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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Mary Ann Richards: Birth: 1867. Death: 1927

  2. John Richards: Birth: 22 FEB 1870. Death: 1940

  3. Lewis Yates Richards: Birth: 8 JUL 1872. Death: 6 JUN 1935

  4. Thomas Richards: Birth: 1875. Death: BET 1877 AND 1879

  5. William Richards: Birth: 5 DEC 1876.

  6. Hattie Richards: Birth: 7 MAR 1879.


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Evan Richards: Birth: 1861. Death: JAN 1944 in Wilkes-Barre, Luzurne Co., PA


Sources
1. Title:   1860 U.S.Census Carbon County, Pg 251
2. Title:   Obituary in Mahanoy City, PA paper Sunday News
3. Title:   Beth Richards Wilson, 1661 Vine St., Biloxi, MS 39531-3427
4. Title:   Margaret Fertig Downing, Springfield, VA
5. Title:   Civil War Pension Application by Jane Richard for Thomas Richards, Vet. Civil War, Application# 271719, Cert.#572956

Notes
a. Note:   From Civil War pension application for Jane for soldier Thomas: Jane's maiden name was Yates. She was married to Josiah Rodgers before Thomas Richards. Josiah died in Wales, on 11 Sep 1867. Lewis Richards testified he was present at the death of Thomas' first wife "Ann Jones Richards who died several years previous to his marriage to Jane Rodgers." Elizabeth Richards age 65 of Mahanoy City testifies she was in attendance at Ann Jones Richards(1) death on 26 August 1867 at Summit Hill, Carbon County PA. Ann Yates age 52 of Mahanoy City testifies "that the children of Thomas and Jane L. Richards were born as follows...John 22 Feb 1870,Lewis 8 Jul 1873,William 5 Dec 1876,Thomas 21 Oct 1875,Hattie 7 Mar 1879." The child Thomas b1875 died on 19 Feb in either 1877 or 1879, there are two different dates on two different pages. Jane herself testified "there is no town, church or public record of my marriage to the soldier [Thomas] and that my certificate of marriage was filed in the Pension Office at Washington at the time I applied for a Pension under the old law. The date of my marriage to the soldier was August 25 1869. ...This is a correct record of my marriage as it is recorded on the family bible..." Jane had to file for pension twice. She was refused the first time but by 1902 got some money. The Pension Office obviously lost her marriage certificate that she gave them with the first filing. Morgan Thomas testified that he was present and witnessed the marriage of Thomas Richards and Jane L. on August 25 1869. Margaret Parcell testified she was present at the marriage of Jane L. to Thomas Richards in the house of Rev. Morgans in the borough of Pottsville on August 25, 1869. John Webb & L.J. Edwards testify the person who married Jane and Thomas is dead and the bible record says: "Thomas Richards and Jane Rodgers was joined in the Bonds of Matrimony by Rev William Morgans August the 25 in the year of our Lord 1867"( Probably misprint) __________________________________________________________________________________ This image is from the Civil War Pension Index. used it to order the papers from the Nat'l Archives. Excerpts from one of the documents: Law Division Department of the Interior Pension Office Washington DC June 25, 1886 In the matter of the appeal of Jane L. Richards, widow of Thomas Richards, Co. A. 4th Pa Cav No. 271719 In accordance with the call for report of Sept 30th 1885 upon this appeal... Claimant filed her declaration on the 26th of June 1880...The claim was rejected by the office on September 10th 1885, on the ground that the cause of the soldier's death, Peritonitis, was not accepted as due to service. ...The record from the Surgeon General's office shows that Thomas Richards of Co. G. 129th Pa. Vols received a slight arm wound at the battle of Fredericksburg, VA. December 13th 1862, and that the soldier (now stated to belong to Co. A. 4th Pa Cav.) was admitted to Hospital, 2nd Div. Cav. Corps, March 27th, 1865, with gunshot wound of hip; was admitted to Columbian College hospital, Washington DC April 1st 1865, with same wound, and entered Mount Pleasant General Hospital, DC June 10th 1865, with a gunshot wound of right lower extremity, the ball remaining. Enlisted 8/8/1862 on Ashland, discharged May 18,1863. Re-enlisted Feb 16, 1864 in Company A 4th PA Cavalry, mustered out July 8, 1865. No evidence of any disability resulting from said wound from date of discharge July 8th 1865 to death, February 1st 1880 has been submitted. ...the doctor states that he believes the soldier's wound and remaining bullet had something to do with his death. He requested that an autopsy might take place, but the family would not allow it. The opinion of the Medical Referee of this office, that death from peritonitis in 1880 was not the result of the gunshot wound of hip in 1865 agrees with Dr. Richards' opinion as giving in his affidavit. John C. [Birch?] Commissioner of Pensions She didn't get any money when she had young children at home, but somewhere in those papers I found something saying she got money starting in 1902 and it stopped with her death in 1926. She must have been able to file again under a new law that was passed. I don't know that his brother John was killed in the war but I suspect it. His wife died in 1870 after she had remarried and had one daughter, so she did not apply for a widow's pension. I found a John and Thomas Richards who joined the 129th at the same time, from Carbon County. I do not know if this John and Thomas I found are OUR guys. This John was reported killed on either Feb or Aug 16,1864. After our Thomas was wounded at Fredericksburg he was mustered out but re-enlisted in the 4th Cavalry. In the 4th he received the gunshot to the hip. From Beth Richards Wilson, she writes on 2/25/02: I've been going through the pension application of Thomas Richards' widow and writing down some things. I'm pretty sure one of the Lewis depositions is our Sr. His age is given as 63 in 1883 then in 1864 his age is given as 64. In 1883 he and an Elizabeth Richards are testifying that they were present the day after Evan Richards was born to Thomas and his first wife Ann Jones Richards. In 1884 he is testifying he was present at the death of Ann Jones Richards. The age is right to be Sr. There is nothing else about him except to say he wouldn't allow an autopsy of Thomas after he died. Pension application say he died in St. Nicholas, PA except one paper said he died in Wiggins, PA.


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