Rhoda How Richards

1762-1838
Rhoda How Richards (1762-1838) was born 8 Jul. 1762 in Hopkinton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She was the daughter of Phineas How and Susanna Goddard. She married Joseph Richards on 20 Dec. 1871 in Hopkinton, and they had eleven children. Her son, Phineas Howe Richards, was ordained a Patriarch by the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, including Wilford Woodruff, on 17 May 1873. She died 14 Feb. 1838 in Richmond, Berkshire, Massachusetts.

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