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Willard Richards


Birth24 June 1804Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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     Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Dr. Willard Richards (1804–1854), memorial #6279203.

    Town Clerk Offices, Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001 (Massachusetts: Town Clerk Offices), database with images, FamilySearch, entry for William Richards (25 June 1804); citing Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, town clerk offices, "Births, marriages, deaths 1712-1836," image 84, FHL microfilm 954365.

    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Willard Richards, ID: KWJ5-X12.

    Endowment House (LDS Church), Sealings of couples, living and by proxy, 1851-1889 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958, 1978), p. 15, FHL microfilm 183393.

    Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Church History Library), entry for Willard Richards, folder "First 100, schedules, 1847 December-1848" (#60), image 1, line 14; and entry for Willard Richards, folder "Roll of company number 1, 1845 " (#1), image 1, line 10.

    Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah, United States: Digitized by: University of Utah, 1877), "Death of our beloved Brother," 16 March 1854, p. 2, column 5-6.
Death11 March 1854Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Willard Richards, ID: KWJ5-X12.

    Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah, United States: Digitized by: University of Utah, 1877), "Death of our beloved Brother," 16 March 1854, p. 2, column 5-6.
Burial12 March 1854Salt Lake City Cemetery, Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Willard Richards, ID: KWJ5-X12.
FatherJoseph Richards
MotherRhoda Howe
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   • Jenetta Richards
Married24 September 1838Preston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Willard Richards and Jennetta Richards, ID: KWJ5-X12 and ID: KWVQ-GXM.

    General Register Office, England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005 (Southport, England: General Register Office), database, FamilySearch, entry for Willard Richards and Jennetta Richards (1838); citing Preston, Lancashire, England, General Register Office, “England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005”.
          Children:
               Heber John Richards
               Heber John Richards
               Rhoda Ann Jennetta Richards


   • Susanna Lee
Married12 June 1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), p. 616, n.313.

   • Sarah Longstroth
Married18 January 1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), p. 615, n. 312.
          Children:
               Willard Brigham Richards
               Joseph Smith Richards
               Sarah Ellen Richards
               Paulina Richards


   • Nanny Longstroth
Married18 January 1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), p. 615.
          Children:
               Alice Ann Richards
               Mary Asenath Richards
               Stephen Longstroth Richards


   • Amelia E. Pearson
Married22 December 1845Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), p. 616, n. 315.

    Lyndon W Cook, Nauvoo Marriages, Proxy Sealings, 1843-1846 (Provo, UT: Grandin Book Coo., 2004), entry for Amelia Elizabeth Peirson; p. 113.
          Children:
               Baby Richards


   • Alice Longstroth
Married23 December 1845Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Lyndon W Cook, Nauvoo Marriages, Proxy Sealings, 1843-1846 (Provo, UT: Grandin Book Coo., 2004), P. 147.

   • Mary Thompson
Married27 January 1846Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Devery Scott Anderson, The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 2005), p. 504; citing “Book of Sealings (Living)—Wives to Husbands”.

    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sealings and adoptions of the living, 1846-1857; index, 1846-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958), p. 467-468.
          Children:
               Phoebe Amelia Richards
               Jennetta Richards


   • Mary Farren Harrison
Married27 January 1846Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Devery Scott Anderson, The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 2005), p. 504.

   • Jane Hall
Married27 January 1846Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Devery Scott Anderson, The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 2005), p. 504; citing “Book of Sealings (Living)—Wives to Husbands”.

   • Ann Read
Married6 February 1846Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Devery Scott Anderson, The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 2005), p. 608; citing “Book of Sealings (Living)—Wives to Husbands”.

   • Susanna Bayliss
Married22 December 1847Winter Quarters, US Federal Territory (now Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska Territory, United States)
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    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sealings and adoptions of the living, 1846-1857; index, 1846-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958), p. 757, FHL microfilm 183374.
          Children:
               Mary Ann Richards


   • Rhoda Harriet Foss
Married30 November 1851Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Willard Richards and Rhoda Harriet Foss, ID: KWJ5-X12 and ID: KWJ1-F4W.

    Endowment House (LDS Church), Sealings of couples, living and by proxy, 1851-1889 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958, 1978), p. 15, FHL microfilm 183393.
          Children:
               Calvin Willard Richards Sr.

   • Edna Sarah Hinman
Married9 June 1893Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    Lyndon W Cook, Nauvoo Marriages, Proxy Sealings, 1843-1846 (Provo, UT: Grandin Book Coo., 2004), p. 147, FHL microfilm 977343.
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• 1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
• 1850Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory, United States
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• 1850 Population CensusGreat Salt Lake County, Utah TerritoryExtractImage
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Crossing the Plains

• Brigham Young Vanguard CompanyView Source
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    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pioneer Overland Travel" (Salt Lake City, UT: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
       Departure16 Apr 1847
       Arrival21 Jul 1847
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    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pioneer Overland Travel" (Salt Lake City, UT: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
       Departure3 Jul 1848
       Arrival10 Oct 1848

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