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Born 1842
From History of Henry County, Illinois (1910)
EDWIN ADELBERT RICHMOND.
Edwin Adelbert Richmond, for fifteen years a partner in the business at Prospect Hill Nursery and a respected citizen of Geneseo, was a son of Isaiah and Eliza A. (Fenner) Richmond and was born at Scituate, Rhode Island, October 4, 1842, He came with his father's family to Illinois in 1844 id to Geneseo in 1854, which continued to be his home until his decease in December, 1880.
At the outbreak of the Civil war, the spirit of patriotism inherited from Revolutionary ancestors asserted itself and he enlisted as a private in Company B, Ninth Illinois Cavalry, Ransom Harrington, captain, Colonel Bpackett's regiment, his older brother, Jeremiah, being a member of the same company. He was afterward transferred to the commissary department.
After the close of the war, he married on the 28th of November, 1868, Juliett Pratt, a daughter of Jared Pratt, of North Middleboro, Massachusetts, bringing his bride to the home at Prospect Hill, where their three children were born: Mabel Pratt, born August 6, 1870, who married Adoniram Faunce, of Brockton, Massachusetts, and has one daughter, Ruth; Ray R., born December 19, 1873, who married Mabel Florence Gammons, of Brockton, Massachusetts, and has one son, Warren; Edwin, Jr., born in April, 1876, who married Sadie Church, and has one son, Stanford Church.
Mr. Richmond was associated with his brother Joseph in conducting and extending the business of Prospect Hill Nursery, he managing all local affairs till his death on the 13th of December, 1880. After her husband's decease, Mrs. Richmond returned with her little family to North Middleboro, her girlhood home, and there her children were educated. Mr. Richmond was a stirring, progressive, business man of strict integrity, and his genial nature made him a favorite among his fellow citizens. He was a member of Stewart Lodge, A. F. & A. M.
As printed in History of Henry County, Illinois (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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