In a message dated 2/1/01 1:30:03 PM Pacific Standard Time, dorisb@primary.net writes: > , I > >talked to someone else who was looking for there family in Ritchey and they > >had the same experience with people in Ritchey. > ================ > Hello Pat, > I read your posting with interest. Believe I was the person you had talked > to about the Ritchey cemetery. > My GG Grandfather and his second wife were bushwracked on theIr land that > touched on the SW edge of Ritchey in 1862. If they aren't buried on their > land they are in that cemetery. All of his children and their children were > born in and around Ritchey. Don't see how a village can treat their past > and pioneers in such a manner. My Barbee family was there before Ritchey > existed but the only past they will talk about is the early 1900s. They > only want pictures on the Ritchey site of buildings that existed in living > memory. Families that lived later on the orginal Barbee land get their just > due, but before that you would think even the land didn't exist. > Got more to say on the subject but I may have already wore out my welcome. >