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Note: 1910 Census Union Center Township, Elk County, Kansas enumerated April 15, 1910 Dwelling #86, Family #86 RICHARDSON, Walter, head, m/w, 22, NE England WI, farmer 1920 Census Union Center Township, Elk County, Kansas enumerated February 26, 1920 Dwelling #168, Family #178 RICHARDSON, Walter, head, m/w, 32, NE England WI, farmer ___________, Rosalie M., wife, f/w, 30, KS IA IA ___________, Gerald H., son, m/w, 3-10/12, KS NE IA ___________, Harold H., son m/w, 3-10/12, KS NE IA ___________, Rena E., daughter, f/w, 10/12, KS NE IA Walter Richardson and Rosalie Wellman lived on a farm south of Piedmont, Kansas for awhile, then moved to a farm near Ft. Cobb, Oklahoma. OBITUARY---The Anadarko, Oklahoma, Daily News, August 8, 1978 CHICKASHA--Walter L. Richardson. Funeral for Walter L. Richardson, 91, of Chickasha will be held at 4 p.m. today at the Sevier Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Willard Kerm of Chickasha officiating. Burial will be in Fairlawn Cemetery under the direction of the Sevier Funeral Home. Richardson was born July 24, 1887 at DeWitt, Neb. He died Sunday at the Grady Memorial Hospital in Chickasha. He was married to Rosalie May Wellman at Howard, Kan. on May 5, 1910. She died in May of 1970. Richardson had lived in Oklahoma 57 years. He farmed in the Fort Cobb area from 1921 until 1970. Following his retirement he moved to Chickasha where he had lived the past six years. He was a Methodist. Survivors include three sons, Harold of Oklahoma City, Gerald of Bentonville, Ark. and Glenn of Verden; one daughter Leota B. Hibbs of Weston MO.; two brothers, Orvel of Piedmont, Kan., and Jesse of Howard, Kan.; two sisters, Elsie Shumard of Lincoln, Nebraska and Ida Babb of Florida, 15 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. Note: Nov. 2, 2000: Walter's son Glenn, said that Walter had no middle name, just used the initial "L".
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