dinner for the family in Dresden,
2 CONT Ohio on the Licking River. My mother, Dorothy and some of her sisters
2 CONT went by train to a spot along the river where they got off the train
2 CONT and got into a small boat. Some of the men waded across the river and
2 CONT pulled the boat across with a rope to get us to Maggie's house.
2 CONT Dorothy said she was burned by a firecracker. Mom said they mostly had
2 CONT sweet corn to eat.
2 CONT George Washington Funke is reflected in the directory of Zanesville
2 CONT from 1882 to 1930, when he apparently passed away. Still checking on
2 CONT date of death and location of cemetery. Maggie died at age 99 years in
2 CONT 1976 while living with her daughter Mary in Tuson, Arizona.
2 CONT
2 CONT My aunt Dorothy Hogan told me that George is buried next to Maggie
2 CONT Fineral in the Greenwood Cemetery.
2 CONT
2 CONT On April 27, 1993, I visited the Greenwood Cemetery where the Funkes
2 CONT are buried in Section 12 Tier 2 Lot 10. No stones or marker are
2 CONT present today The records indicate that Lewis Funke, father of George,
2 CONT Margaret Fletcher (Crozier) Funke, wife of Lewis and mother of George
2 CONT are buried in this Section. No record is found of the burial site of
2 CONT George.
2 CONT
2 CONT I finally located the death record of George, it indicates he died on
2 CONT November 18, 1943 at age 83 years, 8 months, and 26 days. His
2 CONT residense is listed as 827 Orchard St. Zanesville, Ohio. He apparently
2 CONT died of carsinomia of the liver.
2 CONT
2 CONT The death record indicates that he is buried in the greenwood
2 CONT cemetery, however, no record is shown at the cemetery. Apparently his
2 CONT burial was not recorded. Most likely he was buried in the Funk area
2 CONT mentioned above or maybe he was buried in the Fineral burial lot. His
2 CONT sister Margie or Margarett is the person listed as the informat on the
2 CONT death certificate. Location of the Fineral lot is shown above where
2 CONT Meggie Fineral (Funk) is buried. Apparently no marker was erected that
2 CONT I could find at either location in the Greenwood cemetery.
2 CONT
2 CONT The following Funks are buried in Section 12 Tier 2, Lot 10: Lewis C.
2 CONT Funk who purchased to lot, born 1929 and died January 1, 1891.
2 CONT Another Lewis Funk, son of Lewis C. born  1866 and died 1939 in
2 CONT Pittsburgh, Pa.  Margaret H. Funk born 1838, died May 15, 1919, wife
2 CONT of Lewis C. Funk and who also is my Great Great Grandparents.  One
2 CONT Stillborn child in 1899, and Frank Funk who I think was Lewis C.
2 CONT Funks' son also is listed as being born in Hattiesburg, Miss, born
2 CONT 1867, shot by accident and died on April 1909.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 Feb 1862
2 PLAC Memphis, Tn
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 Nov 1943
2 PLAC Zanesville, Oh
1 BURI
2 DATE 20 Nov 1943
2 PLAC Greenwood Cem. Zanesville, Oh
1 FAMS @F6@
1 FAMC @F20@
0 @I13@ INDI
1 NAME Clara Louise /Dennick/
1 SEX F
1 NOTE
2 CONT Dennick is a german name originally spelled Doenick, changed to
2 CONT Dennick and some used Denny. Clara Louise Dennick was born on March
2 CONT 24, 1864 in McConnelsville, Ohio, the daughter of John Dennick and
2 CONT Louisa Partesius.
2 CONT
2 CONT My Aunt Dorothy Hogan and my mother Ruth Ratliff were able to give me
2 CONT much information on Clara because Dorothy is her daughter and my
2 CONT mother often stayed with Clara and her children. There appears to be a
2 CONT special place in the hearts of aunt Dorothy and my mother for this
2 CONT lady, and after hearing her life story of events that took place both
2 CONT during her childhood and as an adult, I to was moved with conpassion
2 CONT for her.
2 CONT
2 CONT Sometime after the children were born, John Dennick, their father,
2 CONT decided that he did not want the children anymore, and against the
2 CONT will of his wife, gave up the children to be placed into other homes.
2 CONT Children were taken in by other families at that time mostly to be
2 CONT worked on farms and small business.
2 CONT
2 CONT Such an unnatural decision by John must have had a very dramatic
2 CONT effect on the children. Clara was placed into a boarding house in
2 CONT Zanesville to work for her keep.
2 CONT
2 CONT Clara as a young lady married George Washington Funke of Zanesville,
2 CONT Ohio on January 23, 1884, and had the following children while living
2 CONT at Zanesville on Marietta Road.
2 CONT
2 CONT 1  Elsie Bertie Funke, born September 1884 and married Roy Knapp and
2 CONT had children: Harriet, Jean, Nedra, and son Roy who died as an infant.
2 CONT  Elsie is buried in the Forrest Lawn Cemetery East of Columbus in the
2 CONT Mosonic area where my father Bradley William Ratliff is buried.
2 CONT
2 CONT 2  Earl John Lewis Funke, my grandfather, born October 30, 1886 and
2 CONT married Mary Leota McCall, my grandmother, and had Ruth Louis Funke my
2 CONT mother. Grandpa John is buried in the Forrest Lawn Cemetery in the
2 CONT Masonic area also.
2 CONT
2 CONT 3  Hazel Mae Funke, born March 23, 1891 and married Dean Deweese and
2 CONT had no children. Hazel is buried in the McConnelsville Cemetery beside
2 CONT her mother Clara.
2 CONT
2 CONT 4  Helen Margaret Funke, born May 10, 1893, and married Fred Head and
2 CONT had one child, Robert Head.
2 CONT
2 CONT 5  Katherine or Katie Marie Funke, born August 16, 1895, married Ray
2 CONT Jones, and had no children.  Both are buried in the Forrest Lawn
2 CONT Cemetery.
2 CONT
2 CONT 6  Dorothy Thelma Funke, born October 26, 1901 and married Twane Hogan
2 CONT and had one child, Virginia Ann.
2 CONT
2 CONT Sometime around 1902 or 1903 Clara and the children separated from
2 CONT George W. and she divorced him because of abuse most likely caused by
2 CONT his drinking. The Zanesville directory reflects that they last lived
2 CONT together as 125 Marietta Rd, Zanesville.
2 CONT
2 CONT After Clara divorced George, she had to take in washings, and hang
2 CONT wall paper to make money to live on. She sewed often and kept a big
2 CONT garden and some chickens.
2 CONT
2 CONT My mother Ruth stayed with Clara and the children and was partly
2 CONT raised by her after they moved to McConnelsville, Ohio
2 CONT
2 CONT The house were they lived in McConnelsville, was at the end of the
2 CONT iron bridge and my mother remembers the steam boats stopping to let
2 CONT off passengers and freight in Malta and then going across the
2 CONT Muskingum River to McConnelsville to do the same. Much excitement was
2 CONT created when the steam boats approched tooting their whistles to alert
2 CONT the town of their arrival.
2 CONT
2 CONT On the Mcconnelsville side at the bridge was a tobacco plant that made
2 CONT stoggies. Three of Clara's children made these stoggies by stripping
2 CONT the tobacco leaves from the stocks and rolling them into stoggies. A
2 CONT Great flood came and damaged the tobacco plant so that it could not
2 CONT operate.  The owner of the tobacco plant knew that the family was in
2 CONT financial difficulty so he had the tobacco plants brought to the house
2 CONT so they could continue to work during the flood.
2 CONT
2 CONT In 1918 Clara moved to Columbus next door to my mother Ruth on Hamlet
2 CONT Street along with aunt Katie who was still at home.
2 CONT
2 CONT In 1919 my mother Ruth, her father and mother Earl and Leota had gone
2 CONT to New Jersey to a funeral of one of Leota's sister's children that
2 CONT had died during a flu epidemic in New Jersey. On the way home someone
2 CONT came on the train to tell Earl Funke and family that his mother Clara
2 CONT had died in a Columbus hospital after a gall bladder attack and
2 CONT subsequent operation.  My mother said she has good memories of her
2 CONT grandmother Clara because she
2 CONT was so kind to her as a child. Clara was also a good christian lady
2 CONT who I think  was a roll model for my mother, and apparently had some
2 CONT influence because my mother is also a fine lady, respected and loved
2 CONT by the whole family.
2 CONT
2 CONT Clara died in Columbus, Ohio July 24, 1919 and is buried in
2 CONT McConnelsville, Ohio in the North East corner of the cemetery. She was
2 CONT only 54 years old when she was stricken with the gull bladder
2 CONT infection. This information is contained in the Morgan County
2 CONT Democratic Newspaper on July 21, 1919.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 Mar 1864
2 PLAC McConnelsville, Oh
1 DEAT
2 DATE 24 Jul 1919
2 PLAC Columbus, Oh
1 BURI
2 DATE 27 Jul 1919
2 PLAC McConnelsville, Oh
1 FAMS @F6@
1 FAMC @F22@
0 @I14@ INDI
1 NAME John H. /McCall/
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT John H. McCall born 29 July 1858. I have a copy of the marriage
