The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1914-09-10
OLD RESIDENT
DIES AFTER
VERY BRIEF
ILLNESS
Richard Richards, Long in
Fremont { ounty, Passes
Away in Eighty-Fourth
Year of Life.
WRITES AUTOBIOGRAPHY

home Of his daughter. Mrs. Joseph
Walton. 7o9 River stree. about II
o'clock Tu.slay nieht after a brief
illness. Deceased was in the eighty
fourth year ~ his age and was able
to accompary his son. Walter C.
Richards, AMI wife TO the railroad
station last Fridsy afternoon on the
occasion far their departure for Mis-
souri,
The time of tic funeral has not
been announced and win, probably.
not take pla e before Friday. Burial
viii be - Highland cemetery in
Florence.
The following trief sketch Of his
life was written by the deceased sew
erai years aro and sled away among
the family records for reference af-
ter his death:
4 was boa At Hirwain. Glanmor-
Eanshire. s1a,h Wales. october 90
1850 and WAS married there when
1wenty-one years Of age to Miss Ell
zabeth Rees. We prepared Immediate
Is after our r,arrisse for the voyage
TO the Unitei states ot America. We
sailed from LIVERPOOL and landed al
New york n June 10. 1851
~our nrst settling down was at
PottsviIle Pennsylvania. but we re
mained there only two years as our
anxiety vas 20 20 west In July 1888
We emigraisi to M.Ngss county. Ohio.
The trip vas mad, through Mt. Saw.
age. Marylard. where We remained
for three moaths. We arrived In Ohio
the fore pa. of October 1858 AMI
lived there about eleven years; max
ing our home in thf vicinity Of Pomo-
roy on the hanks Of the Ohio river
"sull determined to 20 further west
we sold out our little property at
Syracuse. Ohio. packed up our be-
longinss and started for New Cam
hria. Macon county. Missouri. where
ne took up homestead and lived on
II until September 1874 Having
lost my health as the result OF fever
and ague. asthma. etc. We concluded
to 20 s;iIl further west and moved
to Erie. Weld county. Colorado. where
I went a little in advance Of my
wife and family to prepare a place
TO receive them on their arrival
"our next move was to Coal Creek,
Fremont County. Colorado. where
We resided thirteen years. or. until
the autumn o. 1891. We then moved
to Canon City where I accepted a
I position as 4 guard at the state pen
itentiary.
/ While holding my position as guard
at the prison my wife died; the sad
event occurring in April 1855 from a
paralytie stroke. The remains were
laid to rest in Highland cemetery at
Florence.
Il then made my children. OF whom
will give a short account further
on in thess chronicles. To my
wife and myself were born eleven
children: three ef whom did In baby
hood and six OF whom are living At
the time OF this writing They are
Mrs. Mary n. Williams. who lives
on farm In Missouri. Mrs. Hannah
J. Walton. NJ Canon city and Mrs.
Elizabeth w. J..>Howells. who also
makes her home in Canon City. The
boys are. Rufus ii, Canon City; James
IN the southern part OF Colorado. or
perhaps. in New Mexico at this time,
and Walter who is settled and living
in Canon City. He was married re
Gently TO Miss Eva L. Barlow OF
South Canon
my occupation through life has
been pirncip lilly coal mining. although
have had considerable experience
In other lines Of employment I work