Rickner Family Group

the Journey

  • 1700s

    Living in Switzerland

  • 1820s

    Migrate to the Selkirk Purchase, Red River Colony in Manitoba, Canada

  • 1820s

    Migrate to Washington County, Missouri

  • 1830s

    Migrate to Jasper County, Missouri

  • 1850s

    Homestead in McGhee Territory of Kansas, maintain residence in Jasper County, Missouri

In-Laws

The following families married into the family along the way:

Baker Family

Stories about the family….

Rickners | After the War

Southwestern Missouri during the Civil War was burned to the ground by guerrilla warfare. Many civilians left Jasper County after the war due to the intensity of the violence and destruction wrecked by the irregular warfare. When the war was over, “There was not much to return to”, writes Schrantz in his history of the…

Nathan B Cook | Casualty of Disease

Nathan B Cook was the second son of Permelia (Baker) Cook Rickner. Permelia had married James H Cook (I) in Washington County, Missouri in 1828. In the 1830 US Federal Census, they were enumerated in Crawford County, Missouri, a neighboring county in Meramec Township, created in 1829 from Gasconade county. Nathan’s father died prior to…

Sarah Jane Rickner | Stolen Horse

Sarah Jane Rickner, a daughter of Samuel and Permelia Jane Rickner, was born in Jasper County, Missouri in 1844. Her father had a farm east of Carthage for the better part of the 1850s. Her mother died in the 1850s and her father remarried. Samuel with his new wife set up a homestead in McGhee…

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