It's my wish to share what I know about the simple gift of family. Family names include Nichols, Edmondson, Appleby, Reitzel, Smith, Richardon,Thompson, Crapson, Little, Barton,Mikel,South,and Free(Ferree) among others.

Simple Gifts

'Tis the gift to be simple,
'tis the gift to be free,
'tis the gift to come down where you ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
It will be in the valley of love and delight.

When true simplicity is gained,
To bow and to bend we shan't be ashamed.
To turn, turn will be our delight,
'Til by turning, turning we come round right

From Thee I Came

As a young girl I loved to read books of families who lived long ago. As I grew older I started to appreciate the stories my parents told my sisters and me of our ancestors and came to realize that these were just like the stories I loved so much. The only difference was these were my stories because they were about my people. They were stories of pioneers who worked hard, moved from place to place, fought wars and did what it took to survive. So now I share with you some of the stories about these people.

Saturday, May 21, 2011

The Richardson Family Part One

 My parents both had quite a lot of information about their families but I was especially interested in the Richardsons because my gggg grandfather's name was listed as Christopher Columbus Richardson and his wife Lovey English. These names intrigued me as well as the fact that supposedly Lovey English was German.   I also liked to hear about how Christopher and Lovey's son Daniel and his wife Dorcas rode together on horseback from North Carolina to Hendricks County Indiana.  In the mind of a young girl who was already enamored with the romanticism of early Americans and pioneers, this made for lots of daydreams.
     As I began researching this family the first thing I discovered was that there was no Christopher Columbus Richardson married to a Lovey English in North Carolina or anywhere else for that matter.  As I started checking marriage records I did find a Christian Richardson who married Lovina Ingle in Guilford County North Carolina.  I found and sent for information from the Randolph County NC Library and between that and other information I found I determined that I had a match, there was no Christopher Columbus but Christian, and Lovina's nickname was Lovey.  Somewhere along the line the German Ingle was anglicized to English but where Christopher Columbus came from is a mystery that only my ancestors know.  I do know that his son Daniel, my ancestor, had children named Christopher and Lovey.


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