ALLEN COUNTY OHIO - OBIT: Byrd Richardson (d. 1834)
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BRYD RICHARDSON 

BRYD RICHARDSON was born in Montgomery County, Va., in 1807.  He married NANCY 
SMILES, and moved to Shelby County., Ohio in 1830 then moved to St Johns this 
county, in 1831. When they first came to St. Johns,  the Indians were still on 
their reservation. MRS RICHARDSOn tells us that she has stayed many nights in 
the cabin with the indians, shes has seen the stakes where it was said they 
tortured their prisoners.  The CHIEF BLACKFOOT was buried on MR. RICHARDSON's  
farm. All the white people she can remember living near St. Johns at the time 
was JAMES COLEMAN , HENRY PRINCEHOUSE and JOHN ROGERS.  The indians left for 
their western homes the ensuing year.  Mrs. RICHARDSON could relate many 
singular incidents connected with the early history, but had we the space to 
give them.  They moved to Union township in 1833; from there to Wayne township 
in the spring of 1834, built  a rail pen and lived in it for six months when 
moved into their house.  MR. RICHARDSON deid.
 
MRS. RICHARDSON still lives on the farm to which she first moved says her 
happiest days were those she spent among the indians and in the woods. She 
thinks the people were more honest and sociable.  She says her husband made 
rails for 25 cents per hundred, and boarded himself.