HOWE, Rhoda

1762 - 1838  (75 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	HOWE, Rhoda
  Birth	8 Jul 1762	Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
  Christening	8 Jul 1762	Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
  Gender	Female
  Death	14 Feb 1838	Richmond, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
  Burial	16 Feb 1838	Richmond, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
  WAC	5 Dec 1889	LOGAN
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  Person ID	I55763	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

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  Family	RICHARDS, Joseph ,   b. 16 Mar 1762, Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesd. 29 Mar 1840, Richmond, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States (Age 78 years)
  Children	+ 1. RICHARDS, Willard ,   b. 25 Jun 1804, Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesd. 11 Mar 1854, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 49 years)
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  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  RHODA HOWE RICHARDS (1762-1838} The eldest of Phineas and Susanna Goddard Howe's ten children, I was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, July 8, 1762. Joseph and I were both nineteen when he asked and obtained my father's consent to our marriage. ·Father and mother were members of the First Congregational Church in Hopkinton, although in mother's "opinions on religion there was some difference from the sects of the present day; she believed that Jacob's ladder was not yet broken, and that angels still continued to ascend and descend." Our intention was recorded in the Congregational Church more than three months before our marriage. Our first three children were born in Framingham.. I was glad when Joseph decided to return to Hopkinton, because there I would be near my parents. Eight more children were born to us in Hopkinton, and there we· buried our little Levi and Betsey. The home Joseph and the boys built for us in Richmond was well constructed, from the large kitchen with its windows to the south and east, and bedrooms for us and the girls downstairs, to the boys 1 bedroom upstairs. Sickness seemed to plague us here, as it had done in the East, but we had our happy times too. Father Phineas Howe died before we left Hopkinton. A letter from my mother, dated Aug, the 5 1827, was among my cherished possessions. She lived to be nearly 95, departing from this life in January, 1837, In February one year later I followed her, leaving my husband with only Rhoda and William still at home. · Our eldest son we named Joseph, for his father. He was obedient, a steadying influence on his younger brothers, and a great help to his father.