Richard "Dick" Fancher was a slave of James Fancher of Osage, Carroll County AR, and then of his son, Thomas Washington Fancher after his marriage in 1856. Dick worked in the home of Thomas Fancher and Elizabeth Sneed Fancher as a Cook until he was released by the Civil War. Upon his emancipation, he married Hannah "Sneed" Riggs, who had belonged to Charles Sneed, but was willed to his daughter Elizabeth in 1855. Charles Sneed died as a result of the Civil War in 1865 and Hannah went to live with Elizabeth, who's husband was away in the Confederate action. After the War, Richard and Hannah (along with mother in law Fanny Riggs) lived in the Harrison Arkansas area and raised their family. However, in the early 1900s, race riots began in the Harrison Arkansas area. White people were having trouble finding jobs and they claimed the Black people were taking their railroad jobs away from them. The Blacks were all run out of town and the Black Fancher clan relocated to Eureka Springs and worked for the Basin Hotel, worked as porters, laundresses, and other jobs. Early in 1911, James Polk Fancher, son of James Fancher, learned that Dick was ailing. He left Berryville and went to visit him. In actuality, Dick was his half brother, given that James Fancher was his biological father. When Richard "Uncle Dick" Fancher died, it was Judge James Polk Fancher, a veteran of the Confederacy, who purchased and erected the gravestone for Richard Fancher. James Polk Fancher stayed in touch with all of Uncle Dick's children in Eureka Springs.
Richard "Dick" Fancher was a slave of James Fancher of Osage, Carroll County AR, and then of his son, Thomas Washington Fancher after his marriage in 1856. Dick worked in the home of Thomas Fancher and Elizabeth Sneed Fancher as a Cook until he was released by the Civil War. Upon his emancipation, he married Hannah "Sneed" Riggs, who had belonged to Charles Sneed, but was willed to his daughter Elizabeth in 1855. Charles Sneed died as a result of the Civil War in 1865 and Hannah went to live with Elizabeth, who's husband was away in the Confederate action. After the War, Richard and Hannah (along with mother in law Fanny Riggs) lived in the Harrison Arkansas area and raised their family. However, in the early 1900s, race riots began in the Harrison Arkansas area. White people were having trouble finding jobs and they claimed the Black people were taking their railroad jobs away from them. The Blacks were all run out of town and the Black Fancher clan relocated to Eureka Springs and worked for the Basin Hotel, worked as porters, laundresses, and other jobs. Early in 1911, James Polk Fancher, son of James Fancher, learned that Dick was ailing. He left Berryville and went to visit him. In actuality, Dick was his half brother, given that James Fancher was his biological father. When Richard "Uncle Dick" Fancher died, it was Judge James Polk Fancher, a veteran of the Confederacy, who purchased and erected the gravestone for Richard Fancher. James Polk Fancher stayed in touch with all of Uncle Dick's children in Eureka Springs.
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