San Diego County CA Archives Obituaries.....Richards, Harriett Bartlett Jarvis 1909
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San Diego Union; April 16, 1909
OF COLONIAL DESCENT

Mrs. Harriett Bartlett Jarvis Richards Passes Away at Coronado Home

With the death of Harriet Bartlett Jarvis Richards, a woman known not only by 
her many
acts of kindness, but also by her loveable disposition, the community loses one 
of its
most esteemed residents.
	Mrs. Richards died at the home of her son, Bartlett Richards, in 
Coronado,
Wednesday evening, the end came peacefully.
	A resident of Coronado for six years, her death will come as a severe 
blow to the 
host of friends and acquaintances. Despite the ripe old age that she had 
attained, the  
deceased was still active until only a few days before her demise. About a week 
before 
her death, in spite of being in her ninety-first year, Mrs. Richards came to 
San Diego and 
attended to shopping. Her general health to the last was of the best and death 
was only 
occasioned by old age.
	Harriet Bartlett Jarvis Richards was born in Weathersfield, Vt., in 
1820. Her 
grandfather was a friend and contemporary in Boston of John Adams and John 
Hancock at
 the time of the America revolution, and is buried in historic old Copley 
Cemetery in 
Tremont street, Boston
	Her father was William Jarvis, born in Boston, and who served under 
Jefferson and 
Madison as charge de affairs in Lisbon and Madrid during Napoleon the Great’s 
invasion of  
Spain under the leadership of his brother, Joseph Napoleon.
	William Jarvis was a wealthy ship owner and crossed the Atlantic in his 
own ships 
nineteen times, in the early part of the last century, and was the first 
importer into the 
United States of the Spanish Merino sheep, a large part of which he took to his 
estate at 
Weatherfield. This was the inception of the wool industry in the United States, 
which was 
fostered and encouraged by the influence of Presidents Madison and Jefferson,
	Mrs. Richards maternal grandfather was Bailey Bartlett, for thirty 
years the lord 
high sheriff (the title at the time of a supreme judge) of Essex county, Mass., 
of which 
Haverhill, his home, was the seat. He was made a member from Massachusetts of 
the first 
constitutional congress and hid wife, Peggy Bartlett, was one of the great 
beauties of the 
day. Her daughter Ann, Madam Richards mother, was the type of sweet, dignified, 
charming 
womanhood one likes to look back to as grandmothers, the product of old 
colonial days.
	Her brother, Major Charles Jarvis gave his life for his country in the 
war of the 
rebellion. Her cousin, William Francis Bartlett, the youngest general in the 
northern army, 
lived to be elected lieutenant governor of Massachusetts.

Marries Minister
	In 1843 Mrs. Richards was married at the home of her father, William 
Jarvis, at 
Weathersfield, Windsor county, Vermont, to the Rev. j. Deforrest Richards, a 
Congregational 
clergyman, a highly educated man and scholar of rare attainments. They lived 
some years at 
Charlestown, N.H. and Weathersfield, Vermont, and since then during her long 
life Mrs. Richards 
has lived in Ohio, Michigan and Alabama, where the death of her husband 
occurred. She then took 
her family to Hanover, N.H., where her second son, Jarvis, took his degree at 
Dartmouth college, 
where his father had also graduated. She then went to Andover, Mass., where she 
remained while 
her son, Bartlett, completed his course through Phillips academy, and her 
daughter, Margaret 
(afterwards, Mrs. Stocks Miller), graduated from Bradford academy, Bradford, 
Mass., opposite 
Haverhill, where her great aunts had also attended in 1802.
	Her oldest son, DeForrest, came west and served as governor of Wyoming 
for four years, 
was then reelected and while serving his second term his death occurred.
	For the last six years Mrs. Richards had made her home with her son, 
Bartlett Richards, 
at Coronado where she died just as the sun dropped into the Pacific behind 
Point Loma, on April 14. 
Her chamber looking out over the waves, scarcely a hundred feet away, was a 
fitting place for her 
spirit to take flight after ninety years ladened with good deeds and kindness 
to all, sympathy to 
the distressed, and a hand reaching always toward the disconsolate and the 
needy.

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