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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [265]

           THOMAS RICHARDS, farmer, section 31, Sand Beach Township, is a
        son of CHARLES and AMY (PARKER) RICHARDS, the former a native of
        Maine and the latter of Canada.  They were married in the Dominion,
        and resided there until the fall of 1865, when they came to this
        county and settled in Sand Beach Township.  During the memorable
        fires of 1871 they lost all their buildings and crops; but saddest
        of all, while returning home from a visit to a sick neighbor, MRS.
        R. was caught in a fire and burned to death!  When found in the
        road her clothes had been burned entirely from her body.  In 1880
        MR. R. removed to Grindstone City, where he now resides.  He had 16
        children.
           The eldest of these, the subject of this sketch, was born in
        Canada, Sept. 12, 1846; in 1865 he came to this county, where he
        has a fine farm of 35 acres in cultivation, of the 40 acres which
        he owns.  During the fires of 1871 he lost all his buildings and
        crops, the loss aggregating about $500.  In respect to general
        political issues MR. R. is a Republican.
           In White Rock Township, this county, April 8, 1869, MR. RICHARDS
        married MISS LANEY COSAL, who was born in Germany May 30, 1852.
        They have seven children, namely: GEORGE, JAMES, ELIZABETH, MARY,
        JOHN, CHARLES and ERNEST.

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