2 CONT license when he married my great grandmother, Katherine (Moore) McCall
2 CONT in Zanesville, Oh on September 23, 1884. John is the son of Harlan and
2 CONT Anna McCall. John had two brothers and two sisters shown in notes of
2 CONT his father.  John first appears in the 1860 Zanesville census at age 2
2 CONT years
2 CONT
2 CONT The following children were born:
2 CONT
2 CONT Annie McCall born Sept 1890, who married a Johnson
2 CONT
2 CONT Mary Leota McCall, born July 1888, my grandmother married Earl John
2 CONT Funke (divorced)
2 CONT
2 CONT Lucinda McCall, born 1886, married a Webster.
2 CONT
2 CONT Lillian McCall, married a Gray
2 CONT
2 CONT John's occupation was a paper hanger and painter, in Zanesville. He
2 CONT was a handsome man my mother said. His picture is in the book.
2 CONT
2 CONT My mother and my aunt Dorothy (Funke) Hogan both described John McCall
2 CONT as a quiet, well liked, well mannered, gentleman. From the description
2 CONT of him I think he would be best described as an introvert. I think his
2 CONT wife, Katherine Moore would be best described as a extrovert.
2 CONT
2 CONT After the children were raised John and his wife Katherine separated
2 CONT and divorced. My mother said Katherine was a strong willed woman and
2 CONT appeared to be somewhat difficult to get along with. He did have a
2 CONT sister, named Emma, who took their mother to California in about 1913.
2 CONT John came to Columbus to visit his daughter Lucinda sometimes. John
2 CONT never remarried.  John died according to his death certificate on July
2 CONT 29, 1931. he was 73 years old at date of death. His residence at date
2 CONT of death was 308 North 7th Street, Zanesville, Oh. He is buried in
2 CONT Zanesville, Ohio at the Greenwood cemetery near the main entrance
2 CONT (Archway) SW 1/4 Tier 6 Lot 1 beside his father and mother Harlan and
2 CONT Anna McCall. See pictures of  here graves. John has no head stone or
2 CONT marker. It has either worn away or he never had one.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 Jul 1858
