Louisa Emiline Richins was born October 24, 1882, in Grouse Creek, Box Elder County, Utah a daughter of Albert Francis and Mary Jane Jones Richins.

In the fall of 1879, her father, A.F. Richins and several families moved up on the flat near Cook’s dam. They wanted to be close together where their children could go to school and where they could gather together in church, all the settlers being members of the LDS church. A ward was organized and a one-room schoolhouse was built, about where the old Hadfield house now stands. Annie and Louisa were born while the family lived there.

In the spring of 1884, the family moved back on their farms, and that year they raised good crops and gardens. Albert raised 1,300 bushels of oats and wheat that year. One day while Albert and others were cutting and binding the grain one man was heard to say, “I’m going to Salt Lake and take this land. Richins cannot hold it. He is not a citizen, and he has no papers to show that he can hold it.” So, while the other men were eating their dinner, her father borrowed a horse from William Paskett and rode to Terrace. There he borrowed $30.00 from S. H. Cave and went to Salt Lake City and took out his citizenship papers and secured his land the same day.

She was reared and educated in Grouse Creek, Utah.

Her brothers and sisters are: Albert Sidney, Eliza Harriet, George Robert, Annie Jane, William Alma, Wilford Francis, Orson Chester, Joseph Ether, Newell, Wellington Irvin, Orita Ellen and Nola Mary.

In 1889, there was a typhoid fever epidemic in Grouse Creek. Louisa, who was just 17, became fatally ill with the dread disease and died on October 11, 1899. Her brother Ether was also severely ill for three months with the same dread disease.

She is buried in the Grouse Creek Cemetery.