Amanda Jane Richardson

Name Amanda Jane Richardson, GG Grandmother Birth 5 Sep 1836, Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois Death 10 Oct 1908, Anthony, Harper County, Kansas Age: 72 Death Memo Found dead from a buggy accident near her home. Burial Argonia Cemetery, Argonia, Sumner County, Kansas230 Religion Not overtly religious, probably Methodist, if anything.443 Cause of death She was killed near her home when horses bolted and ran away pulling the buggy she was in, which overturned, breaking her neck. She was found dead beside the buggy.1,419 Father Lewis Ball Richardson (1808-1887) Mother Mary Ann (Polly) Snow (1810-1853)
Medical
Amanda Jane had one blue and one brown eye. She and all their children were very heavy.419,1 Several of us now believe she carried the genetics for Alzheimer’s Disease, having inherited those genetics from her father and her Grandfather Richardson. (PLH, 2004)
Anecdotes
My grandfather, George William Lauterbach, told this story about his McDaniel grandparents: One day a traveler passing by was invited to have dinner with Amanda and Henry. During the course of the meal, the traveler mentioned that he had a male acquaintance with one brown and one blue eye, similar to Amanda Jane. According to my grandfather, Henry replied, “Well then, he must have been an old son-o-bitch.” I was never told whether Amanda threw anything at Henry or not.1 (Paul L. Hathcoat, June 2005)
Spouses
1 Henry Crockett McDaniel , GG Grandfather Birth 7 Jun 1831, Possibly VA, or Monroe County, WV, or KY14 Death 10 Apr 1909, Anthony, Harper County, Kansas Age: 77 Burial Argonia Cemetery, Argonia, Sumner County, Kansas230 Residence 1833-1836, Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois Reside Memo Moved with family Residence 1865, Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa Reside Memo Moved family Residence 1875, Valley Center, Sedgwick County, Kansas71 Reside Memo Moved family Residence 1876, Anthony, Harper County, Kansas71 Reside Memo Moved family Occupation Driver and later Farmer Religion Not overtly religious, probably Methodist, if anything.443 Cause of death Died of stroke suffered in 1908. Nationality Irish, (according to Blanche WInters Lauterbach’s poem, “Mysterious March”) Father John Ellis McDannold (1795-1833) Mother Elizabeth Crockett Iles (1802-1859)
Notes
Parents not proven. John Ellis McDannold and Elizabeth Crockett Iles suspected. Family tradition is that Crockett was his mother's maiden name. Died of stroke suffered in 1908. 1850 Census Washington County, IL. Pg 1143B Ln 11, listed Age 19, birthplace as VA. and that he could read and write, Working as a laborer on the Marcus Faulkner farm, in Washington County, IL.14 TIMELINE: 6/7/1831 Born, VA, WV, KY? 11/6/1833 John Ellis McDannold died in Bath County, KY.20 1836 Elizabeth Iles McDannold with 5 children moved to Springfield, IL to live with her Iles brothers.22 10/10/1839 Mrs Elizabeth (Iles) McDaniel married James Strawbridge in Sangamon County, IL15, Elizabeth to James Stockbridge, 10/10/1839 1840 Census Age 9 Where? (Maybe in home of stepfather, James Strawbridge or Iles uncles)? 1850 Census Age 19 Washington County, IL. Pg 1143B Ln 11, listed birthplace as VA.14 04/02/1857 Married Sangamon County, IL15 John Lewis Born 4/5/1858 Springfield, Sangamon Co., IL Ammi Ann Born 3/24/1860 Springfield, Sangamon Co., IL 1860 Census Age 29 1865 Family moved from Springfield, Sangamon Co., IL, to Centerville, Appanoose Co., IA 1870 Census Age 39 1875 Family moved from Centerville, Appanoose Co., IA to Valley Center, Sedgwick, Co. KS. (Amanda’s sister Elizabeth Ann Richardson Broomfield was already living in Clearwater) 1876 Family moved on South to Anthony, Harper Co., KS (Ammi Ann lived in Clearwater and taught in Richmond Hill School KS 1879) 1880 Census Age 49, Harper Co., KS,263 Ammi Ann was married there in 188036 1890 Census Age 59, Prob. Harper Co., KS 1900 Census Age 69, Prob. Harper Co., KS 4/10/1909 Died Age 78, Buried Anthony, Harper Co., KS
Marriage 2 Apr 1857, Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois15 Marr Memo By Morris Bailey
Children John Lewis (1858-1934)   Ammi Ann (1860-1930)   Charles Cyrus (1861-1933)   William David (1863-1925)   Henry Sherman (1865-1923)   Alexander Sheridan (1868-1944)   Mary Grace (1872-1943)

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