Four generations revisit area roots
Carroll County Historical Museum received visitors from Mulberry and Texas on March 18. They were descendents of Peter Ruch, who owned the prairie schooner that is housed in the museum. Ruch came to Clinton County on the schooner in 1853 from Lehigh County in Pennsylvania. Pictured at left is Jacob Johnson being held by his great-grandfather, Robert Beaver of Mulberry. Johnson is the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Peter Ruch. Holding Beaver's arm is Kendra Ratliff, Johnson's mother, of Lewisville, Texas, followed by his grandmother, LuAnn Beaver Sporich of Carrollton, his sister, Taylor Faucher, and his great-grandmother, Margaret (Burns) Beaver of Mulberry.

Comet photo by Kevin Schnepp