8/11/1870 Lake Twp, Newton Co, IN, PO Momence, IL. The censusrecorde d Richard at 55 years of age, a farmer with property worth$3500/500. W ife Sarah was 50 and their children were William, 12,Alma, 12, and Liv ingston, 6. Also living there was farm laborer,John James, 21.
In "Newton County", John Ade reported the town of Lake Village waslaid o ut, by Richard Malone, on 1 January 1876.
6/2/1880 Same place. That year the census taker listed Richard, 67,a s a retired farmer. Sarrah was 50 (should be 60) and all threechildre n were still at home: sons William, 32, a farm laborer, andLivingston , 15; daughter Alma Lamb, 21, with daughter Bertha, 6.(Where was her h usband?) Next door was Sally's widowed sister,Mariah Kight and family .
