Ezekiel S. Richardson, youngest child of Alvan Richardson, Sr., and his wife Alethea Uran, was born in Unadilla, Otsego county, and was but 14 months old in 1820 when his father took his family to the log cabin he had built for them in what is now Richburg, then surrounded by the primitive forests. Here Alvan Richardson, the pioneer of Richburg lived a useful life and died in 1857. Here Ezekiel S. Richardson passed his childhood days, became a farmer, married in 1842 Caroline, daughter of Azel and Mary (Rowley) Buckley, who survives him. Their children were Alice (Mrs. Spencer Ford), and Bella (Mrs. Brokau). Mr. Richardson died December 30, 1888.
