Thanks, Kent, for sending me this information! Marshall Neathery >Return-Path: <VAMECKLE-L-request@rootsweb.com> >Resent-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:35:11 -0800 (PST) >X-Sender: kbjrelam@mail.villagrove.com >Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 21:35:53 -0600 >Old-To: VAMECKLE-L@rootsweb.com >From: "Kent A. Elam, Jr." <kbjrelam@villagrove.com> >Subject: Re: [VAMECKLE] Re: Richardson surnames >Resent-Message-ID: <UOT1C.A.i5.uN4o4@bl-11.rootsweb.com> >To: VAMECKLE-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-From: VAMECKLE-L@rootsweb.com >Reply-To: VAMECKLE-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <VAMECKLE-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/830 >X-Loop: VAMECKLE-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-Sender: VAMECKLE-L-request@rootsweb.com > >Marshall, > >I was recently forwarded a copy of an old newspaper article from the "The >Tobacco Plant" (May 1861) listing some of the first recruits for "The >Clarksville Blues" which was E company of the 14th Virginia Infantry. One >J.T. Richardson is listed as a private. I know no more than this and you >must draw your own conclusions but thought you might like to know this. > >Kent Elam > > >At 11:03 PM 02/09/2000 -0500, you wrote: >>I am wondering if either John, Robert, William, George and James >>Richardson, all sons of William A. and Patience R. Richardson of >>Mecklenburg County, Virginia....ever lived in Vance County, North Carolina >>which is across the state line from Mecklenburg?? >> >>Robert and George Richardson, in particular, are names I have heard of in >>the Townsville area of northern Vance County. >> >>In the cemetery of the Nutbush Presbyterian Church, in the village of >>Townsville, there are the graves and a memorial stone for "George R. >>Richardson and Jenny Strum Richardson". This George Richardson was in the >>Confederate Army during the Civil War, possibly the 14th Va. Infantry! My >>father (deceased) remembered this man. >> >>A deceased first cousin of mine, Gracie Nethery, was married to Thomas C. >>Richardson (deceased also) of the Townsville area. They lived and died in >>Henderson, N. C., the county seat of Vance. One son, Tommy Richardson, >>lives in Henderson now. >> >>Thomas C.'s father was Robert Richardson, who was born in the 1880s. >> >>I would be interested in a return message, as to whether we are speaking of >>the same family...if you know that! >> >>Hope what I have written helps some. >> >> >>Marshall Neathery >> >> > >