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b. 20 Jul 1822 in Ohio\nd. 7 Sep 1904 in Iola, KS\nm. [[James Richards]] 20 Apr 1854 in [[Athens County, Ohio]]\n\nChildren:\n[[Nathaniel Edwin Richards]]\n[[Henry F. Richards]] \n\nAlice appears on the [[1860 Federal census|./images/1860CensusAthens.jpg]] with her husband and children in Athens Township in [[Athens County, Ohio]]. Also listed in the same household are Charles Wesley Richards, a probable step-son, and Eleanor Six, a probable relation to James' first wife, Eleanor.\n\n>''History Notes: ''//[[The Civil War]] begins in 1861 and ends in 1865. Lincoln is assassinated in April of 1865. In 1862 the [[Homestead Act]] goes into effect, offering free land to settlers. El Dorado, KS is founded in 1868. The [[Emigrant's Guide]] is published in 1869, extolling the virtues of El Dorado, and might have influenced the family's move there.//\n\nThere appears to be no record of the family in the 1870 census, but, they might have been migrating at the time. The above mentioned Charles Wesley is listed on the Pike County, IL, census with his family, so it is possible that the Richards family passed through, and perhaps stayed for a time.\n\nThe family next appears in [[Towanda, Butler, KS]] on the 1880 census. \n\nHer husband, James, [[died|./images/JamesRichardsDeathRec.jpg]] in 1887.\n\nScandal rocked the family around 1889 when her son Nathaniel ran off with his twin brother, Henry's wife.\n\nThe [[1900 Census|.images/1900CensusAllen-Richards.jpg]] shows Alice and son, Henry, living at 282 Scott St. in [[Iola, Allen, KS]]. Both listed as widowed. She owned her home. \n\nHenry became ill from working at the shale pit. Alice nursed him for two years before he finally died on 21 February 1904. She purchased his plot in Iola Cemetery the following day. Six months later, she purchased her own plot beside him. \n\n<<imglink ./images/richards/plotalic.jpg ./images/richards/plotalic.jpg "Alice and Henry plot" 0 500 78.5>>\n\nShe died exactly one month later. \n\n>''Obituary'' (Iola Daily Register - 8 Sep 1904), "Mrs. Richards died last night at ten o'clock at her home, 817 South Walnut. The cause of her death was old age, she being something like 80 years old. The funeral will be held from the residence this afternoon at three o'clock, Rev. Mr. Hankins, officiating. The remains will be buried in the La Harpe cemetery. Mrs. Richards is the last of the family a son having died about six months ago." (see [[photo|./images/richards/obitalic.jpg]])\n>\n>[Please note that she is actually buried in the [[Iola Cemetery]]. Also, notice there is no mention of Nathaniel who was still alive.]\n\nAlice and Henry are buried together in [[Iola Cemetery]]. One tombstone marks both graves.\n\n<<imglink ./images/hdstalicj.jpg ./images/hdstalicj.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 300 453>>

Below is the ancestor tree of Sarah Harriman, and through her, each one of the Richards family members. You can find Sarah at the bottom listed as Adrienna Sarah Harriman:\n\n[img[./images/sarahanc.jpg]]

See:\n\nhttp://www.athenshistory.org/\nhttp://www.rootsweb.com/~ohathens/\nhttp://www.seorf.ohiou.edu/%7Exx075/past.html

Need to verify family connection. Not a direct ancestor. See wikipedia article:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averill_Harriman

Bleeding Kansas, sometimes referred to in history as Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a sequence of violent events involving ~Free-Staters (anti-slavery; also known as free soilers) and pro-slavery elements that took place in Kansas–Nebraska Territory and the western frontier towns of the U.S. state of Missouri between roughly 1854 and 1858 attempting to influence whether Kansas would enter the union as a free or slave state. The term "Bleeding Kansas" was coined by Horace L. Greeley of the New York Tribune.\n\nThe events in Bleeding Kansas directly presaged the American Civil War.\n\nfrom Wikipedia:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_Kansas

[img[./images/eldorado.jpg]]\n\n> Butler County is named for Sen. Andrew Pickens Butler (1796-1857) of South Carolina. Senator Butler was an ardent proslavery advocate although he had voted for the Kansas-Nebraska Act, perhaps thinking like many others that Kansas would become a slave state and Nebraska a free state.\n> \n> Butler County was one of the 33 original counties created by the "Bogus Legislature" composed of pro-slavery Missourians, border state ruffians and the fraudulently elected. A later Free State legislature allowed the name to remain unchanged. One account states that they thought Butler County was named after Massachusetts politician and later Union Army General, Ben Butler.\n> \n> Since the early days, the regional economy had been focused on farming and ranching. This would all change when, in the fall of 1915, a cable tool drilling rig owned by Wichita Natural Gas began to drill an oil well on the John Stapleton farm north of town. Day after day the tools stomped their way into the solid earth until at a depth of 670 feet oil was discovered. Word spread like a wind-whipped prairie fire and the black gold rush was on.\n> \n> Butler's economy changed almost overnight. Lease prices for land skyrocketed as men sought riches from deep within the earth. New shops and businesses were built to meet the demands of thousands of incoming workers.\n> \n> The company owned towns of Oil Hill, Midian, Gordon, Browntown and others prospered. Oil Hill and El Dorado grew and by 1918 their population totaled almost 20,000. In a single year, more than 28 million barrels of crude oil were produced.\n> \n>- information supplied by the Butler County Historical Society\n>http://skyways.lib.ks.us/counties/BU/\n\nsee also William G. Cutler's, //History of the State of Kansas//\nhttp://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/butler/butler-co-p1.html\n\nsee http://www.kansasdar.org/susannahfrenchputney/Area.html\n\nAlso see [[El Dorado, Butler, KS]]

[[Iola Cemetery]] - [[Iola, Allen, KS]]\n[[Quisling Cemetery]] - Coffee County, KS\n[[LeRoy Cemetery]] - [[LeRoy, Coffey, KS]]\n[[Restland Cemetery]] - Dallas, TX

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11/30/05\n\nAll,\n\nI was fortunate to be able to attend Mabel Richard's 90th birthday party this past weekend. It was a wonderful time. Friends and family traveled from all over the state to attend. I have attached a couple of pictures.\n\n<html>\n<div align=center>\n[img[./images/TerryMabel.jpg]] [img[./images/cake.jpg]] \n</div></html>\n\nI hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and are looking forward to an equally wonderful Christmas.\n\nBelow are the Richards Family Events for the month of December. Please review and let me know if there are any errors or omissions.\n\nFriday, December 2\n• Jaci Mosby's Birthday\nSaturday, December 3\n• Delbert Klump's Birthday\nWednesday, December 7\n• Mabel S. (Duncan) Richards b. 1900\nFriday, December 9\n• Pat Henry's Birthday\nSunday, December 11\n• Justin Richards' Birthday\nThursday, December 22\n• Genevieve Richards' Birthday (d. 24 Mar 2003)\nSunday, December 25\n• Matthew Jenkins' Birthday\n• Krista Richards' Birthday\nTuesday, December 27\n• Donald Demott's Birthday\nThursday, December 29\n• Robert Richards d. 1993\nFriday, December 30\n• Trista ~McQuilliams' Birthday\n\nBest wishes to you all for the holidays!\n\nThomas

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[img[./images/eldorado.jpg]]\n\nsee //Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... //\nhttp://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/e/eldorado.html\n\nsee William G. Cutler's, //History of the State of Kansas//\nhttp://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/butler/butler-co-p3.html#EL_DORADO\n\nsee http://www.kansasdar.org/susannahfrenchputney/Area.html\n\nsee http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/kw/towns.asp?town=El%20Dorado&county=Butler\n\nAlso see [[Butler County, KS]]

