Mormon Church Religious Leader. Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Cousin and 2nd Counselor to Brigham Young. As a member of the Twelve, he and John Taylor accompanied Joseph and Hyrum Smith while imprisoned in Carthage Jail, and w
(1) Er ist verheiratet mit Jeannetta Richards.
Sie haben geheiratet am 24. September 1838, er war 34 Jahre alt.
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(2) Er ist verheiratet mit Sarah Longstroth.
Sie haben geheiratet am 18. Januar 1845, er war 40 Jahre alt.
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(3) Er ist verheiratet mit Amelia Elizabeth Peirson.
Sie haben geheiratet am 22. Dezember 1845 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, er war 41 Jahre alt.
(4) Er ist verheiratet mit Mary Thompson.
Sie haben geheiratet am 27. Januar 1846 in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, USA, er war 41 Jahre alt.
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(5) Er ist verheiratet mit Nanny Longstroth.
Sie haben geheiratet am 25. Juni 1846 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, er war 42 Jahre alt.
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(6) Er ist verheiratet mit Susanna Bayliss.
Sie haben geheiratet am 22. Dezember 1847 in winter quarters, Nebraska, Verenigde Staten, er war 43 Jahre alt.
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(7) Er ist verheiratet mit Rhoda Harriet Foss.
Sie haben geheiratet am 30. November 1851, er war 47 Jahre alt.
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Potential Father Willard Richards B: Birth 24 Jun 1804 • Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States D: Death 11 Mar 1854 • Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Dr. Willard Richards Headstone Zoom willard richards Willard Richards Headstone Close 6279203_120887890477-1 200px-WillardRichardsGraveBack Richard Coat of Arms Willard Richards Headstone Early LDS Church Leaders Willard Richards [2] Willard Richards (1804-1854) Spouse & Children Jennetta Richards 1817-1845 Heber John Richards 1840-1919 Rhoda Ann Jennetta Richards 1843-1882 Spouse & Children Sarah Longstroth 1826-1858 Willard Brigham Richards 1847-1942 Joseph Smith Richards 1848-1914 Sarah Ellen Richards 1850-1915 Pauline Richards 1853-1947 Spouse & Children Nanny Lynn Longstroth 1828-1911 Alice Ann RICHARDS 1849-1940 Mary Asenath Richards 1850-1915 Stephen Longstroth RICHARDS 1853-1922 Spouse & Children Amelia Elizabeth Pierson 1825-1851 Baby Richards 1851-1851 Spouse Mary Thompson 1827-1905 Spouse & Children Susannah Bayliss 1812-1891 Mary Ann Richards 1851-1942 Spouse & Children Rhoda Harriet Foss 1830-1881 Calvin Willard Richards 1852-1926 This information is from Kevins Stoddard Family Tree 2017, created by kevstod. Name: Willard Richards Gender: Male Relationship to Primary Person: Self (Head) Father: Joseph Richards Mother: Rhoda Howe Birth Date: 24 Jun 1804 Birth Place: Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Marriage Place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Death Date: 11 Mar 1854 Death Place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Burial Date: 12 Mar 1854 Burial Place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Residences: near Chaidgley, Lancashire, England; 1839 Manchester, Lancashire, England; 1840 Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA; 1843 Salt Lake County, Utah, USA; 1850 LDS Church Ordinance Data: Baptism Date: December 31, 1836 Kirtland, Geauga, OH, USA Officiator: Brigham Young Ordained Elder Date: March 6, 1837 Kirtland, Geauga, OH, USA Officiator: Alva Beaman Ordained High Priest Date: 1838 Preston, Lancashire, ENG Ordained Apostle Date: April 14, 1840 LDS Temple Ordinance Data: Endowment Date: May 4, 1842 Endowment Date: December 10, 1845 Temple: Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, USA Sealed to Parents Date: May 6, 1932 Temple: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, USA Sealed to Spouse Number 1 Date: January 22, 1846 Vocations: Practiced medicine in Massachusetts before 1835 Postmaster; 1850 Comments: Willard was called to fill a vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve.2. Willard was present at the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. Comments: #21. Willard served as first counselor to Joseph Fielding over the English mission. 2. Willard is mentioned on the Continuing Church Record at Nauvoo. 3. Willard served a mision to the Eastern States in 1837. 4. Willard went to England with Heber C. Kimball and Orson Hyde. Comments: #31. In 1850, Willard had a household of 5, a real wealth of $2000, and a personal wealth of $0. Comments: #41. Willard was a member of the Nauvoo City Council. 2. Willard was a member of the Council of Fifty March 11, 1844. 3. Willard was initiated into Masonry April 7, 1842. Comments: #51. Willard served as a scribe to Joseph Smith 1841-1844. Comments: #61. Willard went on a business mission to the East with Brigham Young, 1837. British Mission beginning in 1837. Preaching. Ordained first counselor to the mission president, Joseph Fielding, 1838. General conference at Preston, 1840. Comments: #71. Willard served as the second counselor to President Brigham Young from 1847 to 1854. From the religious teachings of his parents, he was the subject of religious impressions from his early childhood, although careless and indifferent in his external deportment. At the age of ten years he removed with his father's family to Richmond, Massachusetts, where he witnessed several sectarian "revivals" and offered himself to the Congregational church at that place at the age of seventeen, having previously passed the painful ordeal of conviction and conversion, even to the belief that he had committed the unpardonable sin. But the total disregard of that church to his request for admission