-----Original Message----- From: J. Marshall Neathery <jmneathery1969@mindspring.com> To: VAMECKLE-L@rootsweb.com <VAMECKLE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, February 10, 2000 10:33 PM Subject: Re: [VAMECKLE] Re: Richardson surnames >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 >>> >>> >> >> > >