This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rich Ballard Pepperdine Wiese Rickloff Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RRB.2ACE/561.1.1 Message Board Post: I am a decendant of the Leonard Rich Family. He had a son Hiram Hiram was my Grandfather's Grandfather. Hiram married Mary Rich (Phillip Rich decendent)They had two girls - Inez and Georgia. Then he married Ella Pepperdine. Ella's parents were Harriet Rich (daughter of Calvin and Hannah Rich) and William Pepperdine. They had twins Raymond Jesse and Rosamond. It seems Rosamond died at birth. Raymond Jesse Rich married Bessie Ballard (Otto, NY) They had 4 children, Millicent, Lillian, Raymond Hiram Rich, and Rosamond. Millicent Rich Horth and Lillian Rich Johnson wrote a history of the Rich/Pepperdine family. There is a copy of this document at the New York State Library in Albany and at the DAR library in Washington DC. I have not seen this history. Niether library allows it to circulate. So I guess I will have to take a trip to New York to read it. Raymond Hiram Rich married Alberta Augusta Wiese (Otto, NY) They had two sons Peter Jark Rich and James Hiram Rich Peter is my father. Peter Rich married Nancy Amelia Rickloff They had 7 children I am interested in the ancestory of this family. We are decendents of Arad and Calvin and Phillip Rich