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M. V. B. Richards: "I am amused to hear people discourse on the subject of hard times. When I recall the privation experienced in this section when my father's family settled here in 1856, I have to think that we are living in clover with few drawbacks to contend with. It was the days of state, or "wild cat banks", when a man was not safe in keeping a dollar in his possession over night for fear it would become worthless or depreciate in value. Now, when a man has a dollars he knows that it is as sounds as every other dollar and it will buy any commodity that is essential to life, happiness and comfort. Farmers were obliged to haul their products from thirty to one hundred miles to find a market ruling prices were little more than a third what they are today. I taught a school at Yankeetown, in Crawford county, in the winter of 1857, and when I had finished the board, to do its very best, could raise only ten dollars to pay on my accumulated salary. Those were hard times, indeed, and our present generation has experienced nothing but universal prosperity.
Dec 18, 1907 - Vernon County Censor
Vernon County Museum, Viroqua, Wisconsin [19JUN2019]
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MARTIN VAN BUREN RICHARDS
After a noble record covering a period of over four years of Civil war strife the subject of this obituary notice received his honorable discharge hospital and battle duty of those days. On March 8th, 1922, after fighting the general buttles [battles] of life most faithfully for more than eighty years the Great Commander-in-Chief of Heaven and Earth gave the order to “Lay down arms” and Martin VanBuren Richards obeyed the summons and is now resting from his long and valent serve to his country, his family and his God. Mr. Richards was born May 3, 1840, in Cubs [Cuba], New York. He came to Wisconsin in 1856 and a year later became actively identified with the Methodist Episcopal church and was ever after ambitious in the performance of those duties which brought uplift and betterment to those about him. In July, 1862, he enlisted in Co. A 25th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers and was discharged on account of sickness in Sept. 1863, but in Sept. 1864 he re-enlisted, this time in Co. I. 42nd Regiment and received an honorable final discharge on June 11, 1865. Before enlisting the second time Mr. Richards was united in marriage to Eliza D. Turner of Viola, Wis., on August 28, 1864. At the close of the war the family lived at Viola until the year 1892, when they moved to Viroqua, Wis. Since the death of Mrs. Richard in 1916, Mr. Richards has lived most of the time at Mineral Point with his daughter, Mrs. W. J. Kelly. Two other children also survive, Mrs. F. W. Boehemer of Kansas City, Mo., and Jerre [Jerry] T. Richards of Cleveland, Ohio. Seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren are also number with the bereaved. Mr. Richards had been ailing for many years, due to the perienced while a soldier during the Civil war. Mr. Richards was present at the siege of Vicksburg and also at the Siouz Indian upriasing in Minnesota during the chief Little Crow rebellion and later he was called in as surgeons assistant in the soldiers’ hospital at Mankato, Minn. Mr. Richards was a man of wide information and experience and a pleasure to meet at all times. Brief funeral services were held from the W. J. Kelly home early Friday morning, Rev. A. H. Schoenfeld officiating. The remains were then taken by train to Viroqua where on Saturday afternoon at the Methodist church the final services were held, conducted by the Rev. E. Harris. Interment was in the Viroqua cemetery.
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Vernon County Museum, Viroqua, Wisconsin [19JUN2019]
M. V. B. Richards: "I am amused to hear people discourse on the subject of hard times. When I recall the privation experienced in this section when my father's family settled here in 1856, I have to think that we are living in clover with few drawbacks to contend with. It was the days of state, or "wild cat banks", when a man was not safe in keeping a dollar in his possession over night for fear it would become worthless or depreciate in value. Now, when a man has a dollars he knows that it is as sounds as every other dollar and it will buy any commodity that is essential to life, happiness and comfort. Farmers were obliged to haul their products from thirty to one hundred miles to find a market ruling prices were little more than a third what they are today. I taught a school at Yankeetown, in Crawford county, in the winter of 1857, and when I had finished the board, to do its very best, could raise only ten dollars to pay on my accumulated salary. Those were hard times, indeed, and our present generation has experienced nothing but universal prosperity.
Dec 18, 1907 - Vernon County Censor
Vernon County Museum, Viroqua, Wisconsin [19JUN2019]
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MARTIN VAN BUREN RICHARDS
After a noble record covering a period of over four years of Civil war strife the subject of this obituary notice received his honorable discharge hospital and battle duty of those days. On March 8th, 1922, after fighting the general buttles [battles] of life most faithfully for more than eighty years the Great Commander-in-Chief of Heaven and Earth gave the order to “Lay down arms” and Martin VanBuren Richards obeyed the summons and is now resting from his long and valent serve to his country, his family and his God. Mr. Richards was born May 3, 1840, in Cubs [Cuba], New York. He came to Wisconsin in 1856 and a year later became actively identified with the Methodist Episcopal church and was ever after ambitious in the performance of those duties which brought uplift and betterment to those about him. In July, 1862, he enlisted in Co. A 25th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers and was discharged on account of sickness in Sept. 1863, but in Sept. 1864 he re-enlisted, this time in Co. I. 42nd Regiment and received an honorable final discharge on June 11, 1865. Before enlisting the second time Mr. Richards was united in marriage to Eliza D. Turner of Viola, Wis., on August 28, 1864. At the close of the war the family lived at Viola until the year 1892, when they moved to Viroqua, Wis. Since the death of Mrs. Richard in 1916, Mr. Richards has lived most of the time at Mineral Point with his daughter, Mrs. W. J. Kelly. Two other children also survive, Mrs. F. W. Boehemer of Kansas City, Mo., and Jerre [Jerry] T. Richards of Cleveland, Ohio. Seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren are also number with the bereaved. Mr. Richards had been ailing for many years, due to the perienced while a soldier during the Civil war. Mr. Richards was present at the siege of Vicksburg and also at the Siouz Indian upriasing in Minnesota during the chief Little Crow rebellion and later he was called in as surgeons assistant in the soldiers’ hospital at Mankato, Minn. Mr. Richards was a man of wide information and experience and a pleasure to meet at all times. Brief funeral services were held from the W. J. Kelly home early Friday morning, Rev. A. H. Schoenfeld officiating. The remains were then taken by train to Viroqua where on Saturday afternoon at the Methodist church the final services were held, conducted by the Rev. E. Harris. Interment was in the Viroqua cemetery.
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Vernon County Museum, Viroqua, Wisconsin [19JUN2019]
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1840 - 1922 (81 years)