Tom Ritchie ¹

  General Notes:

Excerpt from "Johnson County History":
Chet Ritchie's father, Tom Ritchie, came to the community from Mississippi. While loading cattle at Egan in 1893, he was having trouble getting the cattle across the tracks to the box cars ahead of an oncoming train and was himself struck by the passenger train and killed.

Tom married Martha A. Head, daughter of William Newton Head and Lucy Alice Richardson. (Martha A. Head was born on 25 May 1871 in Texas,² died on 25 May 1950 in , Johnson County, Texas ² and was buried on 26 May 1950 in Bethany Cemetery, Alvarado, Johnson County, Texas ^{2 3}.). The cause of her death was coronary occlusion.