''Elizabeth Howe''\nd. 19 July 1692 - hanged\n\nAs many of you know, our family was involved in the [[Salem Witch Trials]]. Although none of our direct ancestors were accused of witchcraft, ''Elizabeth Howe'', the mother-in-law to a member of our family, was one of the 19 persons executed. Yes, his mother-in-law really was a witch! \n\nTo be fair, although it is easy to look back 300 years and make light of the trials, imagine the torment that our family must have gone through as they watched one of their loved ones accused of witchcraft, put on trial, found guilty and ultimately hanged. Although the condemnations were later recognized as mass hysteria and annulled, it was too late for those that were killed.\n\n\n<html><div align=center>[img[./images/elizabethhowe.jpg]]\n"//If it was the last moment I was to live, God knows I am innocent....//"\n--Elizabeth Howe \n</div></html>\n\nThe witchcraft hysteria began in February of 1692 when a few young girls began behaving strangely in the small village of Salem. Superstition led people to believe they were bewitched. Pressed to name the names of their bewitchers, the girls soon began accusing members of the village. Fear gripped the town, and more accusations were made by the girls, as well as by adults who attributed strange occurences to various members of the community whom they distrusted, or with whom they had argued.\n\nBy May, accusations had been made against our family member, Elizabeth Howe. She had been suspected of being a witch for some years, and had been refused church membership previously. The new accusations soon had many members of the community coming out to denounce her. They blamed her for odd happenings: people and animals afflicted with strange behavior or maladies, food and drink that was tainted or had disappeared. She was even implicated in the death of a woman who had fallen ill and denounced her on her deathbed.\n\nOne of the more colorful testimonies against her was the testimony of Isaac Cummings. Isaac had refused to let one of the Howe family members borrow his horse. The horse then took ill:\n\n>//"...seing the maer in such a sad condition I toke up the said maer and put her into my barn and she wold eate no maner of things as for provender or any thing w'c i gave her then i sent for my brother thomas andros... but said he I can not tell but she may have the baly ach and said he i wil try one thing more my brother anderos said he wold take a pipe of tobaco and lite it and put itt in to the fundement of the maer I told him that I thought it was not lawfull he said it was lawfull for man or beast then I toke a clen pipe and filled it with tobaco and did lite it and went with the pipe lite to the barn then the said anderos used the pipe as he said before he wold and the pip of tobaco did blaze and burn blew then I said to my brother anderos you shall try no more it is not lawful he said I will try again once mor which he did and then thar arose a blaze from the pipe of tobaco which seemed to me to cover the butocks of the said mear the blaz went up ward towards the roof of the barn and in the roof of the barn thar was a grate crackling as if the barn wOld have falen or bin burnt which semed so to us which ware with in and some that ware with out and we hade no other fier in the barn [b]ut only a candil and a pipe of tobaco and then I said I thought my bar n or my mear most goe...."// \n>taken from: [[The Salem Witchcraft Papers|http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-salemname?specfile=/texts/english/salem/public/salem.o2w&act=text&offset=3291580&query=cumisa1&textreg=div3]]\n\nThe mare died the next day. \n\nNote that what they were doing was blowing smoke up the horse's rear end, which was believed to be a cure for "the belly ache." I would guess that this practice led to the phrase "blowing smoke up your *ss". \n\nCan you imagine the look on their faces as the blue flame shot out of the horse's rear end and nearly burned the barn down! Amazing what a little gas and fire together will do; no wonder the practice was illegal. Unfortunately, Elizabeth Howe was blamed because of their superstition and stupidity.\n\nFollow this link to [[read more testimony against Elizabeth Howe|HoweTestimony]].\n\nBelow is an example of a deposition made against Elizabeth Howe (spelled How in the document). Click on the photo for a larger view:\n\n<html><div align=center><<imglink ./images/H30A.jpg ./images/H30A.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 550 637>></div></html>\n\n>(from http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/archives/MassHist/H30A.html)\n\n\nWith all the testimony against her, and claims by other condemned "witches" that she was one of them, the jury found her guilty, and she was sentenced to die. The self-proclaimed witches were most likely trying to save their own lives by admitting themselves as witches. A person that admitted and repented of being a witch was spared her life, one that continued to deny she was a witch was condemned to death. Elizabeth maintained her innocence and is quoted as saying, "If it was the last moment I was to live, God knows I am innocent."\n\nHere is the text of the death warrant issued against her and other condemned witches, Sarah Good, Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin and Sarah Wilds:\n\n>//To Goerge: Corwine Gent'n High Sheriff of the county of Essex\n\nWhereas Sarah Good Wife of William Good of Salem Village Rebecka Nurse wife of Francis Nurse of Salem Village Susanna Martin of Amesbury ''Widow Elizabeth How wife of James How of Ipswich'' Sarah Wild wife of John Wild of Topsfield all of the County of Essex in thier Maj'ts Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Att A Court of Oyer & Terminer held by Adjournment for Our Severaign Lord & Lady Kind Wiliam & Queen Mary for the said County of Essex at Salem in the s'd County onf the 29th day of June [torn] were Severaly ''arrigned on Several Indictments for the horrible Crime of Witchcraft by them practised & Committed On Severall persons'' and pleading not guilty did for thier Tryall put themselves on God & Thier Countrey whereupon they were Each of them ''found & brought in Guilty by the Jury that passed On them according to their respective Indictments and Sentence of death did then pass upon them as the Law directs Execution whereof yet remains to be done'': Those are Therefore in thier Maj'ties name William & Mary now King & Queen over England &ca: to will & Command you that upon Tuesday next being the 19th day for [torn] Instant July between the houres of Eight & [torn] in [torn] forenoon the same day you Safely ''conduct the s'd Sarah Good Rebecka Nurse Susann Martin Elizabeth Howe & Sarah Wild From thier Maj'ties goal in Salem afores'd to the place of Execution & there Cause them & Every of them to be hanged by the Neck untill they be dead'' and of the doings herein make return to the Clerke of the said Court & this precept and hereof you are not to fail at your perill and this Shall be your sufficient Warrant given under my hand & seale at Boston th 12't day of July in the fourth year of Reign of our Soveraigne Lord & Layd Wm & Mary King and Queen &ca:\n*Wm Stoughton\nAnnoq Dom. 1692\n(Reverse)\nSalem July 19th 1692\n''I caused the within mentioned persons to be Executed according to the Tenour of the with[in] warrant''\n*George Corwin Sherif\n(from http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/ASAL_DE.HTM)\n//\n\nThe five were taken to Gallows Hill and hanged on July 19, 1692--victims of superstition, ignorance and mass hysteria. A total of 19 persons lost their lives.\n\n<html><div align=center>[img[./images/ygb-gallows_large.gif]]\nGallow’s Hill, where convicted witches were hung.\n</div></html>\n\n!Relation of Elizabeth Howe to the Richards Family\n\n<html><div align=center>[img[./images/ehowedesc.jpg]]</div></html>\n\nAlso see [[Nicholas Jackson]].\n----\nFor books on Elizabeth Jackson Howe see:\n\n*''Elizabeth Jackson of Rowley:'' //The East Yorkshire Girl Who Emigrated to New England and Was Executed As a Witch in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692//, by Reverend Graystone Philip.\n*''Short History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Trials'' (1911) by M.V.B. Perley. Illustrated by a //Verbatim Report of the Trial of Mrs. Elizabeth Howe//\n----\nSee also [[Salem Witch Trials]]

>//In 1869 Bronson & Sallee published the "Emigrant's Guide," calling attention to the advantages of Butler county, and to Eldorado in particular. In 1870 there was an influx of settlers and the town was enlarged by several "additions." //\n>\n>Excerpt from Volume I of //Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc.//, (1912) Transcribed May 2002 by Carolyn Ward and found at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/e/eldorado.html\n\n>//"Thus far the reputation of El Dorado had spread little beyond its immediately associated towns in the northeast - the places where it touched the line of older settlement, and felt, though distantly, the pulsations of the world's great heart. With 1869 came the publication of a paper of its own, the Emigrant's Guide, gotten up by Bronson & Sallee, who had entered extensively into real estate dealings, and printed by Jacob Stotler, of the Emporia News. The Guide was what would now be called a 'rustler,' and crowed for Butler County and El Dorado after a very lusty fashion. This year saw the first social gathering of the people in the new settlement, and the first disaster, the drowning of the Johnson family in the June flood in the Walnut. With 1870 came a rush of settlers and a flood of events which deserve more specific description."//\n>\n>With the rush of 1870 came the demand for more room within the town limits, and the specially suave and ready respond to the demand by real estate men. Lower's addition of eighty acres, now forming all of the town north of Central Avenue, was laid out in this year, as were the blocks of land belonging to Finley & Gordon, on Main street, and that of Wilson on the west. These, together, made a little less than 320 acres. ]\n>\n>Excerpt from William G. Cutler's, //History of the State of Kansas//, (1883) as found at http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/butler/butler-co-p3.html#EL_DORADO\n\nSee:\n[[El Dorado, Butler, KS]]\n[[Butler County, KS]]

Please let me know if you have an interest in a family blog.\n[img[./images/emailme.jpg]]\nThank you!\nThomas

