John Ricketts
John Ricketts was born in Culpepper county, East Virginia, June 18, 1824, and married in this county November 18, 1847, to Jane Johnston, who is a native of Wayne county, West Virginia, born August 19, 1827. They have the following children: Thomas C., born October 2, 1848, resides at Silver River, Utah; Callie J. (Shattuck), July 18, 1851, died June 20, 1881; John W., February 14, 1853, resides in Clark county, Ohio; Mary J., December 18, 1856, died November 11, 1859; Nannie V., May 15, 1862, resides at home; Dora B., February 14, 1865, resides at home; Sarah E., August 10, 1867, resides at home. The parents of Mr. Ricketts, are John and Eliza (Roberson) Ricketts, settlers of this county in 1833. He died at the mouth of the Cumberland River, September, 1835, and she died in Virginia in 1830, respectively. John Johnston and Mary A. (Campbell) Johnston are the parents of Mrs. Ricketts. The father died in 1864. They settled in this county in 1836. Benjamin Johnston, a brother of Mrs. Ricketts, was a soldier in the late war. He enlisted in 1863, in the 2nd Ohio Cavalry, and was wounded in front of Petersburg, Virginia, from the effects of which he died July 15, 1863, at the age of 39 years. Mr. Ricketts is a farmer of Perry township. Postoffice address, South Point, Lawrence county, Ohio.
Atlas of Lawrence Co., Ohio by Hardesty (1882)