Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Benjamin F. Richards    
                Born: ca 1839              in Wood Co, (W)VA  1
             Resided:                      in Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV  2
              Census: 1850, 1860           in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  
          Occupation:                      doctor  2
              Father: Benjamin Richards   (1796 -     ) 
              Mother: Priscilla Jones   (1806 -     ) 
                Wife: Nancy L. Cross     
       Also known as: Nancy Ellen Cross 3
             Married: Apr- 8-1865          in Ritchie Co, WV  1
                Born: ca 1849              in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  1
             Resided: 1865                 in Ritchie Co, WV  1
              Census: 1860                 in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  
              Father: John Cross   (1808 - 1886) 
              Mother: Catherine Jemima Prunty   (1811 - 1865) 
           F Child 1: Alice Jane Richards      
                Born: Jan-21-1866           4,5,6
                Died: Jan- 9-1919          in Ritchie Co, WV  7,5
              Buried:                      in Pullman Cemetery, Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV  8
             Husband: William Micha Drummond  b. Sep-  -1867  d. Sep-20-1962  
             Married: Sep-28-1883          in Ritchie Co, WV  6

Sources:
(1) Ritchie County Marriage Records, Harrisville, WV. 
(2) Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, 
http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 362. 
(3) Minnie Kendall Lowther, Ritchie County in History and Romance (McClain Publishing Co, Parsons, WV, 1990), p. 157. 
(4) Death Record - Birth date calculated from age at death. 
(5) Headstone (year only) 
(6) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985) 
(7) Ritchie County WV Deaths 1918-1940, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Nov 1998), Identified as Alice 
Jane Richards Drummond, died Jan 9 1919, age 52y 11m 19d, dau of B. F. & N. E. (Cross) Richards.  NOTE:  Age at death 
calculates to a birth date of Jan 21 1866, rather than the June 1866 birth date given in the 1900 Census.  "Ritchie 
County Cemeteries,", p. 636, reports death date on headstone as 1913. 
(8) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, 
McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. 







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