Ricketts again

[techteach]

Lynella and Kerry,
You guys' Ricketts are connected somehow to my Sinkeys. I knew it before, but I have been poking around for something I found earlier online. This comes from a genealogy I find when I google "Chaney Ricketts genealogy."

Capt. Edward Ricketts (M)
b. 15 Sep 1706
Pedigree

Capt. Edward Ricketts HISTORY: Garret Larew Civil War Soldier by Karl G. Larew c1975 (RICKETTS.MD.002) Born 1706 md Mary Chaney 3 Feb 1729; Mary's father did not approve, cut her out of will moved from Cecil Co. to Anne Arundel Co. MD where living 1730 may have pushed west to Frederic Co.MD 1732 md Margaret Powell after Mary's death children of Edward Ricketts and Mary Chaney were: Ann b 1730; Thomas, Edward b aft 1730; Reason, cheney b abt 1732 children of Edward Ricketts and Margaret Powell seem to be Richard, Hezekiah, John b 1753, died 1844; Nathan b1759 d 1847 in IN John had son Edward Ricketts who married Sarah Story. He MARRIAGE: MARYLAND MARRIAGES 1778-1800; compiled by Robert Barnes; c1978; Rickeots, Edw'd md Mary Cheney; BOOK 1AA-110; photocopy page 150. (Doc. #: RICKETTS.MD.008). He was born on 15 September 1706 at Prince George Co, Maryland. He was the son of Thomas Ricketts Jr. and Rebecca Nicholson. Capt. Edward Ricketts married Mary Ann Cheney on 3 February 1729 at Anne Arundel Co., MD, Maryland.

Children of Capt. Edward Ricketts and Mary Ann Cheney:
Ann Ricketts (26 Dec 1730)
Cheney Ricketts (c 1732 - 15 May 1814)
Capt. Edward C. Ricketts (c 1736 - c 1813)


The genealogy has lots of Reeds on it too. Now check out this URL: http://www.pa-roots.com/users/bedford/history/huntingdonco.html

You will see that my Richard Sinkey lives very near your Chain (this has got to be Cheney) Ricketts.

I will continue on the next posting. Bill can bawl me out if I am making the wrong assumptions about these people.

Cindy (Techteach)

[techteach]

Lynella and Kerry:
This comes from a family history off genealogy.com (In-laws' Xmas present)

"John Bare's first wife, Elizabeth Ricketts (twin with Rachel), was born in Hill Valley, September 25th, 1829. She died in Mount Union, September 6th, 1865. She was an earnest Christian, a member of the Methodist Church. In late years, a friend in writing of her says, "I spent a part of two years in Mrs. Bare's home and in that time I learned to love and admire her for her gentle nature and her kindness to every one, and especially for her beautiful Christian life. One thing especially impressed me and will always stand out in my memory and that was her great love and loyalty to her heavenly Father. After the noon day meal, it was her custom to quietly withdraw to her room for a season of prayer and devotion and no doubt for His guidance in the rearing of her little children, all of whom that are now living being members of the church of her faith. Her home was always a resting place for the minister of the gospel, as he made his weary rounds on the circuit, a welcome and a Christian home to refresh himself in." Hers was one of those quiet gentle natures of even balance, which nothing seemed to disconcert. She was a daughter of Hezekiah Ricketts, Jr., and Elizabeth Clark.

Hezekiah Ricketts, Jr., was born in Hill Valley, January 22nd, 1792, and died there February 16th, 1853. He lived all his life on the old homestead of his father. He was a prominent and successful farmer. He was a soldier in the war of 1812-15 and a member of Captain William Morris' Company in November, 1813. His wife, Elizabeth Clark (or Clarke), was born February 22nd, 1792. Her parents were James and Elizabeth Clark. They lived on the east side of Chestnut Ridge, almost opposite the Ricketts farm. They were of German descent. After the death of her husband, she removed to Shirleysburg and lived there until her death, September 23rd, 1863. They were Methodists." (Clark is a name in my family.)




