Manley and Catherine Hardman Richards were also the parents of Mary Jane Richards b. ca 1835 in Indiana.
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update from FAG Contributor Edith Sharon Hardman West:
From History of Madison County: "Personal Sketch of Catharine Richards". Mrs. R. was daughter of Peter and Margaret (Hacker) Hardman; was born September the 16th 1798, in Harrison county, Virginia. She was united to Manley Richards in marriage in 1818. (This is incorrect - it was 1821). In 1823 they emigrated to Madison county, where she continued to live until her death which occurred in 1869. She was a consistent member of the Methodist church and one of the first members of the Pendleton class. She was a woman of strong faith and untiring zeal, faithful mother and dutiful wife. Her memory will live, the youth will speak in her praise, when she shall have been dead many years. Especially will she be remembered by the church of which she was an active member. She did not let trifling circumstances prevent her from attending Divine worship. She was always found in her seat, until within the last few months of her life, which proved to her that of deep affliction and suffering, falling and breaking a limb from which she never fully recovered. This occurred in July, 1866. During this long interval she was never heard to complain, nor murmur, but seemed to be resigned to her fate. Death came kindly to her relief and her happy spirit took it flight to an unknown world. The life of this woman shall be imitated, her virtues practiced, if we would like her share the Crown which was doubtless hers.
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Manley and Catherine Hardman Richards were also the parents of Mary Jane Richards b. ca 1835 in Indiana.
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update from FAG Contributor Edith Sharon Hardman West:
From History of Madison County: "Personal Sketch of Catharine Richards". Mrs. R. was daughter of Peter and Margaret (Hacker) Hardman; was born September the 16th 1798, in Harrison county, Virginia. She was united to Manley Richards in marriage in 1818. (This is incorrect - it was 1821). In 1823 they emigrated to Madison county, where she continued to live until her death which occurred in 1869. She was a consistent member of the Methodist church and one of the first members of the Pendleton class. She was a woman of strong faith and untiring zeal, faithful mother and dutiful wife. Her memory will live, the youth will speak in her praise, when she shall have been dead many years. Especially will she be remembered by the church of which she was an active member. She did not let trifling circumstances prevent her from attending Divine worship. She was always found in her seat, until within the last few months of her life, which proved to her that of deep affliction and suffering, falling and breaking a limb from which she never fully recovered. This occurred in July, 1866. During this long interval she was never heard to complain, nor murmur, but seemed to be resigned to her fate. Death came kindly to her relief and her happy spirit took it flight to an unknown world. The life of this woman shall be imitated, her virtues practiced, if we would like her share the Crown which was doubtless hers.
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