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Descendants of JONATHAN RICHARDSON


14. PASCAEL3 RICHARDSON (JOSEPH2, JONATHAN1) was born Abt. 1799 in North Carolina, and died Bef. 1840 in North Carolina. He married NANCY BARNES Abt. 1815 in North Carolina, daughter of CHELSEY BARNES and MARY MEANS. She was born August 6, 1798 in North Carolina, and died Deceased.

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ASCAEL RICHARDSON:
Rockingham Co., NC History, published abt 1976
Joseph Richardson Family #894
Paschael Richardson apparently died young. He is on the 1820 census for Rockingham Co., by the time of the 1830 census he is not shown, Nancy, apparently a widow was living the the home of her father Chesley Barnes.
     
Children of P
ASCAEL RICHARDSON and NANCY BARNES are:
  i.   NANCY4 RICHARDSON, b. Abt. 1816, North Carolina; d. Deceased.
  ii.   JOSEPH RICHARDSON, b. 1819, North Carolina; d. Deceased.


15. ANN3 RICHARDSON (WILLIAM2, JONATHAN1) was born Abt. 1774 in Bedford, Virginia, and died Deceased. She married DAVID LAWSON August 4, 1788 in Lincoln, Kentucky. He was born Bef. 1771 in Virginia, and died Deceased.
     
Child of A
NN RICHARDSON and DAVID LAWSON is:
  i.   LAURA4 LAWSON, b. Aft. 1812, Kentucky; d. Deceased; m. JONATHAN RICHARDSON, January 13, 1832, Hardin, Kentucky; b. Abt. 1811, Hardin, Kentucky; d. Deceased.


16. AMOS3 RICHARDSON (WILLIAM2, JONATHAN1) was born Abt. 1780 in Pulaski, Kentucky, and died August 9, 1838 in Hardin, Kentucky. He married (1) SALLY MORRISON April 11, 1798 in Lincoln, Kentucky. She was born Bef. 1838 in Hardin, Kentucky, and died Deceased. He married (2) FRANCES JONES October 19, 1818 in Hardin, Kentucky. She was born Abt. 1787, and died Deceased.

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MOS RICHARDSON:
Notes for Amos Richardson b. abt 1870

