Re: Ratcliffe/Ratcliff/Ratliff - Tazewell Co, VA
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Re: Ratcliffe/Ratcliff/Ratliff - Tazewell Co, VA
Jack Ratcliffe 2/24/06
Seeking clarity on the family of Peter and Mary Ratliff of Tazewell County, Virginia.
I saw this helpful threat of messages that Cosby E. Ratliff who married James Robert Stephenson on 20 January 1859 is the oldest child of Peter E. Ratliff and Mary Ann Young.
In the marriage record of Cosby and James Robert, (familysearch.org: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XRS1-BXN), Cosby lists her father as Peter and her mother as Polly.
This is where the plot thickens! In his will of 1864 from Tazewell County, Thomas Davis, widower husband of Mary Laird Davis, whom he married in 1827, lists four daughters plus a Polly Ratliff, wife of Peter Ratliff.
Prior to his death, in 1858, Thomas Davis acknowledges in a Tazewell County lawsuit involving Peter and Polly that Polly is his daughter.
Furthermore, in an 1880 Tazewell County case in which Peter and Polly are suing the estate of Thomas Davis, Polly is referenced as both "Polly" and "Mary."
In Tazewell County death records posted here (http://www.newrivernotes.com/tazewell_vital_statistics_deathrecords.htm), the following is stated about two deaths of children of Peter Ratliff:
TCV, Maiden Spring: Mrs. Cosbey STEVENSON, wh f, wid of Robert STEVENSON, b 17 Jul 1843, TCV, 81y 10m 13d, d 30 May 1924, d/o Peter RATCLIFF, TCV & Polly DAVIS, TCV, W. R. WHITE, inf, bur Home Burial Ground (1850c, TCV?)
TCV, Maiden Spring, Richlands: Mrs. Louemma J. YOUNG, wh f, mar to Herbert YOUNG, b 27 Mar 1848, TCV, 79y 9m 12d, d 15 Jan 1926, d/o Peter RATLIFF, TCV & Polly NELSON, TCV, G. C. SCOTT, Swords Creek, VA, inf, bur Hankins Cem, d of cerebral hemorrhage.
Was "Mary" or "Polly" Young or Davis the same person as "Mary Ann Young" and "Polly Nelson"? Does anyone have info on her parentage?
Does anyone have a list of the children of Peter Ratliff/Ratcliff/Ratcliffe and his wife or wives of "Mary" and/or "Polly"?
Thank you.