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/EgC.2ACE/9921.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.3.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: His mother and my grandfather were cousins. Found a reference to Alexander Ritchie and Mary Lucia taken from the Ancaster Heritage. It is a book and on page 257 it contains a reference to them. I found a reference to them in the history of Mary Kate Cooley---it stated "This site is mentioned in the Wentworth Landmarks. The article was written in 1897 and refers to 2 graves being moved from the Cooley Cemetary after burials of 65 years. These were the graves of Alexander Ritchie and his wife Mary Lucia who both died on April 11, 1823 {see page 257 and appendix 16 of Ancaster Heritage Vol 1}. Jim green of the Ancaster Historical Society believes that the Ritchies were probably buried there because there were no other registered gravesites in this area at this time. Perhaps the Ritchies were labourers on the farm. The graves were moved about 1832 to St. Johns Cemetery. They were buried among people named the Hatts. This is just a summary of some that was in the histor! y of Mary Kate Cooley.