This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ritchie, Shaw, Hammond Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VEC.2ACI/3845 Message Board Post: My Grandmother Elizabeth "Bessie" Ritchie was born in Snohomish and my have been raised by the Shaw Family there abot 1909-1925. I was said by a 90 year old local Native American in Snohomish in the mid 1980's that her real mother Rachael (Ritchie) (maybe married name) was a local Chiefs daughter and married a white man. Rachael passed away around 1911 and the old lady said the grave site had been washed away by flooding. We would like any information that we could find out concerning Rachael.