Morgan County IN Archives Obituaries.....Ritchie, James, Rev. February 16, 1890
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The Franklin Democrat, Friday, February 21, 1890
A dispatch from Martinsville to the Sentinel of Monday says:  "Rev. James Ritchie,
aged eighty-six, 
an active minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian church for the past sixty-three
years, died in this 
city last evening. He was born in Barren County, Kentucky, near Glasgow, June 18,
1804, and came 
to Indiana when quite young and began preaching as an itinerant at first, when he
had ten counties in 
his district. He visited his charges in all kinds of weather on horseback, and
became familiar with the 
hardships and sufferings of the early pioneers of this state. He was one of the
founders of Lincoln 
university of Lincoln, Ill., and was the financial agent for that institution for a
great many years. His 
death was caused by heart failure.  

Mr. Ritchie was mayor of Franklin during the war and his wife also taught school in
this city.

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