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[techteach]

More of this...
"Hezekiah Ricketts, Jr., was a son of Hezekiah, Sr., who was born February 22nd, 1754, and died September 16th, 1816. He was a farmer and lived on the homestead in Hill Valley, where he seems to have lived as early as 1784. His wife's name was Hanna Wilcox. She was born February 3rd, 1754, and died in Hill Valley, September 16th, 1818. They had eleven children. Mary, married Joseph Rachold; Lydia, married Samuel Irwin; Rachel, married Leonard Shaver (son of Nicholas, of Aughwick); Hannah, married William Sinkey; Jemima, married Charles Green; Sarah, married James Brady; Elizabeth, married William Clark; Grace, married John Patterson; Joseph, married,(had 8 boys and 1 girl); David, single; Hezekiah, married Elizabeth Clark. The Ricketts had a grave-yard on the homestead, where a number are buried. It is fenced and in good condition, located on the part of the farm now owned by Millard F. Swope, four miles south of Mount Union. Hezekiah Ricketts, Sr., lived in Hill Valley, prior to 1784. His father, William, and grandfather, Zachariah, both lived in Rockbridge County, Va., in 1784. They were of English descent. From "Heads of Families, Census of 1790," pp. 124 and 125, we learn the few families by name of Ricketts, Rickets, living in Huntingdon County, were the only ones in the State of Pennsylvania. Hezekiah (Esika), Joanna, Reason, Edward, Chaney, (these last three adjoining each other). Edward, Nathan and Richard. "Jones' history of the Juniata Valley" says the first white settlers in Warrior's Mark were the Ricketts family. Captain Elijah Ricketts was an active and prominent man. His house was made into a fort during the Indian troubles, about 1775-80."

William Sinkey is my ancestor, at least I think this would be the right William. Here is Edward and Chaney Ricketts too.




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[techteach]

More of this...
"Hezekiah Ricketts, Jr., was a son of Hezekiah, Sr., who was born February 22nd, 1754, and died September 16th, 1816. He was a farmer and lived on the homestead in Hill Valley, where he seems to have lived as early as 1784. His wife's name was Hanna Wilcox. She was born February 3rd, 1754, and died in Hill Valley, September 16th, 1818. They had eleven children. Mary, married Joseph Rachold; Lydia, married Samuel Irwin; Rachel, married Leonard Shaver (son of Nicholas, of Aughwick); Hannah, married William Sinkey; Jemima, married Charles Green; Sarah, married James Brady; Elizabeth, married William Clark; Grace, married John Patterson; Joseph, married,(had 8 boys and 1 girl); David, single; Hezekiah, married Elizabeth Clark. The Ricketts had a grave-yard on the homestead, where a number are buried. It is fenced and in good condition, located on the part of the farm now owned by Millard F. Swope, four miles south of Mount Union. Hezekiah Ricketts, Sr., lived in Hill Valley, prior to 1784. His father, William, and grandfather, Zachariah, both lived in Rockbridge County, Va., in 1784. They were of English descent. From "Heads of Families, Census of 1790," pp. 124 and 125, we learn the few families by name of Ricketts, Rickets, living in Huntingdon County, were the only ones in the State of Pennsylvania. Hezekiah (Esika), Joanna, Reason, Edward, Chaney, (these last three adjoining each other). Edward, Nathan and Richard. "Jones' history of the Juniata Valley" says the first white settlers in Warrior's Mark were the Ricketts family. Captain Elijah Ricketts was an active and prominent man. His house was made into a fort during the Indian troubles, about 1775-80."

William Sinkey is my ancestor, at least I think this would be the right William. Here is Edward and Chaney Ricketts too. I have Green in my line also and have come to believe that the Greens near the Sinkeys are related to the WVA Greens that are my direct ancestors. They both move to the same Licking County OH location.

Cindy




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[techteach]

Lynella and Kerry:
Finally, check this out: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/bedford/military/militia-1.txt

I think the lieutenant Edward Rickets is likely to be the same

Finally:

http://www.pa-roots.com/users/bedford/history/huntingdonco.html
provides the information that Chain Ricketts and Richard Sinkey lived in Barre Township near Huntington. Richard is my direct ancestor.


Cindy

[techteach]

Lynella and Kerry,
I am just posting this to bring the Ricketts topic to the top again, so you both see it.

