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About Alice Ann Richards

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@R303501987@ Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,9174::0

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Utah State Archives; Salt Lake City, Utah; Series Number: 81448 1,9174::123170

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U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Find A Grave 1,60525::0

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@R303501987@ Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,9174::0

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Utah State Archives; Salt Lake City, Utah; Series Number: 81448 1,9174::123170

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U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Find A Grave 1,60525::0

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1,60525::92814266

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@R303501987@ Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,9174::0

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Utah State Archives; Salt Lake City, Utah; Series Number: 81448 1,9174::123170

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U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Find A Grave 1,60525::0

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@R303501987@ Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,9174::0

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Utah State Archives; Salt Lake City, Utah; Series Number: 81448 1,9174::123170



Daughter of Dr. Willard Richards & Nanny Lynn Longstroth

Married Lot Smith, 30 May 1868, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Children - Nannie Amelia Smith Ashcroft, Willard Richards Smith, George Albert Smith, Lot Smith, Wilford Woodruff Smith, Joseph Howe Smith, Rhoda Minerva Smith, Roxie Alice Smith, George Albert Smith

Salt Lake Telegram - June 18, 1940
S. L. PIONEER'S RITES PLANNED Fielding- Funeral services for Mrs. Alice Ann Richards Smith, 91, one of Utah's oldest residents, will be conducted Wednesday at 1 p. m. in the Fielding L. D. S. ward chapel by Leo Earl, bishop.

Mrs. Smith was born in Salt Lake City, March 24, 1849, a daughter of Willard Richards, L. D. S. church apostle, and Nanny Longstroth Richards. She attended the Salt Lake City schools and aided her father in sorting type for the old hand-set editions of the Deseret News, of which her father was the first editor. She taught school at Farmington until she was married to Lot Smith.

Returned to Utah After residing in Arizona 14 years, Mrs. Smith returned to Utah and with her children was among the first settlers of the Bear river valley.

An active member of the L. D. S. church, she was the first president of the Fielding L. D. S. ward Primary association and the second president of the Relief society in that ward.

Mrs. Smith died at the home of a son Joseph H. Smith, in Fielding, Monday morning of causes incident to age.

Relatives Listed Surviving are three sons, Willard R. Smith of Holbrook, Idaho; Joseph H. Smith of Fielding and Albert Smith of Ruby Valley, Nev.; 32 grandchildren, 46 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren; three brothers, George F. Richards of the L. D. S. council of 12 apostiles, Willard B. Richards and Fred W. Richards and three sisters, Mrs. Mary Ann VanFleet of Farmington, Mrs. Phoebe Peart of Salt Lake City and Mrs. Pauline Doremus of Los Angeles.

Interment will be in the Fielding cemetery.

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Alice Ann Richards's Timeline

1849
March 24, 1849
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory, United States
1869
February 10, 1869
Davis, Farmington, Davis County, Utah, United States
1872
July 31, 1872
Farmington, Davis, Utah, USA
1874
September 9, 1874
Farmington, Davis County, Utah, United States of America
1877
June 30, 1877
Apache County, Arizona, United States of America
1879
December 28, 1879
Apache County, Arizona, United States of America
1882
April 21, 1882
Sunset, Apache, Arizona, United States
1885
June 8, 1885
Apache County, Arizona, United States of America
1887
June 6, 1887
Tuba City, Coconino County, Arizona, United States of America