Solomon Ritter and Family—wife Elizabeth (Hardman),
daughters Mary Ellen, Lucinda E., and Amanda Elizabeth. Picture presumably taken prior to 1873, when Mary Ellen married John Leedy, her sister Margretta’s widower. There was also a son, Lewis Ritter. Lucinda married Edwin R. Osterhoudt; Amanda married Noah Nathaniel Bashor (1884). Lewis married Elizabeth Carothers (1870). From the apparent age of Amanda (I am guessing she is 8—10 years old) I think the picture was taken no later than 1868. If she was 8, that would make the other girls 15 and 17, which looks about right. I believe Mary is the girl on the left, Lucinda ("Lou") on the right.

Solomon, Elizabeth, and their older children emigrated from Indiana to Linn County, Oregon in the early 1850s. Amanda, my great-grandmother, was born there in 1858.