Cindy

[lynellarainhawk]

Cindy,

Thank you so much! That took you a lot of time. I appreciate that more than I can ever possibly let you know, for two reasons. 1, being the obvious, the researching and work and RELATIVES. The other being that if Bill chews you out, then I'm not alone!:D I took a date from one of his postings concerning my Reeds and lept back in time farther than he has gotten, OUTCH! However, in that time leap I did find Reed, Goerge Davis married Jamima, 18 Aug., 1743 in Chowan Co, NC. I didn't hink at the time that he was the right Reed for me, but now that I see it here with your family I'm wondering. Hm-m-m-m-m!:D :D :D Thank you, OH SO MUCH! Love & Light, Lynella.

[lynellarainhawk]

P.S.

Kerry will enjoy this too. I'll e-mail him and remind him to check it out. :)

[lynellarainhawk]

I olso saw a Charles Green up there. When I was time traveling I also found a George Reed, born 12 Nov., 1760 and died 15 May, 1815 and he married a Martha Green in Rowan CO., NC. When he died he was burried at Reeds Crossroads? in Rowan Cnty., NC. Martha was born 27 Mar., 1768 In the same place as George Reed but she died 1848 in Lincoln County, TN.

Anyway, This is all so interesting how our names keep crossing around different places and like places. Surely, we're cousins!:) :) :) Thank you again! Lynella.

[techteach]

Lynella:
Well, I think that that stuff I saw connects us. I know that I have an ancestor named Ricketts, at least a great-something aunt. A William Sinkey marries a Hannah Ricketts. I think he might have been a brother to Matthew Sinkey who marries Nancy Huston whose mother was a Green. Matthew and Nancy are direct ancestors of mine.
There are lots of Greens though. Dan on this forum, I think, has Greens but we have not seen a connection yet.

Techteach

[lynellarainhawk]

Techteach,

:) This really is awsome! I have so much fun with this. :D Of course, I was just thinking, he's not just gonna' scold you for this. I'll get a Bill chewing too. That'll be two for me within a few days!:D Ah, well, I bet his wife married him cause' he's so cute when he's miffed!:D We probably interupt his train of thaught with other lines when we jump into this stuff and get him all confused. :rolleyes: Poor Bill, poor, poor Bill. WE love you Bill! REALLY!:D :D :D Love & Light, Lynella.

[Kerry]

Techteach - Sorry it's taken me so long to reply to this. I got real busy last weekend looking at some Hodges info., then got sent out of town (by the job) for a few days. I haven't had much of a chance to investigate the Ricketts. I know they're in the family some place on my mom's side. But haven't gotten that far yet. Anyway these are great links. On the militia list I also saw some Reeds, Evans, and a Ferguson. Thanks Much! :)

[lynellarainhawk]

Tahcaska,

Happy Birthday big brother!:D you're old!:D older than me!:D and it'll always be that way!!:D :D Lynella.

[lynellarainhawk]

Techteach,

Hey! How was your Christmas? I hope it was absolutely wonderful! You must be really busy, I haven't heard from you lately.:) I hope you're not working too hard! Ya' gotta rest and have fun too!;) I wanted to let you know we're making great strides in the geneology forum. Suddenly we are all coming together quite nicely. And Kerry posted a big Cemetary list on there from Warrick Co., Ind. There are a lot of names there. Man I was suprized by how many folks are burried in that county and so many names we see on here. Also, I did get that link right finally on that website I was trying to show you and Kerry last week. And, lets see, what else is new.......Hmmmmm.....Just lots! I've missed you! I hope all is well. Love & Light, Lynella.

[techteach]

Lynella:
I went out of town for a few days. We bought a 1968 Volkswagen pickup and went to PA to pick it up. We went through the part of PA that my folks were from (and a few of your Rickets). Had no time to stop though. We turned off to at least drive around the fort that my William Sinkey was stationed at during the Rev. but ended up not doing it. It was in the mountains and about to get dark. We decided that we did not want to be driving the car tow dolly around strange, mountainous county roads in the dark. Still, it was neat to see names, both people and places, that I have been researching for the last two years. It was also easy to see why these folks came to the part of Iowa that they ended up in. Not all of Iowa is flat cornfields. The part they ended up in is limestone river country and looks a lot like that part of PA.
Anyway, we are home again and the proud owners of a blue and white vintage VW pickup. My midlife crisis.

