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Willard Richards

Birth
24 June 1804
Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

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Death
11 March 1854
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
Alternative Names (Also Known As)

Wfflard Richards

Parent Marriage

Joseph Richards to Rhoda Howe

Marriage Type: unknown

Notes

Member of the Anointed Quorum, admitted 4 May 1842

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Endowment - 10 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Name as Performed: Willard Richards

First Anointing - 04 May 1842

Place: Red Brick Store, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Joseph Smith

Name as Performed: Willard Richards

Baptism - 31 December 1836

Place: Kirtland, Geauga, Ohio, United States

Officiator: Brigham Young

Name as Performed: Willard Richards

Joseph Smith Papers - Richards, Journal, 31 Dec. 1836; JS History, vol. B-1, 751.
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Jennetta Richards - Civil Marriage - 24 September 1838

This marriage has 3 child(ren) in the database

Place: Preston, Lancashire, England

Nancy Longstroth - Sealed for Eternity - 18 January 1843

This marriage has 3 child(ren) in the database

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

SMINT 1846-01-25
Sarah Longstroth - Sealed for Eternity - 18 January 1843

This marriage has 4 child(ren) in the database

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Jennetta Richards - Sealed for Eternity - 29 May 1843

This marriage has 9 adoptee(s) in the database

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Hyrum Smith

Jennetta died 1845-07-09; SMINT 1846-01-22 possibly officiated by Hyrum Smith
Susanna Lee - Sealed for Eternity - 12 June 1843

Officiator: Brigham Young

Susanna Bayliss; SMINT 1846-02-06
Amelia Elizabeth Pearson - Sealed for Eternity - 22 December 1845

This marriage has 1 child(ren) in the database

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Clarify marriage dates SMINT 1846-01-22
Alice Longstroth - Sealed for Eternity - 23 December 1845
Cook notes this was a self-performed ceremony which was later annulled, because self-performed ordinances were illegal, and 504 had a revelation that a man cannot be sealed to more than two sisters without express revelation (Brown p.257 n.111) See Begera also: Bergera: "Also of interest is Richards's account of his fourth plural marriage, this one performed after Joseph Smith's death. Richards and his new wife, twenty-one-year-old Alice Longstroth (born January 28, 1824, died November 21, 1909)—sister to Sarah and Nanny—mutually covenanted a plural union between themselves without the aid of an outside officiator: "At 10. P.M. took Alice L h by the [hand] of our own free will and avow mutually acknowledge each other husband & wife, in a covenant not to be broken in time or Eternity for time & for all Eternity, to all intents & purposes as though the seal of the covenant had been placed upon us. for time & all Eternity & called upon God. & all the Holy angels—& Sarah Long—th to witness the same." Richards, Diary, December 23, 1845. Willard and Alice were not resealed in the Nauvoo Temple, and Alice subsequently wed Moses Whittaker (1820-52) and later George D. Watt (1824-1909)."
Jennetta Richards - Sealed for Eternity - 22 January 1846

This marriage has 9 adoptee(s) in the database

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Spouse Proxy: Amelia Elizabeth Pearson

Amelia Elizabeth Pearson - Sealed for Eternity - 22 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Brown note: [plural] marriage sealing to Willard Richards, 22 Dect 1845 (Cook).The sealing date of 22 Jan 1846 is found in "The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846", 463. Sealing date of 22 Dec 1845 is found in "Nauvoo Polygamy," p. 616.
Sarah Longstroth - Sealed for Eternity - 22 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

SMINT 1845-10-03; TMINT 1846-01-22
Mary Thompson - Sealed for Eternity - 27 January 1846

This marriage has 2 child(ren) in the database

Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA

Officiator: Heber Chase Kimball

Jane Hall - Sealed for Eternity - 31 January 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Ann Read - Sealed for Eternity - 06 February 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Susanna Lee - Sealed for Eternity - 06 February 1846

Place: Nauvoo Temple, Nauvoo, Illinois, USA (UVA)

Officiator: Brigham Young

Susanna Bayliss - Sealed for Eternity - 22 December 1847

This marriage has 1 child(ren) in the database

Place: Winter Quarters, Nebraska

Officiator: Brigham Young

Time: 6:18 p.m. Witnesses: H.C.Kimball, Orson Pratt, & W.L.Appleby
Rhoda Harriett Foss - Sealed for Eternity - 30 November 1851

This marriage has 1 child(ren) in the database

Place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA

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Jennetta Richards

Birth Date: 22 October 1852

Death Date: 23 September 1853

Mary Asenath Richards

Birth Date: 18 November 1850

Death Date: 20 July 1915

Stephen Longstroth Richards

Birth Date: 29 July 1853

Death Date: 05 July 1922

Willard Brigham Richards

Birth Date: 25 January 1847

Death Date: 30 May 1942

Heber John Richards

Birth Date: 17 July 1839

Death Date: 28 December 1839

Joseph Smith Richards

Birth Date: 04 October 1848

Death Date: 30 October 1913

Paulina Richards

Birth Date: 11 May 1853

Death Date: 21 September 1947

Heber John Richards

Birth Date: 11 October 1840

Death Date: 12 May 1919

Phoebe Amelia Richards

Birth Date: 07 June 1851

Death Date: 15 January 1943

Mary Ann Richards

Birth Date: 07 December 1851

Death Date: 28 May 1942

Baby Boy Richards

Birth Date: 20 February 1851

Death Date: 20 February 1851

Rhoda Ann Jennetta Richards

Birth Date: 15 September 1843

Death Date: 03 May 1882

Calvin Willard Richards

Birth Date: 07 October 1852

Death Date: 03 October 1926

Alice Ann Richards

Birth Date: 24 March 1849

Death Date: 17 June 1940

Sarah Ellen Richards

Birth Date: 25 August 1850

Death Date: 22 March 1915

Heber John Richards

Birth Date: 11 October 1840

Death Date: 12 May 1919

Type: natural

Henrietta Rushton

Birth Date: 13 February 1817

Death Date: 19 October 1897

Type: adoption

Molly Gregson

Birth Date: 17 January 1807

Type: adoption

George Darling Watt

Death Date: 24 October 1881

Type: adoption

George Watt

Birth Date: 16 January 1816

Death Date: 24 October 1881

Type: adoption

Thomas Bullock

Birth Date: 01 January 1779

Type: adoption

Stephen Longstroth

Birth Date: 20 June 1822

Death Date: 26 August 1834

Type: adoption

Ann Elizabeth Fox

Birth Date: 17 February 1815

Type: adoption

Thomas Bullock

Birth Date: 23 December 1816

Death Date: 10 February 1885

Type: adoption

Wilmer Benjamin Benson

Birth Date: 13 February 1814

Type: adoption

Ann Gill

Birth Date: 03 August 1796

Death Date: 27 January 1878

Type: adoption

Peter Muir Fife

Birth Date: 05 April 1806

Death Date: 31 July 1873

Type: adoption

Ellen Parrington

Birth Date: 14 September 1834

Type: adoption

Mary Gregson Watt

Birth Date: 17 January 1807

Type: adoption

Rhoda Ann Jennetta Richards

Birth Date: 15 September 1843

Death Date: 03 May 1882

Type: natural

Ellen Partington

Birth Date: 14 September 1834

Death Date: 19 October 1903

Type: adoption

Lucy Caroline Clayton

Birth Date: 24 March 1820

Death Date: 16 April 1879

Type: adoption

Stephen Longstroth

Birth Date: 29 June 1787

Death Date: 04 February 1861

Type: adoption

Apostle

Start Date: 10 January 1846

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