F. G. Minger and family

ELLEN VIRGINIA KAUFFMAN AND I. N. RICKARD FAMILY

Trent with cousin Susie Rebecca Kauffman

Joseph W. Rickard
b. 12 May 1863, Page County, Virginia
d. 1912 Elreno, Oklahoma

Gilbert Trent Rickard
b. 21 August 1865 at Mauck's Mill, Page County, Virginia
d. 13 April 1953 Sabetha, Kansas

David Isaac Newton Rickard
b.4 Oct 1869 Near Luray, Page County, Virginia
d. 1 May 1936 Topeka, Kansas

Ann Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Rickard Ott
b. 21 Sep 1867 River, Page County, Virginia
d. 5 Feb 1940 Washington, D. C.

Margaret Rickard Balilies with Pat at Calendine Museum, Page County, Virginia

Bedspread crocheted by Sudie and given to her daughter-in-law Mary Rector Minger. The bedspread is now in the Calendine Museum at Luray, Page County, Virginia.

Mary Susan 'Sudie' Rickard Minger
b. 18 Sep 1871 Luray, Page County, Virginia
d. 5 Mar 1956 Rogers Park, Cook County, Illinois

Sudie Rickard Minger with sister Lizzie Rickard Ott

Rickard Siblings: Sudie, Trent, Lizzie, and David in Sudie and Fred Minger's back yard.

The birdbath constructed by Sudie from stones she collected can be seen in the backgroun.. She also built a retaining wall to hold her garden plants.

Note: When I was in the 7th grade at school, I decided I would become a famous geologist when I grew up. I began collecting rocks. When we visited my grandmother Sudie that summer, she showed me the rocks in her birdbath and her retaining wall constructions and their history. Before we returned home to Illinois, Sudie got out her stone mason's hammer and knocked off rock samples from the wall for me to take I was both horrified and delighted. I still have most of the samples. Our daughter Sue was named after Sudie; she continued Sudie's interest in rocks, becoming a genealogy major at University of New Mexico. [I was a math major]

Sudie kept a fishing pole on her kitchen wall. When she felt like having a fish for dinner or wanted some meditation time, she would take down the rod and go fish in a nearby stream.

An assortment of cats hung around my grandparents home; they were devoted to my grandfather. Sudie, however,only allowed an all black cat as house cat. My father continued the black cat tradition in our home when I was growing up. The tradition goes on: Steve and I have our all black Quincy cat, and Sue has her own black Zack cat . I don't know if the black cat addiction is a Rickard or a Minger trait. My cousin John Minger made a survey of Minger traits and found that nearly all Mingers like cats. Among my Rickard relatives, I found quite a few that had black cats.

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