2 PLAC Zanesville Oh
1 DEAT
2 DATE 5 Nov 1931
2 PLAC Zanesville, Oh
1 BURI
2 DATE 9 Nov 1931
2 PLAC Zanesville, Oh, Greenwood Cem.
1 FAMS @F7@
1 FAMC @F25@
0 @I15@ INDI
1 NAME Katherine L. /Moore/
1 SEX F
1 NOTE
2 CONT Katherine L. Moore born July 1867, in Zanesville, Ohio, the daughter
2 CONT of Charles E Moore, and Lucinda E Greenwell.
2 CONT
2 CONT Katherine had two brothers, Theadore and Charles, called Thead and
2 CONT Charlie Moore. Thead owned a hotel on main street in Zanesville and
2 CONT was known as a big time gambler in Zanesville. My mother said Charlie
2 CONT never amounted to anything and owned nothing in his life.
2 CONT
2 CONT Her father and mother came from Pennsylvania by covered waggon over
2 CONT the Alleghany mountains. Among the belongings were 3 upholstered
2 CONT chairs. These chairs were given to Katherine when her parents passed
2 CONT on.
2 CONT
2 CONT Apparently her father Charles and wife Lucinda were well off
2 CONT financially, owning property and businesses. Charles her father had a
2 CONT buggy made especially for her, called a "Run-About" which had one seat
2 CONT and held two people. Katherine traveled all over Zanesville in her
2 CONT horse and buggy every day, weather permitting of course. Few people
2 CONT could afford such
2 CONT luxury in that time. My mother said she was a "corker" meaning most
2 CONT likely that she was somewhat flamboyant and outgoing.
2 CONT
2 CONT Katherine married John H. McCall on September 23, 1884 in Zanesville,
2 CONT Ohio and had the following children:
2 CONT
2 CONT Annie McCall who married a Johnson
2 CONT
2 CONT Mary Leota McCall, my grandmother who married Grandfather Earl John
2 CONT Lewis
2 CONT Funke.
2 CONT
2 CONT Lucinda McCall who married a Webster
2 CONT
2 CONT Lillian McCall who married a Gray.
2 CONT
2 CONT After raising the children, Katherine and John separated and divorced.
2 CONT Katherine remarried Charlie Lear and as my mother discribed him, he
2 CONT was a man of unfit caracter, about which I will not go into detail.
2 CONT
2 CONT Katherine was an enterprising lady and always seemed to be able to
2 CONT make enough money to live well above most people. Among her
2 CONT enterprises were restaurants in Zanesville and a boarding house
2 CONT located on 4th Street. I remember going to the boarding house when I
2 CONT was young to see her. My grandmother Mary Leota, who is her daughter,
2 CONT helped her run her businesses. She also owned a cottage at Buckere
2 CONT Lake, Oh, the 11th cottage down from the swimming pool and park.
2 CONT Apparently she inherited her father's traits as one who is destined to
2 CONT lead or be in some kind of business venture.
2 CONT
2 CONT Sometime in late 1924, during a cold night,the boarding house burned.
2 CONT During the fire neighbors carried out some of the furniture. Among the
2 CONT furniture were three chairs that I memtioned above as coming from
2 CONT Pennsylvania by covered waggon. These chairs were saved from the fire
2 CONT and were passed on from the Moore family to Katherine, to grandmother
2 CONT Mary Leota McCall and to my mother Ruth. Mom gave one chair to me, one
2 CONT to Wayne and one to Byron. Byron's wife Eileen gave me Byron's chair
2 CONT after his death. A newspaper artical about the fire was in the old
2 CONT Moore family Bible that I have along with many other records of
2 CONT births, deaths, marriages, locks of hair of deceased family members,
2 CONT dried flowers and other items.
2 CONT
2 CONT Katherine divored Charlie Lear and had her name reinstated to McCall
2 CONT who was her first husband.
2 CONT
2 CONT Katherine in her twilight years fell and broke her hip. It never
2 CONT healed, and she was given morphine as a pain killer during her last
2 CONT years. I remember going to see her at the Buckeye Lake cottage. She
2 CONT was blind at that time and soon passed on at the age of 90, on January
2 CONT 1, 1955.
2 CONT
2 CONT On May 13, 1993 I visited the grave of Great Grandmother Katherine L.
2 CONT McCall (Moore). She is buried in the Mt. Olive Catholic Cemetery on
2 CONT Greenwood ave. about one half mile east of the Greenwood Cemetery in
2 CONT Range 5, Section 5, Lot 29. Her brother Charles C. Moore 1856 to 1930
2 CONT is buried beside her and two infants of Mildred Moorehead, which would
2 CONT be Katherine's Great Grand children.
2 CONT
2 CONT On May 15, 1993, a beutiful day, I took my mother Ruth and my Great
2 CONT aunt  orothy to visit the graves of all of the family in the three
2 CONT cemeteries in Zanesville. They enjoyed the trip and dinner in
2 CONT Zanesville very much.
1 BIRT
2 DATE Jul 1867
2 PLAC Zanesville, Oh
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1 Jan 1955
2 PLAC Zanesville, Oh
1 BURI
2 DATE 4 Jan 1955
2 PLAC Mt Olive Cem. Zanesville, Oh
1 FAMS @F7@
1 FAMC @F23@
0 @I16@ INDI
1 NAME Enis /Ratliff/
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT
2 CONT Enis Ratliff is my Great Great Grandfather, born in 1814.  He had
2 CONT lived in Russell County, VA as well as Tazwell County and married Anny
2 CONT McMeans in October 1834. See copy of marriage record from Tazwell
2 CONT County attach. There is a cemetery in Burke's Garden of the McMeans
2 CONT family but I could not find Anny's or Enis's grave there.
2 CONT
2 CONT In the Russell County census in 1850, Ann's name appears as head of
2 CONT house hold without Enis. Enis died December 1949, at the age of 35.
2 CONT The following children appear on the census:
2 CONT
2 CONT
2 CONT 1.  Oscar, born 1835.
2 CONT
2 CONT 2.  Silas O. born 1838; later married Mary J. Hunt, January 1, 1887 in
2 CONT Russell County  Va.
2 CONT
2 CONT 3.  Rachel born 1840.
2 CONT
2 CONT 4.  Richard Sanders, my Great Grandfather,  born 1842,  married Ann
2 CONT Stump about 1860.
2 CONT
2 CONT 5.  John born 1844; later married Martha Elizabeth Broyles on October
2 CONT 13, 1868 at the head of the Clinch River, Tazwell County.  John's name
2 CONT is recorded on marriage record as Ratliffe.   And later apparently he
2 CONT used Ratcliffe.   John died June 6, 1931 at age of 87 years and 9
2 CONT months at Max Meadows, Wythe county, Va.  Martha is buried at the
2 CONT Glade   Spring Presbyterian church yard. She died October 23, 1924.
2 CONT
2 CONT 6.  Marjory E. born 1847; later married Edward Johnson on March 15,
2 CONT 1866 in Tazwell County.
2 CONT
2 CONT All marriage records that I have reflect Enis and Anny Ratliff as the
2 CONT parents of Silas, John, and Marjory.
2 CONT
2 CONT Also reflected on the 1850 Tazwell County census is a Lewis B. Ratliff
2 CONT living next door. He is likely a brother to Enis. Lewis and his family
2 CONT are listed on the unlinked decendent chart.
2 CONT
2 CONT The above confirms what Mrs. Virginia (Ratliff)  Kelly, who is a
2 CONT relative, told me in 1988 about Enis Ratliff being my Great Great
2 CONT Grandfather.
2 CONT
2 CONT Mrs Virginia Ratliff Kelly told me that she heard that Enis had died
2 CONT shortly after the children were born, of disease, and that the
2 CONT children were put out to other families to raise as was common at that
2 CONT time. His death  is recorded in the US Mortility Schedule as Dec 1849.
2 CONT
2 CONT There is some confusion at this point. Augustus George  Ratliff
2 CONT apparently was born in 1852, called Gus. He is shown on the 1860
2 CONT Census for the first time living with Richard S. and Ann, my Great
2 CONT Grandparents at age 8, and again on the 1870 census at age 18. I
2 CONT assume Enis is the father of Gus. Enis died December 1849 as recorded
2 CONT in the mortility schedule book in Russell Co. Va..The annals of
2 CONT Tazwell Co. reflects Augustus G. Ratliff and Granville Stump
2 CONT (brother-in-law) contributing labor in the amount of $5.00 each to the
2 CONT construction of a new church in Burkes Garden in 1869 or 1870.
2 CONT
2 CONT My Dad said that he was told that Gus moved with the family to
2 CONT Washington County and left there sometime after 1870 and went through
2 CONT Big Stone Gap into Kentucky.  Richard and Ann received a letter some
2 CONT time after that, stating that he got married and had seven girls and
2 CONT one boy. He was never heard from again.
2 CONT
2 CONT June 1996 update: Larry Ratliff provided me with the following
2 CONT information: Augustus G. Ratliff born 1853 in Tazwell Co.Va. married
2 CONT Jemima Sarah Horton born 1856 died 1930.
2 CONT She is most likely a daughter of one of the Horton families living in
2 CONT Burke's garden who lived in between Lewis B. Ratliff and Enis and
2 CONT Anne's families.  This is reflected in the 1850 census of Tazewell
2 CONT County.   They had 13 children all born in Elliot Co., Ky. In 1910
2 CONT they moved a few miles north to Boyd Co., Ky and around 1920 he moved
2 CONT to Ashland, Ky and built a house on Thomas Street. He was a business
2 CONT man in Ashland. He suffered a fatal stroke  on March 3, 1923 and was
2 CONT buried in a copper casket in the Ratliff Cemetery on Route 5 a few
2 CONT miles out of Ashland Ky.  I have pictures of Gus's gravestone.  See
2 CONT notes and unlinked chart on Gus and family.
2 CONT
2 CONT
2 CONT It was interesting to note the my father Bradley William., Grandfather
2 CONT Richard Granville., Great Grandfather Richard Sanders., and Great
