This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0k.2ADE/254.364.373.507.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Stella, I saw your posted message. Luella May was my grandfather's sister. My grandfather was Thomas Jefferson Ritchison. So that would make us second cousins. I would love to exchange information with you. A number of years ago I exchanged information with someone and receive some information on Luella and Fred Morrow. Unfortunatly I can't find who sent if. Your grandmother died before my father was born so he didn't even remember her name so I didn't find about her until he passed in 1989. The Ritchisons have really been hard to trace. I suspected that they are related to Abraham and Walter but I haven't located the connection. Luella and Thomas were the children of George Washington Ritchison and Rebecca Becknell. (I'm not positive of Rebecca's last name--another brick wall) I believe that George's father was James Ritchison. According to the census James was born in Virginia. So were Abraham and Walter. With the same unusal last name and with all three being born in VA i! t seem that there to much to just be coincedance. If you would like to reach me my email address is [email protected]