From Tarrt:
We append
the following, as the recollections of the
venerable Patsey Ralston, (nee Neely), widow of Andrew
D. Ralston,
who now at the advanced age of ninety-two
years, resides in
events she seems to
possess a memory unimpaired. She
is the fifth of a
family of nine children born to Joseph
and Martha Neely.
Her parents came to this county in
March,
1805. They made a short stop with John Latham's
father, who was
then living where
stands.
Subsequently, they moved to a farm about
three miles from
where David Robb and family were
then living, south
of
wife were natives
of
and family moved to
years near
19, 1792. At this
writing there is but one of the family
living besides Mrs.
R., a sister, Juliette Johnson, who
resides in
Neely family are of Irish origin. The grandparents of
Mrs. Ralston
on both her father and mother's side were
born in
and her mother in
1811. After the death of her parents
Mrs. Ralston
returned to
in
acquainted with and
married Andrew D. Ralston in November,
1817,
remaining in that vicinity until May 1,
1818,
when she returned to this county with her husband
and settled in
and worked at his
trade there about eight years. In
1826 they
moved on a farm about one mile southeast of
that time their
family comprised five children, two sons
and three
daughters, viz., Dr. W. G. Ralston, a physician
in
of
the farm at the age
of seven. Nancy Holcomb also
resides in
The fifth
child, lives in Boonville,
state.