- RICKETTS FUNERAL FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT McGUIRE HOME
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 0'clock at the home of Mrs. Samuel H. McGuire, near Canal Lewisville, for Anthony Ricketts, aged 87, who died Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock after an extended illness of senile gangrene. Mr. Ricketts died at the home of his daughter Mrs. S.H. McGuire. Burial will be made at Oak Ridge Cemetery, this city.
Mr. Ricketts had been bedfast for a year at the home of his daughter.
Anthony W. Ricketts was born on a farm two miles west of Roscoe, March 30, 1834. He was united in marriage to Miss Mary Jane Wilkin, Sept. 30, 1856. To this union were born nine children. They are: Mrs. S.H. McGuire, of near Canal Lewisville; Mrs. Henrietta Wolfe, Cleveland,O.; A.J. Ricketts, of this city, Mrs. Delia Bown, of Kansas City; W.A. Ricketts, Nevada, Iowa; Mrs. Anna Hinderlang, Omaha, Neb.; G.W. Ricketts, Coshocton. Two children, Mrs. Dollie Dawson and James Ricketts are dead. His wife preceded him to the grave several years ago.
He followed the occupation of a farmer and lived on the home farm where he was born until he was 60 years old. Long after the death of his first wife, Mr. Ricketts married Mrs. Kate Parks Howell of Linton, Ind. He and his wife moved to Linton, where they lived until six years ago, when they returned to the Canal Lewisville Community. Later they returned to Indiana where Mrs. Ricketts died.
Besides his children, he is survived by his sister, Mrs. Nancy Finnell, aged 89 of Seattle, Wash. and 28 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.
*The Coshocton Tribune Thursday Evening December 15, 1921
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