, MORNING ADVOCATE, Baton Rouge, La., July 26, 1988 by Jack Smith. Titled "Where there's a will, there are ways"
In writing about a Kentucky farmer who died in 1840, two years after leaving a written will cutting off his second wife without a penny if she remarried, I expressed my disapproval of the fellow's post-mortem meanness.
He had had 12 children by his first wife, and after she had died, not surprisingly, he had taken a second (at least), whom he evidently wished to remain mateless after his passing.
The man was Amos Richardson, who also made sure that his half-brother, Thomas, would no longer live under his roof, stating that he "should take the young filly as his own property that he now claims and get another home."
I inferred from this provision that the half-brother was not only a free loader, but could not be trusted alone with the widow. In one stroke Richardson deprived him of his lodging and his quarry.
Richardson further provided that if Mrs. Richardson were to remarry, everything should be sold and the estate divided among the 12 children. Amos also left $15 each to his two youngest daughters to be paid when they married or became 21.
Richardson's great-great-great granddaughter, Suzanne Johnson LeVonian, had sent me a portion of the will mainly because of it's almost poetically bucolic language. It read, in part:
"I do will and bequeath to my loved wife, Frances, all my home farm and that part of my barren outfield that lies on the left hand side of the old peach orchard and well...One yoke of oxen known by the name of Buck and Jack, three milk cows known by the name of Cleverny, Whiteback and Susan's heifer, all my sheep ...two breeding sows...225 dozen bundles of oats, also the three stacks of hay that is now in stack. Also one stack of flax which is now rated and standing in my meadow."
Because Richardson was illiterate, the will was evidently written by a professional calligrapher and singed (sic) with an X.
Perhaps reflecting the more liberal customs of today, I commented: "Evidently Amos expected that his wife's wealth would more than compensate her for a loveless future, and, he calculated, no doubt, that without her wealth she would not be that attractive to a suitor. How like a man that he did not want her to know the joys and comforts of a second spouse, as he had. I hope she rode off on that filly with her brother-in-law."
"Could it have been possible," writes Annette Norris, "that this man simply did not want another man to take charge of those assets which should rightfully go to his children and not to some other man's relatives?
"Could it also have been possible that this second wife was much younger than he and very beautiful, and thus he feared that she would remarry and his assets might fall into the wrong hands?"
"Without the provisions in his will," writes J. Richard Bowersox, "it was possible that Frances may not have received the cows, oxen, sheep, pigs, oats, flax and other property, and the estate would have either passed to the eldest son or the freeloading half-brother, and Frances and the children could end up in the road with nothing but their clothes. This would not have been a unusual event 150 years age...To condemn a man 150 years after the fact for caring about his family is shameful."
Gene and Dorothy Blake complain that I assumed Richardson had two wives because one could hardly have borne him 12 children. No, Mrs. LoVonian wrote that the wife Richardson named in the will (Frances) "was at least his second." She confirms that all 12 children were by his first wife.
Since then, Mrs. LeVoian has done some research and found Frances Richardson's name on an 1850 Hardin County census. She was at that time 63 years old and had a worth of $1,000. Two of the children still lived with her. Evidently the half-brother was gone.
That means Frances Richardson would have been 53 when Richardson died; no spring chicken, but young enough to enjoy a second marriage.
She might have had more fun if she had left the house to the children and ridden off with the brother-in-law. With makeup, Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson would be perfect for the parts.
(C) 1988, Los Angeles Times
     
Children of A
MOS RICHARDSON and SALLY MORRISON are:
46. i.   ELIZABETH4 RICHARDSON, b. February 10, 1799, Lincoln, Kentucky; d. Deceased.
47. ii.   WILLIAM J. RICHARDSON, b. Abt. 1801, Lincoln, Kentucky; d. Deceased.
48. iii.   JESSE RICHARDSON, b. Abt. 1803, Kentucky; d. Deceased, Henry, Missouri.
49. iv.   DANIEL LAMPTON RICHARDSON, b. February 10, 1804, Kentucky; d. June 23, 1880, Hardin, Kentucky.
50. v.   MARY POLLY RICHARDSON, b. Abt. 1805, Kentucky; d. September 23, 1852, Hardin, Kentucky.
51. vi.   ISAAC S. RICHARDSON, b. Abt. 1808, Kentucky; d. Deceased.
  vii.   SALLY RICHARDSON, b. Abt. 1809, Hardin, Kentucky; d. Deceased; m. JAMES POPHAM, June 1, 1838, Hardin, Kentucky; d. Deceased.
52. viii.   ISREAL S. RICHARDSON, b. Abt. 1812, Kentucky; d. Bef. 1842, Hardin, Kentucky.
  ix.   NANCY RICHARDSON, b. Abt. 1813, Lincoln, Kentucky; d. Deceased; m. WILLIAM RUSSELL, November 19, 1831, Hardin, Kentucky; b. Bef. 1811, Kentucky; d. Deceased.
  x.   ELIZA RICHARDSON, b. Abt. 1815, Kentucky; d. Deceased; m. HARRISON DAUGHERTY, December 9, 1833, Hardin, Kentucky; d. Deceased.
     
Children of AMOS RICHARDSON and FRANCES JONES are:
  xi.   SUSAN4 RICHARDSON, b. Abt. 1819, Kentucky; d. April 1, 1882; m. SENIX LAWSON, December 21, 1846, Hardin, Kentucky; b. Kentucky; d. May 12, 1877, Hardin, Kentucky.
  xii.   RUTHY RICHARDSON, b. Abt. 1825, Hardin, Kentucky; d. Deceased.


