Francis Dubose Richardson (1812 - 1901)

Born 20 Aug 1812 in South Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth Dunbar (Holmes) Richardson — married 14 Mar 1854 in Chicot City, AR

Died 1901 at about age 88 in Iberia Parish, Louisiana

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Biography

From the Bayside Plantation Records:

Francis DuBose Richardson was apparently born in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, in 1812, but came to Louisiana with his father, John Gaulden Richardson (1785-1856) and family in the 1820s. Francis DuBose Richardson became a planter and state legislator, married Bethia F. Liddell (d. 1852), and in January 1846, moved with his family, hired hands, and slaves to set up Bayside Plantation on Bayou Teche, Iberia Parish, Louisiana. The Richardsons were given assistance at Bayside by other Richardson and Liddell family members, most of whom are referred to in the plantation journals by initials only, including John Gaulden Richardson and Bethia's father, Judge Moses Liddell. After Bethia F. (Lidell) Richardson died in 1852, Francis DuBose Richardson sent their youngest daughter, Margaret, to live with relatives. Their other children, Frank Liddell Richardson (fl.1850s-1869) and Bethia C. Richardson (fl.1840s-1870s), remained at Bayside, where they received a tutorial education, until the Civil War. In October 1861, Frank left to join the Confederate army, and Bethia C. left to attend the Franklin Seminary in Franklin, Louisiana. Though some sources indicate that Francis DuBose Richardson died in 1858, family sources show that he died in St. Louis County in 1906.

Bayside Plantation continued to operate until mid-December 1862, when everyone was moved to a plantation "in the woods on Bayou Mallet," in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, in response to the arrival in the area of the Union army. The Richardson children visited both the Bayou Mallet and Bayside plantations at various times during the war, as did friends and relatives. Both Confederate and Union forces operated in the area, and in 1863, most of the plantation slaves sought refuge for a time in New Iberia. When the war ended, attempts were made to contract freedmen and other labor to work on the plantations, with varying success."^[1]

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Family

Father: John Gaulden Richardson;

Mother: Margaret Du Bose Richardson;

Spouse: Bethia Frances Liddell Richardson;

Second Wife: Elizabeth Dunbar Holmes Richardson;

Children: Bethia Caffery, Frank Liddell Richardson, Kate Sessions Davies, Evelyn Holmes Bissell, Annie Nonemacher, Eloise Dunbar McBride, Daniel DuBose Richardson^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ [Identification of item], in the Bayside Plantation Records #53, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00053/)
2. ↑ Burial: "U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current"
   Ancestry Record 60525 #38709328 (accessed 16 November 2021)
   Francis DuBose Richardson burial (died on 15 Jun 1901) in Jeanerette, Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States of America.

• Memoirs of Francis DuBose Richardson, Francis D. Richardson, December 1, 1895.[1] M. Gaulden

• Descendants of Martha Gaulden, Compiled by Gayle Morgan, Personal copy in the files of M. Gaulden