James Richey was born 13 August 1821 in Pickensville, Pickens County, Alabama, United States to William Richey (1796-1879) and Margaret Ann Adair (1804-1852) and died 7 August 1890 Fort Wingate, McKinley County, New Mexico, United States of unspecified causes. He married Lucinda Mangum (1826-1903) 28 March 1846 in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois.
Biography
Buttahatchie Branch
James Richey was born in Dixie Alabama. In the early 1840's Mormon missionaries preached to their family and they joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In Noxubee County, Mississippi their family joined the Buttahatchie 1845 LDS Branch of the young LDS Church.
James and his brother Benjamin heard many rumors about the Mormons and went to Nauvoo, Illinois to investigate. There they attended a meeting where Joseph Smith was campaigning for President of the United States (early 1844). They went back to Alabama and helped their families to migrate to Illinois and later to Salt Lake City.
Minutes of the Mississippi and Alabama Conferences, held in Cipsy, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, on the 12th of April 1844...Resolved, The Brothers Benjamin Matthews, James Ritchie, Jonathan Averett and Augustus Skinner, be ordained elders...[1]
James Richey and his family lived in Salt Lake, St George and Manti area. James Richey was a counselor to Welcome Chapman (1805-1893), the first president of the newly formed LDS Manti Stake. His oldest son married a grand-daughter of Welcome.
James Richey kept a journal during his years in Manti.
Dixie Cottom Mission 1857
In 1857, a group of about 38 southerner families were called by Brigham Young (1801-1877) on to settle the Virgin River area of Southwest Utah and to crow cotton, to decrease the saints reliance on expensive product from back east. Other pioneer families joined them in 1861 but this ambitious endeavor came to an end after the close of the Civil War and cotton prices collapsed.
St. George Pioneers of 1861-62
This person was is listed on the Encampment Mall Memorial - a list of over 300 LDS Pioneer Families that helped to settle St. George, Utah in 1861. They were part of the "Dixie Cotton Mission" called by President Brigham Young to raise cotton and other southern crops in the warmer climate of Washington County, Utah.
Children
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Hester Richey (1817-1817) | September 1818 Georgia, United States | May 1819 Georgia, United States | |
Vital Records
1850 US Federal Census
Taken in 1850 for San Pete Co, Utah. (Household #18)
This census also shows living adjacent to several prominent Mormon Pioneers of San Pete Co - Isaac Morley, James Richey (1821-1890), Charles Shumway, James Tillmon Sanford Allred (1825-1905) (Mormon Battalion Veteran).
- James Richey - m/29 - b:AL - ocp: Farmer - 150 Acres
- Lucinda Richey - f/20 - b:AL -
- James M Richey - m/3 - b:Deseret -
- Livonia Richey - f/8 mos - b:Deseret -
1860 US Census
Washington County, Utah/1860 U.S. Census - : Household #1287 in Washington Utah - neighbor to several other Mangum & Adair families.
- James Richey 38-M-Farmer
- Lucinda 34-F
- Ja M 12-M
- Lucinda C 8-F
- Jos B 5-M
- Rebecca 3-F
1880 US Census
1880 US Census - St. Johns, Arizona. Several years before the big Mormon pioneer wagon train of 1884.
- Household 315 :
- Richey, James (M-58 / Self / Farmer) (Alabama / So Carolina / Unknown)
- Richey, Lucinda (F-54 / Wife) (Alabama/ Virg. / Penn.)
- Richey, James Morina (M-32 / Son) (Utah / Alabama / Alabama)
- Richey, Charlotte (F-29 / Daughter)
- Richey, J.B. (M-24 / Son)
- Richey, Ruth R (F-22 / Daughter)
- Richey, Emily (F-19) / Daughter)
- Richey, Ellan Jane (F-15 / Daughter)
- Richey, Susan (F-13 / Daughter)
- Household 316 : John Sherwood (Son-in-Law)
- Sherwood, John (M-27/ Self / Engineer) (Illinois/ Penn. / Illinois)
- Sherwood, Maud Ruth (F-3/Daughter) (Nev / Ill / Ill )
- Sherwood, Lucinda Estela (F-2 / Daughter) (Utah / Ill / Ill )
- Household 317 : W H Sherwood (Son-in-Law)
- Sherwood, W.H. (M-36 / Self / Sayner) (Illinois/ Penn. / Vermont)
- Sherwood, Charlotte (F-4 / Daughter) (Nevada / Illinois / Utah)
- Sherwood, Lucinda (F-2/ Daughter) (Nevada / Illinois / Utah)
- Sherwood, W M (M-0 / Son) (Ariz / Ill / Utah)
- Household 318 : Richey (Daughter)
- Richey, Eugenia Ruth (F-18 / Self / Housekeeping)
- Household 319 : Adair (Cousin)
- Adair, Wesley (M-59 / Self / Farmer)
- Adair, Rebecca (F-65 / Wife)
- Household 320 : Staynor (md to Rebecca Francis Adair, Cousin)
- Staynor, Jeremiah (M-32 / Self / Farmer ) (Illinois / Unknown / Unkown)
- Staynor, Francis (F-28 / Wife )
- Staynor, Catherine (F-11 / Daughter)
- Staynor, Joseph (M-7 / Son)
- Household 321 : Arnond Tenney.
- Household 322 : A.S. Farnsworth
See Also
- James Richey - disambiguation
- Richey Family
- Richey in Sanpete County, Utah
- Richey in Apache County, Arizona
- Richey in Hancock County, Illinois
- Richey in McKinley County, New Mexico
- History of James Richey and also his grandfather Thomas Adair.
References
- ^ Times and Seasons, Vol V, pg 573, July 1, 1844.