Eunice Richardson married Ray Bird McKenzie in 1933.  He died in 1958.

Eunice Richardson McKenzie

30 October 1907 - 12 October 1991

Introduction by Steve Richardson

17 September 2022

  My dad was Milton E Richardson.  He frequently came to Utah, and often asked me to go with him to visit his aunt Eunice McKenzie, who was in a nursing home just 3 miles east from my home in Magna, Utah.  Eunice was the last child of Thomas and Eunice Richardson of Benjamin, Utah.  When his father was very sick, my dad had gone to live on the Richardson farm with his cousins for several years.

  I should have taken notes, but I do remember they had many detailed discussions about the history of the Richardson family.  My dad died in December of 1985, but on his last visit they worked through the story of Ellis Eames, who married her grandmother Sarah Haskell as a second wife, and moved his families to San Bernardino.  When he joined the Reorganized LDS Church, Ellis sent his second family back to Utah, where Sarah eventually married Shadrach Richardson. 

  After my dad died I realized that whatever it was he was looking for, hadn't yet been found.  I called my aunt Carol, his sister, and talked her into meeting me at the nursing home to talk to her Aunt Eunice.  I brought a tape recorder to multiple encounters, and later typed up a transcript using the word processor of my Texas Instruments 99/4A computer. 

  We visited Eunice about every month, but we stopped recording and making transcripts at the point where we thought she'd told us everything we thought we needed to know. 

  Years later, when I had upgraded to a PC, I devised a way to send the documents from the TI over a cable to be stored on the PC's hard drive, then moved on to other projects.

  Many years and computer upgrades later, my dad's cousin Pauline Richardson Ballif asked about the transcripts.  I found them stashed on the hard drive of an inactive computer in my basement, and after a lot of work to make the formatting acceptable, here they are.

  In 2006, Eunice's daughter LauraLee loaned me some old family photos to be scanned.  Click here to see them.

To begin reading the transcripts click here.

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