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All,\n\nLast month, I attended a business meeting in Dallas and was able to visit the grave of my grandfather, [[Babe Richards|Marion Pearl Richards]]. For those of you unsure who Babe was, he was brother to Bob, Jim, Rex, Bill, Betty, Lois and Ginny. I had never met my grandfather, nor visited his grave, so it was a special moment for me. \n\n[img[./images/babegrave.jpg]]\n\nSadly, I did not get to visit any of our family members that live in the area while I was there. \n\nWhile in Dallas, I did visit the //Dallas Museum of Art//. There, I saw a painting entitled "The Witches", which depicts a jail scene from the [[Salem Witch Trials]]. \n\n\n<html><div align=center>[img[./images/witches.jpg]]</div></html>\n\nFittingly, this month's SpotlightOn features [[Elizabeth Howe]]. Elizabeth is the alleged witch in the family that I'm sure you've all heard about. We are not directly descended from Elizabeth, so don't worry about having witch's blood mixed in your veins. Elizabeth was mother-in-law of the brother of our ancestor [[Nicholas Jackson]]. She was condemned to hang in the [[Salem Witch Trials]] in 1692. You can find out about Elizabeth at the following link:\n\nhttp://the-richards.org/#SpotlightOn\n\nI also made some minor changes to last month's SpotlightOn featured ancestor, [[Sarah Harriman|Sarah A. Harriman]], so please click on her tab also to see the updates.\n\nBelow are the Richards Family Events for February:\n\nWednesday, February 1\n • Jessie Hawkins' Birthday\nFriday, February 3\n • Lindsey Klump's Birthday\nMonday, February 6\n • Thomas Gebe's Birthday\nTuesday, February 7\n • Roberta Phillips' Birthday\nSunday, February 12\n • Dalton Cliffton's Birthday\nThursday, February 16\n • Jay Warren's Birthday\nFriday, February 24\n • Chelsea Hawkins' Birthday\nMonday, February 27\n • Charles Gerhart's Birthday\n\nPlease be sure to inform me of any errors or omissions.\n\nThanks!\nThomas

*[[Cyndi's List|http://www.cyndislist.com/]]\n*[[Rootsweb|http://www.rootsweb.com]]\n*[[17th Century Colonial New England|http://www.17thc.us/]]\n*[[The Richards Family|http://the-richards.org]]\n*[[Surname Profiler|http://cetl2.geog.ucl.ac.uk/uclnames/default.aspx]] - England\n*[[Kansas State Historical Society|http://www.kshs.org/genealogists/census/kansas/census1875ks.htm]]

The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn, starting in 1929 (although its effects were not fully felt until late in 1930) and lasting through most of the 1930s. It centered in North America and Europe, but had damaging effects around the world. \n\n--from Wikipedia\nSee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_depression

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Although the attached map is a snapshot of the year 1881, long after our Harriman branch came to America, it gives us an idea of where the Harriman name comes from. The larger area in orange on the map below is located near Rowley, England. Did the Harriman's come over with the founders of Rowley, Massachusetts, where we know they ended up? (See [[Rowley, England]].)\n\n>HARRIMAN \n>English - Occupational Name; Ending with -Man; Ending with -Man \n\n[img[./images/harrimanname.jpg]]\n\n----\nThe original surname mapping website can be found at:\nhttp://cetl2.geog.ucl.ac.uk/uclnames/default.aspx\n\nFor an article on the website, see:\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4620786.stm

[Under Construction]\n\nAlso see HarrimanName

b. 20 Jul 1856 in Ohio\nd. 21 Feb 1904 in Iola, Allen, KS\nburied: in [[Iola Cemetery]]\n\nParents:\n[[James Richards]]\n[[Alice Jane Jones]]\n\n''Henry F. Richards'' was the twin brother of [[Nathaniel Edwin Richards]]. He was born in [[Athens County, Ohio]] in 1856, the family appear there on the [[1860 Census|1860CensusAthens.jpg]]. The family migrated to [[El Dorado, Butler, KS]] by 1880, possibly via Illinois.\n\nHenry married in 1889, and shortly after, Nathaniel is said to have run off with his wife. \n\nUnfortunately, the census records for the year 1890 do not exist; however, the [[1900 Census|.images/1900CensusAllen-Richards.jpg]] shows Henry living with his mother, Alice, at 282 Scott St. in [[Iola, Allen, KS]]. Interestingly, Henry's wife is also listed in the Iola area as living with her brother. There is no record of Nathaniel in that year's census.\n\nHenry died in 1904 at the age of 47 under the care of his mother, who died six months after him--one tombstone marks both their graves in the [[Iola Cemetery]].\n\n>''Obituary:''(Iola Daily Register 22 Feb 1904), Henry F. Richards died at 6:30 Sunday evening at the home, 20 West Campbell street, after an illness of nearly two years. He was employed at the shale pit of the Iola Brick Company's No. 2 and it is supposed was poisoned by the shale in some way. Mr. Richards lived with his mother who nursed him tenderly and he had the benefit of skilled medical attention but without avail....". (see [[photo|./images/richards/obithenr.jpg]])\n\n<<imglink ./images/hdsta&h3.jpg ./images/hdsta&h3.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 300 453>>

//The Homestead Act of 1862 is a piece of U.S. legislation which gave one quarter of a section of a township (160 acres, or about 65 hectares) of undeveloped land in the American West to any family head or person that was at least 21 years of age, provided he lived on it for five years and built a house of a minimum of 12 by 14 feet, or allowed the family head to buy it for $1.25 per acre ($308/km²) after six months.\n\nThe act was signed into law by President Lincoln on May 20, 1862.//\n\n--From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.\n\nSee more at:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Act

!More Testimony on the Conviction of Elizabeth Howe\n\n//This is a court reporter’s testimony on Elizabeth Jackson Howe’s conviction for witchcraft. John Hathorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ancestor, is believed to have been among those who judged and sentenced her. This testimony was preserved and reproduced by the victim’s great–granddaughter. Howe was hanged on July 19, 1692. “If it was the last moment I was to live, God knows I am innocent,” she said, echoing the emotional denial of many of the accused witches.//\n\n//1. Elizabeth Jackson Howe pleaded not guilty to the indictment of Witchcraft, then charged upon her; the court, according to the usual proceedings of the courts in England, in such cases, began hearing the depositions of several afflicted people who were grievously tortured by sensible and evident Witchcrafts and all complained of the prisoner as the cause of their troubles. It was also found that the sufferers were not able to bear her LOOK, as likewise, that in their greatest swoons, they distinguished her TOUCH from other peoples, being thereby raised out of them.\nAnd there is another testimony of people to whom the shape of this HOWE, gave trouble nine or ten years ago.\n\n2. It has been a most usual thing for the bewitched persons at the same time that the SPECTRES presenting the WITCHES, troubled them, to be visited with apparitions of GHOST, pretending to have been MURDERED by the WITCHES then represented. And sometimes the confessions of the witches afterwards acknowledged those very murders, which these apparitions charged upon them; although they had never heard what informations had been given by the sufferers. There were such apparitions of ghost testified by some of the present sufferers; and the ghost affirmed, that his HOWE had murdered them; which things were feared but not proved.\n\n3. This HOWE had made some attempts of joining to the church at Ipswich, several years ago; but she was denied an admission into that holy society, partly through a suspicion of witchcraft, then urged against her. And there now came in testimony, of preternatural mischiefs, presently befalling some that had been instrumental to debar her from the communion whereupon she was intruding.\n\n4. There was a particular deposition of a Joseph Strafford, that his wife had conceived an extreme aversion to this HOWE, and on the reports of her witchcrafts; but HOWE one day, taking her by the hand and saying, “I believe you are not ignorant of the great scandal that I lye under, by an evil report raised upon me,” she immediately, unreasonably, and unperswadeably, even like one enchanted, began to take this woman's part. HOWE being soon after propounded, as desiring an admission to the table of the Lord, some of the pious brethren were unsatisfied about her. The elders appointed a meeting to hear matters objected against her; and no arguments in the world could hinder this Goodwife Stafford from going to the lecture. She did indeed promise, with much ado, that she would not go to the church meeting, yet she could not refrain from going thither also.\nHOWE’S affairs there was so cancased, that she came off rather guilty than cleared; nevertheless Goodwife Stafford could not forbear taking her by the hand and saying: “Though you are condemned before men, you are justified before God.” She was quickly taken in a very strange manner, ranting, raving, raging, and crying out, “Goody Howe must come into the church; she is a precious saint; and though she be condemned before men, she is justified before God.” So she continued for space of 2–3 hours and fell into a trance but coming out to herself, she cried out: “Ha ! I was mistaken”; and afterwards repeated “Ha ! I was mistaken.” Being asked by a stander by; “Wherein”: she replied, “I thought Goody Howe had been a precious saint of God but I see she is a witch: she has bewitched me and my child, and we shall never be well, till there be a testimony for her, and that she may be taken into the church.” Howe said afterwards that she was very sorry to see Stafford at the church meeting mentioned. Stafford after this declared herself to be afflicted by the shape of HOWE; and from that shape she endured many miseries.\n\n5. John HOWE, brother to the husband of the prisoner, testified that he refusing to accompany the prisoner into her examination, as was by her desired, immediately some of his cattle were bewitched to death, leaping three to four feet high, turning about, speaking, falling, dying at once; and going off an ear, for an use, that might as well perhaps have been omitted, the hand wherein he held his knife was taken very numb, and so it remained, and full of pain, for several days, and not being well at this very time. And he suspected the prisoner for the author of it.\n\n6. Nehemiah Abbott testified that unusual and mischievous accidents would befall his cattle whenever he had any difference with this prisoner. Once particularly, he wished his Ox choked; and within a little while that ox was choked with a turnip in his throat. At another time, refusing to lend his horse, at the request of her daughter, the horse was in preternatural manner abused. And several other odd things of that kind were testified.\n\n7. There came a testimony, that one Good–wife Sherwin, upon some differences with HOWE, was bewitched and that she died, charging this HOWE with having a hand in her death. And that other people had their barrels of drink unaccountably mischieved, spoiled and spilt, upon their displeasing her.\nThe thing in themselves were trivial, but there being such a course of them it made them the more considered. Among others, Martha Wood, gave her testimony, that a little after her father had been employed in gathering an account of HOWE’s conversation, they once and again lost great quantities of drink out of their vessels, in such a manner, as they could ascribe to nothing but witchcraft. As also, that HOWE giving her some apples, when she had eaten some of them she was taken with very strange kind of amaze, insomuch that she knew not what she said or did.\n\n8. There was likewise a cluster of depositions, that one Isaac Cummings refusing to lend his mare unto the husband of this HOWE, the mare within a day or two had taken in a strange condition; the beast seem much abused, being bruised as if she had been running over rocks, and marked where the bridle went, as if burnt with a red hot bridle. Moreover, one using a pipe of tobacco for the cure of the beast, a blue flame issued out of her, took hold of her hair, and not only spread and burnt on her but it also flew upwards towards the roof of the barn, and had like to have set the barn on fire; and the mare died very suddenly.\n\n9. Timothy Pearly and his wife, testified. Not only accountable mischiefs befell their cattle, upon their having differences with this prisoner; but also that they had a daughter destroyed by witchcrafts; which daughter still charged HOWE as the cause of her affliction. And it was noted, that she would be struck down whenever HOWE were spoken of. She was often endeavored to be thrown into the fire, and into the water, in her strange fits: though her father had corrected her for charging HOWE with bewitching her, yet (as was testified by others also) she said, she was sure of it and must die standing to it. Accordingly she charged HOWE to the very death; and said “Though HOWE could afflict and torment her body, yet she could not hurt her soul: and that the truth of this matter would appear, when she would be dead and gone.”\n\n10. Francis Lane testified, that being hired by the husband of this HOWE to get him a parcel of post and rails, this Lane hired John Pearly to assist him. This prisoner then told Lane that she believed the post and rails would not do, because John Pearly helped him: but that if he had got them alone without John Pearly’s help, they might have done well enough. When James HOWE came to receive his post and rails of Lane, HOWE taking them up by the ends, they thought good and sound, yet unaccountably broke off, so that Lane was forced to get thirty or forty more. And this prisoner being informed of it, she said, “She told him so before, because Pearly helped about them.”\n\n11. Afterwards there came in the confessions of several other (penitent) witches, which affirmed this HOWE to be one of those, who with them had been baptized by the devil in the river, at Newbury–Falls: before which he made them there kneel down by the brink of the river and worship him. //\n\nTaken from:\nhttp://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/fiction/cultural.asp?e=3c\n\n

