- The following was extracted from the Richardson Family Website and was published in "The Faces and Places of Benjamin, Utah":
Shadrach Richardson was born on November 11, 1816 in Cumberland County, Kentucky. He was one of twelve children born to Shadrach Richardson and Mary Elizabeth Garrett. In 1833, Shadrach and Elizabeth moved their family to Illinois. While in Illinois, the Richardson family met and became good friends with a widow named Sarah Scott Stewart and her children. In 1837, Sarah’s son, Benjamin Franklin Stewart, married Shadrach’s sister, Polly. In that same year, both families moved to Iowa. The Stewart family settled in Fox River, Van Buren County, and the Richardsons in Keg Creek, Mills County. They did not lose track of one another, however, and in 1839 Shadrach married Benjamin’s sister Lavina Stewart.
They made their home on Keg Creek where seven children were born to them, five of whom died in infancy. In the year 1849 the gold rush to California spread over the country. Shadrach and Lavina felt the urge to try their fortune in this new land and made the necessary arrangements to start this long and dangerous journey.
Taking what belongings they could carry in a prairie schooner and their two little boys, Shadrach Montgomery and William Wilshire, they started the long and hard journey to the dream land of the west. They arrived in Payson, Utah, in the fall of 1852, weary and foot-sore, but hoping to go on to California. They rested while visiting their brother and sister, Benjamin Franklin and Polly Richardson Stewart. But the trials and hardships incident to their journey across the plains proved too much for Lavina and she passed away in December, 1852, leaving her two little boys and their father to the mercy and kindness of relatives and the good people of Payson. Lavina was one of the first to be buried in the Payson cemetery.
After the death of his wife, Shadrach had no more desire to go on to California and decided to make his home in Utah. In 1857, he was baptized and confirmed a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In 1860, he married Sarah Haskell Aimes (also spelled Emes), who had returned from San Bernardino, California with her children when her husband Ellis Aimes joined the Reorganized LDS Church. Four children were born to Sarah and Shadrach, three boys and one girl, Thomas, David, Lavina, and Richard. In September 1869, Sarah died and he was again left alone to provide for his family.
In 1869, he homesteaded a parcel of land in Benjamin and built a log cabin near a bubbling spring of very warm water (known later as Arrowhead Resort). He moved in when the home was complete. This was a home for them until they were all old enough to go out and establish homes for themselves.
He died in Benjamin at the home of his oldest son, Shadrach Montgomery Richardson, on June 18, 1890 and was buried in the Payson Cemetery.
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1816 - 1892 (75 år)
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