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February 28, 1842, and was the first white American born in the Pacific Northwest north of the Columbia River. He had a fourth child with America, John P, and possibly a fifth, Alice. America died sometime before 1859. Richmond remarried a woman named Kitty Grisby on October 18, 1859, and had three more daughters, America, Cora, and Corona.
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