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<html>\nLocated in Iola, KS in Allen County\n<div align=center>\n\n<<imglink ./images/hdsta&h2.jpg ./images/hdsta&h2.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 550 364>>\nTombstone of [[Alice Jane Jones]] and [[Henry F. Richards]] (One tombstone for both.)\n\n<<imglink ./images/hdstalicj.jpg ./images/hdstalicj.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 300 453>>\n[[Alice Jane Jones]]'s side\n\n<<imglink ./images/hdsta&h3.jpg ./images/hdsta&h3.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 300 453>>\n[[Henry F. Richards]]'s side\n\n[img[./images/iola.jpg]]\n\n</div>\n</html>

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1645-1668\n\nThe Jackson Line is one of the oldest, if shortest lines in our family. The [[primogenitor]] of the Jackson line, [[Nicholas Jackson]], arrived in [[Rowley, MA]], presumably from England in 1645. We lose the Jackson line in 1668 when his daughter, Lydia, married Tobias Coleman.\n\nThe Jackson Line has the distinction of being involved in the [[Salem Witch Trials]]. \n\nNicholas Jackson's son, Caleb (brother to Lydia), married Elizabeth Howe, daughter of [[Elizabeth Howe]], who was hung as a witch during the trials.\n\n''Jackson Line:''\n[img[./images/jacksonline.jpg]]\n----\n''Relation to the Richards clan:''\n<html><div align=center>[img[./images/ehowedesc.jpg]]</div></html>\n\n(See [[Colemans]], [[Harrimans]])

Farmer\n\nb. 1812, Virginia\nm. (1) Eleanor Six 18 Dec 1829 in [[Athens County, Ohio]]\nm. (2) [[Alice Jane Jones]] 20 Apr 1854 in [[Athens County, Ohio]]\nd. 15 Jan 1887, [[Towanda, Butler, KS]]\n\nJames was born in Virginia in 1812. \n\nHe [[married his first wife|./images/marriagerec_2.jpg]], Eleanor Six in [[Athens County, Ohio]] in 1829. Eleanor appears to have died about 1850. He [[remarried|./images/marriagerec_1.jpg]] in 1854 to Alice Jones, to whom our ancestor, Nathaniel Edwin Richards, was born in 1856.\n\nHe migrated with his family to [[Butler County, KS]] by 1880, possibly via Pike Co. IL. He does not show up in the 1870 census, but [[his son, Wesley, does|./images/1870CensusIllinoisPike.jpg]] in Pike Co. \n\nHis family appears on the [[1880 census|./images/1880CensusButler2.jpg]].\n\nJames died of a stroke in 1887 in [[Towanda, Butler, KS]]. See [[death record|./images/JamesRichardsDeathRec.jpg]].\n\nChildren with Eleanor:\n*Charles Wesley\n\nChildren with Alice:\n*[[Nathaniel Edwin Richards]]\n*[[Henry F. Richards]]\n\n//More information coming on Richards ancestors.//

James Sumner Richards\n(under construction)

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[img[./images/janesville, wi.jpg]]\n\nTemporary home to [[Sarah A. Harriman]] from the ages 5 to 19. Prior to Janesville, the family lived in [[Palermo, Maine]]. Her father, Simon Harriman died in Janesville, and the family moved to [[El Dorado, Butler, KS]]

1/5/06\n\nHope you all had a wonderful holiday season, and I wish the best for each of you in the coming new year!\n\nI have posted the Richards Family Events for January below; however, before I list them, I would like to announce that I have finally been working on the Richards Family Website! Please check it out when you get a chance at the link below, and be sure to bookmark it for future reference. \n\nRichards Family Website:\nhttp://www.the-richards.org\n\nThe task of putting together such a website has been overwhelming, so I've decided to take it a little at a time. Please be patient as I add to it. In order for me to be more focused on the website, and to provide myself with a deadline, I've come up with what I call "Spotlight On", in which I will take a family member, or a branch of the family, or an important location, etc., to be highlighted each month.\n\n[img[./images/sarahsmporch.jpg]]\n\nThis month's "Spotlight On" is our primogenitor, Sarah Harriman. Sarah was born in 1850, and is mother to all of the Richards family. She married Nathaniel Richards, the infamous twin who mysteriously disappeared. You can read about Sarah by clicking the "Spotlight On" link from the main page of the Richards website, or go directly there using the link below:\n\nhttp://www.the-richards.org#SpotlightOn\n\nDid you ever wonder how the Richards family ended up in Kansas? While doing research on Sarah, I came up with an interesting tidbit that most likely explains how that side of the family came to choose Kansas as their home: It seems that in 1869, two gentlemen from El Dorado, KS, by the names of Bronson & Sallee, published an "Emigrant's Guide". This guide was meant to make the area attractive to prospective settlers and "crowed for Butler County and El Dorado after a very lusty fashion." The following year saw an influx of settlers to El Dorado. Among those settlers, arriving in a wagon train from Wisconsin, were our ancestors, Sarah and her mother, Sarah J., along with brother Louis. So most likely our family was lured by the call of a real estate guide! You can read more about it on the website.\n\nWell, as promised here are this month's events.\n\nSunday, January 8\n • Sara Peckenpaugh's Birthday\n • Marise Gerhart's Birthday\nMonday, January 9\n • Michelle Hawkin's Birthday\nThursday, January 12\n • David Richards' Birthday\nMonday, January 16\n • Jauna and Jason DeMott's Birthday\nWednesday, January 18\n • Pamela Jenkins' Birthday\nTuesday, January 24\n • Ashley Applegate's Birthday\nFriday, January 27\n • Eric Vogel's Birthday\nMonday, January 30\n • Alice Mae Applegate's Birthday\n\nHappy Birthday to all!\n\nAs always, please inform me of any errors or omissions. This also goes for the website. And please feel free to make suggestions. I know that some of you have provided me information that I haven't yet updated. I am still looking for some of those original files, and will correct them when I can. \n\nIf anyone is willing to do some write-ups for the website on a particular family member, or event, or whatever you would like, please feel free to contact me! I can use all the help I can get. I would especially appreciate any information and remembrances of deceased family members, as I would like at some point to have an "In Remembrance Of" section of the website. \n\nThank you all for your support!\n\nThomas

