Dear Judy, As a way of saying thanks for all your help and for all the help from the Maine census listers, a few limericks about my brick wall John Albert Richards (1865-1934). Have a wonderful holiday. Jeff Richards As birthplace John Richards claimed Maine -- to prove this is really a pain -- long vanished from sight, a clear case of flight he drives his descendants insane. A John Richards there was in Merced, who in Fresno was legally dead, a smithy by trade, this dashing young blade, is a mystery for the life that he led. John Albert from Maine as we know -- with that high-class send-off in Fresno -- sweet Gemma he left in the lurch -- they couldn't get married in church -- so his life long he had to lie low.