Techteach

[lynellarainhawk]

Congatulations!;) It sounds like you had a lot of fun. That's what counts! I'm glad you're back now. I've tried getting Tom's interest on the arrows, but he's been pretty busy lately too, I guess. I'm going to check out that link you left for Tom, for the one that didn't work, probably, hopefully tomorrow. How's the weather been up your way? It's just been cold here with some light snows up here in the mountains this past week. Well, I should go see if Kerry has been up to anything on here today. Love & Light, Lynella.:)

[techteach]

Lynella:
The weather has been unseasonably warm. Yesterday it was in the fifties; people were out golfing - December 31 in Wisconsin!
I think someone just needs to create a design. Go for it. Yesterday, I was at Barnes and Noble and found an Indian Art magazine. It had a picture of a pair of moccasins dyed black from a southern tribe.
I opened my Hopewell pipe as a Christmas present. It is a carved catlinite raccoon and even more marvelous than its ebay picture was. Hard to imagine how they put the detail in it so long ago.

Techteach

[lynellarainhawk]

Techteach,

You are right, perhaps we should just come up with something and jump in head first! I think Kerry wants to e-mail you about Wisconsin. He used to live there and his son, Thomas Ashby and his family live there now. I would love to see a photo of your pipe it sounds really beautiful. I just love that sort of thing. It looks like it is shaping up to be a really nice Jan. 1 up here. There's not a cloud in the sky. I have a grocery trip to make and then I'm looking at your links. Love & Light, Lynella.;)

[Kerry]

Cindy;

I live in PA just south of York. I travel the state all the time. If you would like for me to get some photo's for you, or look something up , or go to a particular cemetery and look for something - just let me know. Hey, didn't I see in one of your posting's that you live in Wisconsin? We lived in Wisconsin from 1986 until 1993. We were stationed at Ft. McCoy, near Sparta, WI. I have a son and his family that still live there.

[techteach]

Kerry,
I used to live in Durand, WI on the other side of WI, nearer Sparta than I do now. Now I live just north of Chicago where I work. I am really from Iowa and lived there most of my life.
I will let you know about PA. Most of my people left there in the early 1800s. There were Sinkey/Sankeys in York earlier, however, there is some conflict as to whether or not they are ancestors. Somone wrote a book claiming that they were all descended from the Sankey from York. I am not so sure. Mine took the Sinkey name while the others have the Sankey name. The Sinkeys went to Ohio while many of the Sankeys stayed in PA. There were also McCarty's, Greens and Hustons in PA. And your Ricketts (and mine) and some Fergusons. I believe that the Ricketts connect with your line if you follow the stuff I posted earlier. They came from MD or VA first according to a book on genealogy.com.

Techteach

[Kerry]

Thanks - I'll definately be looking into the Ricketts & Ferguson connections more. It's all just a matter of time. We've been making some good progress on our Hodges, Staton and Gentry lines recently. Thanks to the folks here on Saponitown forum. (Bill and others). I've been trying to find more on our Evans and Millers but they are proving to be difficult. Anyway - I hope your holidays were happy and I wish you a happy and prosperous new year!:)

[techteach]

And to you! BTW, I have several Evans also, located in Licking County, OH

Techteach

[lynellarainhawk]

Techteach,

Thank you much! Love & Light, Lynella.

[techteach]

Lynella:
It is winter here now. First, ice yesterday. Now today, 6 to 12 inches of snow. There's a couple on the ground right now from last night, and it's snowing as I type. Glad I bought bird food yesterday for the cardinals.

Techteach

[lynellarainhawk]

Evans in Licking Co., I don't know if we've looked in that area yet. Hmmmmmm. I am pretty sure Ezra Evan's wife Elizabeth miller came from GA. I'm finally going to look at some of that here in a few. Hopefully we'll find something, it's going to be a challenge though. Thank you Techteach, I would have never looked in Licking County, OH. You're the best!:) Love & Light, Lynella.

[techteach]

Lynella:
Try this URL: http://www.npls.org/lcgs/lostpioneer.htm Several of these lost pioneers are not lost. They are buried in the Iowa cemetery that holds my Sinkeys and Ralstons. That web site also has a list of heads of households in 1820.
Evans have married into my lines but are not my direct ancestors.

Cindy

[lynellarainhawk]

Yep:) You're a blessing all the way around! Kerry I think has Tibbitts he wants to get into and I saw a Reed on there. Thank you again!;) You're so wonderful and always just right there too.:) This is cool! Love Ya', Lynella.

