Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tion obtained, for every available source has been consulted for information, records and facts carefully collated and recorded. It would be equally impossible to give credit to many members of the family for records furnished, for hardly a sketch in the work came from a single source of information, but we desire to express heartfelt thanks to the many friends found, who have assisted in making this book. We would fail in our duty did not we mention particularly those who have assisted in a financial way, or else this work could not have been prosecuted to a successful conclusion. Mr. Joel Ricks of Logan, Utah, Mr. Robert H. Ricks of Rock Mount, N. C., Mr. Robert L. Ricks of Worden, 1ll., and Mr. Hyrum, Thomas E. and Nathan Ricks of Rexburg, Idaho, all have taken great interest in the work, and furnished the funds to carry on the work to completion. To the ladies of the family, we owe a debt of gratitude for assistance and family records kindly bestowed. The eompilor is keenly alive to the fact that some of the sketches of individuals fail to do justice to the subject, which is due to the fact that proper information was not at his command. This work is intended for a family history in concise form, not a genealogy, merely to restore the lost links of relationship, but to make the descendents and kindred again acquainted one with the other, and to tell people of today about their ancestors, who they were, where they lived, what they did, their names, customs, etc. It has been an unjust fashion and a mistake to drop from genealogical works in a large measure the female lines. The daughters are members of the family as much as the sons are; the names they adopt by marriage are mere accidents, depriving them of no rights of relationship. We trust that the kindred will be pl...