MR. OWEN RICHARDS, STEUBEN, ONEIDA COUNTY, NEW YORK.
OWEN RICHARDS, born in Merionethshire, North Wales, came to America in the same vessel with Dr. Daniel Roberts, in 1818, and died in Steuben, March 10, 1830, aged sixty-nine years.Mr. Richards first located at Holland Patent; but finding that ague was prevalent in that section, he removed his family to Steuben, where he stopped for a time with one Ellis John Parry, on or near Pen-y-mynydd. Later he located on French Road, where he purchased new land at five dollars an acre. He built a house north of the farm now occupied by his grandson, Lewis Richards, and the place for many years was the Richards homestead. Owen Richards married Elizabeth Jones, a sister of Rev. John Jones (Ramoth), an elder and the founder of the Sandemanian sect in Wales.
Mrs. Richards died July 6, 1847, aged seventy-nine years. Their children were John, Joseph and Benjamin (twins), Richard, Elizabeth, and Owen. Benjamin married Ann, daughter of John Roberts (Ty-niwliog), and their children were Joseph, a physician in Belle-vue Hospital, New York city, who died at the early age of twenty-three years; Lewis; Owen, a physician of Trenton; Jonathan, a Congregational minister, who died at St. Johns, Mich.; David, residing in Alabama; and two who died in infancy. Lewis Richards married Jane, daughter of Griffith and Jane Wheldon, and their children were Benjamin; Elnora; Griffith; Joseph, a physician, now located in Ohio; and Edna, wife of Dr. Morey, of Remsen.