Family Bible of
Ephraim & Lydia Ratts
This page last updated February 7, 2004
These are the birth, marriage and death records as recorded by persons in the family of Ephraim and Lydia (Secrest) Ratts. The data was actually obtained from the "old" family bible of Oat Ratts, but as many of these dates were recorded when he was but an infant, I feel that perhaps it was originally the parent's bible and handed down to him.
Ephraim Ratts was the son of Ephraim and Amanda (Warthen) Ratts from the Ashland township area of Morgan county.
Lydia was the daughter of Calvin Secrest and Mary Kathryn Varner of the Herbemont area in Gregg township of Morgan county.
Both of these families migrated to Morgan county from the areas of Rowan and Davidson counties in North Carolina.
(to Malinda Shumaker) (to Walter Eggers) (to Evert Carter) (to Mae Brookman) (to William Ratts) (to Herschel Carter) (to Lestor Meador)
Name
Birth
Marriage
Death
Ephraim Ratts Jr
July 12 1831
March 12 1876
May 1, 1910
Lydia Secrest Ratts
January 13 1853
March 12 1876
July 3 1926
William H. Ratts
December 28 1876
July 31 1889
April 20 1940
Eva Ratts
December 16 1878
July 25 1898
November 3 1947
Nancy Amanda Ratts
December 27 1880
July 13 1897
February 22 1918
Daisy (Candacie) Ratts
March 7 1882
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November 5 1894
Etta Ratts
March 22 1884
xxxxx
October 1898
Emery Ratts
May 8 1886
xxxx
September 1898
Homer Ratts
November 18 1889
xxxx
August 31 1969
Noah Ratts
July 13 1895
xxxx
March 20 1897
Otis Ratts
February 21 1898
November 14, 1946
August 11 1970
Malinda (Shumaker) Ratts
July 31 1889
May 11 1928
Floy Lockhart Carter
June 22 1936
October 21, 1942
Louise Carter
March 24 1942
The above mentioned Herschel Carter and Louise Carter were children of the Nancy Ratts above.
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