Elizabeth Wildes

Elizabeth married Benjamin Jones on 22 Jan 1679 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts. Benjamin (son of Thomas Jones and Mary North) was born on 31 Jul 1651 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 25 Jun 1718 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Anna Prior about 1710 in Somers, Tolland, Connecticut. Anna (daughter of John Prior and Mary Geer) was born on 31 Mar 1690 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to John Thomas Bullock (citation details below), Zebulon Jones "went to sea when a boy and rose to the command of a merchantman engaged in the East India trade."

Zebulon married Anna Kibbe on 31 Oct 1744 in Somers, Tolland, Connecticut. Anna (daughter of Jacob Kibbe and Grace Sitton) was born on 11 Sep 1727 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; was christened on 8 Oct 1727 in Somers, Tolland, Connecticut; died on 21 Aug 1763 in Somers, Tolland, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Jesse Richardson on 12 Nov 1778 in Congregational Church, Somers, Tolland, Connecticut. Jesse (son of David Richardson and Rachel Richardson) was born on 3 Feb 1758 in Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut; died in 1838 in Monroe Township, Muskingum, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1784, Connecticut

Family/Spouse: Sarah. Sarah was born in 1785 in New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

At the 1860 census they were at Ophir township, Oroville, Butte County, California. Henry was 40, born in Ohio; Elizabeth, 38, born in England; Caroline 14, born in Illinois. With them was "Isabella Lumbley", 33, also born in England, presumably a sister or other kinperson to Elizabeth.

Evidence that Henry Sisson Richardson was a son of Jesse Richardson:

First, Henry and Elizabeth Richardson had a son named John Cuddeback Richardson, born 1842 in Hancock County, Illinois, died 1928 in Gridley, Butte, California. In the 1850 census of Hancock County, Jesse Richardson, 66, and his wife Sarah, 65, are shown living with "Peter Cudderback", age 9, born in Illinois. Peter Cuddeback (1842-1914) appears to have been a son of Henry's sister Sarah Ann Richardson (1815-1885) by her husband, thus Henry's brother-in-law, John Cuddeback (1812-1870).

Second, a letter, 29 Sep 1931, from Artie Richardson Nugent to the War Department pension bureau, Washington, D.C.: "Dear Sirs — I am writing to get a record of my great grandfather, Jesse Richardson, who was the father of my grandfather Henry Sissons Richardson." Obviously the Revolutionary War soldier Jesse Richardson cannot have been Henry Sisson Richardson's father, but Artie Richardson's inadvertant conflation of the two Jesse Richardsons is understandable. It seems clear from the evidence that Henry Sisson Richardson was the soldier's grandson, through the soldier's namesake son.

The Richardson and Cuddeback families' relationship to Mormonism:

According to George C. Mansfield's History of Butte County, California (Los Angeles: Historic Record Company, 1918), page 922, in 1837 Henry Sisson Richardson's abovenamed brother-in-law John Cuddeback "removed to Hancock County, Illinois, where he was a pioneer farmer and helped to drive the Mormons out of Nauvoo." Five years later, Henry Sisson Richardson and his wife Elizabeth Lumley named a son after John Cuddeback. It would be a stretch to suppose that this was specifically because they approved of his acts as a persecutor of early Mormons, but it certainly doesn't appear that they disapproved.

Henry Sisson Richardson's middle name may constitute a small historic irony. It's worth noting that the most recent common (known) ancestor of DDB and TNH is Christopher Champlin of Rhode Island (1656-1732). One of Christopher Champlin's great-great grandsons was TNH ancestor William Sisson Champlin (born 1792 in Vermont, died 1861 in Utah), whose family became Mormon in the 1830s and were as a consequence violently driven out of several parts of Missouri in which they attempted to settle in that decade. William Sisson Champlin got his middle name from his mother, a descendant of several generations of Sissons of Rhode Island. We know nothing about the origins, or even maiden name, of Henry Sisson Richardson's mother, but it would be poignant if, through her, he descended from some of the same Sissons.

