MCNAIRY COUNTY TN - OBITUARIES - Rev. W.F. Richardson Obit
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This account of Wm. F. Richardson's death was printed from the pen  of  W.  M.
Young:

"Rev. W. F. Richardson, son of James and Lucinda Jones Richardson, was born in
Lexington District, S. C. November 28th 1818, and died at his home in  McNairy
County, Tennessee on January 10, 1889. He professed religion in the  fifteenth
year of his age, and joined the M. E. Church South; was appointed class leader
in 1841, was licensed to exhort  in  1843,  and  licensed  to  preach  by  the
Quarterly Conference under Rev. R. Ellis on March 1st 1846, and  was  ordained
deacon at Trenton, Tenn. by Bishop Capers,  November  1850.  He  was  ordained
Elder at Somerville, Tenn. by Bishop Paine in  1854,  at  which  time  he  was
employed as supply on the Eastport Circuit, and  in  the  Fall  of  that  year
joined the Conference, and was  appointed  to  the  Purdy  Circuit  as  senior
preacher with Simeon Walker as junior. Here his health failed him and  he  was
discontinued at his own request. He was never able to take work any more,  but
did much good in local ranks. He was married to Miss Louisa Canfield, Oct.  8,
1839, and reared seven children, all of  whom  are  living  but  one.  He  was
married a second time to Mrs. M. J. Mayfield.

"We have known Brother Richardson for the past  three  years  and  have  often
enjoyed his  sermons  in  protracted  meetings.  I  never  knew  a  man  whose
conversation was more consistantly directed to religious subjects.  He  was  a
constant advocate of Mission and a strong advocate of national prohibition for
the past forty years. He was a life long friend of the itinerancy, and made it
a rule to renew his subscription to the Nashville and New Orleans Advocate, to
pay liberally to Missions and his pastor on the first round his preacher  made
each year.

"Our people on the Corinth Circuit will feel the loss  of  Brother  Richardson
financially as  well  as  ministerially.  He  was  a  close  friend  to  young
preachers. He died a most triumphant death. His last days were full of  peace,
and when the last hour came  it  was  deeply  interesting  to  all  those  who
witnessed the victorious passage of our beloved brother over the Jordan.  Thus
they go to their reward."