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I won't get too hung up on 1862 as the exact year of John's immigration. This was whatever he or his wife could remember when asked by the enumerator. An ancestor of mine reported his immigration as 1863 in the 1900 census. Two of his brothers reported it as 1862, although they actually came over at the same time on the same ship. Memories are fuzzy. It could have easily have been 1861 or even 1860.
Mary could have been pregnant when they married. Shot-gun weddings are as old as the hills and considering her age at the time it is very possible. If I'm not mistaken Mary's family had already moved to Missouri by 1860 so more than likely John and Mary married in Missouri.
You might try finding John's naturalization papers. It might give you some clues. He would have had to have lived in this country 5 years before filing for naturalization.In most states such papers are filed at the county level. I don't know if that is true of Missouri.
You might also try to find his obituary to find if he had any siblings particularly siblings that came over with him. If you are lucky it might also tell you when he came over and what port he came through (although you'll be lucky if it says little more than John Richards died last Thursday).
Without other data to help verify that you have the right John Richards in the passenger lists it will be very hard to find out when he came over since Richards is not an uncommon name.
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