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==Cornelia Adair==
==Cornelia Adair==
Cornelia Wadsworth was born in 1837 in Geneseo in Livingston County in western [[New York]]. In 1857, she married Montgomery Harrison Ritchie (1826–1864) of [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], a descendant of the [[Federalist Party]] leader Harrison Gray Otis (1765–1848).<ref name=PPHM>JA Ranch exhibit, [[Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum]], [[Canyon, Texas]].</ref> During the [[American Civil War]], Ritchie served with the [[New England]] Guard. After the [[Battle of the Wilderness]] in [[Virginia]] in 1864, he crossed [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] lines to retrieve the body of his fallen father-in-law, [[General]] James Samuel Wadsworth, Sr., (1807–1864), and return it to Geneseo. Cornelia was reared near Geneseo on a [[farm]] that her ancestors had purchased from the Seneca Indians.<ref name=JA>[http://www.ranches.org/JAranch.htm JA Ranch]</ref>
Cornelia Wadsworth was born in 1837 in Geneseo in Livingston County in western [[New York]]. In 1857, she married Montgomery Harrison Ritchie (1826–1864) of [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], a descendant of the [[Federalist Party]] leader Harrison Gray Otis (1765–1848).<ref name=PPHM>JA Ranch exhibit, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas.</ref> During the [[American Civil War]], Ritchie served with the [[New England]] Guard. After the [[Battle of the Wilderness]] in [[Virginia]] in 1864, he crossed [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] lines to retrieve the body of his fallen father-in-law, [[General]] James Samuel Wadsworth, Sr., (1807–1864), and return it to Geneseo. Cornelia was reared near Geneseo on a [[farm]] that her ancestors had purchased from the Seneca Indians.<ref name=JA>[http://www.ranches.org/JAranch.htm JA Ranch]</ref>
A few months later, Ritchie, who had fought earlier in the war under [[General]] [[Ambrose Burnside]] in [[North Carolina]], died of an illness during the war.<ref name=PPHM/>
A few months later, Ritchie, who had fought earlier in the war under [[General]] [[Ambrose Burnside]] in [[North Carolina]], died of an illness during the war.<ref name=PPHM/>