Pg. 52 Richville. In the fall of 1859 David Henderson and Jonathan Hemmingway located the town of Richville. Mr. Henderson built the first house down by the creek below the present town. Thomas Rich brought his family there in April, 1861. John H. Rich, Gillispie Waldron and Solomon Corley came the same seasons. They at once set to work to plow and put thin crops in. Then they made an irrigation ditch (1861), and raised a crop that year. The place became a farming and stock raising community. Albert Dickson came in 1862 and his father and brothers came some time later. John Seamon, who was a brother-in-law of Jonathan Hemmingway, came very early also and was one of the first school teachers. Nearly all the first settlers of Richville came from Centerville. The first school house was erected in 1863. Mr. Thomas Rich was the first Presiding Elder in Richville and the town was named in his honor. His daughter, now Mrs. J. L. Weeldron of Morgan, was the first white child born in that Pg. 53 locality. John Seamon was the second Presiding Elder. Solomon Conley proposed the name of Richville for the settlement and it was incorporated as a town site. Mrs. Conley was a nurse and she did a lot of good for the people. About 1862 George W. Taggart of Salt Lake City, and two brothers, Morgan and Henry Hinman, of Farmington, Davis County, commenced the building of a grist mill in Richville. Owing to the difficulties in those days of obtaining the necessary materials it was not completed until 1864. The irrigation ditch, which the earlier settlers had made, was now enlarged into a mill-race.* About 1867 a little child of Baltyer Peterson was drowned in this stream. The body being caught against the grates of the mill. About 20 years after this another child, that of John Wovel, was drowned in this same ditch. Before the completion of this mill the people were dependent on the lower valleys for their flour, etc. At one time the high water destroyed the road through Devils Gate. The flour supply became exhausted and the people were reduced to extreme want. Not until the first of August was there an outlet made to the other valleys. At this time the people *Mr. Thomas Grover says that Brigham Young came to the valley before the mill was in operation, and after looking at it he said, “Brother Taggart, it won’t run. The draft is deaft is in dead water.” This proved to be true and the wheel had to be enlarged and sink deeper before it would run.