The Richardson Connection

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=100 BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="04800640egdysm.jpg"> <div> <B>The Richardson Connection</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.matthews-shaw.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.matthews-shaw.org"><U><B>Back to </B></U></A><A HREF="http://www.matthews-shaw.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.matthews-shaw.org"><U><B>Matthews-Shaw</B></U></A><B>    </B><A HREF="http://webpages.charter.net/srwa/sadie" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://webpages.charter.net/srwa/sadie"><U><B>Back to Sadie's Page</B></U></A><B>    </B><A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our Family History"><U><B>Our Family History</B></U></A><B>     </B><A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Family Links"><U><B>Family Links</B></U></A></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#9966FF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B><U>My Dad</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="07098c70.jpg" border=0 width="152" height="199" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>1942</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="043a1c50.jpg" border=0 width="161" height="197" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>1945</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=380 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B><U>The Story of Us</U></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Elijah "Potsy" Richardson, Jr.,  was the only child of Lillie Bell Jackson Richardson and Elijah Richardson, Sr.  He was born July 14, 1926 in Grandview, Texas and succumbed to cancer after a brave fight on September 2, 1962 at the young age of 36.  He was a World War II (The Big One) Army veteran and had his birth certificate altered at the age of 16 so that he could enlist in 1942.  He wanted to join the romanticized US endeavor after the Pearl Harbor bombing.  Full of patriotism and against his mother's wishes, he was off to foreign lands with his Uncle Dennis and other local friends who had also enlisted.</B></div> <div> <B>  </B></div> <div> <B>Upon Potsy's return from "over there", he settled into the life of a local war hero.  He played in the regional Negro League of amateur baseball teams and caught the eye of a recently divorced young lady named Freddie Mae Price Henderson from nearby Itasca.  He married Freddie Mae in October, 1948.  To that union was born two daughters, Sadie Ella Richardson (Williams Allen) in 1949 and Gloria Dean Richardson (Lang Deming) in 1950.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>On this website, you will find information about his family and their ancestry.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>This site is under construction at all times and will be added to as time and information permits.</B></div> <div>   </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our Family History"><U><B>Our Family History</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Family Links"><U><B>Family Links</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>