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/mh.2ADI/267.2 Message Board Post: John's parents were George Ritter and Catharine Shaffer. They were married in Tuscarawas Co., OH on 23 Sep 1824, where John was born. George was listed as a "Dunkard" minister in the 1850 census but subsequently moved to Lake Co., OH where he died in 1855. John married the Sarah Jane Taylor in Lake Co and then moved with his brother Abraham (my great-grandfather) to Kosciusko. John then spent much of his life in MN where Jane died in the 1870's. John's son Erwin came to live with my great-grandparents after Jane died and the two youngest daughters were adopted or fostered by two other sisters of John.