Book Description

"Joseph Rich, [an English immigrant and] the first known American ancestor of our line, appears in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where he married Elizabeth Beeson (widow of Edward) in the year 1714/15." His descendant, Eri Rich, son of Joseph and Miriam Newby Rich, was born in 1840. He married Elizabeth Ann Davidson, daughter of Joseph and Cyrena White Davidson in 1861 in Grant County, Indiana. They had twelve children, 1862-1883. He died in 1915 at Fairmount, Indiana. Descendants lived in Indiana and elsewhere