[under construction]\n\n>The first Fulling Mill in colonial America was established in [[Rowley, MA]] by our ancestor, John Pearson:\n>\n> First Fulling Mill in the Colonies\n>\n> About 1642-1643, John Pearson came to Rowley from Lynn. He built and operated a fulling mill and clothier's works near the Grist Mill. Nearly all the local families made cloth in their homes and brought it to the Pearson Mill to be fulled, that is, shrunken and dressed. Thus, Rowley is the birthplace of the American woolen industry and it was this industry which caused so much aggravation to England who wanted to be the sole supplier of spun wool to the Colonies. There were sanctions against the Colonists for buying Rowley-made wools, and by defying those sanctions the settlers sowed seeds of dissension which coupled with other matters of dissatisfaction eventually led to the war for independence.\n>\n> --from the "Official Rowley, Massachusetts" website (v.i.)

~LeRoy is home to many Richards descendants.\n\n[img[./images/leroy.jpg]]\n\n>LeRoy is a city located in Coffey County, Kansas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 593. --From //Wikipedia//, the free encyclopedia.\n\n[img[http://lh5.google.com/boazter/RMbltqzkABI/AAAAAAAACso/iRPTta_-P3w/100_2853.jpg?imgmax=288]] [img[http://lh3.google.com/boazter/RMblu_lZABI/AAAAAAAACsw/4HKeR5mpgdA/100_2854.jpg?imgmax=288]]\n\nSee more at:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Roy%2C_Kansas\n\nSee also:\nhttp://skyways.lib.ks.us/towns/LeRoy/

[[Athens County, Ohio]]\n[[Butler County, KS]]\n[[Devizes, England]]\n[[El Dorado, Butler, KS]]\n[[Janesville, Wisconsin]]\n[[LeRoy, Coffey, KS]]\n[[Lynn Camp, Marshall WV]]\n[[Palermo, Maine]]\n[[Rowley, England]]\n[[Rowley, MA]]\n[[Pike County, IL]]\n\n\nalso see, [[Cemeteries]]

Brother of [[Sarah A. Harriman]]. Went west with his mule to prospect for gold.\n\nb. March 22, 1848\nd. April 23, 1921\nburied in [[Quisling Cemetery]]

[img[./images/richards/waltlucydet.jpg]]\nWalt and Lucy\n\nb. 25 Apr 1884\nm. Walter Chandler on 29 Jul 1939 in Augusta, [[Butler, KS|Butler County, KS]]\nd. 28 Mar 1966\n\nLucy (Richards) Chandler, known as "Auntie", was a colorful character, prone to wearing wild hats and carrying a gun. She inherited the Quisling farm. \n\nShe was a misandrist, and remained single until she was in her 50's, when she married Walter Chandler. Walt had two grown sons when they married - Lee & Ralph Chandler. Lucy and Walt moved to [[El Dorado|El Dorado, Butler, KS]] until he retired from the light company. They then moved back to the farm, then into town in [[LeRoy|LeRoy, Coffey, KS]]. \n\nThe story is passed down that after her mother had died, a man came to the farm looking for her and was run off with a gun by Lucy. Lucy kept this to herself for many years. It has been speculated that the mystery man might have been [[Nathaniel Richards|Nathaniel Edwin Richards]].\n\nLucy is buried in [[Quisling Cemetery]].\n\n<<imglink ./images/gravlucy.jpg ./images/gravlucy.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 150 223>>

Lynn Camp, Marshall County, West Virginia, 39°46'12"N 80°42'27"W\n\n>Lynn Camp Settled. --This stream, which is a small tributary of the North fork of Hughes river, took its name from a camp of lynn wood that was constructed by a party of hunters, in 1776, not far from the present site of the Wheeler Broadwater residence. These hunters came in the autumn-time, leaving orders for thier pack-horses to follow in six weeks; but, finding game so plentiful, they sent the fruits of their first six weeks labor home, and remained another six weeks, at the end of which time they had slain eighteen bears. During this entire time they had no change of clothing. The Richardses were the Pioneers of this creek. \n>\n>--History of Ritchie County written by Minnie Kendall Lowther, and published in 1910.\n\n<<imglink ./images/LynnCamp.jpg ./images/LynnCamp.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 auto 400>>\n\n<<imglink ./images/LynnCampWV.jpg ./images/LynnCampWV.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 auto 400>>

There are two main branches to the Richards family: The descendants of [[James Sumner Richards]] and those of [[Pearl Edwin Richards]]. The first generation of these two patriarchs are shown in the chart below. [[Lucy E. (Richards) Chandler|Lucy E. Richards]] had no children.\n\n<html>\n<div align=center>\n<<imglink ./images/nattree.jpg ./images/nattree.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 auto auto>>\n</div>\n</html>\n\nsee JamesSumnerBranch\nsee PearlEdwinBranch

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aka "Babe"\n[Under construction]\nSee [[Restland Cemetery]]

