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Edwards Cemetery ~ Sebastion B. Ritner ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Ritner, Sebastion B.
LAST NAME: Ritner FIRST NAME: Sebastion MIDDLE NAME: B. NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 1815 DIED: 16 Oct 1887 BURIED:  (Edwards Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  Farmer
BIRTH PLACE:  Switzerland
DEATH PLACE: Oregon
NOTES: 
MARRIAGE - Sarah Woodling
1870 OR CENSUS - Sebastian Ritner, age 44, occupation farmer, b. Switzerland, is enumerated with Sarah, age 41, b. Pennsylvania, along with Justian, age 12, b. Missouri, F.A (female), age 9, b. Missouri, John, age 4, b. Oregon, Lewis, age 2, b. Oregon, and Sapronia, age 4 months, b. Oregon.
1880 OR CENSUS - S. B. Ritner, age 63, occupation farming, b. Switzerland, is enumerated with his wife Sarah, age 62, b. [?], along with son Lewis, age 22, farm worker, b. Oregon. Also enumerated with the family is A. Miller, (not related), age 21, laborer, b. New York.

BIOGRAPHICAL:
Born in Switzerland in 1815; Came to Oregon and settled in Luckiamute Valley, Polk County. Occupation farming.  He married Sarah Woetling [Woodling], and their children names are - John, Louis, Sophronia, and Franklin.
Source - Lang, Herbert O.. HISTORY of the WILLAMETTE VALLEY. Himes & Lang, 1885, pg 645

BIOGRAPHICAL:
Sebastian Ritner crossed the plains as early as 1845, but it is not on record that he experienced any particular adventures. He farmed for a time in Oregon, and in 1847 went to the mines of California, returning at the end of a year, considerably richer than when he went. With his earning he took up a conation claim of three hundred acres, and so successfully operated it that he was able to add to his possessions, and at the time of his death owned nine hundred acres. He engaged in general farming and stock-raising, although in his youth he had worked as a mechanic, and had a wide range of knowledge bearing upon ;mechanical subjects. He was a thoroughly reliable man, upright and considerate in all of his dealings, and of more than ordinary business shrewdness. He died at his home near Pedee, September 10, 1887.
The children of the first marriage of Mrs. Ritner who are now living are: Mary E., the wife of Lew Hannam, of Lewisville; Missouri Anna, the wife of Joe Edwards, of Pedee; Anna, the wife of Richard Dunn, of King’s Valley; and Flora, the wife of John Waters, of McTimmons Valley. By the second marriage there were four children: John Ritner; Lewis; Sophrona, wife of James Grant; and Frank Ritner, deceased.
Souce - PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD of the WILLAMETTE VALLEY, OREGON, Chicago, Chapman Pub. Co., 1903, pg 931
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OBITUARY: 
INSCRIPTION: 
S. B. Ritner
Died
Oct. 16, 1887
Aged 75 Ys
SOURCES: 
Saucy Survey & Photograph
1860 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Luckiamute, FA #704)
1880 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Buena Vista & Luckiamute, ED 107, pg 20D)
Lang, pg 645
PBRW, pg 931
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