Elkanah Dean Richmond's Estate

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Wayne County, Michigan

Probate File# 25590

Will Dated: 3 Feb. 1897

Cocidil: 27 Feb. 1897

Died: 3 May 1899

Richmond, Elkanah D.

Heirs:
Averill, Mary (nee Richmond) (Sister) Sacramento, Cal.
Evans, John, Detroit, Nephew and Son of Mary Averill
Richmond, Erastus I. (Bro) Buffalo, N.Y.
Richmond, William (Adopted Son) Fort Worth, Tex.
Durell, Caroline (Remarried name Engel), given lot 92 Locust Street

Harriet, Martha and Alice Marsh were witnesses to will

Firm of Richmond and Harris
Carpenter and Joiner
Elevator contractors
69 Larned Street, Detroit

Buried in Section F - Woodmere Cemetery with wife

Elkanah Dean Richmond's lineage taken from The Richmond family, 1594-1896, and pre-American ancestors, 1040-1594:

1498. JOHN RICHMOND 7 (Josiah 6, Josiah 5, Josiah 4, Edward 3, John 2, John 1 ) was born in Taunton, Mass., July 25, 1792. He married, first, September 26, 1818, Dianah Harwood of Salina, N.Y., who was born in 1794, and died October 29, 1844. He married, secondly, February 11, 1845, Mrs. Abigail Averill, daughter of Benjamin Skillings, formerly of Maine; she was born about 1799. He was a salt manufacturer, and later a farmer in Cicero, N. Y. He served as a volunteer in a Vermont regiment in the War of 1812. 

Children : 

+ 3754. Erastus John 8 , born May 5, 1823; married Matilda Hanoun. 

— 3755. Elkanah Dean 8 , born May 9, 1826 ; resided in New Orleans in 1858. 

— 3756. Nathaniel 8 , born July 19, 1828; died Sept. 20, 1851. 

— 3757. Noridon B. 8 , born Aug. 13, 1831; resided in California in 1858. 

— 3758. Mary Melissa 8 , born July 16, 1836. 

Census 1880

Detroit, Wayne, Michigan

Elknah Richmond Self M 55 New York

Georgiana Richmond Wife F 35 Kentucky

William Richmond Son M 24 Tennessee

Caroline Durrell Cousin F 26 Pennsylvania