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Christopher Sharp Ritter History |
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Christopher Sharp Ritter was born on October 26, 1860 in Clark County, Illinois. He died in Iola, Kansas, on April 28, 1931. His mother, Lucyetta Sharp Ritter (1833-1866), died on June 12, 1866, when Chris was 6 years old. His father was John Leiter Ritter (1834-1912). John and Lucyetta were married in Clark Co, Illinois on October 13, 1857, The story of Lucyetta's death is that it was caused by injuries sustained upon falling from a horse. Both parents were buried in the Rupp Cemetery north of Martinsville, Ill. His father, John Leiter Ritter, married twice more after Lucyetta's death: Mary Ann Gard Beason, and Melcenie E. Young Swing. John Leiter Ritter was born at Seven Mile Ohio on July 23, 1833, and died in Hazel Dell, Illinois on April 27, 1912. Christopher Sharp and his brothers Samuel and John moved on their own to Kansas in their late teens or early twenties. Chris became a teacher in a one-room school house in Bronson, Kansas. He did this for several years, and eventually married one of his students, Harriet Ann Welker, on November 21, 1893. He was 14 years her senior. Christopher read the law, took the bar exam, and became an attorney. He lived and practiced in Iola, Kansas. He was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives. Chris had many other interests, with botany and biology being chief among them. He experimented with hybrid plants and many other projects. He died from an infection caused by a splinter gotten while pruning trees at the family farm, at 71 years of age. Christopher Sharp had two brothers, Samuel C., and John Leiter. Christopher Sharp Ritter is buried at the Iola Cemetery in Iola, Kansas. Samuel C. Ritter is buried at Erie, Kansas, and John Leiter Ri8tter is buried at the Bronson Cemetery in Bronson Kansas. Christopher Sharp also had two half brothers (by his father's second wife, Mary Ann Gard: George Elmer (187001958) and Jacob Lott (1874 - 1956). Both are buried in the Bronson Cemetery at Bronson , Kansas. His children were: Neva (29 Jan, 1895), Cassandra (3 May, 1898), Gordius Arminius (later Chris) (9 December, 1906), Huxley Flammarion (28 June, 1909), Baby (7 - 8 November, 1913), and Hartien Sharp ( 13 October, 1918).
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