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Phoebe Ricketts Sheridan
The entire valley of the Juniata was included in the county of Cumberland. From this county Bedford was formed in 1771. Huntingdon was erected from Bedford by an act of Assembly, passed on the 20th day of September, 1787. On February 26, 1846 a small corner was annexed to Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.

Ohio County was first created in 1844 from Dearborn County, Indiana. The county seat is Rising Sun which is in Randolph Township. Ohio County is in southeast Indiana on the Kentucky border. In 1826, Dearborn County Courthouse burned containing all records.

Phoebe Ricketts Sheridan was born about 1789 in Huntingdon County (now Mifflin County), Pennsylvania.. She was the daughter of Robert Ricketts and Susannah Wilson.

She married James Sheridan about 1814 in Kentucky. James was born in 1785 in Pennsylvania.

Phoebe and James' children were Isaac N. Sheridan (1815), Nancy J. Sheridan Jones (1819), John Sheridan (1820), Margaret Sheridan Howard (1823), Robert Sheridan (1826), Sarah Sheridan See (1831).

In 1852 James Sheridan got 160 acres in Hardin County by warrant.

James died about 1860 when he was hit in the head and fell from a riverboat on a trip on a gambling boat up the Ohio River from Hardin County, Illinois to Rising Sun, Indiana.

Phoebe died about 1860 and was buried at Cave-in-Rock Village in Hardin County, Illinois.
Children of Robert Ricketts
and Susannah Wilson
  • John Ricketts
  • Phoebe Ricketts Sheridan
  • Hannah Ricketts Buchanan
  • William Ricketts
  • Susannah Ricketts Moulton
  • Robert Ricketts
  • Isaac Ricketts
  • Edward M. Ricketts
  • Elizabeth Ricketts Larew Blankenship
  • Rebecca Ricketts Winings
  • Margaret Ricketts Kelso
  • Sarah Ricketts Winings
  • Vienna Louise Ricketts Moulton
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