[img[./images/nopic.jpg]]\n''Nathaniel Edwin Richards''\nb. 20 Jul 1856 in Ohio\nm. 23 Nov 1881 in Augusta, [[Butler County, KS]]\nd. July 1934 in [[Kansas City, Jackson Co, MO]]\n\n[[Primogenitor|primogenitor]] of the Richards clan, ''Nathaniel Edwin Richards'' and his twin brother, [[Henry F. Richards]], were born to [[James Richards]] and [[Alice Jane Jones]] in Ohio on ''July 20, 1856''.\n\n>''History Note for 1856: ''Franklin Pierce is president (1853-1857). A series of violent events in Kansas known as [[Bleeding Kansas]] are a warning of the impending [[Civil War|The Civil War]].\n\nNathaniel, his twin brother and family first appear in the public record on the 1860 federal census in Athens Township in [[Athens County, Ohio]]. (see below)\n<html>\n<div align=center>\n<<imglink ./images/1860CensusAthensclip.jpg ./images/1860CensusAthens.jpg "1860 Census" 0 auto auto>>\n''1860 Census for Athens, Ohio. [[see full page|./images/1860CensusAthens.jpg]]\n//discovered by Marise and Charles Gerhart//\n</div>\n</html>\nAlso listed in the same household are Charles Wesley Richards, son of James' first wife, Eleanor; and Annie Six, a probable relation of Eleanor.\n\n>''History Notes: ''//[[The Civil War]] begins in 1861 and ends in 1865. Lincoln is assassinated in April of 1865. In 1862 the [[Homestead Act]] goes into effect, offering free land to settlers. El Dorado, KS is founded in 1868. The [[Emigrant's Guide]] is published in 1869, extolling the virtues of El Dorado, and might have influenced the family's move there.//\n\nThere appears to be no record of the family in the 1870 census, but, they might have been immigrating at the time. The above mentioned Charles Wesley [[is listed|./images/1870CensusIllinoisPike.jpg]] on the Pike County, IL, census with his family, so it is possible that Nathaniel with his family came with them, and perhaps stayed for a time.\n\nThe family next appears in [[Towanda, Butler, KS]] on the [[1880 census|./images/1880CensusButler2.jpg]]. Father and sons are listed as farmers.\n\n>The population of Butler County was reported as 3,035 from the census. By comparison, Coffey County was 6,201--although no Richards were living there as of yet. The population of Kansas was reported as 996,096. \n\nNathaniel married [[Sarah Harriman|Sarah A. Harriman]] on November, 23, 1881 at the age of 25. Sarah was six years his elder.\n<html>\n<div align=center>\n<<imglink ./images/mlnatsarclip.jpg ./images/mlnatsar1.jpg "Marriage Certificate" 0 auto auto>>\nsee [[complete marriage certificate|./images/mlnatsar1.jpg]]\n//original with Bill and Mike Richards//\n</div>\n</html>\nAlice J. Richards was born to the couple in September of 1882, but died the following year. [[Lucy E.|Lucy E. Richards]] was born in 1884 and [[James Sumner Richards]] in 1886. \n\nNathaniel's father, [[James|James Richards]], [[died|./images/JamesRichardsDeathRec.jpg]] of a stroke on 15 Jan 1887, in Butler County.\n\nIn May 1887, Sarah J. Harriman, Sarah's mother, buys a parcel of land from Sarah and Nathaniel, and sells back an equivalent parcel to her daughter (leaving Nathaniel out of deal). An indication of problems?\n\nAn infant, Edwin Richards was born in 1888, but died the day after birth. [[Pearl Edwin Richards]] was born in March of 1889. That same year, Sarah and Nathaniel sell 160 acres to M. A. Jones in Aug.\n\n[[Henry|Henry F. Richards]], Nathaniel's brother, married on 14 Nov 1889 in El Dorado, KS. Within a short time of this marriage, Nathaniel is said to have abandoned Sarah and run off with Henry's wife. He would have been about 34 years old. This is the last that the family officially knew of Nathaniel.\n\nNathaniel does not appear on the 1900 Census; however, Henry's wife, "Stella" [[is listed|./images/1900CensusAllen-Stella.jpg]] as living with her brother near [[Iola, Allen, KS]]. She appears to be listed as __widowed__. Curiously, Henry F. Richards [[is also listed|./images/1900CensusAllen-Richards.jpg]] in Iola with their mother.\n\nBoth Nathaniel's mother and brother died four years later in Iola in 1904.\n\nNathaniel and Stella next appear on the [[1910 Census|./images/1910CensusTX.jpg]], now together, in Marshall City, TX living with her niece and nephew. Nathaniel is listed as a "Gasfitter" for "Plumbing Supplies". He would have been about 54 by this time.\n\n>''History Note:'' World War I: 1914 - 1918.\n\nMeanwhile, back in Butler County, his wife Sarah, came into money when oil was discovered in 1915. She moved the family to [[LeRoy, Coffey, KS]] in 1918. \n\n>''History Notes:'' [[Prohibition]] 1919-1933. Women get the vote in 1920. Wall Street crashes in 1929 and the [[Great Depression]] begins.\n\nNathaniel and Stella later appear on the [[1930 census|./images/1930CensusKansasCity.jpg]] in [[Kansas City, Jackson Co, MO]]. He lists his occupation as "Stationary Engineer", and was working at the time of the census.\n\nNathaniel died 29 Jul 1934 at the age of 78 at General Hospital in Kansas City--the month after Sarah, his first wife, died back in ~LeRoy.\n\nHe was buried at Mt. Moriah in Kansas City (lot 331, block 5 curb 75). His tombstone bears the Mason symbol.\n\nHis last place of residence, 6233 E. 16th Terrace, by a strange coincidence turns out to be across the street and four houses down from the current residence of great-granddaughter, Marise Gerhart.\n\n<html>\n<div align=center>\n''The Kansas branch of the Richards Clan is descended from Nathaniel and Sarah:''\n[img[./images/nattree.jpg]]\n</div>\n</html>\n\n//Special thanks to Charles and Marise Gerhardt for providing the crucial clue to Nathaniel's past which led to our breakthrough. I would also like to thank Michele Clark for all the wonderful help and information she has provided. \n\nI would also like to challenge everyone to do research to find out more about Nathaniel. Are there any photos hidden away in a suitcase? Any hidden documents that might provide a clue? If anyone happens to find themselves in El Dorado, perhaps you can do some sleuthing at the courthouse, local library or history center. Please [[email me|Contact]] anything you might discover!\n\nThank you all! Thomas//

[[Primogenitor|primogenitor]] of the Jackson line.\nd. 13 Feb 1697-8.\n\nArrived in [[Rowley, MA]] by 1645. Nicholas' son, Caleb, married Elizabeth Howe, daughter of [[Elizabeth Howe]], who was hung as a witch in the [[Salem Witch Trials]]. \n\nHe married (1) Sarah Riley, married JUL 1646 buried: 12 Aug 1655\nHe married (2) Elizabeth, d. 12 Jun 1694\n\n''Children by Sarah Riley:''\n\n''i'' ''Lydia Jackson'', b. 23 JUNE 1647 She married Tobias Coleman, married 16 Apr 1668 in Rowley, MA.\n''ii'' Samuel Jackson, b. 23 May 1649.\n''iii'' Jonathan Jackson, b. 15 Sep 1650. He married Hannah Garfield, married 6 Dec 1681.\n''iv'' Caleb Jackson, b. 25 Apr 1652, d. 10 Aug 1718. He married Elizabeth Howe.\n\n(see [[Jacksons]])\n\nRelation to the Richards Family:\n\n<html><div align=center>[img[./images/ehowedesc.jpg]]</div></html>

Exciting news!\n\nI have some very exciting news on the Richards Family genealogy front! \n\nBut, first I want to apologize for being away for so long. I have been neglecting my genealogical duties, and have not been sending out my monthly newsletter. Special apologies to everyone whose birthday went unannounced the past few months. Here are the birthdays for this month:\n\nWednesday, October 11\n • Katherine Richards' Birthday\nFriday, October 13\n • Virginia Richards' Birthday\nMonday, October 16\n • Samantha Simmons' Birthday\nWednesday, October 18\n • Jimmie Phillips' Birthday\nThursday, October 19\n • Babe Richards d. 1989\nWednesday, October 25\n • Jennifer ~DeMott's Birthday\nFriday, October 27\n • Hallie Maxine Simmons' Birthday\nSunday, October 29\n • Bill and Bill Richards Jr.'s Birthday's\n\nAs I said, there has been some exciting news. For those of you who were unable to attend the Richards Family Reunion this year, Marise and Charles showed up with a discovery regarding Nathaniel Edwin Richards, that enigmatic ancestor of us all. You may recall that Nathaniel, father of Pearl and James Sumner Richards, caused a family scandal back in the late 1800's, when he ran off with his twin brother's wife, never to be heard from again.\n<html>\n<div align=center>\n<<imglink ./images/charlesmarise.jpg ./images/charlesmarise.jpg "Charles and Marise Gerhart" 0 auto auto>>\n//Charles and Marise Gerhart//\n</div>\n</html>\nCharles and Marise's discovery--a census from 1860--showed us that Nathaniel was originally from Athens County, Ohio. This clue led us to more discoveries about Nathaniel, and to others which took our line back several more generations! \n\n<html>\n<div align=center>\n<<imglink ./images/1860CensusAthensclip.jpg ./images/1860CensusAthens.jpg "1860 Census" 0 auto auto>>\n''1860 Census for Athens, Ohio. [[see full page|./images/1860CensusAthens.jpg]]\n//discovered by Marise and Charles Gerhart//\n</div>\n</html>\n\nWe are now able to provide a rough sketch of Nathaniel's life from Ohio to Kansas to Texas and, finally, to Kansas City. To learn more about Nathaniel Richards, please check out this month's "Spotlight On" at ~The-Richards.org website.\n\nSee SpotlightOn\n\nIn addition, Marise and Charles discovered Nathaniel's obituary, and from that they were able to locate and visit his grave in the Kansas City area! The obituary mentioned Nathaniel's final home, which by a strange coincidence happened to be on the very block where they live! In fact, they can look out her front window and see the vacant lot where his home once stood.\n\nAnd that's not all! We have been able to track the Richards name back even further. In fact, our family tree just got a lot bigger with the addition of more Richards branches. I would like to thank Michele Clark, who is descended from Nathaniel's grandfather. She has provided us with lots of family information going back from Nathaniel to the first Richards to set foot in America. And do you know what country the Richards came from? For now you'll just have to guess! That will be revealed in the next newsletter. The answer may surprise you!\n\nFor now you'll have to content yourselves with the details of Nathaniel's life by clicking on the link above. I will be telling you more about his ancestors in the future.\n\nFor those of you who did attend the Richards reunion this year, if you have any photos you would like to put up on the site, please contact me! \n\nBest wishes to all,\nThomas\n\nAs always, please be sure to inform me of any errors or omissions. Your help is greatly appreciated!

