Beaverhead County MT Archives Obituaries.....Wadams, Richard Marlin April 1914
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Anaconda Standard -- April 12, 1914
Dillon, April 1. -- Richard Marlin Wadams, a well-known old-timer of Beaverhead 
county, and probably the youngest white child to be brought into the West in 
the early days, died in Dillon this morning of heart failure after an attack of 
pneumonia, from which he had suffered since February.

The deceased was born at Wadams' Grove, Ill., in 1852, and moved with his 
parents to Montana in 1862. They located at Bannack, and Mr. Wadams' early life 
was spent in the ancient capital. When he grew to manhood he located on a ranch 
in the Red Rock valley, six miles east of Lima, where he had made his home ever 
since. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mary J. Wadams, and it was she who 
made the famous ride from Bannack through the Horse Prairie and Medicine Lodge 
country at the time of an Indian outbreak in the early days to warn othe 
residents of the coming of the redskins. This ride has gone down in the early 
history of Montana. Mr. Wadams was then but a boy, working in the hills when 
his mother rode 75 miles on a kentucky race horse to warn him of the impending 
danger. The deceased is also survived by three sisters and one brother.

The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at Lima.





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