Exploring the Stewart-Ricketts family history
Cornelius Warren Burright was the son of Orrin Burright and the grandson of Cornelius Burright. He was born in Van Wert County, Ohio in 1842. By 1861 Cornelius had moved to Iowa, where he...
by paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com · Published February 5, 2020 · Last modified July 13, 2020
If the Burright family is one of the branches of a family tree you’re currently researching there are a number of specific online and traditional book resources that you’ll find very helpful. So, once...
by paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com · Published March 30, 2019 · Last modified July 13, 2020
On the first page of The Sun Rides High, Orrin Burright describes how, in 1845, the Burright family left Ohio and headed west. He notes that families traveled together for protection, before mentioning that...
by paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com · Published September 9, 2017 · Last modified July 13, 2020
Arkansas City, Kansas, 1889. Orrin Ulysses Burright walks into the Derry Brothers photography studio to get his picture taken. One of the thousands of settlers who amassed in camps around this small city prior...
by paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com · Published March 8, 2015 · Last modified July 13, 2020
During the 1920s Reba Burright and Ivy Burright took a train journey to Chicago to meet up with their sister Ora Blanche Burright. Reba documented the trip in one of her notebooks. The notebook has several...
by paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com · Published August 18, 2009 · Last modified July 13, 2020
We know where Orrin Burright and his brother Ashbell Burright [Asabel] were in 1840. According to ‘The History of Van Wert County’ they were members of the Indicting Jury, in the first murder trial...