I have a Merrill and his son Andrew Ritchey. Merrill married into the Goodwin family that lived in Haynesville since 1860. He married in Mississippi though. Merrill drowned in the Little Red River while in the Civil War. In 1963 Clinton Goodwin (son of Delbert G. {son of C. R. G.} & Sallie G.{daughter of John Thomas G.})said that Andrew Richey's descendants lived near Monticello & Warren, Arkansas. Ley