Biographical Sketch of Booker Richardson, Jefferson County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Booker Richardson, farmer, near Kimmswick, and a brother of Skelton
Richardson, whose sketch just precedes this, was born in St. Louis
County, in 1831, and is the youngest of thirteen children born to 
Booker and Nancy (Cheatham) Richardson.  He remained at home until the
age of seventeen, having to walk six miles in order to get any school-
ing.  He then crossed the plains to California, where he remained 
eleven years engaged in mining.  In 1860 he returned to Jefferson
County, and the following year enlisted in Company E, Second Missouri
Cavalry, Confederate army, and joined Gen. Forrest, with whom he serv-
ed until the downfall of the Confederacy.  He then surrendered at 
Columbus, Miss., and carried the flag of truce to Iuka, Miss., after
the call for surrender.  He then returned to Jefferson County, where
he was married to Miss Sarah Wells, a native of Ste. Genevieve County,
Mo., in 1866.  Her parents, John and Marenia (Jackson) Wells, were
formerly from Kentucky, but came to Ste. Genevieve County, Mo., later
in life.  Twelve children were born to Mr. Richardson's marriage, five
of whom are living, viz.: Addie, Julia, Henry, Arthur and Sarah.  Mr.
Richardson has since lived one-half miles southwest of Kimmswick, 
where he has a fine farm of seventy acres; he is also the owner of
several other tracts.  Politically a Democrat, he is also an honest,
upright man.

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