william christopher ritter

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Children:

William Taylor (22 March 1847 - unknown)*

   (Born while Saints wintered in Pueblo; Listed as Anderson Taylor Ritter on Bullock list)

Sarah Josephine [Hutchings and Covert] (1849-1926)

Phoebe Caroline [Holgate] (1852-1889)

Angelina Martha [Stewart and Allred] (1855-1902)

* Spent winter of 1846-47 in Pueblo

When William Christopher Ritter Sr was born on 19 February 1824, in Marion, Alabama, his father, Isaac Anderson D Ritter, was 27 and his mother, Phebe Douglas Young, was 24. He married Sarah Ann Lowery on 17 March 1845, in Monroe, Mississippi. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He registered for military service in 1855. He died in January 1875, in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Salt Lake, Utah, at the age of 50, and was buried in Miners Cemetery, Silver Fork, Salt Lake, Utah. (source: FamilySearch.org)