MCNAIRY COUNTY, TN - Biographies - Rev. William Fluker Richardson
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BIOGRAPHIES - RICHARDSON, Rev. William Fluker, McNairy County, Tennessee

From: 
Date: 22 Feb 2001

 

November 17, 1850, at Trenton, Tennessee, William Capers, a Bishop of 

the Methodist Episcopal Church South, "under the protection of Almighty 

God and with a single eye to His glory" set apart William F. Richardson 

for the office of a Deacon, qualified to administer baptism, marriage 

and burials inthe absence of an Elder and to "feed the flock of Christ 

so long as his spirit and practice are such as become the Gospel of Christ."

(Note: William Capers was appointed in 1821 by the South Carolina 

Conference of the ME South Church to be Missionary to the Indians.)

An account of Wm. F. Richardson's Death as was printed from the pen of 

W. M. Young, 1889:

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 fo 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 Maria 

Louisa Canfield, Oct. 8 1839 and reared seven children, all of whom 

are living but one. He 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 the 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.