Rickard, John G.

Born: 1821-10-16 Fauquier County, Virginia

Died: 1913-01-20

Rickard moved with his parents to Sangamon County, Illinois, in 1830. In 1859, he married Elizabeth Broderick in Allen County, Kansas, with whom he had three children. He settled on a farm four miles west of Springfield, Illlinois. He was the brother of Noah Rickard.

Gravestone, Washunga Cemetry, Newkirk, OK; John Carroll Power and S. A. Power, History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois (Springfield, IL: Edwin A. Wilson, 1876), 613-14.