This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lMB.2ACI/2402.2.1.2 Message Board Post: Kristy: I spoke with Mother about the Richardsons. Right off she could not think of an Ernest James Richardson, or a Irene Sarah Reins Raines-Rhynes- RICHARDSON. I was hopeing that the names might ring a bell since Sarah and my Mother would be close in age. What she ASKED was did they live in "Bethany"? Since the Richardsons lived in "Bethany" which was called Bethany Community Church area but actually was a Babptist Chruch. "Bethany" was near POE and BIRNEY, in the DEXTER AREA. She says that the RICHARDSONS were mostly living in Pocahonas, Arkansas. That when they went to visit her Mother's Richardson "kin folk" they mostly lived in or near Pocahonas, ARK. Seemed that Dunklin Richardson settled in Kennet, Mo, and also later his son Earl Richardson was post master in Kennet. But after Dunklin Richardson got older and wife's died or left him, he returned to brothers and relatives in or near Pocahonas, ARK. Did not return to Mo until just before he died in Mo. in 1950. Mother lived in Valley Ridge, Valley Ridge had a train stop that her and her brother would ride the train to Kennet to visit with their Grandparents. My Daddy was from Four Mile. All of these towns or communities are considered part of Campbell area. Not much help for you, but sometimes Mother will think about names, and maybe she will call Venia in Campbell, and the two of them will start thinking about people. My Mother would have been close to Irene Sarah Raines-Richardson's age. Sharon Weaver .