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/QEC.2ACE/2264.1.2.1 Message Board Post: There is info on the Tharp family in "The History of Ritchie Co."by Lowther published 1911. The book is on the Ritchie Co. site. Go to chapter XVI at the first of the chapter and at the end.