Joseph Richardson was born in Rookby, Westmoreland, England 8 December 1816, one of the children of John and Barbara Richardson. He married Elizabeth Waters, daughter of William and Ann Watters 8 December 1840. On 28 March 1845 Joseph, Elizabeth, and their two children, John and Matthew, immigrated to New Orleans, arriving 12 May 1845. They settled in New Diggings, Wisconsin, where Ann, their third child, was born in 1846. They raised fourteen children.

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James Dennis Richardson (1876-1961) was born in LaFayette, Montgomery County, Virginia to Wheeler Richardson (1854-1935) and Virginia Heslep. He left home to work on the railroads, and was eventually transferred to Salt Lake City, from where he was sent to work at Helper, Utah. There he married Edna Ray Cummings, a Mormon girl, and the family remained in Utah. Frank Ray Richardson (1813-1986), their son, married Harriett Rowley and they had four children (3 girls and a boy): Marilyn Wyatt, Lois Richardson, Frank Donald Richardson, and Barbara Richardson. Descendants and relatives lived in Utah and elsewhere. Ancestors lived in Virginia, New England and elsewhere. Some ancestors lived in Scotland.

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A genealogical history of the Rice family; descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, who came from Berkhamstead, England, and settled at Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1638 or 9.