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Show DETH OF FAMED i?B U i m u N rSOSlLLit SALT LAKE, Jan. S. Following an dB i'lness scarcely more than ten day a v."W from chronic pleuiisy, .Mm. Nannv Longsworth Richards, widow of Apo&-tle Apo&-tle Franklin D Richards, a hlstoiic figiro in tho Mormon church, dlcrl shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday nit-ernoon nit-ernoon at tho home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary A. Grover, SG7 First avenue. Mrs. Richards had been a member of tlj Mormon church as long as auy woman In Utah, being baptized Into the faith at Yorkshire, Eugland,e In 1S39. She was in her eighty-second !k li'a- Richards was born in Amcliff, dMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMl Yorkshire, England, April 15, 1S2S, of Stephen and Ann Gill Longstroth. Becoming Be-coming a member of the Mormon church In 1839, Mrs. Richards accompanied accom-panied her parents to America, leaving leav-ing Liverpool, February 5, 1842. The Journey by way of New Orleans proved unusually stormy. When the family arrived at Now Orleans more than a week overdue, passage was taken tak-en up tho Mississippi river to St Louis. The Longstroth family resided there for a period of two years, and then moved to Nauvoo, 111. On Janury 25, 184G, Mrs Richards was married to Willard Richards in the Nauvoo temple. Accompanied by her husband, sho crossed tho plains in 1S48, the year following the advent of tho original pioneors. Shortly after her arrival ln Salt Lake,' "Mrs. Richards Rich-ards and her family accompanied the pioneers south and settled In Prove August 4, 1860, she took up her home at Farmington, where she resided for thirty years, removing to NephI, January Jan-uary 1, 1891, where she lived with her daughter, Mrs. Mary A. iGrover, until 1904, when they removed to Salt Lake and took up their home at SC7 Frst avenue. |