led him to a more thorough investigation of the principles of religion, when he became convinced that the sects were all wrong and that God had no church on the earth, but that He would soon have a church whose creed would be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. From that time he kept himself aloof from sectarian influence, boldly declaring his belief to all who wished to learn his views, until the summer of 1835, when while in the practice of medicine, near Boston, the Book of Mormon, which President Brigham Young had left with his counsin Lucius Parker, at Southborough, accidentally or providentially fell in his way. This was the first he had seen or heard of the Latter-day Saints, except the scurrillous records of the public prints, which amounted to nothing more than that "a boy named Jo Smith, some where out west, had found a Gold bible." He opened the book, without regard to place, and totally ignorant of its design or contents, and before reading half a page, declared that, "God or the devil has had a hand in that book, for man never wrote it." He read it twice through in about ten days; and so firm was his conviction of the truth, that he immediately commenced settling his accounts, selling his medicine, and freeing himself from every incumbrance, that he might go to Kirtland, Ohio, seven hundred miles west, the nearest point he could hear of a Saint, and give the work a thorough investigation; firmly believing, that if the doctrine was true, God had some greater work for him to do than peddle pills. But no sooner did he commence a settlement, than he was smitten with the palsy, from which he suffered exceedingly, and was prevented executing his design, until October, 1836, when he arrived at Kirtland, in company with his brother (Doctor Levi Richards, who attended him as physician), where he was most cordially and hospitably received and entertained by his cousin, Brigham Young, with whom he tarried, and gave the work an unceasing and untiring investigation. After his baptism in 1837 he left Kirtland on a mission to the Eastern States, from which he returned June 11th. On the day following he was blessed and set apart by the Prophet Joseph Smith to accompany Heber C. Kimball, Orson Hyde and others on a mission to England. They started on the 13th. Having arrived safely in England, and the gospel door having been successfully opened in Preston, Doctor Richards was sent to Bedford, and surrounding country, where he labored with much success, notwithstanding bitter opposition. He returned to Preston, in February 1838, and on April 1st attended a general conference where he was appointed first counselor to Joseph Fielding, who was appointed to preside over the mission after Elders Kimball and Hyde returned to America. During 1839 he continued his missionary labors in Manchester, Bolton, Salford, Burslem, Preston and other places. After the arrival of the Apostles from America, Doctor Richards was ordained one of the Twelve Apostles, April 14, 1840 to which high and holy position he had been called by direct revelation, and after the publication of the "Millennial Star" was commenced, he assisted Parley P. Pratt, in its editorial department, and also performed the general duties of presiding over the mission. In February 1841, he removed his family from Preston to Manchester, and in the following April left England with others of the Twelve to return to Nauvoo, where he arrived August 16th. Agreeable to the council of the Twelve, he located at Warsaw, Hancock county, Illinois for a short time. He was elected a member of the city council of Nauvoo October 30, 1841, and removed to that city in December following. Two days later (December 13th) he was appointed recorder for the Temple, private secretary to Joseph Smith and general church clerk. He commenced his labors in Joseph's new office, in the brick store. Comments: #81. Willard, was appointed in 1841, to act as secretary to the Prophet Joseph Smith, and was with him in the Carthage Jail at the time of the martyrdom of the Prophet and his brother Hyrum, June 27, 1844. Dr. Richards was selected as second counselor to President Brigham Young at the reorganization of the First Presidency December 27, 1847, and after establishment of a local government in the Great Basin, he served as secretary of the Provisional Government of the State of Deseret, and of the Territory of Utah. He was a historian and recorder of the Church. Comments: #91. Willard came to Utah July 24, 1847 with the Brigham Young company. Comments: #101. Willard traveled as a missionary companion to Brigham Young in New York and the Eastern States. He filled a mission to Great Britain in 1837 to 1841. After returning to America he filled a number of other missions, labored as church Historian, took an active part in the building up of Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, was in Carthage Jail when the Prophet Jospeh Smith and his brother Hyrum were martyred, was a very active figure in the exodus of the Saints from Nauvoo to Salt Lake Valley, acted as second counselor to Brigham Young from 1847 until his death. Willard filled an important mission to England and raised up abranch of the Church in Bedford. He acted as counselor to President Joseph Fielding. Willard Richards left Nauvoo, illinois, July 1, 1842, for NewEngland. Willard was appointed on a special mission to locate a setlement of the Saints at Warsaw, Illinois. Household Members: Name Relation Willard Richards Self (Head) Jennetta Richards Spouse Heber John Richards Child Heber John Richards Child Rhoda Ann Jeanetta Richards Child Naney Longstroth Spouse Alice Ann Richards Child Mary Assena Richards Child Stephen Longstroth Richards Child Sarah Longstroth Spouse Calvin Willard Richards Child
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