Caldwell County MO Archives History .....THE RICHEY FAMILY OF RICHEY MILL AT SALEM 1833 
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THE RICHEY FAMILY OF RICHEY MILL AT SALEM 1833
	Narrator:  J.L. Richey, 85, of Lamoni, Iowa

     The Richey family is connected with the very early history of Caldwell 
County, back of the Mormon days.  J.L. Richey, now of Lamoni, Iowa but once a 
resident of the county near Kingston, was so interested in our project that he 
gave us an interview in a letter.
     "I was born one mile south of Kingston Feb. 12, 1849.  The Richeys came 
there in 1833 and Samuel Richey, my grandfather, had the leading part in 
founding the town of Salem.  There were three of the Richey ancestors in the 
Revolutionary War but a fire destroyed the records.
     My grandfather Richey had a large family as men did those days and all 
worked hard in his mill, which was a pull-around type.  The burrs of this mill 
are in McClelland cemetery.  My Aunt Mary married Dan Baker.  My father, Robt. 
Richey, married a Smith.  They came in with the Mormons and I followed my 
mother's religion.  The Richey's were Presbyterians.  My mother's sister 
Martha Smith Seeley was the first white child born in Caldwell County.  When 
most of the Mormons left the country after the Mormon troubles, ten families 
stayed in the western part of the county.  The Seeley family, my mother's 
family and the Snider family were some.  About 1862, the Richey family moved 
to Iowa to avoid further trouble with Federal militia.  My uncles had already 
been killed.  It was no wonder we moved.  Some of the early Richeys are buried 
in the old Salem graveyard."
     Mr. Richey was well known in his youth here as a trapper and hunter and 
still wears his hair shoulder length.  Within recent years, he built a boat 
and rowed it down from Iowa to near Hamilton.
     Interviewed  February 1934.


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