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Lewis Richards

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Name	Lewis Richards
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`		Virginia, United States
Marriage		Virginia, United Statesto Lucy Hunton (add)
Death^[1]	Abt 1845	Webster, Kentucky, United States

References

↑ History of Union County, Kentucky: a complete account of the settlement, organization, and government of the county, together with facts and figures concerning the society, professions, commerce, industries, agriculture, coal, railroads, education, religion, and other institutions and resources of the county, and biographical sketches of its leading citizens. (Evansville, Indiana: Courier Co., 1886).

...Lewis Richards, who came to what is now Webster County, from Virginia, in 1800. He purchased a farm three miles north of Providence, of a Mr. Whitesides, giving in exchange, two "likely negro girls." He moved to what has since been known as the "Richard's farm," near Boxville, sometime previous to 1820. Lewis Richards was a soldier of the Revolution, under General Clark, and married Lucy Hunton, in the vicinity of Chesapeake Bay, Virginia. He died on the farm in 1845 or 1846. ...