[Kerry]

I glanced breifly at the "lostpioneer" link from Techteach. I did see at least 5 Evans' and 1 Samuel Reed. Hmmmm - interesting.:cool:

[lynellarainhawk]

Yeah! Isn't that awsome? She's just too good to us!:) What have we been doing slopping through life all these years with out her?;) I Love You Cindy. Love & Light, Lynella.

[Deb]

Hi all, it's been a really long time since I've been on....lots going on in Saponi Town. For Lynella..I'm Deb (Sinkey) Cindy's cousin.
Thank you for the post on the Ricketts Cindy, I think this is the one you tried to send me and I couldn't open. On all the geneolgy I've seen...it just says William Sinkey and wife Hannah...no last name. Now we have proof that Hannah's last name is Ricketts. William and Hannah are Richard (Bridget)Sinkey's mother and father, Richard is William's son, not his brother. Richard's oldest son is William also (Mary McCartney) I assume named after his father. Maybe this is easier because there are so many William Sinkey's that it's hard to keep them all straight. All these Williams had children that all named their children William and etc... there is a bunch of them and at least 4 or 5 of them had Mary's for wives. The men are all Sinkey's.

1) William/Hannah Ricketts
2) Richard/Bridget (Last Name Unknown)
3) William/Mary McCartney
4) Matthew/Nancy Huston
5) William/Angeline Smith (at least for my line)
6) Albert/Clara Ralston
7) Howard/Della Millard
8) Darrell/Dolores Milburn
9) Deb (me)


Deb

[lynellarainhawk]

Deb,

HI!:) It's so nice to finally get to meet you!;) I've heard so much about you. This is AWSOME!:D Oh, I hope we get to hear lots more from you. Kerry is my brother and among tons of other surnames we're looking into our Ricketts, and Cindy has been abosultely wonderful. She's the best. So, you can probably tell already that I've adopted her...Yep, she's mine now!:D Did you see her Hopewell pipe? Oh, that's cool!:cool: I hope to find you about a lot more. Is that going to be possible? We've all been making progress and family connections on here lately. I'd love lots of your input. I am so glad we finally got to meet! Bless you, Deb. Love & Light, Lynella.

[Deb]

I'm hoping to be about much more...we'll have to see. We had a computer crash about Memorial Day weekend....lightning. We have internet cable and even tho the computer was off at the time...it was able to fry the computer through the cable. ALL my genealogy was on that hard drive...we tried to save it but we lost everything on it and I didn't have it backed up. I've been months trying to rebuild it from about 15 different 3" binders I have here next to me....so I could send it to Cindy and so I could contribute info to this site and to answer the letters I have here requesting Sinkey info. What a pain!!!
I'm also not terribly computer literate. I'm learning...thanks to Cindy...I have to so I can follow her. I'm sorry but you can't have Cindy...I'll share...but you have no idea how happy and thrilled I am to have connected with her. I have been on this search in my family by myself for about 5 years now until I met Cindy. I'm sitting here thinking...no, she's my cousin...I guess that's silly...I think everyone on this site is cousins! Ha! And yes, I'm drooling over her pipe...it's beautiful...more than that it is a connection to the past. I'm going to continue to be spotty on here...I have 3 daughters in college living here at home and they are always on the computer and running me off...they have threatened 4 times in the past half hour...I'm holding them off though! Also my Dad is really sick and I have been on another part of this looking at the DNA stuff....thinking that I would like to have him tested while I can...he was diagnosed with lung cancer 2 weeks ago or so. I'm really scared about his chances for being around very long. As you can see in my post above...he is a direct male descendent...9 generations back...don't know if that means anything given what Bill said about the DNA tests. That bursts my bubble a bit. He has had test upon test for the past 2 or 3 weeks I guess...I've been going to the appts with him and will spend as much time as I can and be of whatever support I can be for him...for as long as I can...it will definitely put a hitch in my computer time and has already.

There are alot of new people on since the last time I was on. This is really exciting.

Deb

[Deb]

OK...Cindy just pointed out that the post I just put on here is not right. My info has William/Hannah as Richard's parents...no last name for Hannah. Richard is born in 1742 and so the William in Cindy's post can't be Richard's father. Dates are not right. Richard has a brother William but he is married to Elizabeth. I'm not sure if anyone here is looking for Sinkey's but wanted the info to be accurate. Looks like we have another William to puzzle out.

