Hello all: I'll try and add data as condensed as I can. But isn't hard at the beginning of my Richardson as I have so little info on Samuel K. Richardson. I have over time researched so many of the Richardson in AR. from 1850 to present, and so often wondered how many could be related. As they all seem to come from the same general area. VA .into the Carolina's then into TN and on west to AR. I have often wondered what drew so many to AR in the 1850's. My Samuel moved there with a number of his fellow friends and in-laws from TN. All settling in Carroll / Boone and Benton CO. The County lines have changed since 1850. Samuel was born in GA. but census records read his parents were born in NC. Early 1750 or so even those boarders were not always what they read today. Samuel K had a brother Thomas L. Richardson born in 1808 GA. these brothers stay together thru-out their life time. Thomas married Frances Cates, also from Roane CO. TN. they moved to AR at the same time as Samuel and group. but Thomas lived in Boone, and Searcy Co. I found a Elder Thomas and a David Richardson living in Roane Co. TN close to Thomas L and Samuel in the 1820-30 and feel these are related to my Samuel and Thomas in some way. At the 1850 census of Roane CO. TN I found Michael Hassler and Agnes, parents of Samuel's 1st wife Jane and living with them is a four year old girl named Columbian Richardson. The 1850 census of Gordon Co. GA. lists Samuel and 2nd wife Elizabeth Jane Harvey with the four children of Samuel and Jane Hassler and Samuel's & Elizabeth's new daughter M. Cornelia b. 1849 GA. I have assumed (not proven) this 4 year old girl is the last child of Samuel and Jane's ( might possible be a child Jane died in child birth with.) by the 1860 Census Samuel and Elizabeth Jane are in Carroll CO. AR. with their 4 by that time, children. but not any of Samuel's children by Jane Hassler. A Leroy Richardson later appears in Carroll Co. AR. who I have assumed may be Samuel's son but not proven. But by 1860 the older children of Samuel and Jane Hassler would all have been in their 20'sand possibly married. I have not been able to find any of these Richardson Girls in TN or in AR. I'm sure when Samuel moved to Carroll CO. AR. in 1853 these older children may have moved to Roane Co. TN where they would stay with their Grandparents Hassler ( Michael Hassler died in 1853 ) ! Leaving Agnes a widow with a then 7 year old girl (possible grand-daughter) it would be likely the older girls would be there to help raise this child. Evaline the oldest would have been ca 19years old. It has always be such a hope of mine to find these older Richardson girls and their descendents it would sure answer a lot of questions for my family line. Thanks so much to all of you... I some times think if we all got our lines in order we might learn some of those AR. Richardson were related. Margrett "Richardson" McCorkle "Spokane, WA." Margrett McCorkle State Coordinator Washington GenExchange http://www.genexchange.org/state.php?state-wa County Coordinator Carroll County, Arkansas http://www.genexchange.org/county.php?state=ar&county=carroll