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Thomas Richardson, son of Shadrach and Sarah Haskel Aimes, was born in Payson, Utah, February 2, 1861. His mother died when he was six years old. He moved with his father to Benjamin in 1869. He attended such schools as they had at the time and learned to read and write.
In the year 1884 he was married to Eunice Lettie Hickman in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. T hey were very popular among the young folks and on their return home a dinner was given for them at the home of her mother and a dance was given that evening in the old adobe school house.
For three years they made their home with Eunice's mother when they bought a ranch in the northwest part of Benjamin and built a three room adobe house where they lived for a great many years. Later a brick building replaced the adobe one.
Tom Richardson, as he was called by his friends and neighbors, loved hunting and loved to be in the mountains getting out timber for fuel, fencing, etc. He made a success of farming and loved the work, especially irrigating.
He was rather retiring in his nature and did not care for work of a public nature. He was an officer in the Young Men's Mutual Association for a number of years and was associated with others in the Elders' Quorum.
He loved children, which seems to be a characteristic of all the Richardson men.
In the year 1921 he was stricken with paralysis from which he suffered partial blindness and palzy. On October 1, 1924, [sic] he suffered a second stroke which left him helpless. He passed away on October 21, 1924, [sic] and was buried in the Benjamin cemetery. His wife Eunice Lettie H. Richardson and eight children survive him. One child died in infancy.
His children are: T. Leslie Richardson, wife Hazel Ludlow Richardson, Benjamin, Utah; Shadrach Milton Richardson (died November, 1928), wife Madge Evans Richardson, Spanish Fork, Utah; Genevieve Richardson Lundell, husband F. Joseph Lundell, Benjamin, Utah; Lucy Ann Richardson Roundy, husband Adelbert Roundy, Mapleton, Utah; George Wesley Richardson, wife Pauline Butler, Benjamin, Utah; Alton Richardson, wife Ruth Baadsgaard, Benjamin, Utah; Eunice Lettie Richardson McKenzie, husband Ray McKenzie, Springville, Utah. There are 29 grandchildren and one great grandchild.
The Salt Lake Tribune
August 6, 1934Benjamin - Sterling Richardson, 42, died early Sunday morning at the family home in Benjamin from heart trouble.
He was born in Benjamin, March 30, 1892. a son of Thomas and Eunice Hickman Richardson. He was a farmer by occupation and had never been married.
Surviving are his mother; six brothers and sisters, T. L. Leslie and Alton Richardson and Geneve Lundell, Benjamin; Mrs. Lucy Roundy, Mpapleton; Mrs. Eunice McKenzie, Springville.
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Lavina Richardson Hansen was born August 16, 1864, in Payson, Utah. She was the only daughter of Shadrach and Sarah Haskell Eames Richardson. She was only four years old when her mother died, but her father was both mother and father to her.
She was married while still in her teens to Isaac Hansen, a promising young farmer of Benjamin, Utah.
She was a hard working woman always striving to make a happy home for her husband and children. She was the mother of eight children. She died when stricken with scarlet fever on December 21, 1900.
She was survived by: Isaac Hansen Jr. (died Nov. 1, 1936), wife Laverne Moore Hansen, Benjamin, Utah; James W. Hansen, wife Fern Greene Hansen, Payson, Utah; Edmond Hansen, wife Della Humphrey (died Nov. 26, 1935), Benjamin, Utah; Sarah Hansen Bryan, husband Rock Bryan, Payson, Utah; Franklin Hansen, wife Dora Thorne Hansen, Benjamin, Utah; Lester Hansen (died June 23, 1929), wife Alpha Sorensen (died Jan. 20, 1927); Mary Hansen Clayson, husband Archer Clayson.
Isaac and Lydia Partridge had no children.