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Richards Private Cemetery In the late 1800’s the 2 children of William and Harriett Richards died in infancy, they were buried in unmarked graves inside a fireguard around the homestead building NE 24-18-25-W2 Source of information was Mrs. Elizabeth Spence, 6 June 1975, mother of Oliver Spence who owned the land in 1975. Researched by Bernie Eresman Moose Jaw Branch SGS
Their homestead, NE 24-18-28 W2, was in the Westview District. They lived in a sod house beside the Old Temperance Trail over which supplies were hauled westward. When police tool Louis Riel to Regina for trial in 1885, they spent the night camped close to the Richards homestead About 1894 the family moved from this homestead to one just north of Caron, SK
Source of information Caron History Book “From Buffalo Trails to Blacktop” Find A Grave
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