I had in my notes the following, I think I got this information about a year ago. I thought your name was familiar! <G> The following information was received from Willie R. Beaty From the Autobiography of A. B Wright, a circuit-riding Methodist preacher who wrote in his journal events that were occurring during this time. On pp. 44-45: "On the cold evening of October 24th [1862], Tinker Beatty, with about one hundred men, made a raid through our settlement, and killed, at the Poore place near us, a Confederate soldier named Milligan, and fatally wounded another, Henry Richardson. On that night a snow one foot deep fell." I read somewhere another version where he was killed in front of his wife, that Henry made it home and was recuperating from wounds from a battle??? And that his son Oscar was only a few months old at the time, and so his wife changed Oscar's name to Henry Oscar in memory of her dead husband. I am looking for that record to see where it came from. Gina ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willie R Beaty" <wbeaty@twlakes.net> To: <TNPICKET-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 9:55 PM Subject: Re: [TNPICKET-L] Tompkins Cemetery > Gina, > > In A. B. Wright's Autobiography, published by his son, Rev. Wright states, > on page 48: > "In January of this year (1864) one-half mile from my home in a battle > between some of Beatty's and Ferguson's men, Hiram Richardson, John Smith > and Thomas Riley, Confederates, were killed." > > Is this Hiram Richardson perhaps Henry H. Richardson? > > Willie