Gabriel  (Hawkeye) Ritchie was the son of Isom Ritchie & Martha Patrick.  He was born 1838 in Perry Co, Ky.  He died July 16^th, 1917, in Madison County, Arkansas.  He is found on the 1850 Perry County Census, age 13, his father and mother moved to Arkansas sometime after 1850, so he was a young boy when the family traveled to Arkansas.  Several uncles and aunts and cousins all moved to Arkansas after 1850.
He enlisted Nov 12, 1862 in the Union Army, 1st Arkansas Cavalry.  He homesteaded 160 acres in Madison County, Arkansas.  May 10^th, 1882, Homestead Certificate #2344.  Gabriel Ritchie is buried in the Dutton Cemetery in Madison County, Arkansas.
He served on the Liberty Dist #82, Madison County School Board.
He is listed on the 1860 Mooney Township Census, Madison Co, Ar. #740.
He is listed on the 1870 Hilburn Township Census, Madison Co, Ar.
November 1897 Bethlehem Primitive Baptist church, received brother Hawkeye Ritchie by experience to be baptized at our next meeting, October 1898.  By motion and second, the church excluded brother Hawkeye Ritchie for failing to be baptized, done by order of the church, Madison Co, Arkansas.
Gabriel Ritchie first married *Maggie Caroline Dearmore, born 1845 in Tennesse.  They married January 13^th, 1861 in Franklin Co, Arkansas.  She was the daughter of Bryant Dearmore and Sara W Slayton.  They were married by W D. Abernathy.
Gabriel (Haweye) Ritchie married a second time to Mary (Polly) Prater, born 1851 in Arkansas.
Their children were:
1. Murida Ritchie, born 1869; married Lousia Martin, the daughter of James Martin.
2. Armenta Ritchie, born 1871; married Daniel Martin born 1873.
3. Isom Ritchie, born 1876
4. Miles Ritchie, born 1879; married Joanna Newberry; second marriage to Nancy Estep, born 1883.
5. Martha Patsy Jane Ritchie married John Elbert Adkins.  He died and she married John Bryan, born 1883.
6. Naomi Ritchie, born 1884; married Matthew Shipp.
7. Frank Ritchie, born 1889; married Martha Pearlie Ritchie.
 *Maggie Caroline Dearmore was the sister of Amanda Dearmore who married Henry Crocket Ritchie, the brother of  Gabriel Ritchie, two Ritchie men married two Dearmore sisters.

HENRY CROCKETT RITCHIE

Contributed by Susan Fahnstrom

Henry Crocket Ritchie was the son of Isom Ritchie and Martha Patsy Patrick.  Henry was born  in Perry  County, Kentucky in 1843.  Henry married Amanda Adeline Dearmore on June 15^th, 1861 in Franklin County, Arkansas by Justice of the Peace W.W. Stephens. Amanda was born on Jan 29^th, 1842 in Tennessee, the daughter of Bryant Dearmore.
Henry volunteered for service on November 12^th, 1861 with the Union Army during the Civil War. He served with Company A, 1^st Arkansas 
Cavalry under Joshua Dudley. He was discharged on August 23^rd, 1865.
After the war, we find Henry and Amanda living in Madison County, Arkansas, next door to her brother E. J Dearmore. By this time the 
Ritchies have  three children: George W, age eight years old, Matthew L, age four years old and Cordelia, age two years old. Henry was a 
farmer at this time.  Sometime in the next ten year period, this family moved to Logan County, Arkansas. In the 1880 Census, we find them residing in the township of Roseville. They have added three more children to their family,  Andrew J, age nine years old, Lydia M, age seven and Emily, age three months old.  Henry was listed as a retail grocer at this time. Between the years of 1880 and 1885, three more children were born: Eva, 1882, Laura Alice, 1883, and Minnie was born in 1885.
Laura Alice Ritchie later married Thomas Henry Sanders. Henry and Amanda also parented five other children that did not live to maturity.
In 1900, this family was living in Paris, Logan County,  then McIntosh County, Oklahoma. Andrew J lived in Yell County with his eleven children, then McIntosh County, Oklahoma.  Lydia M raised her ten children by the name of Black in Logan County, then moved to McIntosh County, Oklahoma. Evaline married a Ladd and had three children, then she married  Hugh N Dearmore and had two more children. They lived in Blue Mountain, Arkansas and Bowie, Texas.  Emma first married a Ladd and had one son, who was raised a Cranfill and had five children, who were raised in Paris, Arkansas and Vian, Oklahoma.
Laura Alice married married  Thomas Henry Sanders and had fourteen children, twelve lived to maturity. These children were born and raised in
Logan County. Minnie had two children, who were raised in Sebastian County, Arkansas. 
Thus Henry and Amanda had seventy four grandchildren that lived to maturity.  Henry was a proud member of the Masonic Lodge. He died 
June 17^th, 1917 and is buried in the National Cemetery, Fort Smith, Arkansas.  Amanda died at the age of eighty three on March 21^st, 1926 
and she is buried in the Oakwood cemetery in Paris, Arkansas.

 ISOM AND MARTHA PATRICK RITCHIE

Contributed by Susan Christine Fahnstrom

 Isom Ritchie, son of Alexander Crockett Ritchie & Susan Elizabeth Grigsby, was born c1813-1817 in Perry County, KY and died November 
1889 in Madison, Co. 
He was robbed and shot.  He died the next day.   He is buried in Yale Cemetery.  Isom married Martha "Patsy" Patrick, the daughter of Hugh 
Patrick and Barbara Bailey, in 1834 in Perry Co, KY.  They immigrated with other family members from Perry Co, KY to Arkansas shortly after 1850.
Martha was born in 1817 in Clay Co. or Floyd Co., KY.  Martha died in 1918 in Madison Co., AR.  She is buried in Huntsville, AR.
Isom and Martha both lived to be over one hundred years old.
Isom and  Martha’s  children were:
HIRAM RITCHIE born 1836 in Perry Co, KY married Margaret Adeline White.  Also have him married to Phoebe (Euphemy) Patrick April 8, 1834 in 
Hammonds Gap, Perry Co., KY.  She was the daughter of Hugh and Barbara Bailey Patrick.  Their children were:  Marcum, Alexander, Elizabeth,
Lucinda, Christopher, Selta, Elias, Mary, Catherine, John C., Clarissa and Yanta Tony.
GABRIEL RITCHIE  (See bio on this page)
EPHRAIM RITCHIE born 1839 in Perry Co, KY, fell off a barge in the river drown in the Mississippi River on his way to Arkansas from 
Kentucky, his body was never found.
HENRY CROCKETT RITCHIE   (See bio on this page)
BARBARA RITCHIE born Jan 1, 1844 in Perry Co, KY married John Davis. Barbara died Aug 23, 1923 in Johnson Co, AR.  She is buried in the 
Patterson Springs Cemetery, Johnson Co.  John and Barbara's children were:  Martha Jane, Gabriel A., Theopolis O., Mary F., Betheny, Winessa Belle,
Mary Ellen, Diana, Parlee, Solomon Roger, and Malisy. 
JAMES MONROE RITCHIE born 1846 in Perry Co, KY married Deliah Jane Smith.
MILES HENRY RITCHIE  (See bio for Vicy Jane Acord Ritchie:  http://genealogytrails.com/ark/john/bios.html)
MALISSA ANN RITCHIE was born 1850/1852 in Saint Paul, Arkansas.  She first married George Morris.  George died and Malissa 
married her cousin, John Ritchie, son of Nicholas and Nancy Patrick Ritchie.  John was born in 1838 in Perry County KY.  
He died in 1880 in Madison County, AR.  
John and Malissa Ritchie's children included:  Mary E., b. 1869; Hardin, b. 1871; Nancy C., b. 1875; Nicholas, b. 1877; and Minerva , b. 1897.
Malissa Ann married a third time to Benjamin Franklin Grigsby in 1880/1885.  They had a son, Francis Marion Grigsby.
SOLOMON RITCHIE born 1854 in Madison County, Arkansas.  He married Martha E. Harris, the daughter of James Jackson Harris and 
Julia Ann Collins.  Their children included:  John William, b. Feb 1, 1881 in Pettigrew, AR; Hiram Eli, b. Feb. 26, 1884 in Pettigrew; d. Feb 21, 1957.
Married Minnie M. Acord.  James Nicholas, b. Nov 7, 1887; d. 1908; married Dora Gilbert.  Minnie Mae, b. Mar 27, 1893; d. Feb 17, 1957.
Polly Jane, b. Sept 7, 1894 in Pettigrew; d. Aug 27, 1982; md. John T. Hignite.  Mary Anna, b. Jul 17, 1898; d. 1900.  Jessie Coleman, b. July 12, 1901;
d. Mar 11, 1969; md. Bertha Riley.