17. ISRAEL3 RICHARDSON (WILLIAM2, JONATHAN1) was born Abt. 1791 in Pulaski, Kentucky, and died Deceased. He married SARAH 'SALLY" HICKS March 3, 1810 in Hardin, Kentucky. She was born Abt. 1792 in Kentucky, and died Deceased.

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SRAEL RICHARDSON:
Notes on Israel Richardson b. abt.1791
Frank Richardson email info:
Lessa:
Here is some info on the Summit, KY Richardsons. Israel Richardson, son
of William Richardson and Susana English, was living somewhere in Hardin
County, KY and moved to an area half-way between Elizabethtown and
Leitchfield (Hardin Co) in 1840. This would have been a virgin
wilderness at that time. He brought his wife, Sarah Hicks and 14 year
old son Jackson with him, and they remained there the rest of their
lives. When the Illinois Central Railroad came through in 1850, this was
said to be the high point on the line, hence the name Summit.
      Jackson Richardson and Matilda Nichols had several children, one
of whom was my paternal grandfather, born in 1863 in the midst of the
civil war and named Abraham Lincoln Richardson. This leaves me with no
doubt as to where Jackson and Matilda's loyalties were during that
conflict. I believe they are burried in the Richardson family cemetary
at Summit.
      Grandpa Abe married Lydia Bratcher and they had seven children,
all born at Summit. Edward and Lenora died in infancy. Everett died in
Brokston IN in 1968 and is burried there. Herbert died in 1943 in
Louisville, KY and is burried in the Richardson family cemetary in
Summit. Lena Mae died in Los Angeles, CA in 1980 and was cremated there.
Ruby died in 1994 in Orlando, FL and is burried there. Dad, Roscoe
Hamilton Richardson was the youngest of these siblings and the last to
die. I had him in a nursing home here and so he died in 1995 in Brenham,
TX. He and my Mother, Jeanette Ashlock, are burried in the Methodist
church cemetary in Summit, KY. Grampa Abe died in 1926. Grama Lydia
died in 1949. They are burried at the Richardson family cemetary.
      I, Roscoe Franklin Richardson, was born at Summit, KY on Jan. 21,
1940 in the same house where Dad was born 30 years earlier. My son Curt
A. Richardson is adopted and lives in Manchester, TN.
      My aunts, Ruby and Lena Mae married late in life and had no
children. My uncles Everett, and Herbert have living descendents.
      I hope you find something worthwhile amongst the rambling.
Frank Richardson
     
Children of I
SRAEL RICHARDSON and SARAH HICKS are:
53. i.   MARY (POLLY)4 RICHARDSON, b. Kentucky; d. Deceased.
  ii.   JONATHAN RICHARDSON, b. Abt. 1811, Hardin, Kentucky; d. Deceased; m. LAURA LAWSON, January 13, 1832, Hardin, Kentucky; b. Aft. 1812, Kentucky; d. Deceased.
54. iii.   G. WASHINGTON RICHARDSON, b. April 21, 1816, Kentucky; d. September 7, 1875, Kentucky.
55. iv.   MAHALA RICHARDSON, b. Abt. 1820, Hardin, Kentucky; d. Deceased.
56. v.   WEEDEN RICHARDSON, b. Abt. 1824, Hardin, Kentucky; d. Deceased.
57. vi.   JACKSON RICHARDSON, b. Abt. 1826, Hardin, Kentucky; d. Deceased.
58. vii.   THOMAS J. RICHARDSON, b. December 17, 1828, Kentucky; d. June 29, 1894, Hardin, Kentucky.
  viii.   ISREAL RICHARDSON, b. Abt. 1832, Hardin, Kentucky; d. Deceased.
59. ix.   SARAH ANN RICHARDSON, b. Abt. 1835, Hardin, Kentucky; d. Deceased.


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