George Rich (b. 1813)

RICH, POND, BROWN, SANFORD

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 7/5/2003 at 14:16:49

Rich, George, farmer (Harlan township); PO Maynard; born in Jefferson Co., NY, July 16, 1813; moving with his parents to Ohio, he married Mary S. Pond Oct. 12, 1835; she was born April 23, 1811 and died Aug. 15, 1844. One child -- Mary, born July 28. Married Maria Brown, March 30, 1845; in Auburn, Ohio; she was born in Newbury, Ohio, July 25, 1818; have had six children --- Sarah, born Feb. 14, 1846; C. B., born Jan. 17, 1848; Ann, born March 4, 1851; Hattie, born Sept. 8, 1853; Laura, born Feb. 1, 1856; Ida, born March 24, 1859, died Sept 20, same year. Moving into Boone Co., Illinois, in 1851, he lived there until 1855, when he moved to Clinton Co., this State, where he was Justice of the Peace for three years. At the time of his moving to this place (1861), there was not more than four families in the neighborhood. Was elected Justice of the Peace and Township Clerk. at the first election after his arrival in this place. Mr. Rich has been a prominent Evangelical worker for a number of years; at 18 years old, he was licensed exhorter in the M. E. Church; at 19 he united with the Church of the Disciples, of which denomination his wife is also a member; in his younger days, Mr. Rich was a great debater on religious topics; in a three days' argument at DeWitt. Iowa, he succeeded in completely routing the infidel orator, Col. James R. Sanford. Owns 110 acres of farm land.

Pages 598 & 599, "1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa"