Larry, I saw your query on the Rich-List. I cut and pasted the information below from the footnotes that I made to an 1890 letter that Belle my Great Aunt Belle Ritch wrote to my Grandmother Ida Blanche Ritch. Belle was visiting relatives in Hollins, AL and Ida was at home in Muscogee Co GA. In the letter Belle talks about their sister, Nona, who has returned to GA from TX. She mentions a Cliff who was in fact a girl, but Clifford is a family name in my Ritch line. In fact, I had a Great Uncle named Clifford Ritch. Read my notes below and let me know if anything rings a bell. Nona Ritch Boswell returned to GA from TX but some of the Ritches stayed in TX. I am not familiar with TX geography so you will need to decide if my Ritches or Boswells were anywhere close to where you first find your Ritches. Here are my footnotes: (1) I assume that the Cliff whom Belle referenced here [in the Letter] is Clifford Allene BOSWELL, the approximately two year old daughter of her sister Nona RITCH BOSWELL. Of course, I believe that Belle and Ida had a younger brother called Cliff, usually listed as C. H. RITCH. (2) Who is referenced here is not stated, but it is most certainly Belle and Ida's older sister, Nona, and her approximately two year old daughter, Clifford "Cliff" Allene BOSWELL. From what is said in the letter, Nona was close enough for Ida to give her a message. [Nona and her husband had returned from TX to GA with their young daughter.] (3) In 1888, approximately two years before Belle's letter, Nona gave birth to her daughter, Clifford Allene BOSWELL, in Mansfield, Tarrant, Texas. Nona must have already returned from Texas with her young child. This explanation would account for Belle's excitement about possibly seeing the referenced person again and for Belle's concern about "little sweet Cliff having the sore eyes." (4) It is interesting to note that, Belle and Ida RITCH'S older brother Alonza E. "Lon" RITCH went to Texas. Did Nona's being in Texas to give birth to her first child have anything to do with Lon's being in Texas also? Yours, Franklin Ingram