She became an accomplished horserider which encouraged her interests in traveling across the prairies of the western United States.[8] In 1876,[6] her second husband, John George Adair, became a partner with Charles Goodnight to found the JA Ranch. When her husband died, she became partner.[9] She enjoyed hunting and participated at roundups.[10] She founded a hospital, and supported building the Clarendon YMCA building.[11]
In 1857, she was married to Montgomery Harrison Ritchie (1826–1864), the son of Andrew Ritchie and Sophia Harrison (née Otis) Ritchie (a daughter of U.S. Senator Harrison Gray Otis). Before his death in 1864 from complications after serving in the Civil War,[15] they became the parents of two children:[16]
Arthur Montgomery Ritchie (1861–1909),[18] who struggled with mental health and jumped to his death while a patient at Dr. Gardner's Belmont Sanatorium.[19][20][21]
In 1869, she married John George "Jack" Adair (1823–1885), a Scottish-Irish businessman and landowner. Following the wedding, the couple moved to Geneseo, New York.[22] The couple divided their time between Ireland, England, and New York until his death in Missouri in 1885.
She was also a grandmother of Montgomery Harrison Wadsworth "Montie" Ritchie (1910–1999), whose daughter, Cornelia's great-granddaughter, Cornelia Wadsworth Ritchie,[28] continued the family's ownership of JA Ranch.[12]
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^ abcLiles, Deborah M.; Venable, Cecilia Gutierrez (2019). Texas Women and Ranching: On the Range, at the Rodeo, and in Their Communities. Texas A&M University Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-62349-740-8. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
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^ abAnderson, H. Allen (June 15, 2010). "RITCHIE, JAMES WADSWORTH". tshaonline.org. Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
^"PLANS FOR THE RITCHIE-TOOKER WEDDING It Will Take Place in Newport the Last Week in August" (PDF). The New York Times. June 29, 1895. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
^"FOUND DEAD IN ASYLUM SON OF WEALTHY WOMAN KILLED TRYING TO ESCAPE Arthur Ritchie's Fate After Being Confined Several Times in Sanitarium". The Spokesman-Review. July 29, 1909. p. 1. Retrieved March 16, 2021.
^"IN BOSTON BARBER SHOPS. Only Two Occasions When Arthur M. Ritchie Was Robbed in the Course of All His Life". The Boston Globe. November 28, 1902. p. 7. Retrieved March 16, 2021.
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