NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11252 CHRISTIAN CO JAMES RICHARDSON Richardson, Ware, Sargeant, Gunn, Withers, Glass, Lea, Stanfield, Jameson, Estes, Buckner #11252 County of Christian, Kentucky; Historical and Biographical. Edited by William Henry Perrin. F. A. Battey Publishing Co., Chicago and Louisville, 1884. Pembroke District. JAMES RICHARDSON was born March 4, 1816, in Caswell County, N. C. His father, James Richardson, was born in Halifax County, Va., and there reared and educated. He was a farmer and merchant. He died in Caswell County, N. C., in June, 1826, and at that time was the owner of 1,200 acres of land. His wife and subjects mother, was Ann P. Ware, a native of Pittsylvania County, Va. She died on a train while en route to visit her children in 1881. After the death of Mr. Richardson, she married Stephen Sargeant. She was the mother of nine children; by her first marriage the following: W. W. Richardson; Susan P., widow of John Gunn, who resides in Alabama, James, our subject; Col. Edmond, the largest cotton-planter in the United States, who resides in New Orleans; Robert P., a farmer, merchant and tobacco manufacturer near Reedsville, N. C. Mary A., widow of Louis Withers, residing in New Orleans, Elizabeth, widow of Joshua Glass, residing in Caswell County, N. C.; and by her last marriage: Margaret D., widow of James A. Lea, residing in Salem, N. C., and Agnes, wife of Dr. Stanfield, of Caswell County, N. C. James Richardson, our subject, spent his early life in Virginia and there received a limited common school education. When he was sixteen years of age he left his home and embarked on his career in life as clerk in a store at Danville, Va., and continued in the same position for five years, and then turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, following farming on his own account near Danville until 1844, when he moved to Kentucky and settled on West Fork, in Todd County, where he bought his first land and remained there until 1849, when he moved to his present residence, one-half mile from Pembroke. His farm contains 400 acres. Since 1855, in connection with his farm he has been engaged in the tobacco and commission business, and is now connected with the firm of Richardson & Jameson, who do a large business. In 1837 Mr. Richardson was married in Pittsylvania County, Va., to Miss Sarah T. Estes, a native of that county. She died in Christian County, Ky., in 1855, leaving six children as the result of their union, viz.: Margaret A., Susan P. (who died in December, 1878), William B., Robert P., Triplet E. and Caroline T. In 1857, in Christian County, he married Martha U. Buckner, who has borne him the following children: Frank B., Anna, Mattie, Mary and Jennie. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson are members of the Baptist Church; he is an active member of the order A. F. & A. M. and is an ardent Democrat. He was Magistrate in the county for eight years, and is now Deputy County Clerk, having held the office for fifteen years. SCKY Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky Barren Co Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybarren Sandi's Website: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html