. Genealogical and personal history of Fayette county, Pennsylvania. led todivide the state of Virginia, and was so usefuland influential that at his death. November 21,1867, it was said in the Ulieelino; Intcllii:;cnccr:No man in West \^irginia will be more widelymissed or made greater sacrifice for the causewhich he espoused. He married Laverna and left issue. (II) David, second son of James Richey,was born in 1809 in Connellsville, Pennsyl-vania. He was a mine worker and lived in Al-legheny, Westmoreland and Fayette was a Democrat and a Baptist. He mar-ried Sophia Eiche
. Genealogical and personal history of Fayette county, Pennsylvania. led todivide the state of Virginia, and was so usefuland influential that at his death. November 21,1867, it was said in the Ulieelino; Intcllii:;cnccr:No man in West \^irginia will be more widelymissed or made greater sacrifice for the causewhich he espoused. He married Laverna and left issue. (II) David, second son of James Richey,was born in 1809 in Connellsville, Pennsyl-vania. He was a mine worker and lived in Al-legheny, Westmoreland and Fayette was a Democrat and a Baptist. He mar-ried Sophia Eicher, born in Westmorelandcounty, Pennsylvania, daughter of John Eicher,a farmer of that county. Children of DavidPichey: Hiram; lohn J., of whom further;Mary, married James Latimer, of Fayettecounty; Margaret Jane, married James Echard,of Connellsville; Joseph, of near Connellsville;Francis Marion, a carpenter of near Pennsville,Fayette county; James and Maria, both died ininfancy. (III) John J., second son of David and So-phia (Eicher) Richey, was born in Connells-. /// .-///^/y^ • ??? 1233379 FAYETTE COUNTY 329 ville, Pennsylvania, March 4, 1839. He waseducated in the pubHc school, and in early lifelived principally on a farm. He continuedfarming as an occupation, working for othersuntil 1887, when he bought a farm of one hun-dred and twenty-eight acres in Bullskin town-ship, upon which he has since successfully con-ducted a line of general farming. In politicshe is a Democrat and active in township af-fairs, having served as road supervisor forseven years and as school director. He enlist-ed, in 1862, in Company F, i68th Regiment,Pennsylvania Infantry, for nine months, at theexpiration of which time he was honorably dis-charged. He married (first) jMelvina Hutchinson,born in Fayette county, daughter of WilliamHutchinson, an old settler of the county. Hemarried (second) a widow, Mrs. Christina(Rist) Sharp, died in 1900, daughter of Peterand Sarah (Galley) Rist. Children of fi
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