James Ritter^[1]

1803 - 1863  (60 years)

• Name	James Ritter
  Birth	11 Jan 1803	NC
  Gender	Male
  Census	1830-1860	Hendricks County, IN
  Death	11 Jan 1863
  Burial	Friendswood, Hendricks County, IN at Fairfield Friends Cemetery   [2]
  Patriarch & Matriarch	Moses Ritter,   b. 1730   d. Bef 11 May 1819, New Hanover County, NC  (Age 89 years)  (Grandfather)  Anna Violet Burcham,   b. 1765-1770   d. Aft 1830  (Age 61 years)  (Mother)
  Notes	1830 -- Census, Hendricks County, IN Page 122 James Ritter (60-70) 1F (20-30) 1M 1F (15-20) 1F (10-15) 1M (0-5) 2M 1840 -- Census, Hendricks County, IN Page 46 James Ritter (30-40) 1M 1F (15-20) 1M 1F (10-15) 1M (5-10) 2M (0-5) 1M 1850 -- Census, Hendricks County, IN Page 106-B James Writter 48 M, Farmer, $2000 Real Estate, Born in NC Rachel Writter 43 F, Born in NC Levi Writter 20 F, M. Physician, Born in IN Martin Writter 17 M, Born in IN Eli Writter 12 M, Born in IN Eliza Writter 10 F, Born in IN Rhoda Writter 7 F, Born in IN Lydia Writter 2 F, Born in IN Marian Dollwhite 22 F, Born in IN 1860 -- Census, Hendricks County, IN Page 136 James Ritter 55 M, Farmer, $3000 Real Estate, $400 Personal Property, Born in NC Rachel Ritter 52 F, Born in NC Eli Ritter 22 M, Born in IN Rhoda Ritter 17 F, Born in IN Liddy Ritter 13 F, Born in IN
  Person ID	I18343	Moore County Wallaces
  Last Modified	9 Aug 2023

  
  

  Father	James Bradbury Ritter,   b. 12 Dec 1757   d. 1 Sep 1816, Surry County, NC (Age 58 years)
  Mother	Anna Violet Burcham,   b. 1765-1770   d. Aft 1830 (Age 61 years)
  Family ID	F7256	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rachel Jessup,   b. 1808   d. 15 Mar 1874 (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	25 Oct 1824	Greene County, IN
  Children	1. John Ritter,   b. 24 May 1828   d. 21 Mar 1854 (Age 25 years)     2. Levi Ritter,   b. 14 May 1830   d. 15 Mar 1893 (Age 62 years)     3. Martin Ritter,   b. 1833 +   4. Col. Eli Foster Ritter,   b. 18 Jun 1838   d. 11 Dec 1913 (Age 75 years) ▻ Narciss L. Lockwood  (Age 72 years)     5. Eliza Ann Ritter,   b. 30 Jul 1840   d. 26 Nov 1879 (Age 39 years) ▻ William B. Cooper  (Age 61 years)     6. Rhoda Jane Ritter,   b. 27 Aug 1843   d. 6 Feb 1922 (Age 78 years) ▻ Bascom Smith McClain  (Age 69 years)     7. Melissa Lydia Ritter,   b. 23 Apr 1848   d. 19 Feb 1902 (Age 53 years) ▻ James Osmond Thompson  (Age 63 years)
  Family ID	F12102	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Aug 2020

  
  

• Event Map		Marriage - 25 Oct 1824 - Greene County, IN Census - 1830-1860 - Hendricks County, IN  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S287] Daniel Paul Aldrete [Ancestry.com user glendaaldrete]. Eli F. Ritter Indiana and Indianans: A history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood Eli F. Ritter was of Quaker stock, the son of James and Rachel (Jessup) Ritter, who came from North Carolina in 1822, and located in Hendricks County. They were part of that army of immigrants from the South who came North to get away from slavery. Eli was born June 16, 1838. He attended the common schools of the vicinity, and had begun a course at DePauw when the Civil War came on. Waiving his family peace principles, he volunteered in the Sixteenth Indiana, on April 14, 1861, and remained in the service to the close of the war, most of the time in the Seventy-Ninth Indiana. He rose to the rank of Major at that time, and in 1883, when the Indiana National Guard was organized, Governor Porter appointed him Colonel of the First Regiment, in which capacity he served for three years. He was graduated from DePauw in 1886, as of the class of 1863; and in the same year was admitted to the bar. In his professional studies, His Quaker training and his keen logical mind brought to him in a forcible and practical way the truth that the basis of Common Law is morality. This is presented in his volume, "Moral Law and Civil Law, Parts of the Same Thing," which is entitled to rand as the foremost ethical work produced by and Indiana author. An it may be added that if it were generally read and absorbed by American jurist, we should have less of vicious decisions on numerous questions of social morality, such as trusts, stock-gambling, and other institutions that are plainly in violation of the fundamental provisions and principles of the Common Law. Out tax system could not stand for a minute in a real court of justice; and many other forms of legalized wrong would be swept away, by a consistent adherence to the rules of common morality. Eli Ritter received little credit for his work. Even the law her wrote is not known by his name. His nearest approach to public recognition was when he went to the great jubilee convention of the Anti-Saloon League, at Columbus, Ohio, in November, 1913, as the guest of the League. But when he died, on December 11, 1913, he had to his credit one of the greatest benefits over accomplished Indiana. [S1089] Find A Grave [www.findagrave.com].