Deb

[Kerry]

Hello Deb and welcome to the Forum! :D

I can sympathize with you about your Dad. We lost our Mom to cancer in 2001 and My oldest sister has been battling it since January of 2004. Her prognosis is not good. My wife fought it though about 6 yrs ago and it looks like she beat it. So you just never know. Our prayers will be with you and your father and family.

Anyway it's good to find you on the forum - If I see anything on Sinkey's as I'm doing my research I'll pass it on for you and Cindy.

[lynellarainhawk]

:) Dear Brother-O-Mine, Thank you for being!:)

Deb, that's my Bro., Kerry. We do know how herd it is when people we love gets ill. Just gotta pray morning noon and night.:) I bet you have your hands really full with daughters in college and at home. That's the best way, for them though, I think. It has to lessen their stress load a little. My son's are grown and gone. I started way too young! I also am not very computer literate, but Kerry helps a lot! And actually so does Bill. I mean I've known how to get on line and shop. But when it came to researching stuff I had never been off yahoo. So, when Bill said, "google" he earned his weight in brownies! And if you ever want to get chatty just e-mail me.;) We also have a few of those Williams to sort out. Why couldn't they have been more original? It drives me batty! I'll get Sinkey stuff too when I come across it. Love & Light and God Bless you and your dad and all. Lynella.

[stacey.23]

Book of biographies : the volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. Biographical Publishing Company. Buffalo, N.Y. 1897. 668pgs. <http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/BookView.aspx?dbid=24781&iid=dvm_LocHist010036-00001-0>

A portrait of him is on page 84. His bio. is on pages 85 - 87. Here are the first few paragraphs (the bold parts are mine)...


EZEKIEL R. SANKEY, a well-known, retired citizen of New Castle, who has contributed largely to the growth and development of the flourishing city, of which he is now an honored resident, has dealt more extensively in real estate than any other man in the city, and owns at the present time a large amount of property in building lots and dwelling-houses. He was born in the township, December 9, 1817, and is a son of William and Hannah (Ricketts) Sankey, grandson of Ezekiel and Jane (Culbertson) Sankey, and great-grandson of William Sankey. The latter, of whom little positive is known, as he died in the eastern part of the State. His children were: William; John; Jennie; Annie; Rachel; Ester; and Ezekiel.

Our subject's grandfather, Ezekiel Sankey, settled in Mercer County, and became its second sheriff; he was a popular man with all classes, and progressive in his ideas. He served as major in the War of 1812, and died Nov. 27, 1813. His wife fell into that last sleep, the balm for all sorrow and pain on earth, at the age of ninety-four. They reared the following family of children: William; Sarah; Ann; Jane; Joseph; John Riddle; James; David; Ezekiel; and Theodocia.

William, the eldest son, was born Nov. 27, 1794, and, receiving a portion of his father's estate, he followed farming on the homestead all his life, dying Nov. 27, 1860. His wife was about sixty years old when she died July 12, 1849. Five children were born to them, as follows: Ezekiel R.; Joseph; Thomas F.; Elizabeth; and Jane A...

Cindy, Lynella, etc,

If you want a copy of his portrait & biography in its entirety, just let me know, and I will email it to you.

Stacey

[techteach]

Stacey,
Thank you so much. I am trying to determine how he fits with my William Sinkey/Sankey. I have a book that Deb gave me that describes 4 Sankey brothers. If true, looking at this obit, I believe that this Ezekial would be the great-nephew of my William Sinkey. It also solves the question of the William Sinkey(Sankey) who marries into the Rickets family. She was a Hannah Ricketts. This also means that there was likely to have been 4 brothers. I had not seen a connection between them after my William went to Ohio, making me doubt the relationship. However, here we see that Ezekial's family moves out to where my Blackfoot ggggrandmother comes from and where my Ralston folks were from. And I now see the Sinkey/Sankey misspelling goes beyond my William, because genealogy.com discusses this William Sankey who marries Hannah but spells it Sinkey.
This is the Ricketts line that I traced to a relationship with Reids.
Thanks so much!

Techteach

[lynellarainhawk]

Stacey,

Yes!:cool: Thank you! This is awsome!

[Deb]

Thank you so much for sharing this. I have tried to find the William that married Hannah Ricketts and had not been able to find the right one. Cindy, In the book you refer to I think Ron says that Richard Sankey/Sinkey's father William (not Richard's son William/Mary McCartney) was Ezekial's brother. I have to look it up again. But, Ezekial's father William was the Quaker from Lancashire, England that you found the article about and who signed the letter of arrival in the Friend's meeting in PA in 1695 or around there I think. Ezekial Sr. was listed as performing a marriage ceremony in the same meeting place for a couple that would have had to wait for 2 or 3 years and he was later thrown out of that church for performing an illiegal marriage by the Quakers from the eastern part of PA. Does all that ring a bell? You found that article somewhere and I saved it. But I think our William (Richard's father) and our William may be different Williams. I looked in the index in the above book of bios and there was a Clinton Sankey that looks to be a son of Ezekial, and there is a Charles H. Sankey that is a son of James, who was a son of "Aikey" Sankey. They don't seem to know much about "Aikey" or where he comes from, just eastern PA. Looks like maybe two different groups of Sankey. What do you think?

Deb

[Deb]

Cindy,

In the Clinton E. Sankey bio I mentioned above, there is a reference on Page 194..."Mr. Sankey is a member of the Presbyterian Church....etc...Socially, he is a member of the following organizations: Improved Order Red Men, Erie Tribe, No. 252; etc...."

Do you know what the "Improved Order Red Men, Erie Tribe, No. 252 is?

Deb

[techteach]

Deb:
I don't know what it is, except that it is a secret society. I have found that group, The Improved Order of Red Men, with different tribes, on a couple of other web biographies, including one that was called Blackfoot on a Dayton, Oh site. And I think connected to one of our names. Dayton is a location for many folks with the Blackfoot ID.
I will bow to your expertise on our Sinkey line, Deb. I am certainly not as comfortable or knowledgeable of the line as you are. I get lost in the Williams. Stacey sent me the pages and picture. Ezekial looks like my uncle.


Techteach

PS: Should you read the link I put in in another part of this forum, directing folks to Andrew Sinkey, I know I misrepresented his relationship. Spaced out as I wrote. Saw the mistake too late to edit.

[techteach]

I wanted to clarify the last post in the event that someone reading it might read something I did not mean. Deb and I are cousins and and work well together. I used poorly-chosen words; they sound nasty and I did not mean it that way at all. In fact, I meant it as a compliment. I rely on Deb's expertise on the Sinkeys. We are both thrilled that Stacy's information has solved a mystery for us; the picture of Ezekial looks like ancestors from both our lines after they split. Very eerie to see.

Techteach

[rockhound]

Originally posted by stacey.23
Book of biographies : the volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. Biographical Publishing Company. Buffalo, N.Y. 1897. 668pgs. <http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/BookView.aspx?dbid=24781&iid=dvm_LocHist010036-00001-0>

A portrait of him is on page 84. His bio. is on pages 85 - 87. Here are the first few paragraphs (the bold parts are mine)...



Cindy, Lynella, etc,

If you want a copy of his portrait & biography in its entirety, just let me know, and I will email it to you.

Stacey

Is John Riddle a brother to Ezekiel, or was he in fact a Riddle and raised by this family?

[Forest]

The Order of Red Men was/is a fraternal organization. Being a member did not mean you were an Indian, although many people erroneously believe that to have been the case.

[techteach]

Rockhound,
Deb and I don't know who that Riddle is. We just finally came to think, thanks to the picture Stacey sent that looks eerily like her dad (He thinks so too.), that Ezekial is really related. Some Sankey researchers think that the first Ezekial was a brother to our William, but our William is the only line that spelled it Sinkey and move to Licking county, OH, so we were unconvinced that they were related.
I do see a Riddle on the muster list with my William Sinkey http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/bedford/military/militia-1.txt

Techteach

[Tom]

hello this "Order of the Red man" is really interesting Iam hoping that someone can post more about it, and explain really what it is.
Forest do you have any thing more on that topic, if so we should start a new thread just on that, it's really quite interesting!

[stacey.23]

Originally posted by rockhound
Is John Riddle a brother to Ezekiel, or was he in fact a Riddle and raised by this family?


Originally posted by stacey.23
...They reared the following family of children: William; Sarah; Ann; Jane; Joseph; John Riddle; James; David; Ezekiel; and Theodocia....

Hi Rockhound,

"Riddle" is his middle name - John Riddle Sankey, but it may be a clue as to a grandparent's (etc.) name.

Stacey