He rests in the Crescent Grove cemetery in the neighborhood where they spent so many years of their long, useful lives. (The Richardson Family)
He is married to Elizabeth Trullinger.
They got married on June 14, 1842, he was 28 years old.
Child(ren):
At the age of 19 he went with his father's family to Illinois, where he remained ten years.
In the fall of 1846 he and his brother, George, and their families went back to Illinois to settle up the family estate (their father having died) and to bid farewell to the brothers and sisters there. (The Richardson Family)
Following the death of his mother, Solomon started out in life for himself, going to Iowa Territory, where he settled in Van Buren county, near Pittsfield, He built a cabin on his claim and as it was the largest house in the neighborhood, and as he was a bachelor and there was no public building, his home was always open to public gatherings.
It was November 1847 when the worn out train reached the Willamette valley. Solomon Richardson and the Dillons spent the winter at the home of James Johns, after whom St. Johns is named. There on December 3, 1848, the third son, Milton, was born. In
the spring of 1849 Solomon Richardson and several others of the 1847 immigration went to the gold mines in California, leaving their families in Oregon. He returned home in the fall of the same year, having been sick a great part of the time he was in the gold fields. In the spring of 1850 he located on a donation land claim in Washington county, on the Tualatin river bottom, just south of what is now
Tigard. On September 3O, 1852, the first daughter, Margarette, was born, and April 1, 1854, the second daughter, Olive, was born. On June 25, 1858, Mary Ellen, the third daughter and the last child, was born, just 11 years after the death of James, the oldest child.
The Kentucky rifle, with the shot pouch and powder horn, were brought across the plains by Solomon Richardson in 1847. (The Richardson Family)
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