[under construction]\n\n!Famous and Infamous ancestors:\n[[Elizabeth Howe]] - Witch at the [[Salem Witch Trials]]\n[[John Pearson]] - Built the first Fulling Mill in America\n[[Nathaniel Edwin Richards]] - Primogentior of the line, and scoundrel\n[[Averell Harriman]] - Possible family connection, famous politician, businessman and diplomat\n\n!Ancestor Tree\nOur ancestors on Sarah Harriman's side:\n[img[./images/sarahanc.jpg]]

[[Sarah A. Harriman]] was born here in 1850.\n\n[img[./images/palermo, me.jpg]]\n\nSee:\nhttp://www.rootsweb.com/~megenweb/books/goodwin/palermo01.html

Pearl Edwin Richards\n(under construction)\n\n[img[./images/emmapearl.jpg]]

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The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, 1919, ...established Prohibition in the United States; during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal. The amendment was subsequently repealed by the ~Twenty-First Amendment on December 5, 1933.\n\n--from Wikipedia\nsee:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

<html>\nLocated near [[LeRoy, Coffey, KS]]\n<div align=center>\n<<imglink ./images/quisling.jpg ./images/quisling.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 550 368>>\nQuisling Cemetery\n\n<<imglink ./images/hdstharr.jpg ./images/hdstharr.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 550 368>>\nThe Richards plot\n\n<<imglink ./images/hdstsaha.jpg ./images/hdstsaha.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 300 453>>\n[[Sarah (Harriman) Richards|Sarah A. Harriman]]\n\n<<imglink ./images/hdstloha.jpg ./images/hdstloha.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 550 368>>\n[[Louis S. Harriman]]\n\n<<imglink ./images/hdstl&d.jpg ./images/hdstl&d.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 550 368>>\n[[Lucy E. (Richards) Chandler|Lucy E. Richards]] and [[Dickie Dean Richards]]\n\n<<imglink ./images/gravlucy.jpg ./images/gravlucy.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 300 453>>\n[[Lucy E. (Richards) Chandler|Lucy E. Richards]]\n\n<<imglink ./images/quislingmap.jpg ./images/quislingmap.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 auto auto>>\n</div>\n</html>

Resting place of [[Marion Pearl (Babe) Richards|Marion Pearl Richards]]\n\n[img[./images/babegrave.jpg]] [img[./images/babe2.jpg]]\n\n[img[./images/babe1.jpg]]\n\n[img[./images/babe3.jpg]]\n\n----\n''Restland Cemetery \n9220 Restland Road \nDallas, TX 75243 \nP: 972-238-7111 or 800-749-7379.''\nhttp://www.restlandfuneralhome.com/\n\n[img[./images/dallastx.jpg]] \n\n[img[./images/restlandtx.jpg]]\n\n[img[./images/restlandgrave.jpg]]

>''The Parish of Rowley, England''\n>St. Peter's Church, Rowley, in East Riding of Yorkshire, England.\n>Rev. Ezekiel Rogers was 24th minister in this church. After being driven from his position Rev. Rogers and 20 families from England sailed upon the John of London arriving in Salem in the fall of 1638. The first printing press to be used in English America was carried over on this ship. It was set-up in Cambridge. \n>From http://www.rowley-ma.com/History.html?q=015025938\n\n[img[./images/rowleyeng.jpg]]

[img[./images/rowley.jpg]]\n\n''Rowley'', located in Essex County in northeast ''Massachusetts'', was an important settlement site in the history of our family. Several generations of our ancestors called Rowley and its environs home during the 17th and 18th centuries. Rowley was settled in 1639, and named after the [[home town|Rowley, England]] of its founder, Rev. Ezekiel Rogers.\n\nFirst mention of our ancestors dates from the early 1640's. Nearby Ipswich and Newbury are also tied to our family. These towns are not far from Salem, Massachusetts, and took part in the [[Salem Witch Trials]]. Ipswich was the home of accused witch, [[Elizabeth Howe]].\n\nThe ''first Fulling Mill in colonial America'' was established in Rowley by our ancestor, [[John Pearson]]: \n\n>//First Fulling Mill in the Colonies//\n>\n>About 1642-1643, John Pearson came to Rowley from Lynn. He built and operated a fulling mill and clothier's works near the Grist Mill. Nearly all the local families made cloth in their homes and brought it to the Pearson Mill to be fulled, that is, shrunken and dressed. Thus, Rowley is the birthplace of the American woolen industry and it was this industry which caused so much aggravation to England who wanted to be the sole supplier of spun wool to the Colonies. There were sanctions against the Colonists for buying Rowley-made wools, and by defying those sanctions the settlers sowed seeds of dissension which coupled with other matters of dissatisfaction eventually led to the war for independence. \n> \n>--from the "Official Rowley, Massachusetts" website (//v.i.//)\n\nSome of our ancestoral lines that called Rowley home include the [[Pearsons]], [[Jacksons]], [[Harrimans]], [[Elithorpes]], [[Colemans]] and [[Thurstons]].\n\nOfficial Rowley, Massachusetts Site\nhttp://www.rowley-ma.com/History.html?q=002093108

<html><div align=center>[img[./images/witches.jpg]]</div></html>\n\n>''Salem witch trials.'' \n>//(May–October 1692), in American history, a series of investigations and persecutions that caused 19 convicted “witches” to be hanged and many other suspects to be imprisoned in the town of Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Stimulated by voodoo tales told by a West Indian slave, Tituba, a few young girls claimed they were possessed by the devil and subsequently accused three Salem women, including Tituba, of witchcraft. As Tituba and other accused persons were pressured and consequently incriminated others in false confessions, public hysteria over the threat of witchcraft mounted throughout Massachusetts.\n\n...The list of the accused increased (even Massachusetts governor William Phips's wife was implicated) until 150 people had been imprisoned and were awaiting trial. By September, however, the climate of mass hysteria had begun to abate, and public opinion first stopped, and then condemned, the trials. Governor Phips dissolved the special court in October and released the remaining prisoners. The Massachusetts General Court (legislature) later annulled the witch trials' convictions and granted indemnities to the families of those who had been executed.//\n>\n>--Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopædia Britannica 2006 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD 22 Jan. 2006 . \n\nThe mother-in-law of Caleb Jackson, son of our ancestor, [[Nicholas Jackson]], was hanged for witchcraft on July 19, 1692. Her name was [[Elizabeth Howe]].\n\n''For more on the Salem Witch Trials see'':\n\n//Wikipedia: Salem Witch Trials//\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials\n\n//The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692//\nhttp://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SALEM.HTM\n\n//Salem Witch Trials//\nhttp://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/witch.htm \n\n//Salem Witch Trials - Documentary Archive and Transcription Project//\nhttp://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/

