Individual Details

Luna Jane Ritter

(10 Nov 1900 - 1 Nov 1926)

Luna Jane Ritter was born 10 November 1900. She attended Mississippi State Teachers' College (now the University of Southern Mississippi), and obtained her teachers' license in 1920. She taught first grade prior to her marriage to Amos Rye. Amos was born 4 December 1898 and died 14 October 1972. Luna died on 1 November 1926, in childbirth, of peritonitis; the child, a baby boy died in childbirth also.

There were two (2) children born of the marriage.

Events

Birth10 Nov 1900Mississippi
Death1 Nov 1926
BurialOdd Fellows Rest Cemetery, Aberdeen, Monroe Co., Mississippi

Families

SpouseAmos Gaither Rye (1898 - 1972)
ChildMartha Evelyn Rye (1924 - )
ChildBaby Boy Rye (1926 - 1926)
FatherStephen David Ritter (1866 - 1947)
MotherSallie Annice Kirkpatrick (1871 - 1953)
SiblingAugustus Houston Ritter (1895 - 1986)
SiblingMary Velma Ritter (1898 - 1984)
SiblingNova Lou Ritter (1904 - 1994)
SiblingAnnabel Ritter (1907 - 1999)
SiblingNaomi Opal Ritter (1910 - 1993)

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