Samuel Willard Richards (1887-1894) - Find a Grave Memorial

Samuel Willard Richards

Birth

7 Sep 1887

Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA

Death

21 Feb 1894 (aged 6)

Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA

Burial

Salt Lake City Cemetery

Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA Add to Map

Plot

F 10, Snell family marker

Memorial ID

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Son of William Richards and Elizabeth Georgina Cook

Grandson of Clara Elizabeth Quilley Read Cook Snell.

Samuel Willard Richards was staying at his grandmother's home, which was the Sydney Hotel in Salt Lake City, when he contracted pneumonia.
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Samuel's marker is a monument that represents 11 individuals who are family or friend connected. The monument is engraved with the SNELL surname. Those names scribed are:

* Clara Elizabeth Quilley Read Cook Snell, daughter of Samuel George Read and Elizabeth Georgina Quilley. Wife of William Greenley Cook and John Snell.;
* Ella Miriam Hanks, daughter of Ephraim Knowlton Hanks and Thisbe Quilley Read, niece of Clara Elizabeth Quilley Read Cook Snell;
* Milbrough Alicia Cook Richards Weyher, daughter of Clara Quilley Read Cook Snell and William Greenley Cook;
* Charles Madison Drown, shot by some unknown person, 28 Aug 1859, friend of Josiah Arnold;
* Samuel Willard Richards (son of Elizabeth Georgina Cook Richards Crawshaw and grandson of Clara Elizabeth Quilley Read Cook Snell);
* John A. Borlase, step-bro-in-law to Josiah Arnold, died St. Mary's hospital, born in Cornwall, England, died 5 Jan 1881, cause of death is homicide, shot by D. Jenkins;
* Josiah Arnold, father-in-law to Alicia Quilley Read Arnold, shot by some unknown person along with Charles Drown;
* Hyrum Chester Arnold, son of Josiah Arnold;
* John Snell, second husband to Clara Quilley Read Cook Snell;
* William Greenley Cook, first husband to Clara Quilley Read Cook Snell;
* Georgina Arnold, baby daughter to Alicia Quilley Read and Orson Pratt Arnold, niece of Clara Elizabeth Quilley Read Cook Snell. (Georgina's head marker is where her parents are buried but Georgina is buried where the Snell marker is placed).

NOTE: A restoration of the grave was done May, 1997. The monument had been broken by the large tree branches. Steel dowels were drilled into the center piece, then glued and the monument moved two feet to the east; HISTORIAN: Sherry Smith.