Further from the History of Butte County, California (citation details above):

[…] Henry S. and Elizabeth (Lumly) Richardson. The former came from Ohio and the latter from England. [In 1844, Henry Richardson] moved the family to St. Louis, Mo.; and in the early spring of 1849, he started across the great plains in wagons drawn by ox teams, with his wife and children, arriving in Placerville in July of the same year. He soon engaged in mining in El Dorado County, then, the same year, in Butte County, on Feather River, near Bidwell's Bar, and later ran a general store at Slate Creek. In 1852 Henry Richardson returned East and in 1853 drove a band of cattle across the plains to California. He also did teaming out of Marysville, grading, and hauling lumber, and he also ran a livery stable. He erected a building in Marysville in 1854, on E Street, part of which is now standing, and also built a stable on F Street, a couple of years later.

In 1857, however, Mr. Richardson sold out and located in Oroville, and in the fall of 1860 he took up one hundred sixty acres on Dry Creek, near what is now Nelson. He bought land adjoining, both government and railroad land, until he owned seven hundred sixty acres. He farmed the same until 1872, when he sold out and moved to Oroville. In 1878, with his wife and some of his children, he drove a team across the plains to Grayson County, Texas, where he bought thirteen hundred acres. He was very successful in California, and carried with him to Texas, as the result of his long labors and investments here, a round sum of seventy-five thousand dollars. He died in Texas in 1880, honored both as a brave member of early vigilance committees and as an Odd Fellow.

Henry married Elizabeth Lumley on 17 May 1838 in Hancock County, Illinois. Elizabeth (daughter of Henry Lumley and Elizabeth Geldard) was born on 5 Jan 1820 in Farlington, Yorkshire, England; was christened on 25 Mar 1821 in Farlington, Yorkshire, England; died on 13 Jan 1887 in Collinsville, Grayson, Texas; was buried in Ethel Cemetery, Ethel, Grayson, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Caroline married George Worth on 23 Mar 1869 in Butte County, California. George was born on 3 Dec 1835 in Missouri; died on 3 Oct 1913 in Nelson, Butte, California; was buried in Nelson Cemetery, Nelson County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1885
• Alternate birth: 1886, California

Notes:

Or Hester. Or Warth.

1940 census, Esther, 54, born in California.

1930 census, not listed.

1920 census, Hester, 35, born in California, father born in Massachusetts, mother born in Missouri.

The Los Angeles Times obituary for her daughter Margaret Lillian (Randall) (Briglio) Werndle indicates that Margaret had a daughter named Esther, which suggests that this was probably how Esther Worth generally spelled her name. She is recorded on several official documents as Hester, however.

Hester married George Burdett Randall on 20 Jun 1919 in Ashland, Jackson, Oregon. George (son of William M. Randall and Elnora Abbey) was born on 20 Sep 1874 in Michigan; died on 20 Dec 1959 in Los Angeles County, California; was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Altadena, Los Angeles, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married John Dyer-Bennet on 14 Jun 1951 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California. John (son of Maj. Richard Stewart Dyer-Bennet and Miriam Wolcott Clapp) was born on 17 Apr 1915 in England; died on 19 Mar 2002. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1924

Notes:

Note in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index record of her death:

Nov 1942: Name listed as MARGARET LILLIAN RANDALL
Dec 1962: Name listed as MARGARET LIL BRIGLIO
Apr 1969: Name listed as MARGARET LIL WERNDLE
12 Jan 2002: Name listed as M LILLIAN WERNDLE

Margaret married Anthony Briglio on 22 Jul 1950 in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California. Anthony was born on 21 Feb 1922 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; died on 12 Jan 2015 in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Heir apparent to the Swinnerton-Dyer baronetcy, most recently held by Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, who died 26 Dec 2018.

Family/Spouse: Lydia Drew Nickerson. Lydia (daughter of Ronald Whitman Nickerson and Lorna Mae Nickerson) was born on 24 May 1962 in New Castle, Lawrence, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Pamela Collins Dean on 30 Dec 1982 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Pamela was born on 18 Jan 1953 in Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]