Re: Clarissa Lyman Richards
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Re: Clarissa Lyman Richards
David Richards 8/16/13
I believe that this listing [Find A Grave Memorial # 8129388] claiming that Clarissa is buried with her husband William in Hawaii, is in error.Their grandson (a lawyer, who surely would have been careful with his facts) published a biography of William in which he states:"His widow returned to the United States and lived in New Haven until her death in 1861."[Williston, Samuel:WILLIAM RICHARDS.Cambridge, Mass., Privately Printed, 1938, p. 88.]She had returned to the United States where her surviving children were.
It seems to me very unlikely that her body would have been shipped all the way back to Hawaii in 1861.
I will investigate further into this matter, but I do believe that she most likely is buried in New Haven.