Stone says: "Died...aged 60 yrs. 5 mos. & 12 dys."
Notes from contributor JBrown #48697180
========================================
An attorney from the north, Jasper Richmond would fall in love with and marry Eliza Philips/Phillips, on Feb. 19, 1839. Describing herself as Tennessee-born on three Censuses, she was from a southern plantation family who farmed below the Natchez Trace Parkway, near what much later became the lumber and railroad town of Hermanville, with Port Gibson the major town nearby.
BIRTH VS. BAPTISM: Son to Rachel and Abner Richmond, Jasper came from a large family of eight children, all born in Massachusetts, with a his twin dying very young.
Feb. 23, 1806 is also given as his birth date. Since it is later than the 1805 implied by his being 60 on his death date, it could be a baptismal date (baptism delayed until a year after birth).
SISTER & THEIR CHILDREN. His family took in his widowed sister, Amanda Richmond French, and her two children, in her final years. She is thus buried near his grave, in Pisgah Cemetery, where the old Pisgah Church used to be, before that church was closed and the building then moved elsewhere.
A son, JW, Jasper Warren Richmond, named both for himself and also for Amanda's husband (Warren French), died in the Civil War, on the Confederate side of a battle. His son and Amanda's son fought for the opposing sides of that deadly war. A different Richmond cousin up north also never returned home from that War, his body not found. Amanda's son, Oratus Seba French, living up in Fremont, Ohio, would exchange letters with his other son, farmer Thomas Richmond, in their later years. Those letters are archived at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library in Fremont, Ohio, under the name O.S. or Oratus S. French, with comments made about politics and life.
****
Notes from contributor JBrown #48697180
========================================
An attorney from the north, Jasper Richmond would fall in love with and marry Eliza Philips/Phillips, on Feb. 19, 1839. Describing herself as Tennessee-born on three Censuses, she was from a southern plantation family who farmed below the Natchez Trace Parkway, near what much later became the lumber and railroad town of Hermanville, with Port Gibson the major town nearby.
BIRTH VS. BAPTISM: Son to Rachel and Abner Richmond, Jasper came from a large family of eight children, all born in Massachusetts, with a his twin dying very young.
Feb. 23, 1806 is also given as his birth date. Since it is later than the 1805 implied by his being 60 on his death date, it could be a baptismal date (baptism delayed until a year after birth).
SISTER & THEIR CHILDREN. His family took in his widowed sister, Amanda Richmond French, and her two children, in her final years. She is thus buried near his grave, in Pisgah Cemetery, where the old Pisgah Church used to be, before that church was closed and the building then moved elsewhere.
A son, JW, Jasper Warren Richmond, named both for himself and also for Amanda's husband (Warren French), died in the Civil War, on the Confederate side of a battle. His son and Amanda's son fought for the opposing sides of that deadly war. A different Richmond cousin up north also never returned home from that War, his body not found. Amanda's son, Oratus Seba French, living up in Fremont, Ohio, would exchange letters with his other son, farmer Thomas Richmond, in their later years. Those letters are archived at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library in Fremont, Ohio, under the name O.S. or Oratus S. French, with comments made about politics and life.
****
Stone says: "Died...aged 60 yrs. 5 mos. & 12 dys."
Notes from contributor JBrown #48697180
========================================
An attorney from the north, Jasper Richmond would fall in love with and marry Eliza Philips/Phillips, on Feb. 19, 1839. Describing herself as Tennessee-born on three Censuses, she was from a southern plantation family who farmed below the Natchez Trace Parkway, near what much later became the lumber and railroad town of Hermanville, with Port Gibson the major town nearby.
BIRTH VS. BAPTISM: Son to Rachel and Abner Richmond, Jasper came from a large family of eight children, all born in Massachusetts, with a his twin dying very young.
Feb. 23, 1806 is also given as his birth date. Since it is later than the 1805 implied by his being 60 on his death date, it could be a baptismal date (baptism delayed until a year after birth).
SISTER & THEIR CHILDREN. His family took in his widowed sister, Amanda Richmond French, and her two children, in her final years. She is thus buried near his grave, in Pisgah Cemetery, where the old Pisgah Church used to be, before that church was closed and the building then moved elsewhere.
A son, JW, Jasper Warren Richmond, named both for himself and also for Amanda's husband (Warren French), died in the Civil War, on the Confederate side of a battle. His son and Amanda's son fought for the opposing sides of that deadly war. A different Richmond cousin up north also never returned home from that War, his body not found. Amanda's son, Oratus Seba French, living up in Fremont, Ohio, would exchange letters with his other son, farmer Thomas Richmond, in their later years. Those letters are archived at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library in Fremont, Ohio, under the name O.S. or Oratus S. French, with comments made about politics and life.
****
Notes from contributor JBrown #48697180
========================================
An attorney from the north, Jasper Richmond would fall in love with and marry Eliza Philips/Phillips, on Feb. 19, 1839. Describing herself as Tennessee-born on three Censuses, she was from a southern plantation family who farmed below the Natchez Trace Parkway, near what much later became the lumber and railroad town of Hermanville, with Port Gibson the major town nearby.
BIRTH VS. BAPTISM: Son to Rachel and Abner Richmond, Jasper came from a large family of eight children, all born in Massachusetts, with a his twin dying very young.
Feb. 23, 1806 is also given as his birth date. Since it is later than the 1805 implied by his being 60 on his death date, it could be a baptismal date (baptism delayed until a year after birth).
SISTER & THEIR CHILDREN. His family took in his widowed sister, Amanda Richmond French, and her two children, in her final years. She is thus buried near his grave, in Pisgah Cemetery, where the old Pisgah Church used to be, before that church was closed and the building then moved elsewhere.
A son, JW, Jasper Warren Richmond, named both for himself and also for Amanda's husband (Warren French), died in the Civil War, on the Confederate side of a battle. His son and Amanda's son fought for the opposing sides of that deadly war. A different Richmond cousin up north also never returned home from that War, his body not found. Amanda's son, Oratus Seba French, living up in Fremont, Ohio, would exchange letters with his other son, farmer Thomas Richmond, in their later years. Those letters are archived at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library in Fremont, Ohio, under the name O.S. or Oratus S. French, with comments made about politics and life.
****
Family Members
Advertisement
Advertisement
