Rhoda Harriet Foss Richards

19 April 1830—19 November 1881

1 Born at Saco, York County, Maine; daughter of Sarah Brackett Carter and Calvin Ira Foss. 2 Baptized by her uncle Wilford Woodruff, 1844. 3 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1850. 4 Married first Willard Richards as a plural wife, 1851; one child. 5 Widowed, 1854. 6 Served on the visiting committee of the Salt Lake City Fourteenth Ward Relief Society, 1856. 7 Married second Franklin D. Richards as a plural wife, 1857; four children. 8 Settled at Farmington, Davis County, Utah Territory, 1858. 9 Served as secretary to Aurelia Spencer Rogers in the first Primary presidency in Farmington. 10 Died at Farmington. 11 (See Document 2.3)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Utah Cemeteries and Burials,” database, Utah Division of State History (https://ushpo.utah.gov/cemetery, accessed May 2023), Rhoda Foss Richards. “In Memoriam,” Woman’s Exponent 10, no. 19 (Mar. 1, 1882): 149. “Obituary,” Deseret news, Mar. 15, 1882, 16.

  2. [2] Carol Holindrake Nielson, The Salt Lake City 14th Ward Album Quilt, 1857: Stories of the Relief Society Women and Their Quilt (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2004), 61. “In Memoriam,” 149. “Obituary,” 16. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 2015), Rhoda Harriet Foss KWJ1-F4W.

  3. [3] “In Memoriam,” 149. “Obituary,” 16. Nielson, 14th Ward Album Quilt, 61.

  4. [4] “Rhoda Harriett Foss,” Church History Biographical Database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, available at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Dec. 2014.

  5. [5] “In Memoriam,” 149. Nielson, 14th Ward Album Quilt, 62.

  6. [6] “People of the Time,” database, The Joseph Smith Papers (https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/reference/people, accessed May 2023), Willard Richards.

  7. [7] “Relief Society in the Early Days,” Woman’s Exponent 24, no. 3 (July 1, 1895): 21.

  8. [8] “In Memoriam,” 149. “Obituary,” 16. Nielson, 14th Ward Album Quilt, 62.

  9. [9] “In Memoriam,” 149. “Obituary,” 16. Nielson, 14th Ward Album Quilt, 62.

  10. [10] Nielson, 14th Ward Album Quilt, 62–63.

  11. [11] “In Memoriam,” 149. “Obituary,” 16. “Utah Cemeteries and Burials,” database, Rhoda Foss Richards.