Josiah Richardson and Lucy Humber
Josiah Richardson was born in Edgefield County, South Carolina in 1796, son of Job Richardson and a Masten.
When he was very small, his father died after falling in a footrace. His mother gave Josiah and his two brothers, Job and Hiram, to her brother, M. C. Masten. She remarried to a man named Johnston and moved to Greene County, Alabama. She had 5 more children and died in Greene County, Alabama in January, 1836.
In 1826, Josiah also went to Greene County, Alabama. He stayed there for two years, and moved to Walker County, Alabama in 1828.
In 1834, Josiah bought 80 acres of land in Jefferson, Walker County, Alabama from the Federal government (Land Patent document #9326). In 1937, he bought another 80 acres in Walker County in 2 parcels (Land Patent documents #8374 and #8375). He may have bought the land much earlier, but there was a backlog in the General Land Office, so the document dates are sometimes off by a number of years.
On November 26, 1835, he married Lucy Humber in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. She was born July 9, 1815, near Atlanta, Georgia, daughter of John Pleasant Humber and Mary Jane Huey.
For more information on the Humber family, see Ancestors and Descendants of John D. and Elizabeth Christian Humber at http://www.humber-genealogy.com/.
Josiah and Lucy had 10 children in Walker County, Alabama: David, Matilda, Mary Ann, Samuel, John, Martha, William, Cylistine, Emma, and Willis.
In 1854, The family moved to Nacogdoches County, Texas, settling near the Old North Church just north of Nacogdoches. Daughter Matilda had married Sol Henson, and remained in Alabama. Mary Ann had married B. H. Self, but they came with the Richardson family to Texas.
Josiah and Lucy had two more children in Nacogdoches County, Texas: Joe and Thomas.
Thomas died at the age of two, and was buried in the Old North Church cemetery. The eleven other children survived to adulthood.
Sometime around the Civil War, Josiah and Lucy moved to Appleby, Nacogdoches County, Texas.
Josiah died July 26, 1876 in Appleby.
Lucy died August 20, 1906 in Sterne, Nacogdoches County, Texas.
See the handwritten note with Richardson family dates from the Sutphen Family Bible in the Documents section of the sutphen.org site.