Lewis Gould Richardson 1840 - 1907

RICHARDSON, SARGENT

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Date: 9/20/2022 at 22:13:52

The Sioux Valley News
11 April 1907

Lewis Gould Richardson was born at Marietta, Ohio, May 22, 1840 and died at his home in Correctionville April 3, 1907. At age fourteen years he went with an older brother to Galesburg, Illinois. After a few months he went to
Minnesota and was one of those who built the first buildings of Northfield.

He stayed there a few years, then went to Hampton where he met and married Miss Mary E. Sargent on March 13, 1864. They went on a farm but the country's call for men appealed to him and he went as a recruit to the 1st Minnesota Regiment in March 1865, and at the close of the war received his discharge and returned to Hampton.

He sold his farm and with his wife and baby son came to Union Twp. in Woodbury County. He took a homesteader's claim and made it a splendid farm. He has lived in this county almost 40 years and has seen it grow from a treeless prairie with so very few farms to its present state of cultivation and population.

He was a faithful member of the Odd Fellows and GAR, both of whom took part in the obsequies.

A prayer at the home was followed by a sermon at Good Hope Church by Rev. Allen of Pierson, and interment was made in the family burial plot near the church. His wife and eight of their ten children survive him, and all the sons and daughters were able to be at his funeral, though one, Mrs. Severns of Belen, New Mexico, could not get home in time to see her father alive.