2 CONT Great Grandfather Ennis all died in the month of December.  I am going
2 CONT to skip the month of December from now on.
2 CONT
2 CONT I recieved a letter from Larry Ratliff with some in formation about
2 CONT Enis. I appreciate Larry's willingness to assist me with gathering
2 CONT information about Enis. He supplied the following information that I
2 CONT did not have:  "The personal property taxes for Tazwell County,
2 CONT Virginia shows Enis (Spelled Ennis and Enos also) as paying taxes in
2 CONT the years 1833, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1840, 1841, 1843, 1844, 1846, and
2 CONT 1847. He wonders if 1848 is when Enis and Anny moved from Tazwell
2 CONT County to Russell County, Va because, the personal property tax lists
2 CONT of Russell County shows an Amos Ratliff (could be Enis) starting to
2 CONT pay taxes in 1848 and 1849, but not paying taxes in 1850.
2 CONT
2 CONT Enis died while living  in Russell county.  He possibly died of
2 CONT illness.   I believe he may be buried in Russell county.
2 CONT
2 CONT Anny remarried to Flemming Lewis in Tazwell Co. Va in 1854 and had at
2 CONT least one child
2 CONT See her story.
2 CONT
2 CONT Lewis B. Ratliff lived next door to Enis and Anna in Russell County as
2 CONT reflected in the 1850 census with wife Polly.  Because of the ages of
2 CONT Lewis and Enis and because they lived next to each other, this Would
2 CONT indicate that they were brothers.  Lewis is listed as being born in
2 CONT Wythe county and Patrick county also.  See notes on Lewis B. Ratliff.
2 CONT
2 CONT Some evidence points to Patrick Co, Va,  Wythe Co. Va. Montgomery Co.,
2 CONT Kee Co. Russell Co. and Tazwell Co. in trying to identify the parents
2 CONT of Ennis and Lewis B. Ratliff, and maybe a sister named Matilda. Larry
2 CONT Ratliff of St Albans WV has provided much information and research on
2 CONT Enis and who he believes are his ancestors.
2 CONT
2 CONT Although we do not have written proof from this point, much evidence
2 CONT would indicate that the ancestors listed are true and correct.  This
2 CONT search is continuing and if and when any new evidence turns up I will
2 CONT let everyone know.
1 BIRT
2 DATE abt 1814
1 DEAT
2 DATE Dec 1849
1 FAMS @F8@
1 FAMC @F131@
0 @I18@ INDI
1 NAME Bartley H. /Stump/
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT Bartley H. Stump born 1810 or 1813,(Census of 1850 and 60 differ)
2 CONT lived in Tazwell County, Va, married Polly Yost, same age, in June
2 CONT 1831. The German spelling of Stump is Stumph.
2 CONT
2 CONT Bartley was still living at age 72 in the 1880 Tazwell County census
2 CONT with Pauley Heneger, wife Leedenia and three children, listing Bartley
2 CONT as a Grandfather.
2 CONT
2 CONT On the 1870 census there is a Rebecca Stump listed as grandmother
2 CONT living with Richard Sanders Ratliff and his wife Ann Stump at age 80.
2 CONT Rebecca would have been born in 1790.
2 CONT
2 CONT Bartley's father who I believe is Crocket Stump, and family living in
2 CONT the There is mentioned also in Bartley's deed, the names of Terry
2 CONT Yost, David H. Yost, and David Stump which is his son.
2 CONT
2 CONT There must have been several marriages between the Stump and Yost
2 CONT families.
2 CONT
2 CONT Bartley's name was recorded as Bartlet in some records. Bartley could
2 CONT not read or write, as was the case of most people in the 1700 to 1850
2 CONT period.
2 CONT
2 CONT I have a copy of the marriage record of Bartley and Polly Yost being
2 CONT married on June 2, 1831. The marriage was performed by John Perry of
2 CONT Tazwell County, Va.
2 CONT
2 CONT The following children were born to Bartley and Polly that I know of:
2 CONT
2 CONT Ann, who is my Great Grandmother born June 6, 1840, married Richard
2 CONT Sanders Ratliff, my Great Grandfather.
2 CONT
2 CONT David, born 1835, married Nancy Reynolds, Feb 10, 1857. Nancy died and
2 CONT David married H. A. Edwards on November 29, 1860.
2 CONT
2 CONT Grandville H . born 1837, married Elizabeth Jane Johnson  on March 26,
2 CONT 1857.
2 CONT
2 CONT Henry, I do not have any information except that he was in the Civil
2 CONT War with David, Grandville, and my Grandfather Richard S. Ratliff.
2 CONT There is a John H. Stump who could be Henry that is listed as a
2 CONT confederate soldier (no dates) buried in the Emory Cemetery,
2 CONT Washington County.
2 CONT
2 CONT On the 1840 Tazwell County censes, Bartley's neighbors were Rhoda
2 CONT Stump, John Yost, Margaret Yost, and Henry Stump.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1813
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Tazwell County Va (Cedar Bluff)
1 FAMS @F9@
1 FAMC @F10@
0 @I19@ INDI
1 NAME Polly (Mary) /Yost/
1 SEX F
1 NOTE
2 CONT Polly Yost born 1810, married Bartley Stump on June 2, 1831. See notes
2 CONT of Bartley Stump for children and other information.
2 CONT
2 CONT The book by Gose listed below, apparently has an error in Polly's
2 CONT name, listing it as Mary. All other documents indicate her name as
2 CONT Polly.  I have chosen to reflect the name as Polly Mary Yost in this
2 CONT record.  Bartley Stump married only once in Tazwell County according
2 CONT to marriage records. Polly's name was evidently Mary also.
2 CONT
2 CONT Polly's parents were John Yost Sr. and Adeline Cooper.
2 CONT
2 CONT It was brought to my attention that the name of Polly is a nickname
2 CONT for Mary, thus clarifying the confusion regarding Polly's name.
2 CONT
2 CONT Much information is known about the Yost family as recorded in the
2 CONT book "Pioneers of Va., by George Gose. The history of the family dates
2 CONT back to Switzerland in the year 1712.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1812
1 FAMS @F9@
1 FAMC @F11@
0 @I20@ INDI
1 NAME Crocket /Stump/
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT
2 CONT Crocket Stump was married to Mary Doad. Taken from birth records in
2 CONT Tazwell County, Va. Mary died of consumption on Oct 8, 1860, on the
2 CONT Clinch River, Tazwell County.
2 CONT
2 CONT Crocket married Virginia Stump and they had a child named Harriet born
2 CONT July 7, 1866.
2 CONT
2 CONT I have some doubts on the father and mother of Bartley Stump, being
2 CONT Crocket Stump. I have several deeds and other records, but am still in
2 CONT doubt. More research is needed on this one.
1 FAMS @F10@
1 FAMC @F12@
0 @I22@ INDI
1 NAME John Sr. /Yost/
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT John Yost Sr. born 1777, and died 1876 in Tazwell Co. Va. He married
2 CONT first Christine Woland in 1799. She was the daughter of John Jocob
2 CONT Woland and Catherine Bickle. Christine Woland Yost died without issue
2 CONT of children and John married again in 1802 Adeline Cooper, the
2 CONT daughter of John Cooper and Elizabeth Wilson. John was 99 years old
2 CONT when he died. The children of John and Adeline were:
2 CONT
2 CONT Lorenzo Yost, born 1803, married "take notice" Poly Ann Stump
2 CONT
2 CONT Henry Yost, married April 8, 1830 to Temperance Benham.
2 CONT
2 CONT Adeline Yost, married January 29, 1824 to John Grills.
2 CONT
2 CONT Polly Mary Yost, who is actually Polly. This name has been checked on
2 CONT other documents. For this record I have chosen to record her name as
2 CONT Polly Mary. Notice below that there is a Mary Yost below sister to
2 CONT Polly. Likely this is where the error happened.  Polly Yost born 1810
2 CONT or 1813, married Bartley Stump, and they are my Great Great
2 CONT Grandparents.
2 CONT
2 CONT John Yost Jr. born 1818, died 1883, married October 13, 1839 to
2 CONT Elizabeth Stump, the daughter of George Stump.
2 CONT
2 CONT Euphemia Yost, married January 30, 1841 to Daniel Hagy.
2 CONT
2 CONT David Yost, born 1822, married August 24, 1843 to Hannah Wolf.
2 CONT
2 CONT Julia Yost, married July 15, 1852 to "take notice" Edward McMeans.
2 CONT
2 CONT Mary Yost, born February 2, 1807, married August 11, 1825 to John Gose
2 CONT and moved to Indiana. John Gose is decendent of the author of the Yost
2 CONT family history book.
2 CONT
2 CONT John Cooper Yost, born January 20, 1809, moved to Illinois.
2 CONT
2 CONT Margaret Yost, born June 5, 1813, married October 11, 1842 to Abraham
2 CONT Groseclose.
2 CONT
2 CONT William Owen Yost, born September 5, 1818, died May 24, 1890 in
2 CONT Tazwell County, Va, married Elizabeth Jane Whitman.
2 CONT
2 CONT Fletcher Harris Yost, born January 15, 1821, moved to Illinois.
2 CONT
2 CONT Henry Adam Yost, born September 23, 1823, married Gillie Ann Shrader.
2 CONT He was a Captain in Co. K, 45th Infantry, of the Confederate Army.
2 CONT Richard Sanders Ratliff, my great grandfather was assigned to Company
2 CONT C of the 45th Infantry.
2 CONT
2 CONT Lewis Marshall Yost, born Aril 26, 1826 married May 14, 1848 to Julia
2 CONT A. Spangler.
2 CONT
2 CONT Jane Yost, born May 1830, died August 17, 1831 as a baby.
2 CONT
2 CONT Great Great Grandma Polly had 15 brothers and sisters.
2 CONT
2 CONT John was born the same year, 1777, that his grandfather Hans Casper
2 CONT Yost
2 CONT died.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1777
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1876
2 PLAC Tazwell County Va (Cedar Bluff)
1 FAMS @F11@
1 FAMC @F13@
0 @I23@ INDI
1 NAME Adeline /Cooper/
1 SEX F
1 NOTE
2 CONT
2 CONT Adeline Cooper was the second wife of John Yost Sr. and mother of all
2 CONT of
2 CONT his children. She was the daughter of John Cooper and Elizabeth
2 CONT Wilson.
2 CONT
2 CONT John and Adeline had 16 children as listed in John's notes.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1782
1 FAMS @F11@
0 @I24@ INDI
1 NAME Michael Jr /Stump/
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT Michael Stump appears on several deeds of land to members of his
