James Whitehill Richardson and Clara Jones

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Husband James Whitehill Richardson ¹

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           Born: 28 Oct 1841 - Elk Twp, Clarion Co, PA 1
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         Father: Thomas Gideon Richardson (1818-1896) 1 2
         Mother: Sarah Rankin Whitehill (1813-1871/1871) 3

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       Marriage: 31 Oct 1867 1

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Wife Clara Jones ¹

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           Born: 25 Sep 1848 4
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         Father: James Harry Jones (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Mary E. [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - James Whitehill Richardson

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An autobiographical statement:
My army history as follows. I lived on the farm until 1861. Enlisted in Company A, 103rd Regi­ment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, for three years. Served in the Army of the Potomac. Transferred to the Army of N. C., 1863. Re-enlisted at Ply­mouth, N. C., for three years. Taken prisoner at the battle of Plymouth, N. C., April 20, 1864, con­fined at Andersonville, Ga., Charleston, S. C., and Florence, S. C., ten months and six days. Paroled at Wilmington, N. C., February 26, 1865. Dis­charged June 7, 1865, at Annapolis, Md.

He was reared and edu­cated in his native place and when the civil war broke out enlisted for service in Company A, One Hundred and Third Pennsylvania Vol­unteer Infantry. He served from September 7, 1861, until January 6, 1865. He was cap­tured by the Confederates and imprisoned in Andersonville, Georgia, for ten months and six days. During the early period of his serv­ice he was in Yorktown and Williamsburg, but later was transferred to North Carolina. He participated in the battle of Kingston and in a number of skirmishes in the close vicinity of that place. He served under McClellan and General Foster in North Carolina. He was never wounded. After his marriage, in 1867, he established the family home in Ashland township on a farm which he rent­ed. Subsequently he rented the estate called the Graham farm adjoining his father's farm. In 1885 he gave up farming and was a team­ster for about five years. Later he pur­chased property, in Shippenville, and at various times owned considerable oil property in Elk township, Clarion county. Beginning in 1901 he was the incumbent of the office of postmaster of Shippenville. He was a Republican in politics and in religious mat­ters was a Lutheran, his wife being a Methodist. He held numerous township offices and was school director.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1049.

2 A. J. Davis, History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., 1887), Pg 506.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1043.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 634.