Rhoda Harriet Foss Richards

19 Apr 1830 - 19 Nov 1881
Rhoda Harriet Foss Richards (1830-1881) was born 19 Apr. 1830 in Scarborough, Cumberland Co., Maine. She was the daughter of Calvin Foss and Sarah Brackett Carter and a niece of Wilford Woodruff. She married Willard Richards on 30 Nov. 1851 in Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory; widowed. She married Franklin Dewey Richards on 6 Mar. 1857 in Great Salt Lake City. She was baptized by Wilford Woodruff on 31 Oct. 1844. She died 19 Nov. 1881 in Farmington, Davis Co., Utah Territory.

Rhoda Harriet Foss (KWJ1-F4W), “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 31 Mar. 2021). Rhoda Harriet Foss Richards, Wilford Woodruff Papers (https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/subjects/rhoda-harriet-foss-richards, accessed 10 Feb. 2022). Rhoda Foss, The First Fifty Years of Relief Society (https://www.churchhistorianspress.org/search?q=%22Rhoda+Foss%22&lang=eng, accessed 10 Feb. 2022). 1880 U.S. Census, Farmington, Davis Co., Utah Territory, p. 209C, Rodah Richards. “Rhoda Harriett Richards,” Pioneer Database, 1847–1868, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/overlandtravel/, accessed 1 Apr. 2021). “Utah, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1800-1985,” database, Ancestry.com (https://ancestry.com, accessed 1 Apr. 2021), Rhoda H. F. Richards; from Utah District Court (Davis County), Davis Co., Utah. “Rhoda Harriet Foss Richards,” Farmington City Cemetery, Farmington, Davis Co., Utah ; Find A Grave, 7 Jun. 2007, memorial no. 19771456 , (https://findagrave.com, accessed 30 Mar. 2021). “Obituary,” The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah), 15 Mar. 1882, p. 16. Black, Susan Easton, Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848 (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center, 1989), Vol. 16, p. 844-845.
Loading...