12 Facts About Levi Richards

Levi Richards was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Levi Richards was a member of the Council of Fifty and Anointed Quorum and served as a physician for movement founder Joseph Smith and others during the years the Latter Day Saints were established in Nauvoo, Illinois.

Levi Richards was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts and trained as a botanical physician.

Levi Richards joined the Church of the Latter Day Saints in 1836 and moved to Kirtland, Ohio to join the main gathering of Latter Day Saints.

In 1840, Levi Richards was still serving as a missionary in the British Mission.

Levi Richards married Sarah Griffith on December 25,1843, with Brigham Young performing the marriage.

Levi Richards served as a member of the Nauvoo City Council.

Levi Richards served another mission in Britain from 1848 to 1853 along with his wife.

For part of this mission, the Levi Richards served in Wales, which was where Sarah Griffith had been born.

For part of this time Levi Richards served as the general supervisor of missionary work in Wales, which for all intents and purposes made him the mission president in Wales.

Levi Richards lived for several years in downtown Salt Lake City on the block where Crossroads Plaza Mall was later built.

Levi Richards became a patriarch in the church in 1873, and died at Salt Lake City on June 18,1876.