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Biography of Michael E. Ritenour

From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY
W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]


Page 1041

MICHAEL E. RITENOUR, farmer, P.O. South Solon, was born in Frederick County, Va., February 26, 1822, and is a son of Daniel B. and Elizabeth (Drake) Ritenour, natives of Virginia; the former born October 27, 1796, and the latter July, 1796. They were married in Virginia, and remained there until her death, which occurred in 1842. In 1845, he emigrated to Ohio, and settled in Greene County, where he remained until his death, February 26, 1874. After his emigration to Ohio, he ws united in marriage with Sarah Walker, who died in March, 1879. Our subject was united in marriage the first time in Frederick County, Va., with Mary Jones, March 6, 1845; she was born in Virginia in 1822. They emigrated to Ohio and settled in Madison County, where they remained until her death, which occurred in 1850. Mr. Ritenour remained a widower three years, when he was united in marriage with Adaline Blair, who was born in Virginia February 12, 1833. He, at twenty-thre eyears of age, engaged in working by the day on contract, and thus he continued for twenty-six years, when he bought fifty-eight acres of land where he resides, and engaged in farming. He is the father of ten children, two by his first wife and eight by his last, of whom nine survive — Delia E., Joseph H., Lucy E., Mary E., Georgianna, Robert E., Gladious O., Frederick G. and Fannie F.



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