Limestone County AlArchives Biographies.....Vasser, Richard W. 1800 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    RICHARD W. VASSER was born in Amelia County, Va., in September, 1800. His
father, Peter Vasser, moved to Halifax County, Va., during the infancy of his
son, and being a man of extravagant and somewhat dissipated habits, wasted a
handsome estate. This induced his son Richard, in 1816, to join his cousin Ed
Dandridge Jones in a move to Middle Tennessee, and they afterward settled in
Giles County. Young Vasser came to Northern Alabama the next year, and decided
to make his home henceforth in Limestone. By persevering energy and the exercise
of an indomitable will which possessed the magic of moulding circumstances to
his purposes, he in a few years accumulated sufficient means to bring his
parents and sisters to his new home. The death of his father, a year or two
after their arrival, left the mother and sisters entirely dependent on his
personal efforts for their support, and never did son or brother more faithfully
discharge this sacred duty. His fine intellect, wonderful business capacity, and
well-known integrity, made him a leading spirit in those early days of our young
Commonwealth. He was president of the board of directors of the first Huntsville
bank, and used to take a monthly trip to the then infant town, on horseback,
astride his saddle-bags filled with papers, currency and coin. Throughout his
life his memory was marvelous, and his friends in Philadelphia, Pa. (to which
city he made a yearly trip, even when it took six weeks to get there), have told
the writer of some of his feats of memory, especially in dates and figures, not
unworthy of Parr or Bradford. In 1833 he married his second cousin, Elizabeth
Dandrige Jones (she being the great-granddaughter of the Peter Jones who, about
1720, assisted Colonel William Byrd, then commissioner of the English Crown in
this country, to lay off the cities of Richmond and Petersburg, Va., and the
latter city was named for this Peter Jones, (and not for Petersburg in Russia,
as many erroneously suppose.) She bore him thirteen children, nine sons, of whom
William Ed. Vasser was the youngest, and is the sole survivor. Mr. Vasser died
in Athens, Ga., in 1864, and in 1886 his remains (with those of his son.
Lieutenant Harry Vasser, who was killed in Johnston's retreat from Atlanta, just
one month after his father's decease), were brought to Athens. They lie side by
side in the old town cemetery, on ground taken from the garden of the old home,
where the surviving members of the family still keep their resting-place
fragrant with roses and lilies, planted by hands long since returned to mother
earth.

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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
CEREAL BELT.


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