Elsie Avaline (Richmond) Richardson & Family

5448.  ELSIE AVALINE RICHMOND 8 (Adam 7, Preserved 6, Adam 5, Stephen 4, John 3, Edward 2, John 1) was born November 13, 1820, and died at Paw Paw, Mich., March 7, 1894.  She married, January 21, 1839, Noble D., son of Marvin (or Marion) Richardson.  He was born in New York, and died at Paw Paw, Mich., January 6(7), 1893.  He removed to Michigan about 1850, and settled in Arlington, Van Buren County.  He served six months in Company C, Third Michigan Cavalry, and was discharged for disability.  He served two terms as Sheriff of Van Buren County.  They resided in Covington, N. Y., and Arlington, Mich.

CHILDREN (1896):

7563.  Milan U. Richardson 9, born Feb. 6, 1846; married, 1st, in 1869 ___*; 2d [July 1, 1885], Dora [Sutton], daughter of George and Frances (Hunt) Frey.  She was born in Ontario County, N. Y., in 1857.  (Her father was of French extraction.) [Dora Richardson died November 21, 1928, in Kalamazoo, MI]  He (Mr. Richardson**) removed to Michigan with his parents when six years of age.  He enlisted in 1863, when seventeen years old, in Co. C, 3d Michigan Cavalry, and served until the end of the Civil War; was mustered out at San Antonio, Tex., March 15, 1866, and returned to Paw Paw.  He was elected Registrar of Deeds of that County in 1872, and was in the real estate and abstract business.  He resided in Paw Paw, Mich., in 1895.  Children:  Fred. N. Richardson 10, born in 1870, died Sept. 16, 1895; Nellie Richardson 10, born in 1872, married Arthur Prentice.  Resided in Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1896.
*Elizabeth Hogmire

**Died on December 28, 1896

Name: M. U. Richardson

Death Date: 28 Dec 1896

Death Place: Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan

Death Age: 50 years 10 months 22 days

Father's Name: Noble D. Richardson

Mother's Name: Evaline Richardson

Occupation: Abstract Office

Collection: Michigan Deaths, 1867-1897

 More about Milan U. Richardson can be found here. 

7564.  Oscar N. Richardson 9, born Oct. 27, 1850; died Feb. 12, 1850???
7565.  Ida B. Richardson 9, born Sept. 2, 1854, in Arlington, Mich.
7566.  Inez Virginia Richardson 9, born March 10, 1856, in Arlington, Mich.

Name: Elsie A. Richardson
Residence: Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan
Birthdate: 1821
Birthplace: New York, United States
Relationship to Head: Wife
Spouse's Name: Noble D. Richardson
Spouse's Birthplace: New York, United States
Father's Birthplace: Rhode Island, United States
Mother's Birthplace: Vermont, United States
Martial Status: Married
Collection: United States Census, 1880

The family was living in Arlington Twp., Van Buren County, Michigan, in 1860 (and on the next page here).


Was the Noble D. Richardson family living in Knox County, Ohio, in 1850?  They were in Van Buren County, Michigan, in 1870.

IDA RICHARDSON & CHARLEY HUTCHINS FAMILY

Groom's Name: Charley E. Hutchins
Groom's Age: 21 years
Groom's Birth Date: 1852
Groom's Birthplace: Paw.Paw.
Bride's Name: Ida B. Richardson
Bride's Age: 19 years
Bride's Birth Date: 1854
Bride's Birthplace: Arlington
Marriage Date: 25 Sep 1873
Marriage Place: Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan


Ida Hutchins was living in Kalamazoo in 1900 as a patient in an asylum.  Was she Ida (Richardson) Hutchins?  Ida's husband, Charles, and their daughter, Estelle, were living in Van Buren County without Ida in 1900.

Name: Ida P. Hutchins
Residence: Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan
Birthdate: 1855
Birthplace: Michigan, United States
Relationship to Head: Wife
Spouse's Name: Charles E. Hutchins
Spouse's Birthplace: Michigan, United States

Father's Birthplace: New York, United States

Mother's Birthplace: New York, United States

Collection: United States Census, 1880

Estelle Hutchins, daughter of Charles & Ida (Richardson) Hutchins, married John R. Herman in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, on July 2, 1916.  Estella was a 42 year old musician, living in Chicago and had never been married.  John Herman was a merchant who was born in Syracuse, New York, and had one previous marriage.

Groom's Name: Charles E. Matthews
Groom's Birth Date: 1851
Groom's Age: 23
Bride's Name: Inez Richardson
Bride's Birth Date: 1856
Bride's Age: 18
Marriage Date: 04 Feb 1874
Marriage Place: Van Buren,Michigan
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M51883-2
System Origin: Michigan-ODM
Source Film Number: 1019198
Collection: Michigan Marriages, 1822-1995
[Note: Charles & Ida Hutchins were the witnesses]

INEZ RICHARDSON & JAMES MCCAHON FAMILY

Inez (Richardson) Matthews married 2nd James McCahon, a dentist, on May 20, 1886, in Paw Paw, Van Buren County, Michigan.  The McCahon family, including James' step-son, Charles Matthews, son Paul and daughter Pauline, were living in Newark, Licking County, Ohio, in 1900.  Inez died in Newark on August 2, 1930 and was buried in Paw Paw, Michigan.  Her obituary was in the Granville Times printed on August 7, 1930, page 3.

Paul McCahon married M. Kathleen Hawthorne, daughter of Lewis & Frances (Ralston) Hawthorne,  on October 18, 1915, in Licking Co., Ohio.