2 CONT family. Polly is his wife as mentioned on his will of 1832.
2 CONT
2 CONT At this time the line of decent is unclear. I don't know if Michael is
2 CONT the father of Bartley or Grandfather.
1 DEAT
2 DATE Jan 1832
2 PLAC Tazwell County, Va
1 FAMS @F12@
1 FAMC @F30@
0 @I25@ INDI
1 NAME Polly /Stump/
1 SEX F
1 NOTE I do not know Polly's maiden name.  Polly is a nick name for Mary
2 CONT also.
2 CONT
2 CONT Polly appears as wife of Michael Stump on several deeds to the family.
2 CONT
2 CONT At this time I am uncertain if Crocket is his son and father to
2 CONT Bartley.
2 CONT
2 CONT Michael and Anna may be Bartley father and mother. Need more info.
1 FAMS @F12@
0 @I26@ INDI
1 NAME Henry Sr. /Yost/
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT Henry was born in Pennsylvania in 1749, and died at Staunton, Va in
2 CONT 1803, married at Harpers Ferry, to Mary Waggoner with dob 1752, and
2 CONT died 1819, in Wyth County Va.
2 CONT
2 CONT Henry was a Lieutenant in the 4th Regiment of Maryland, Continental
2 CONT Army, and he also made rifles for the militia and the continental
2 CONT line.
2 CONT
2 CONT The 11 children of Henry and Mary are:
2 CONT
2 CONT John Yost Sr. (G.G.G.Grandfather) born 1777 (see notes on John)
2 CONT
2 CONT Cooper Yost, no information.
2 CONT
2 CONT Elizabeth Yost, born 1775, died 1851, Middlebrook, Va, married May 23,
2 CONT 1793, to John David Greiner, Jr.
2 CONT
2 CONT Rebecca Yost, born 1779, died at Staunton, Va 1850, married June 22,
2 CONT 1796 to Sampson Egan.
2 CONT
2 CONT Henry Yost, Jr. born 1780, died 1846, married Polly Earley.  Sold land
2 CONT to his brother Casper in 1818 in Wyth County and moved to the West.
2 CONT
2 CONT Mary Yost, born 1782, died 1854 at Christinsburg, Va. married November
2 CONT 6, 1800 to Robert Douthat.
2 CONT
2 CONT James Casper Yost, born May 7, 1785, at Staunton, Va. Died January 4,
2 CONT 1850 in Wyth Co. Va, married Feb. 16, 1806 to Euphemia Hughes Bickle
2 CONT born in Augusta Co. Sept 22, 1787 and died April 18, 1862 in Wyth Co.
2 CONT Casper was a Justice in Wythe Co. in 1807. He was a farmer, wagonmaker
2 CONT and an itinerant minister.  In the Aster Library in New York, City,
2 CONT there is a history of missionary or itinerant Methodist ministers in
2 CONT S. W. Virginia, showing a wood cut of Casper Yost sitting in a pulpit
2 CONT chair.
2 CONT
2 CONT David Greiner Yost born 1793, died 1845.
2 CONT
2 CONT Jacob Yost born 1795, died in Kentucky, married Catherine Baker.
2 CONT
2 CONT William Yost, twin to Jacob, born 1795, died 1833.
2 CONT
2 CONT George Washington Yost, died in Tennessee.
2 CONT
2 CONT Henry was 27 years old when the Declaration of Independence was
2 CONT adopted by the Continental Congress in 1776, proclaiming independence
2 CONT from the 13 British Colonies in American.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1749
2 PLAC Pennsylvania
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1803
2 PLAC Staunton, Va
1 FAMS @F13@
1 FAMC @F19@
0 @I27@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Waggoner/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1752
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1819
2 PLAC Wythe Co. Va
1 FAMS @F13@
0 @I30@ INDI
1 NAME Conrad /Farris/
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT Conrad Farris was born on May 9, 1803, the son of William Farris and
2 CONT Agnes A Anderson. Conrad married Elizabeth Robinson, born November 18,
2 CONT 1800 and lived in Virginia. Conrad was one of thirteen children, ten
2 CONT boys and three girls.
2 CONT
2 CONT Conrad and Elizabeth had ten children, 4 boys and 6 girls, as follows:
2 CONT
2 CONT James who died when he was a child.
2 CONT
2 CONT William A. married Nancy Pierce.
2 CONT
2 CONT John Farris, my Great Grandfather, married Rachel Vaught.
2 CONT
2 CONT Nancy Farris married John Pickle.
2 CONT
2 CONT Anna Farris married Ben Hopkins./
2 CONT
2 CONT George W. died as a young adult.
2 CONT
2 CONT Lucinda married Smyth Pierce.
2 CONT
2 CONT Virginia remained single.
2 CONT
2 CONT Vina married Mitch Cress.
2 CONT
2 CONT Conrad was killed at a toll gate during the Civil War in Smyth County,
2 CONT Virginia. Elizabeth married again later to Silas Wolf.
2 CONT
2 CONT Source of this ;information was taken from records of George
2 CONT Washington Farris, written on October 7, 1901.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 May 1803
2 PLAC Smyth Co Va
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1862
2 PLAC Smyth Co Va
1 FAMS @F15@
1 FAMC @F16@
0 @I31@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Robinson/
1 SEX F
1 NOTE
2 CONT I will be checking to see is Elizabeth Robinson is related to Mahlan
2 CONT Robinson, a friend of the Ratliff family and the author of the book
2 CONT that I mentioned earlier about Glade Spring, called Memories of an Old
2 CONT Man.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 Nov 1800
2 PLAC Smyth Co Va ?
1 FAMS @F15@
0 @I32@ INDI
1 NAME William /Farris/
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT William Farris married Agnes A Anderson, and moved to Chilhowie,
