ELI RITCHOTTE, PIONEER, DEAD
Prominent Citizen of Early West Passes at Missoula Home
Eli Ritchotte of 444 Stevens avenue died at his home early this morning after an illness of 12 days. The funeral will take place at St. Anthony's church Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock with the celebration of a high requiem mass. The survivors are his widow, Mrs. Azelie Deschamps Ritchotte, and one brother, Joseph H Ritchotte of Missoula.
Mr. Ritchotte was born July 16, 1847, at L'Epiphanie, near Montreal, P.Q. Canada, the son of Isaac and Julie Forest Ritchotte. At the age of 19 he came to the United States, arriving at St. Joseph, Mo., in 1867. He determined to go to California, and drove overland to Cheyenne, Wyo., but there was persuaded to join a wagon train for the gold diggings of Montana. Driving over the Oregon Trail by way of Pocatello and then through the Beaverhead valley he arrived in Virginia City in the spring of 1868. After prospecting and working for a year or more in the Big Hole country and French gulch he came to Deer Lodge and joined the stampede for Cedar creek, passing through Missoula in December 1869.
For more than 10 years he engaged in placer mining and prospecting in Cedar Creek, Quartz Creek, the Clearwater, and other diggings tributary to Missoula. With the discovery of placer gold in the Coeur d'Alene he moved on to the Eagle city diggings, where he located a good claim. His adventures during these years have been the subject of several stories for The Missoulan by Will Cave.
On August 26, 1886, he was married to Azelie Deschamps of Missoula and opened a jewelry store in Murray, Idaho. Four years later the business was removed to Wallace, and continued there until 1903, when on account of ill health he returned and came to Missoula. For the last 22 years he has been a well known figure in Missoula, one of the last survivors of the pioneers.
(published in THE MISSOULIAN, August 4, 1925)
Brother of Alphonse D. Ritchot, and Elie Ritchot.
Prominent Citizen of Early West Passes at Missoula Home
Eli Ritchotte of 444 Stevens avenue died at his home early this morning after an illness of 12 days. The funeral will take place at St. Anthony's church Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock with the celebration of a high requiem mass. The survivors are his widow, Mrs. Azelie Deschamps Ritchotte, and one brother, Joseph H Ritchotte of Missoula.
Mr. Ritchotte was born July 16, 1847, at L'Epiphanie, near Montreal, P.Q. Canada, the son of Isaac and Julie Forest Ritchotte. At the age of 19 he came to the United States, arriving at St. Joseph, Mo., in 1867. He determined to go to California, and drove overland to Cheyenne, Wyo., but there was persuaded to join a wagon train for the gold diggings of Montana. Driving over the Oregon Trail by way of Pocatello and then through the Beaverhead valley he arrived in Virginia City in the spring of 1868. After prospecting and working for a year or more in the Big Hole country and French gulch he came to Deer Lodge and joined the stampede for Cedar creek, passing through Missoula in December 1869.
For more than 10 years he engaged in placer mining and prospecting in Cedar Creek, Quartz Creek, the Clearwater, and other diggings tributary to Missoula. With the discovery of placer gold in the Coeur d'Alene he moved on to the Eagle city diggings, where he located a good claim. His adventures during these years have been the subject of several stories for The Missoulan by Will Cave.
On August 26, 1886, he was married to Azelie Deschamps of Missoula and opened a jewelry store in Murray, Idaho. Four years later the business was removed to Wallace, and continued there until 1903, when on account of ill health he returned and came to Missoula. For the last 22 years he has been a well known figure in Missoula, one of the last survivors of the pioneers.
(published in THE MISSOULIAN, August 4, 1925)
Brother of Alphonse D. Ritchot, and Elie Ritchot.
ELI RITCHOTTE, PIONEER, DEAD
Prominent Citizen of Early West Passes at Missoula Home
Eli Ritchotte of 444 Stevens avenue died at his home early this morning after an illness of 12 days. The funeral will take place at St. Anthony's church Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock with the celebration of a high requiem mass. The survivors are his widow, Mrs. Azelie Deschamps Ritchotte, and one brother, Joseph H Ritchotte of Missoula.
Mr. Ritchotte was born July 16, 1847, at L'Epiphanie, near Montreal, P.Q. Canada, the son of Isaac and Julie Forest Ritchotte. At the age of 19 he came to the United States, arriving at St. Joseph, Mo., in 1867. He determined to go to California, and drove overland to Cheyenne, Wyo., but there was persuaded to join a wagon train for the gold diggings of Montana. Driving over the Oregon Trail by way of Pocatello and then through the Beaverhead valley he arrived in Virginia City in the spring of 1868. After prospecting and working for a year or more in the Big Hole country and French gulch he came to Deer Lodge and joined the stampede for Cedar creek, passing through Missoula in December 1869.
For more than 10 years he engaged in placer mining and prospecting in Cedar Creek, Quartz Creek, the Clearwater, and other diggings tributary to Missoula. With the discovery of placer gold in the Coeur d'Alene he moved on to the Eagle city diggings, where he located a good claim. His adventures during these years have been the subject of several stories for The Missoulan by Will Cave.
On August 26, 1886, he was married to Azelie Deschamps of Missoula and opened a jewelry store in Murray, Idaho. Four years later the business was removed to Wallace, and continued there until 1903, when on account of ill health he returned and came to Missoula. For the last 22 years he has been a well known figure in Missoula, one of the last survivors of the pioneers.
(published in THE MISSOULIAN, August 4, 1925)
Brother of Alphonse D. Ritchot, and Elie Ritchot.
Prominent Citizen of Early West Passes at Missoula Home
Eli Ritchotte of 444 Stevens avenue died at his home early this morning after an illness of 12 days. The funeral will take place at St. Anthony's church Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock with the celebration of a high requiem mass. The survivors are his widow, Mrs. Azelie Deschamps Ritchotte, and one brother, Joseph H Ritchotte of Missoula.
Mr. Ritchotte was born July 16, 1847, at L'Epiphanie, near Montreal, P.Q. Canada, the son of Isaac and Julie Forest Ritchotte. At the age of 19 he came to the United States, arriving at St. Joseph, Mo., in 1867. He determined to go to California, and drove overland to Cheyenne, Wyo., but there was persuaded to join a wagon train for the gold diggings of Montana. Driving over the Oregon Trail by way of Pocatello and then through the Beaverhead valley he arrived in Virginia City in the spring of 1868. After prospecting and working for a year or more in the Big Hole country and French gulch he came to Deer Lodge and joined the stampede for Cedar creek, passing through Missoula in December 1869.
For more than 10 years he engaged in placer mining and prospecting in Cedar Creek, Quartz Creek, the Clearwater, and other diggings tributary to Missoula. With the discovery of placer gold in the Coeur d'Alene he moved on to the Eagle city diggings, where he located a good claim. His adventures during these years have been the subject of several stories for The Missoulan by Will Cave.
On August 26, 1886, he was married to Azelie Deschamps of Missoula and opened a jewelry store in Murray, Idaho. Four years later the business was removed to Wallace, and continued there until 1903, when on account of ill health he returned and came to Missoula. For the last 22 years he has been a well known figure in Missoula, one of the last survivors of the pioneers.
(published in THE MISSOULIAN, August 4, 1925)
Brother of Alphonse D. Ritchot, and Elie Ritchot.
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