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| From Mecklenburg to Moore: Four North Carolina Families |
William Dolphus Richardson & Sadie Myrtle Peele
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William Dolphus Richardson was born May 17, 1895 in Moore County. On April 14, 1918, he married Sadie Myrtle Peele. She was born January 18, 1898. Sadie's parents were Pleasant Peele and Ida Hyatt of Surry County. |
| Will and Sadie's first home was the log cabin where Will's parents lived when they were first married. Until J.D. Richardson died, Will worked for his father on the farm and drove the car for him. J.D. had a reputation for being demanding, and his younger son well earned the independence he inherited upon his father's death. Will said that no one would ever tell him what to do again. He continued to farm, on his own. |
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Will and Sadie had nine children, all of them present when their parents celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1968. |
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Sources: Interviews with family members.
Population Schedule of the Twelfth Census of the United States: 1900, North Carolina, Moore County, (Washington: National Archives and Record Service)
Sheet 9, Enumeration District 75, June 15, 1900.
Population Schedule of the Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, North Carolina, Moore County, (Washington: National Archives and Record Service)
Sheet 9A, Enumeration District 69, May 2, 1910.
Population Schedule of the Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, North Carolina, Moore County, (Washington: National Archives and Record Service) Family #316, Enumeration District 12, April 25, 1930.
Obituary of J. D. Richardson, Raleigh News and Observer, Raleigh, N.C., Dec. 29, 1936.
Tombstones in Johnson Grove Cemetery, Vass, N.C.
Alex M. Patterson, Highland Scots Pattersons of North Carolina and Related Families. (Raleigh: Contemporary Lithographers, Inc., 1979), pp. 159-194.
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