Missionary of the P.E. Church at Cape Palmas, West Coast of Africa
Aged 34 years, 2 months
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Richard's first wife, Samantha A. Waters, was a fellow student at Oberlin College, Ohio. They sailed to Africa to join the Mendi Mission in November 1859, and she died at Mount Tappan, Africa, on March 16, 1860, of acclimating fever after an illness of eleven days.
Richard married Mary Cooper some months after that.
One source said Richard was "compelled by failing health to withdraw from the Mission," and sailed for England.
Another source said Richard was badly burned in a gunpowder explosion, and died in England.
(Above info gleaned from Memorial Card in possession of Kathy Rose, Jane H. Barber, Obituary provided by Catherine Mey, and Joseph Yannielli)
Aged 34 years, 2 months
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Richard's first wife, Samantha A. Waters, was a fellow student at Oberlin College, Ohio. They sailed to Africa to join the Mendi Mission in November 1859, and she died at Mount Tappan, Africa, on March 16, 1860, of acclimating fever after an illness of eleven days.
Richard married Mary Cooper some months after that.
One source said Richard was "compelled by failing health to withdraw from the Mission," and sailed for England.
Another source said Richard was badly burned in a gunpowder explosion, and died in England.
(Above info gleaned from Memorial Card in possession of Kathy Rose, Jane H. Barber, Obituary provided by Catherine Mey, and Joseph Yannielli)
Missionary of the P.E. Church at Cape Palmas, West Coast of Africa
Aged 34 years, 2 months
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Richard's first wife, Samantha A. Waters, was a fellow student at Oberlin College, Ohio. They sailed to Africa to join the Mendi Mission in November 1859, and she died at Mount Tappan, Africa, on March 16, 1860, of acclimating fever after an illness of eleven days.
Richard married Mary Cooper some months after that.
One source said Richard was "compelled by failing health to withdraw from the Mission," and sailed for England.
Another source said Richard was badly burned in a gunpowder explosion, and died in England.
(Above info gleaned from Memorial Card in possession of Kathy Rose, Jane H. Barber, Obituary provided by Catherine Mey, and Joseph Yannielli)
Aged 34 years, 2 months
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Richard's first wife, Samantha A. Waters, was a fellow student at Oberlin College, Ohio. They sailed to Africa to join the Mendi Mission in November 1859, and she died at Mount Tappan, Africa, on March 16, 1860, of acclimating fever after an illness of eleven days.
Richard married Mary Cooper some months after that.
One source said Richard was "compelled by failing health to withdraw from the Mission," and sailed for England.
Another source said Richard was badly burned in a gunpowder explosion, and died in England.
(Above info gleaned from Memorial Card in possession of Kathy Rose, Jane H. Barber, Obituary provided by Catherine Mey, and Joseph Yannielli)
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