Husband Dr. Lawton Richmond 1 2
Born: 7 Aug 1784 - Providence, RI 1 2
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Died: 25 Nov 1842 or 1843 - ? Crawford Co, PA 3 4
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Father: William Richmond ( - ) 2 3
Mother:
Marriage: 23 May 1809 1
Wife Sarah Townsend 1 4
Born: 4 Feb 1791 4
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Children
1 M Hon. Hiram Lawton Richmond 4 5 6
Born: 10 May 1810 - Chautauqua, Chautauqua Co, NY 1
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Died: 19 Feb 1885 7
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Spouse: Maria Power Shryock (1819-1902) 7 8
Marr: Dec 1838 8
2 M Hon. Almond Benson Richmond 3 9
Born: 26 Apr 1825 - Switzerland Co, IN 3
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Died: Aug 1906 - Meadville, Crawford Co, PA 10
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Spouse: Mary Jane Morris (1828-1894) 3 11
Marr: 7 Sep 1848 3
General Notes: Husband - Dr. Lawton Richmond
When seven years old, in 1791, his parents moved to the state of New York, and settled in Herkimer County, on what was called the Royal Grant, where he grew up to manhood. The family was a large one, consisting of nine brothers and three sisters. Having received a good academic education, he entered the office of Drs. Todd & Hanchet, as a student of medicine, and having completed his course of study, and passed a close and critical examination before the Board of Censors, he received his first permit or license to practice medicine, from the Chancellor of the State. Immediately after his marriage, he moved to western New York, stopping for a year or more in the town of Chautauqua, Chautauqua County, but finally locating where Westfield was later located, then known as the Cross-roads. The country was new and sparsely settled, yet he soon entered upon a lucrative practice of his profession. But the tide of immigration began to set heavily, still westward. Dr. Richmond was a pioneer by inclination. Fond of the pleasures, the adventures and hazards of frontier life, he too caught the western fever, and taking his little family and small accumulations, he migrated to southern Indiana, the then Eldorado, and settled in Allensville, Switzerland County, a frontier village of half a dozen log-houses, forty-eight miles below Cincinnati, and eight miles back from the river. The State had but recently been admitted into the Union, and its southern portion filled up rapidly with Eastern people. The Doctor and his wife were members of the Methodist Church, active and ardent; indeed had joined that church in its very morning, when they were yet single. He was a local preacher and was ordained an Elder at his own house, while living in Indiana. Well versed in sacred literature, and blessed with an easy flow of language, his heart full of the work, he was a good and effective preacher. When the demands of his profession would permit, he had a series of Sabbath appointments, which he generally filled. But the arduous duties imposed upon him by the practice of medicine, in a new and rugged country, sparsely settled, wore upon his constitution, and his health so failed him that to regain it he deemed it advisable to seek a more northern clime; and in 1829, he, with his family, returned to his old and early home in the State of New York. He remained there until 1834, when he moved to Meadville, Pennsylvania, mainly that he might give his two sons the advantages of attending Allegheny College, which had then just come under the patronage of the Methodist Church. [HCC 1885, 762]
He was a practicing physician and surgeon in the War of 1812. After the war he followed his profession in Indiana until 1834, when he removed to Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and practiced medicine there until his death. He was also a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and preached the first Methodist sermon in Chautauqua County, New York. He was parent of three daughters, who died young, and two sons.