John Rich was born in somewhere in New York in 1811, Mariah (surname?) was born in Vermont in 1815. Their three sons, Reuben, George and William were born in Livingston or Monroe County, NY. Between 1841 and 1850 they moved from Monroe County, NY to Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Between 1850 and 1860 John, Mariah, Reuben and William moved to Blissfield, Lenawee County. Reuben was in the Navy during the Civil War and William was in the Ohio Cavalry. John joined the Tracy Lodge Masons in 1865. He died in 1884 and Mariah in 1886. Both are buried in the Village Cemetery in Deerfield. Mariah is noted as illiterate in the 1850 census which may account for the name Mariar on her tombstone. Mary Godfrey was listed in the 1860 census and was Mary Rich in 1870. Was she adopted? She married Jonathan Cannon and died in 1940. William, wife Mary Jane, and five sons lived in Deerfield in 1880. William died in Toledo in 1919. My father, Clinton was born in Ridgeway Twp in 1900, and after his mother died in 1901 he was raised by his uncle Elbert and Emma Beach in Deerfield. I will write separately about the Beach family. Richard Rich