Husband: John RICHARDSON
Birthdate: 19 Dec 1780 (1)
Birthplace: Toney Town, Frederick Co. MD (1)
Death date: 14 Apr 1849 (1)
Place of death: Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY (1)
Burial: Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY
Father:
Mother:

Marriage date: 20 Jul 1815 (2)
Marriage place: Cayuga Bridge, Seneca Co. NY (2)

Wife: Eliza ROBERTS
Birthdate: 26 Oct 1788 (3)
Birthplace: Hopewell, Orange Co. NY (3)
Death date: 17 Jul 1876 (3)
Place of death: Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY (3)
Burial: Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY
Father: James ROBERTS
Mother: Agnes unknown

CHILDREN:

Child No. 1: Caroline RICHARDSON
Sex: F
Birthdate: about 30 Apr 1816 (4)
Birthplace: Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY (5)
Death date: 03 Sep 1855 (6)
Death Place: Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY (6)
Burial: Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY
Spouse’s name: n/a

Child No. 2: Adeline RICHARDSON
Sex: F
Birthdate: Oct 1817 (7)
Birthplace: Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY (8)
Death date: 05 Oct 1902 (9)
Place of death: Hackensack, Bergen Co. NJ (9)
Burial: Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY
Marriage date: about 05 Sep 1837 (10)
Marriage place: Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY (10)
Spouse's name: James C. WOOD

Child No. 3: Lewis Dennison RICHARDSON
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1819 (11)
Birthplace: Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY (11)
Death date: 21 Mar 1897 (12)
Place of death: Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY (12)
Burial: Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY
Marriage date: before 17 Jul 1850 (13)
Marriage place: probably Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY
Spouse's name: Eliza unknown

Child No. 4: Eliza RICHARDSON
Sex: F
Birthdate: about 1823 (14)
Birthplace: Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY (15)
Death date: 22 Aug 1897 (16)
Place of death: Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY (16)
Burial: Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY
Marriage date: 08 Oct 1856 (17)
Marriage place: New York, New York Co. NY (17)
Spouse's name: John Mather AUSTIN

Child No. 5: DeWitt C. RICHARDSON
Sex: M
Birthdate: about 1824 (18)
Birthplace: Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY (19)
Death date: 05 Nov 1882 (20)
Place of death: Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY (20)
Burial: Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY
Spouse's name: Sarah J. unknown

Child No. 6: George W.(21) RICHARDSON
Sex: M
Birthdate: 07 Jul 1825 (22)
Birthplace: Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY (22)
Death date: 25 Jun 1919 (22)
Place of death: Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY (22)
Burial: Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY
Marriage date: after 17 Jul 1850 (23) and before 14 Jun 1870 (24)
Marriage place:
Spouse's name: Ellen KING
 
 
Documentation:
(1) From the obit of his son George in The Auburn Citizen, Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY, 25 Jun 1919.
(2) From the obit of his wife Eliza in The Auburn Morning News, Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY, 22 Jun 1878.
(3) From her obit in The Auburn Morning News, Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY, 22 Jun 1878.
(4) Calculated from her age of death, per her gravestone: 39 year, 4 months and 4 days.
(5) Per "A Silver Jubilee" in The Auburn Citizen of 14 Dec 1910, her father settled in Auburn in 1809.
(6) The Christian Ambassador, Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY, 15 Sep 1855, a Universalist newspaper.
(7) Per her census entry at Hackensack, Bergen Co. NJ on 12 Jan 1900.
(8) Per "A Silver Jubilee" in The Auburn Citizen of 14 Dec 1910, her father settled in Auburn in 1809.
(9) The Auburn Bulletin, Auburn, 8 Oct 1902.
(10) From their marriage notice in the Journal and Advertiser, Auburn, 1837; no date appears on my available copy of this page.
(11) His birth is mentioned in an article "Some Corrections in Richardson History," in The Citizen-Advertiser, Auburn, on Tue 29 Mar 1938. This article offers updates by the author to a history of the Richardson family by Richard Drummond, secretary of the Cayuga Co. Historical Society that had just been published in the paper.
(12) The Auburn Bulletin, 22 Mar 1897.
(13) On that day Lewis and Eliza appear together in the census at Auburn, Cayuga Co. NY. The record of that year did not specifically identify marital status.
(14) Calculated from her age at death, as stated in cemetery records: 74 years.
(15) Per "A Silver Jubilee" in The Auburn Citizen of 14 Dec 1910, her father settled in Auburn in 1809.
(16) From her obit in The Auburn Argus, 27 Aug 1897.
(17) Per the Christian Ambassador, Auburn, a Universalist newspaper. Eliza, a Presbyterian, was married to Rev. John Mather Austin, a Universalist clergyman, at the home of her sister Adeline Wood in New York City. But the relationship did not work out for her, and she deserted him only a few months afterward. Ten years later, Austin secured a divorce in Indianapolis, IN on the grounds of that desertion. At some point Eliza resumed the use of her birth name, and the marriage is not mentioned in her obit, which referred to her as Miss Eliza Richardson.
(18) Calculated from his age at death, as stated in cemetery records: 58 years.
(19) Per "A Silver Jubilee" in The Auburn Citizen of 14 Dec 1910, his father settled in Auburn in 1809.
(20) Per his obit in The Auburn News and Bulletin, Mon. 6 Nov 1882.
(21) His 1870 and 1900 census entries, his gravestone, the obit of his sister Eliza (The Auburn Argus, Wed. 24 Aug 1910), and the death notice of his wife Ellen King Richardson (The Auburn Citizen, Wed. 24 Aug 1910) all give his middle initial as W, but his own obit gives it as H!
(22) From his obit in The Auburn Citizen, Wed. 25 Jun 1919.
(23) On that day George was living unmarried in the household of his brother Lewis in Auburn.
(24) On that day George and Ellen appear in the same household with their 2-year-old son Frank W. Richardson. The record of that year did not specifically identify household relationships.

Notes:
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