Amanda (Dorsey) Richardson (1914 - 2012)

Born 1914 in Florida, United States

Died 30 May 2012 at about age 98 in Tallahassee, Leon, Florida, United States

Amanda (Dorsey) Richardson is buried in Tallahassee Memory Gardens.

Biography

Amanda (Dorsey) Richardson is a part of US Black heritage.

Amanda Dorsey was born in 1914.

She married Eluster/Lester Richardson on 16 Jan 1937 in Leon County, Florida.^[1]

When she died in 2012,^[2] she was buried in the Garden of the Last Supper, Tallahassee Memory Gardens, Tallahassee, Florida. She shares a grave marker with her husband.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "Florida Marriages, 1830-1993," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:23Z7-KBM : accessed 7 May 2015), Lester Richardson and Amanda Dorsey, 16 Jan 1937; citing Leon, Florida, United States, county courthouses, Florida; FHL microfilm 2,031,030.
2. ↑ "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV5X-DZ9X : accessed 7 May 2015), Mrs Amanda Richardson, Florida, United States, 07 Jun 2012; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing , born-digital text.
3. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVK3-9DR5 : accessed 7 May 2015), Amanda Richardson, ; Burial, Tallahassee, Leon, Florida, United States of America, Memory Gardens Cemetery; citing record ID 33891616, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

• "United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VTC9-VJX : accessed 7 May 2015), Amanda Richardson in household of Lester Richardson, Election Precinct 10, Leon, Florida, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 37-21, sheet 3B, family 35, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 597.
• "Florida State Census, 1945," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNXR-NGN : accessed 7 May 2015), Amanda Richardson, Tallahassee, Leon, Florida; citing line 40, State Archives, Tallahassee; FHL microfilm 2,425,196.
• "1950 United States Federal Census"
  United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Leon, Florida; Roll: 5157; Sheet Number: 17; Enumeration District: 37-39
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 62308 #82156638 (accessed 24 July 2022)
  Amanda Richardson (37), wife, in household of Lester Richardson (38) in Leon, Florida, USA. Born in Florida.