Joseph Holton Ryker (1826 - 1880)

Born 8 Oct 1826 in Jefferson, Indiana, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Eliza Stuart (McLelland) Ryker — married 2 Nov 1848 in Jefferson, Indiana, United States

Descendants

Died 14 Jul 1880 at age 53 in Hanover, Jefferson, Indiana, United States

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Name

Name: Joseph Holton /Ryker/

Source: #S-2084246895

Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Hanover, Jefferson, Indiana; Roll: 287; Family History Film: 1254287; Page: 20D; Enumeration District: 118; Image: 0463.

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Text: Birth date: abt 1828Birth place: IndianaResidence date: 1880Residence place: Hanover, Jefferson, Indiana, United States

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Birth

Birth:

Date: 8 Oct 1826

Place: Jefferson Co., IN

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Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Hanover, Jefferson, Indiana; Roll: 287; Family History Film: 1254287; Page: 20D; Enumeration District: 118; Image: 0463.

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Residence

Residence:

Date: 1880

Place: Hanover, Jefferson, Indiana, United States

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Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Hanover, Jefferson, Indiana; Roll: 287; Family History Film: 1254287; Page: 20D; Enumeration District: 118; Image: 0463.

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Residence:

Date: 1870

Place: Shelby, Jefferson, Indiana, United States

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Residence:

Date: 1860

Place: Shelby, Jefferson, Indiana, United States

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Residence:

Date: 1850

Place: Shelby, Jefferson, Indiana

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User ID

User ID: A79B8B7D5DA447A9BF09B41C413945C0528B

Burial

Burial:

Place: Hanover Cemetery, Hanover, IN

Event

Event:

Type: census 1850 - free

Date: 1850

Place: Jefferson Co., IN

Source:

Note: Joseph H. Ryker is listed in the 1850 Census for Jefferson County,

Indiana, Shelby Township, as a farmer, age 23. Also listed in the same

househiold were Margaret Ryker listed as a white female 44 born in

North Carolina with $1,770 worth of real estate, William H. Ryker, age

16 (farmer); Sarah A. Ryker, 14 (attended school within the year);

Amanda J. Ryker 11 (attended school within the year); Margaret C.

Ryker, 9; Eliza S. Ryker, 20; and Robert S. Ryker 9/12. All were born

in Indiana except Margaret Ryker who was born in North Carolina.

Event:

Type: census 1860 - free

Date: 1860

Place: Jefferson Co., IN

Source:

Note: Joseph Holton Ryker was listed on the 1860 Census for Jefferson

County, Indiana, Shelby Township, as a farmer, age 34, born in Indiana

with real estate worth $600 and personal property worth $2,700. Also

listed were his wife, Eliza, age 30, born in Indiana; Robert S., age

10; Cornelia E., age 8; William E., age 5; and Charles A., age 1. All

persons listed were born in Indiana.

Event:

Type: census 1870

Date: 1870

Place: Jefferson Co, IN

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Note: Joseph Ryker is listed in the 1870 Census for Jefferson County,

Indiana, Shelby Township, as a white, male, farmer age 43 with wife

Eliza, age 40 and children Robert, 20, works on farm; William, 15;

Charles, 11; John, 8; and Margaret, 5. All of them were born in

Indiana. Joseph had real estate worth $4,000 and personal property

worth $1,200.

Event:

Type: census 1880

Date: 1880

Place: Jefferson Co., IN

Source:

Note: Joseph H. Ryker is listed in the 1880 Census for Jefferson County,

Indiana, Hanover Township, as a farmer, age 52, with wife, Eliza S.,

age 50; son Newton, age 18; daughter Margaret, age 15; and son

Clifton, age 9. All are listed as born in Indiana. Joseph H. Ryker is

listed as sick or disabled with consumption. The parents of Eliza S.

are listed as born in Kentucky as is the father of Joseph H. Ryker.

The mother of Joseph H. Ryker is listed as born in North Carolina. The

census was done June 8 and June 15, 1880.

Event:

Type: Civil War Recod

Date: 1862

Place: KY

Source:

Note: UNION INDIANA VOLUNTEERS55th Regiment, Indiana Infantry (3 months, 1862)

Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., for three months June 16, 1862. Duty at Camp Morton, Ind., guarding prisoners till August. Operations against Morgan July 4-28. Ordered to Kentucky, August, and attached to Manson's Brigade, Army of Kentucky, District of Central Kentucky. Battle of Richmond <http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/ky007.htm>, Ky., August 30. Mostly captured. Paroled and sent to Indianapolis, Ind. Mustered out September 6 to October 23, 1862.

Regiment lost while in service 1 Officer and 9 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Enlisted men by disease. Total 13.

Note

Note: His biography written by my father, Parker LaBach: Joseph Holton

Ryker, the son of Samuel Ryker, Jr. and Margaret Kincaid Holton, was

born on the family farm near Canaan, Indiana, Oct. 8, 1826.

Joseph Holton Ryker attended Hanover College, at Hanover, Indiana for

a time in 1840 but had to withdraw to help his father who died in

1843, and take care of his mother and younger members of the family.

He married Eliza Stewart McLeland, the daughter of Robert McLeland and

Esther Benefiel, Nov. 2, 1848. After his marriage he remained on the

family farm in the Canaan neighborhood until in 1878 he puchased the

home on Ryker's Point across the valley south of the college. The

Ryker's Point farm which he purchased near Hanover was across a deep

ravine below Crowe Falls, and south of the college campus, in Sec. 13,

T3N, R9E. Original patent to part of this land was issued to

Christopher Harrison by the land office at Jeffersonville on Aug. 13,

1812. A patent to the SO 1/4 of Sec. 13 was issued to George Shannon

at Jeffersonville on Dec. 30, 1815. Christopher Harrison sold his part

to Capt. George Logan in 1817 and moved to Salem. The old brick house

occupied by the Logan family for many years stood a short distance

from the Ryker home.

The Ryker house was a large brick English Colonial two story structure

built by Prof. S. Harrison Thomson, of the Hanover College faculty,

who surveyed the first "pike" from Madison to Hanover. The Ryker farm

home, located on "Ryker's Point" was noted for having one of the most

beautiful views of river and hills anywhere along the Ohio river. Most

of the present Hanover cemetery was acquired from the western end of

the Ryker farm.

Joseph Holton Ryker bought the Ryker's Point farm with the expectation

that he could also acquire some good river bottom land adjoining it,

but this deal fell through. He found it necessary to spend a good deal

of time away from home engaged in the timber buying business in order

to support his family.

He served in the 55th Indiana volunteers during the Civil War. He

served mostly on guard duty in Kentucky, and saw no actual combat

service; but exposure and other hadships of army life were too much

for his none too rugged constitution and he remained in rather poor

health for the remainder of his life, although he continued to work.

Joseph Holton Ryker died in 1880. After his death, his widow

supplemented her income from the farm by providing rooming

accomodations for many Hanover College students, the last being her

grandson, Carey Ryker Macdonnell, who stayed at the home on Ryker's

Point during one year of preparatory work in the Academy and three of

his four years of college, between 1908-1912.

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Sources

Source S-2084246619

Repository: #R-2084255971

Title: 1860 United States Federal Census

Author: Ancestry.com

Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records

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Source S-2084246698

Repository: #R-2084255971

Title: 1850 United States Federal Census

Author: Ancestry.com

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Source S-2084246783

Repository: #R-2084255971

Title: 1870 United States Federal Census

Author: Ancestry.com

Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Record

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Source S-2084246895

Repository: #R-2084255971

Title: 1880 United States Federal Census

Author: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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