1850 Marshall County Census
RITCHIE (672)
James...Farmer...$2500...54-M...PA
Nancy...50-F...VA
Crozier(?)...21-F...VA
Sarah A...18-F...VA
Ellen...15-M...VA
Moses...14-M...VA
Nancy...12-F...VA
Jane...10-F...VA
Lucy...8-F...VA
McNeill, William...7-M...VA

1860 Marshall County Census
RICHEY (1695)
Moses...22-wm...farmer...VA
Mary M...21-wf...farmer...VA
Hiram E...8/12-wm...VA

Service Record: Also “Ritchie,” "Richie" and other spellings. At age 24, joined for service & enrolled on Aug. 13, 1862 at Middlebourne, W.Va.; mustered in Aug. 29, 1862 at Wheeling. Admitted to General Hospital at Grafton Nov. 1, 1864 for a “gunshot wound to right leg, outer side, bone not injured” that occurred on Oct. 19, 1864 at Cedar Creek. His hospital card names his wife as Mary and his address as Moundsville. He was apparently on furlough at home after he was discharged from the hospital, at which time a physician from Marshall County, T. F. Marshman, wrote to request that Moses’ furlough be extended for 20 days due to his condition; it was granted.

Moses returned to service and “died at US General Hospital, Cumberland, Md. on May 16, 1865 of Typhoid Fever.”

Moses Richey and Mary M. Seaton, both 20, were married in Marshall County on Dec. 9, 1858. According to the record, he was born in Marshall County and she was born in Washington, Pa. His parents were James and Nancy Richey, and he was living with them at the time of the 1850 census of Marshall County. Moses and Mary were in the 1860 Marshall County census, at which time they had one child, Hiram. Mary’s pension application indicates they had three minor children at the time of his death: Hiram E., John B., and Nancy J.