Oscar G. Rickey

  General Notes:

The Polk's Portsmouth (Scioto County, Ohio) City Directory from 1937 records:
Mrs. Mattie E. Rickey h2904 Walnut
and
Oscar Rickey h2213 Vermont av.
The different addresses imply that they are divorced by 1937.
The 1939, 1941, & 1942 Directories no longer list Mattie; however, Oscar is listed at the same 2213 Vermont av address. ... see notes on his wife, Mattie Cramer, for various census facts.

The Ohio Death Certificates from the Ohio Historical Society records RICKEY, Oscar - Death date: 10/18/1938, Hamilton County - Certificate #58157 [Not the correct Oscar Rickey]

Name: Oscar Isaac Rickey
Death date: 15 Aug 1946
Death place: Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio, United States
Informant: Holly Rickey [This is Oscar's niece by his brother, Emory Rickey, and his wife, Effie]
Birth date: 07 Jun 1859
Birth place: Ohio
Age at death: 87 years 2 months 8 days
Gender: Male
Marital status: Divorced
Race or color: Caucasian
Street address: 824 2nd Street, Portsmouth, Ohio
Occupation: Retired
Residence:
Burial date: August 17, 1946
Cemetery name: Bennett Cemetery, Portsmouth,Scioto Co., Ohio
Spouse name: Mattie
Father name: Jacob B. Rickey
Father birth place: New York
Mother name: Abigal Kelley
Mother birth place: Ohio
GSU film number: 2372943
Digital GS number: 4076162
Image number: 01042
Reference number: 50715
Collection: Ohio Deaths 1908-1953

See general notes on his wife Mattie Cramer, for 1900 and 1910 census facts.

The 1885 Nebraska State Census for Victoria Township, Custer Co., page 8, dated June 22, 1885 records O. Ricker (sic) (23 - Ohio/Ohio/Ohio) living with the G. E. Carrr family. Oscar is a carpenter and is single.

The 1870 Federal Census for Madison Township, Nairn P. O., Scioto Co., Ohio records Oscar Rickey (11 - Ohio) living with his parents Jacob B. (34 - Ohio) and Abigail (30 - Ohio) Rickey with siblings William (8 - Ohio) and Emery (5 - Ohio). Jacob is a farmer with real estate valued at $1,200 and a personal estate of $600. Nearby are Oscar's grand parents, Isaac (64 - NY) and Mary A. (56 - Ohio) Rickey and their son James L. (21 - Ohio). Isaac is a farmer with real estate valued at $2,000 and a personal estate of $1,000. One page over in this census record is Oscar's brother Isaac B. Rickey (31 - Ohio) with his wife Lydia A. (24 - PA) and children Elizabeth (9 - Ohio), Thomas (7 - Ohio), and Isaac P. (2 - Ohio).

The 1860 Federal Census for Madison Township, Harrisonville P. O., Scioto Co., Ohio records Oscar Rickey (1 - Ohio) living with his parents Jacob (25 - Ohio) and Abigail (19 - Ohio) Rickey. Jacob is a farmer with real estate valued at $0.00 and a personal estate of $185. Next door are Oscar's grand father, Isaac (55 - NY) with is daughter Elisabeth (23 - Ohio) and his sons Jeremiah (14 - Ohio) and James (11 - Ohio). Isaac is a farmer with real estate valued at $3,000 and a personal estate of $450.

The 1850 Federal Census for Madison Township, Harrisonville P. O., Scioto Co., Ohio records Isaac Rickey (45 - NY) with his wife Mary Ann (35 - Ohio) and children Jacob B. (14), Elizabeth (12), Isaac P. (11), Margaret (9), Jeremiah (5), and James L. (1). Isaac is a farmer with real estate valued at $2,000.

Oscar married Mattie E. Cramer/Creamer, daughter of Samuel George Cramer/Creamer and Sarah A. Goudy, on 3 Apr 1887 in Custer Co., Nebraska. (Mattie E. Cramer/Creamer was born on 13 Nov 1867 in Ohio,⁷⁶ died on 17 Jan 1939 in Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio and was buried on 20 Jan 1939 in Greenlawn Cemetery, Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio.) The cause of her death was Bronchial Pneumonia.

  Marriage Notes:

A marriage record for Custer Co., Nebraska indicates a Mattie Cramer married to an Oscar Ricky on Apr. 3, 1887. (http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/county/custer/marriage.htm#OTHER)
The Custer Co., Nebraska Historical Society has a copy of the marriage records for Oscar Rickey to Mattie E. Cramer. These records indicate that Oscar was 29 years old and born in Nairn, Sciota Co., Ohio. Mattie is 19 years old and was born in Urbana, Champaign Co., Ohio. Jacob's parents are Jacob B. Rickey and Abigail Kelly. Mattie's father is named as Samuel G. Cramer.