Rebecca (Gaeke) Richards (1868 - 1940)

Born 2 Aug 1868 in Kingston Ont

Wife of Howard Richards — married 28 Mar 1883 in Kingston Ont

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Biography

Last name spelling is varied. In death cert it is Gaeke. In marriage reg'n it is Lake.

Howard Richards, age 22, of Amherst Island, born Amherst Island, bachelor, farmer. Parents; Howard and Nellie. married: Rebecca Lake, age 20, of Kingston, born Kingston, spinster. Parents; Samuel and Jane. Witnesses; George Rogers and Bella Fitzgerald. At St George’s Cathedral, Kingston on March 28, 1883. Groom, Church of England, bride, Baptist. Married by Henry Wilson, by license.

Deaths: RICHARDS – At the Kingston General Hospital on Monday August 5, 1940, Rebecca Gaeke, beloved wife of the late Howard Richards, Funeral will take place from her late residence, 339 Princess Street on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Interment at Cataraqui Cemetery

MRS. REBECCA RICHARDS The funeral of Mrs. Rebecca Richards who died at Kingston General Hospital on Monday was held from her residence, 339 Princess Street, Wednesday to Cataraqui Cemetery. Service was conducted by Rev. J. D. Mackenzie Naughton of St. James Church and the pall bearers were, John Burke, John Morton, Thomas Banks and Milton Compeau. Mrs. Richards who was eighty years of age, was born in Kingston and had lived here all her life. She was the widow of Howard Richards who died in ’30. She had been ill a year and a half. She was a member of St. James Church. Surviving are four sons, Hiram, Hippelete and Sandy at home, and Peter of Fortyfort, PA.

Sources

From the Kingston Whig Standard, Tuesday, 6 August 1940.

From the Kingston Whig Standard, Thursday 8 August, 1940.

• Ontario Archives, marriage registrations, RG80-MS932-42-3210 Kingston City.