Cindy, I read your E-mail about 10:00 A. M. this morning. Here are some thoughts. I looked in the "The Cemeteries of Old Sumter DIstrict Vol II" for anything to help you. I couldn't find anything. I started thinking. Take this for what it is, my thoughts. There was a James Burchell Richardson (1), whose father was General Richard Richardson (2), of American Revolution fame, whose father was Richardson (3). Richardson (3) married a ???? Burchell. General Richard Richardson (2) passed his mothers name to one of his sons. James Burchell Richardson (1) (1770-1836) became the fourteenth state governor of South Carolina, 1802-1804. Now here goes some of the neatest information I have run across. That James Burchell Richardson (1) had a brother named John Peter Richardson I. John Peter I had a daughter names Elizabeth Peyre Richardson. This is the neat part. Elizabeth was the niece of a governor, James Burchell Richardson (1). She was the sister of a governor, John Peter Richardson II. She was the wife of a governor, Richard Irvine Manning. She was the mother of a governor John Laurence Manning. She was the aunt of a governor, John Peter Richardson III. She was the grandmother of a governor, Richard Irvine Manning. I'm telling you all of this to say that just maybe your ancestors named someone Burchill or Burchull because they liked the name and they got it from a very politically powerful family at the time. I have noticed that people would name their children after especially famous military people, like Francis Marion, or Wade Hampton. Do you understand what I am saying? Now I have no way of knowing that any of this is true. I will be watching for a White, James White or Alfred Burchill White while I am watching for other names. Tell me what you think. This is all in the right time frame. Burchill was passed on to others in this Richardson family. It has been passed on to as late as a Henry Burchell "Punch" Richardson who died around 12 May 1997 and was born on 15 Oct 1916. Henry Burchell "Punch" Richardson's obit says that he is survived by two sons, one being Henry B. Richardson Jr. of Sumter. Guess what his middle name is? Will be waiting to hear from you. Jackie