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| Notes for Phebe LINDLEY | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Note: Phebe Lindley was disowned by the Quaker Church shortly before her marriage to Richie B. Richardson, a Methodist. Marriage "out-of-union" (a Quaker to a Methodist) was forbidden, and since she chose to join the Methodist Church, the Quaker Church disowned her.3 See Written Mention for details. [LH] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| According to historian Harvey Newlin, Phebe's aristocratic slave-owning father raised his daughters to be "waited upon entirely". (More possible evidence of William's permissiveness, sister Emeline had an illegitimate daughter by cousin Tom Lindley. The child was raised by Phebe and Emeline's deaf brother, Oliver.) Although Phebe's father had been disowned by the Quaker church in 1829 for owning slaves. In 1834 Phebe and sister Mary were also disowned and the Quakers reported that the girls "have no desire to stay amongst us". | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| From HINSHAW'S QUAKER ENCYCLOPEDIA Spring Meeting of Women Friends 2-22-1834 The representatives being called were present. Spring preparative complains of MARY and PHEBY LINDLEY for nonattendance of meetings and also for joining another Society. Rebecca Hadley, Mary Hadley and Mary Woody is appointed to visit them on the occasion and report their case to next meeting. Spring Meeting of Women Friends 3-29-1834 The representatives from Spring Preparative having called were present. The Friends appointed last meeting to visit MARY and PHEBY LINDLEY report two of them attended to the appointment and that they have no desire to stay amongst us. Therefore, this meeting disowned them from being members of our Society. [ED. NOTE: The sisters had joined Centre {United Methodist} Church when it was first organized {1828}]3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments Notes for Richie Buckner (Spouse 1) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comment: Richie Buckner Richardson was a Mason.3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Note: According to the research of Harvey Newlin, Richie B. Richardson had severe headaches prior to his death. The pain was such that many old-timers remember him "running as fast as possible from his house to his father's" to offset the pain. Legend was that he probably had some sort of brain tumor. The distance between the two houses was approximately a mile and half.3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Richie Buckner and Phebe Lindley Richardson lived at the Amos Richardson homeplace located by Sutphin's [Lindley's] Mill. Phebe came from a marginal Quaker family, and was disowned shortly before her marriage to Richie (ostensibly for having joined the Methodists). She and Richie attended the Methodist church and are buried at Center Methodist in Chatham County, NC. Richie and Phebe had nine children, but four died in infancy. Richie, a Mason, died suddenly in 1858 at the age of 39, most likely of a brain tumor which caused him excruciating headaches. Although he was taken to a hospital in Baltimore (to be treated for "neuralgia"), no one was able to help him. Just before his death, he had been on the verge of starting a cigarette manufacturing operation with a gentleman by the name of Page. Mr. Page went on to partner in the Reynolds family's enterprises. After Richie's death, son Amos J. ("Little Amos") went to live with his paternal grandparents. Phebe Lindley Richardson helped son Mangrum avoid service in the Civil War by delaying officers at the front door while Mangrum escaped out the back (and subsequently went west for the duration of the war). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| RICHARDSON KINFOLK - A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE RICHARDSON'S FAMILY REMINISCENCE Compiled by Daisy Richardson 1968 (with comments and corrections by Thelma Henderson Schoolfield) In the late 1840's and 1850's, Grandfather Richie Buckner Richardson (b. 1818) was interested in the tobacco industry. A Mr. Page from Mebane, North Carolina, was connected with him. They bought the cured tobacco in this area, packed it into boxes and hauled it to Fayetteville, North Carolina, over the old plank road. Sometimes they used large hogsheads. They would put an axel through the center of the barrel or hogshead, rig it up with a tongue, then pack it full of tobacco. They would hitch horses to the barrell and haul the tobacco this way. Just prior to Grandfather's death they started construction of a building for the manufacturing of cigarettes. This building was to be on Cane Creek just below what is now Sutphin's Mill. It was then Lindley's Mill. The foundation was there for many years. Grandfather had an attack of neuralgia in his neck and shoulders. He was put in a wagon and taken to Baltimore to a hospital where he was given treatments; but they could not help him, so he was brought back home where he soon died. After his death, Mr. Page helped to establish the Reynolds Tobacco Company. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Modified 6 Jun 2006 | Created 8 Feb 2007 Laura K. Henderson |
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