[img[./images/sarahsmporch.jpg]]\n''Adrienna Sarah Harriman''\nb. 26 May 1850 in [[Palermo, Maine]]\nd. 2 Jun 1934 in Kansas\nburied: in [[Quisling Cemetery]], Coffey, KS.\n\nLike her biblical namesake, Sarah Harriman is the [[primogenitor]] of our line. She married [[Nathaniel Edwin Richards]], and their children define the two main Richards Kansas branches; the [[James Sumner branch|JamesSumnerBranch]] and the [[Pearl Edwin branch|PearlEdwinBranch]]. (See chart below.) Lucy had no children.\n<html>\n<div align=center>\n[img[./images/nattree.jpg]]\n</div>\n</html>\nSarah was born in [[Palermo, Maine]] in 1850 to ''Simon Sumner Harriman'' and ''Sarah J. Watts''. \n\n>''History note for 1850:'' President Zachary Taylor dies while in office and Vice President Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States. (from [[Wikipedia|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1850]])\n\nHer parents moved to [[Janesville, Wisconsin]] when Sarah was five. \n\n>''History Notes: ''//[[The Civil War]] begins in 1861 and ends in 1865. Lincoln is assassinated in April of 1865. In 1862 the [[Homestead Act]] goes into effect, offering free land to settlers. El Dorado, KS is founded in 1868. //\n<html>\n<div align=center>\n<<imglink ./images/richards/sarahorig.jpg ./images/richards/sarahorig.jpg "Sarah Harriman" 0 240 300>>\n[[Young Sarah|./images/richards/sarahorig.jpg]]\n</div>\n</html>\nSarah was 19 years old when her father died in 1869. That same year a publication called the //[[Emigrant's Guide]]// came out extolling the virtues of [[El Dorado, Butler, KS]] and of [[Butler County|Butler County, KS]] in general. \n\n<html><div align=center>[img[./images/sarahtrips.jpg]]\n\n''1) [[Palermo, Maine]] 2) [[Janesville, Wisconsin]] 3) [[El Dorado, Butler, KS]]''</div></html>\n\nAn influx of settlers came to El Dorado in 1870. Sarah, her mother and brother arrived that same year in a covered wagon and [[homesteaded|Homestead Act]] in the area. Sarah would have been eligible for her own piece of land at the age of 21.\n\n<html><div align=center>\n<<imglink ./images/SH320.jpg ./images/richards/butlermap1.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 auto auto>><<imglink ./images/ASH160.jpg ./images/richards/butlermap2.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 auto auto>>\n\n(These above maps are of an unknown date. It appears that Louis Harriman has sold his plot to his mother. These plots lie southeast of Towanda and southwest of El Dorado. Although adjacent, the plots are shown on separate pages. Click on each individual photo for full page. Use the section number to locate.)\n</div></html>\nSarah and her mother next appear together on the [[1880 census|./images/1880CensusButler.jpg]] in El Dorado.\n\nSarah married [[Nathaniel Edwin Richards]] on November 23, 1881 at the age of 31; he was 25. (See [[marriage certificate|./images/mlnatsar1.jpg]].) Alice J. Richards was born to the couple in September of 1882, but died the following year. [[Lucy E. Richards]] was born in 1884 and [[James Sumner Richards]] in 1886. An infant, Edwin Richards was born in 1888, but died the day after birth. [[Pearl Edwin Richards]] was born in March of 1889. \n\nAbout a year after Pearl was born, Nathaniel left Sarah leaving her to raise the kids. It is said that he ran off with the wife of his twin brother, [[Henry|Henry F. Richards]]. Sarah is shown on the [[1900 Census|./images/1900CensusButler.jpg]] in [[Towanda, Butler, KS]], living with her children, Lucy, Sumner and Pearl, and her mother. Nathaniel does not appear. Four years later, Sarah's mother passed away.\n\n[[1910 Census]]\n\n>''History Note:'' World War I: 1914 - 1918.\n\nIn 1915 oil was discovered in Butler County:\n\n>//"Butler's economy changed almost overnight. Lease prices for land skyrocketed as men sought riches from deep within the earth. New shops and businesses were built to meet the demands of thousands of incoming workers."// --see [[Butler County, KS]]\n\nWith the discovery of oil in Butler County, Sarah found herself modestly wealthy. \n<html>\n<div align=center>\n<<imglink ./images/certifclose.jpg ./images/certif.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 auto auto>>\n(See [[certificate|./images/certif.jpg]].)\n</div>\n</html>\nAt the age of 68, she moved the family to [[LeRoy, KS|LeRoy, Coffey, KS]] in 1918, where she bought three farms, one for each of her children. \n\n>''History Notes:'' [[Prohibition]] 1919-1933. Women get the vote in 1920. Wall Street crashes in 1929 and the [[Great Depression]] begins.\n\nShe died in Jun 1934 at the age of 84 not long after an accident in which a pressure cooker exploded and she was burned. Ironically, Nathaniel was to die the following month in Kansas City.\n\n>''Obituary:'' Sarah A. Richards, The death of Mrs. Sarah A. Richards, while not unexpected, came as a distinct shock to the family and her many friends in this community. Despite her advanced age her general health had been remarkably good until several months ago when she had a bad fall and the resulting shock seemed to drain her strength and she gradually declined until Saturday, June 2, when she breathed her last at 4:15 in the morning. [//note there is no mention of a pressure cooker//]\n>\n>Funeral service were held at the beautiful home northeast of Le Roy at 3:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon, June 3. The profusion of flowers and large crowd testified to the esteem in which she was held. A quartet composed of Mrs. Mamie Baker, Mrs. P. B. Fundis, P.B. Fundis and Allen Young sang "The Old Rugged Cross," "In the Garden" and "No Night There." Pallbearers were C. B. Houston, W. R. Houston, C. T. Bishop, R. E. Chandler, Otis Clapp and Lester Higginbotham and burial was in the Le Roy cemetery.\n>\n>Mrs. Richards maiden name was Sarah A. Harriman. She was born May 26, 1850 at Palermo, Maine and when death came to her on Saturday, June 2, 1934, she was 84 years and 7 days old. At the age of five years she moved with her parents to Janesville, Wisconsin. In 1870 with her mother and brother she moved to Butler county in a covered wagon and homesteaded near El Dorado. She was united in marriage Noveember 23, 1881, to Nathanial (sic) E. Richards. Five children were born to them, two of whom died in infancy. On March 1, 1918, she moved from El Dorado to Le Roy where she resided until her death.\n>\n>She leaves to mourn her death a daughter, Miss Lucy E. Richards of the home, two sons J. S. Richards and P. E. Richards, both of this vicinity, ten grandchildren and hosts of friends. Mrs. Richards was a kind and helpful neighbor and friend, a loving mother and will be greatly missed in this community.\n\nSarah is buried in [[Quisling Cemetery]] outside of ~LeRoy, KS.\n\nsee [[more photos|SarahPhotos]] of Sarah.\n\n----\n!Sarah (Harriman) Richards' Ancestors\nSarah's ancestors have been traced back to the early 1600's in Massachusetts. Here is what we know of her (and our!) ancestoral tree (Sarah can be found toward the bottom of the chart):\n[img[./images/sarahanc.jpg]]\n\n//Please [[email me|Contact]] your memories, missing facts, corrections and/or photos of Sarah!//

<html>\n<div align=center>\n<<imglink ./images/sarahorig.jpg ./images/sarahorig.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 auto auto>>\nYoung Sarah\n\n<<imglink ./images/sarahporch.jpg ./images/sarahporch.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 auto auto>>\nSarah (Harriman) Richards\n\n<<imglink ./images/sarahnfrnd.jpg ./images/sarahnfrnd.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 550 352>>\nSara and Mrs. Mains\n\n<<imglink ./images/onfarm.jpg ./images/onfarm.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 550 430>>\nSarah and Pearl (?) on the farm.\n\n<<imglink ./images/hdstsaha.jpg ./images/hdstsaha.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 300 453>>\nTombstone of [[Sarah A. Harriman]] in [[Quisling Cemetery]]\n\n\n</div>\n</html>

Genealogy Website for the Richards Family

The Richards Family

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<<tabs SpotlightOn\nNathanielRichards "Nathaniel Richards" [[Nathaniel Edwin Richards]]\nElizabethHowe "Elizabeth Howe" [[Elizabeth Howe]]\nSarahHarriman "Sarah Harriman" [[Sarah A. Harriman]]\n>>

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(1861–1865) was a sectional conflict in the United States between the federal government (the "Union") and 11 Southern slave states that declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America, led by President Jefferson Davis. \n\n--from Wikipedia\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

*Sources\n*Get JamesSumner, Pearl, etc. photos for MainPhoto\n*Get jpgs for the various lines--both ancestor and descendant

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See the following link for photos of Towanda's oil boom days:\n\nhttp://specialcollections.wichita.edu/kw/towns.asp?town=Towanda&county=Butler\n\nAlso see [[Butler County, KS]]

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<html>\n<div align=center>\n<<POTD MainPhoto>>\n</div>\n</html>\nThis site is dedicated to the descendants of ''Nathaniel and Sarah Richards''\n\n[[Nathaniel Edwin Richards]], born July 20th, 1856 in Ohio, migrated with his family to Butler Co., KS, where at the age of 25 he married Sarah Harriman. He disappeared around 1890 and started a new life. He lived for a time in Texas, then moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where he died at about 78 years of age.\n\n[[Sarah (Harriman) Richards|Sarah A. Harriman]], the matriarch of our family, was born in Maine in 1850. She moved with her parents to Wisconsin when she was five. Shortly after the death of her father, she came to Butler County, Kansas at the age of twenty, with her mother and brother. There, at the age of 31, she married Nathaniel, who was to leave her after nine years. At the age of 68, she settled in ~LeRoy, KS, where she bought a farm for each of her children, and lived to the age of 84. \n\nNathaniel and Sarah had three children: [[Lucy E.|Lucy E. Richards]], [[James Sumner|James Sumner Richards]] and [[Pearl Edwin|Pearl Edwin Richards]]. Lucy was childless, but James Sumner and Pearl Edwin form the two main branches of the Richards clan.\n<html>\n<div align=center>\n<<imglink ./images/nattree.jpg ./images/nattree.jpg "Richards Family Tree" 0 auto auto>>\n</div>\n</html>\n\n----\nThe site is under construction, so please be patient as we add to it. If you would like to help by writing a bio on one or more family members, by all means [[contact me|Contact]]! Also, please share any family photos you would like to be a part of this site.\n\nSpecial thanks to [[Mike Richards]] for hosting this website!\n\nPlease feel free to make any suggestions, or inform me of any omissions, errors or family news.\n\nThank you! \n[[Thomas|Contact]]\n---\n[Note: Links are [[bolded]]. Links will open in a separate box (tiddler). Tiddlers remain open until you close them, so you may find the page getting longer and longer as you click on more links. You may want to close boxes as you finish with them. Links that do not yet contain information are [[italicized]]. Links to external sites are [[underlined|http://]]. (External links will open in a separate window.)]

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1. original ancestor: the first ancestor of a people or other group\n\n2. ancestor: an ancestor or forebear\n\n//Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition//