Descendants of John and Permelia [Biggers] Belcher

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• The Ryherd-Riherd family. (80 KB)
  David Nelson Ryherd-Richards and his sister, Margaret Amanda married children of John and Permelia Biggers Belcher. Their family was one of several branches of the Ryherd family who settled in or near Monroe County, KY. The Monroe County Ryherd family changed the spelling of their name to Richards and pronounced it Record. Many of their immediate kin altered the spelling of the name Ryherd, making it very difficult to research this family. Much of the information on this file has been given to me by other researchers and is not proven material.

Family Photos

• Hershell J. Belcher (14 KB)
  Hershell J. Belcher was the son of Madison Nelson Belcher and Missouri Wade Belcher. Born June 9, 1894, he died during WWI on Oct 27, 1918 while serving in Company C 357th Infantry. His body was returned to the U.S. for burial at the Belcher-Freewill Cemetery near Tompkinsville, Monroe County, KY.
• Everett E. Belcher and his four children in 1913. (9 KB)
  Everett E. Belcher left Monroe County, Ky in 1908 to settle on government land in Roosevelt County, New Mexico.
• Hallie Belcher and husband Clarence Campbell (23 KB)
  Hallie Belcher was the daughter of Madison Nelson Belcher and his first wife, Missouri Wade.
• Everett E. Belcher, born in Monroe Co., Ky in 1875 (6 KB)
  Everett E. Belcher was one of the sons of George F. Belcher, who was the youngest son of John and Permelia Belcher of Meshack Creek, Monroe Co, KY.
• Madison Nelson & Missouri Wade Belcher & family (40 KB)
  Madison "Nelson" Belcher married Missouri Wade in Monroe County, KY on December 19, 1886. They are pictured here with their three children; Virgil Alva, Hallie P. and James Hershell.
• Madison "Nelson" Belcher & wife Lou Kingery (2 KB)
  Madison "Nelson" Belcher was a son of Preston Belcher and a grandson of John and Permelia Belcher of Meshack Creek, Monroe Co, KY. He married Lou Kingery, his third wife, on March 24, 1911. They are pictured here with their childen shortly before his death in 1928.
• Ollis J. Belcher 1914 - 1986 (68 KB)
  Ollis J. Belcher, born in Tompkinsville, Monroe County KY in 1914, died in Gallatin, TN in 1986. He was the son of Virgil and Mattie Burnett Belcher.
• The Red Belcher Song Book (6 KB)
  Finley "Red" Belcher, well-known Country Western muscian of the 1930s and 40s, died in an automobile accident in VA in 1952. Red Belcher was one of the sons of Madison "Nelson" Belcher, a grandson of Preston Belcher and a great grandson of John and Permelia Belcher of Meshack Creek, Monroe Co, KY.
• Elmer Belcher 1916-1989 (273 KB)
  Elmer Belcher, the son of Frank L. Belcher and Beatrice Rasner Belcher, was born in Monroe County, KY in 1816. His mother died while he was still a very young child, and he went to live with his grandmother, Elnora Biggers Belcher, who had been widowed the year before his birth. He remained with his grandmother even when his father remarried and started a second family.
• Archie Potter Belcher and wife Laura Milslaugle (2 KB)
  Archie Potter Belcher was one of the three sons of John William Belcher, a grandson of Preston Belcher and a great-grandson of John and Permelia Belcher of Meshack Creek, Monroe County, KY.
• Roscoe & Minnie Belcher (107 KB)
  Roscoe Belcher was born in 1878 in Monroe County, KY, one of the three sons of John William Belcher, a grandson of Preston Belcher and a great-grandson of John and Permelia Belcher of Meshack Creek. He left KY as a young man and moved to Glendale, Los Angeles County, CA, where he worked for the railroad for many years. He is pictured here with his second wife, Minnie Belcher and one of his great grandsons.
• David Nelson Ryherd-Richards & wife Mary Belcher (12 KB)
  David Nelson Ryherd enlisted in Company G of the 9th Regiment of Ky Volunteers on Nov 26, 1861. He died of typhoid in the Military Hospital at Nashville, TN on 19 Sept 1862. His widow, Mary "Polly" Belcher Richard filed for a government pension on Sept 10, 1863, which was paid to her until her death in 1909.
• Moses Thomas Belcher (3 KB)
  Moses Thomas Belcher and wife, Ellen Eldridge Fugate Belcher and sons Eugene Daniel and Samuel Jeffry. This picture taken about 1910 was supplied by Judy Belcher, granddaughter of Samuel Jeffry Belcher.
• Virgil Belcher (6 KB)
  Virgil A. Belcher, a great grandson of John and Permelia Belcher, was the oldest son of Madison Nelson Belcher and Missouri Wade Belcher. Born in 1887, he later moved to IL where he died in 1963.
• George Franklin Belcher (3 KB)
  George F. Belcher, the youngest son of John and Permelia Belcher, was born on Meshack Creek, near Tompkinsville, KY in 1833. He died in 1895 and is buried in Bowles Cemetery with three of his sons who died in childhood. Bowles Cemetery is located on privatly owned land near Tompkinsville, Monroe County, KY.

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