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Harriet Melissa (Cutler) Richards. Born at Magnolia, February 2, 1870. Married Eugene C. Richards in Magnolia in November, 1894. Moved to Wyoming for a short time and had two children, Ada and Helen there. Then migrated to the Yakima Valley in Washington, where their son Kenneth was born. They were engaged in raising sheep and cattle for a number of years, then a fruit orchard. She died may 11 1933 and is buried in the family plot in Yakima.

Eugene Charles Richards. Born in Wyoming in 1861 and lived his early years in and around the Black Hills of Wyoming. Migrated west ot the Yakima Valley about three years after the were married. He died in 1948 and is buried in the family plot in Yakima.

Helen Eugenia Richards. Born in Wyoming April 10, 1898. Died in 1909 and is buried in the family plot in Yakima.

Kenneth H. Burton Richards. Born at Atanum, Washington on November 19, 1900, he continued in the sheep and cattle business started by his parents. Died in December, 1942. Interred in a mausoleum in Yakima.

Clara Ellen (Pielecke) Richards. Born in Oklahoma in 1905. Died in June1954. Buried in the family plot in Yakima.

Kenneth Eugene Richards. Born and died in 1926. Buried in Yakima.

Ada Lucille (Richards) Beam. Born September 1, 1896 at Crook County Wyoming. At age three came west to the Yakima Valley. On September 20. 1916 she married Robert Ray Beam and they had four children, three whom are still living. She and her husband Ray were responsible for starting the great fruit orchards in the Yakima Valley. She was a Past Matron of East Star. Died in December, 1964 and is buried in the family plot.

Robert Ray Beam, Sr. Born in Illinois in 1891, coming west to the Yakima Valley as a child. He was in the nursery business all his life. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Shriners, and Patron of Eastern Star. Died in October, 1949 and is buried in the family plot in Yakima.

John Leslie Beam. Born March 10, 1926 and died August 28, 1937. He is buried in the family plot in Yakima.

Dorothy Fay (Hamilton) Beam. Born at Yakima in 1915. Married Robert Ray Beam, Jr. In Septermber, 1941. Had three children. Died December 8,1966 and is buried in the family plot in Yakima.