2 CONT Sulphur
2 CONT Springs, Va. They had 13 children, ten boys and three girls. Conrad
2 CONT being
2 CONT the fourth child born I believe.
2 CONT
2 CONT Children of this marriage were:
2 CONT
2 CONT Edward married Mary Bishop, had 2 boys and 1 girl, 2nd wife Kessiah
2 CONT Blandlesberg.
2 CONT
2 CONT Peter married Anna Buchanan, moved to Tenn, had 6 boys and 6 girls.
2 CONT
2 CONT Thomas married Mary Dugan. had 5 boys and 8 girls.
2 CONT
2 CONT Conrad, my Great, Great Grandfather, had 4 boys and 6 girls.
2 CONT
2 CONT Samuel married Lydia Buchanan, had 9 boys and 8 girls.
2 CONT
2 CONT James married Mary Buchanan, had 3 boys and 3 girls.
2 CONT
2 CONT George married Prisilia Privit, moved to Tenn. had 5 boys and 5 girls
2 CONT
2 CONT William married Nancy Bogwell, had 9 boys and 1 girl. 2nd wife Marum
2 CONT Pulley.
2 CONT
2 CONT Anderson married Joanna Tharp, moved to Ark., had 2 boys and 3 girls.
2 CONT
2 CONT Mark married Delila Dale, had 1 boy and 3 girls.
2 CONT
2 CONT Vina married James Buchanan, moved to Ill, had 5 boys and 3 girls.
2 CONT
2 CONT Ann married Wilson Dugan, moved to Mo., had 2 boys and 2 girls.
2 CONT
2 CONT Nancy married Richard Boldwine, moved to Ky and had 8 children.
2 CONT
2 CONT William, Agnes and nine of their children moved to Illinois in 1854 or
2 CONT 1855. Conrad remained in Virginia.
2 CONT
2 CONT James Buchanan and wife Vina Farris, daughter of William and Agnes,
2 CONT also
2 CONT moved at the same time to Illinois with their eight children, five
2 CONT boys,
2 CONT and 3 girls. James, Vina and all eight children died with Cholera soon
2 CONT after moving to Illinois.
2 CONT
2 CONT William and Agnes had an astounding, 13 children and 109 grand
2 CONT children.
2 CONT
2 CONT Source of information taken from records of George Washington Farris,
2 CONT as
2 CONT recorded in writing on October 7, 1901.
1 FAMS @F16@
0 @I38@ INDI
1 NAME John /Vaught/
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT John Vaught married Polly (maiden name unknown)
2 CONT
2 CONT John and Polly are the parents of Rachael Elizabeth Vaught, who
2 CONT married John Farris.
1 FAMS @F18@
0 @I39@ INDI
1 NAME Polly /Vaught/
1 SEX F
1 NOTE
2 CONT Polly Vaught (mainden name is unknown), born December 8, 1819, married
2 CONT John Vaught.
2 CONT
2 CONT Polly is the mother of Rachel Elizabeth Vaught Farris. Polly died
2 CONT April 6, 1901, and is buried in the Farris Cemetery.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 Dec 1819
1 DEAT
2 DATE 6 Apr 1901
2 PLAC Washington County, Va
1 BURI
2 DATE Apr 1901
2 PLAC Farris Cemetery Wash.County, Va
1 FAMS @F18@
0 @I40@ INDI
1 NAME Hans Casper /Yost/
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT Hans Casper Yost, born 1712 near Langnan in the Emmen Valley,
2 CONT Switzerland, came to America August 17, 1733, landing at Philadelphia
2 CONT from the Ship Samuel.  He settled in Lancaster Borough near Swatare,
2 CONT Pennsylvania where he built his rock home. Casper died in 1777 in
2 CONT George Towne Hundred in lower Fredrick County, Maryland. He had a son,
2 CONT Henry who in my G G G G G Grandfather, (that's 5 greats).
2 CONT
2 CONT It is possible that a Jocob and Philip, of the record in Rowan County,
2 CONT North Carolina, were also his sons.
2 CONT
2 CONT The source of information on the Yost family came from the book
2 CONT "Pioneers of Va., by George Gose, from census taken in Tazwell, Co.
2 CONT and marriages between the Stump, Ratliff, and Yost families.
2 CONT
2 CONT It should be noted here that Hans came to America 41 years prior to
2 CONT the establishing of the Continental Congress which ran the government
2 CONT from  1774 to 1789. George Washington became president of The United
2 CONT States in 1789.  Hans Casper Yost died three years after the Congress
2 CONT was established.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1712
2 PLAC Langnan, Switzerland
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1777
2 PLAC George Town Hundred, Md
1 FAMS @F19@
0 @I42@ INDI
1 NAME Lewis C. /Funke/
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT
2 CONT Lewis Funke born 1829 immigrated from Hamburg, Germany, apparently
2 CONT with a brother, to Pittsburg, Pa. Lewis left and went to Zanesville,
2 CONT Oh. He met Margaret Fletcher Crozier of Zanesville and they were
2 CONT married in Zanesville.
2 CONT
2 CONT They left sometime before the Civil War and went to Memphis, TN and
2 CONT started a bakery business. During the Civil War the Funke family were
2 CONT known as northerners and the local people were suspicious of them. The
2 CONT Confederate Army took over the bakery to feed the soldiers.
2 CONT
2 CONT Lewis and Margaret apparently were well off financially until the
2 CONT bakery was taken. They had a black nanny to help raise the children.
2 CONT With the bakery gone they went broke.
2 CONT
2 CONT Their children were according to the 1880 census of Zanesville were:
2 CONT
2 CONT Emma born 1860, Great Grandfather George Washington born February 22,
2 CONT 1862, Lewis born 1865, Anna Virginia born 1873, Margaret known as
2 CONT Maggie born 1877 who was 99 years old when she died, Frank born 1880.
2 CONT and Henry, of Pittsburg, who was most likely Lewis's brother.
2 CONT Apparently the census listing Frank born 1880 is incorrect because at
2 CONT the Greenwood cemetery Frank is listed as being born in 1867 in
2 CONT Hattiesburg, Miss. Apparently after losing the bakery, Lewis and his
2 CONT family went to Mississippi for a period of time before returning to
2 CONT Zanesville