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Submitted: 7/14/13 • Approved: 8/9/23 • Last Updated: 8/12/23 • R908018-G0-S3
April 13, 1837 - July 15, 1872
*Obituary
Fayetteville Democrat
Saturday, July 20, 1872
RICHARDS, C.M. - (from an item about the celebration at Bentonville on the occasion of the laying of the cornerstone at the Bentonville College) One circumstance we would mention here which cast an air of gloom over all the proceedings. The corpse of Rev. C.M. Richards, who had died on Monday near Cincinnati in Washington county, was brought home for interment and arrived on the morning of the 16th, the day of the celebration. Mr. Richards was pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Bentonville, a young man of fine accomplishments and unexceptionable piety. He was not only universally beloved but he had been one of the prime movers in getting up the enterprise, for the furtherance of which the day was set apart. The vast crowd attended at the funeral of Mr. Richards and thence proceeded to the College grounds where with the usual ceremonies the corner stone was laid.
Erected by the Ladies of the Bentonville Presbyterian Church in memory of their former Pastor.
Contributed on 7/14/13 by judyfrog
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