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Thomas Turner Richardson

Thomas Turner Richardson, son of William Zeno Richardson and Martha Jane Wallace, was born on 14 Mar 1872 in Carthage, Moore County, North Carolina and died on 05 Feb 1946 in Flagler Hospital, St Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida. He was buried in Espanola Cemetery, Espanola, Flagler County, Florida. Sometime after 1963 his remains were moved to Shady Rest Cemetery, Holly Hill, Volusia County, Florida

He was married on 15 Jun 1899 in Ware County, Georgia to Aleph Walker, daughter of David Rasberry Walker and Catherine E. White, who was born on 21 Nov 1878 in Ware County, Georgia and who died on 03 Apr 1963 in Volusia County, Florida. She was buried in Shady Rest Cemetery, Holly Hill, Volusia County, Florida.

In 1900, they were living in Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida where his occupation was “Contractor.” The family is listed on page 55 of the 1910 census of St. Johns Co with his occupation given as "Stiller Turpentine." In 1930 census his occupation was listed as “Janitor, Flagler County Court House.” In the 1940 census of Flagler County, Florida he is listed as divorced and living in Clark’s Turpentine Camp with his occupation listed as “Working Boxes, Wholesale Turpentine Still” while she is listed as living in Bunnell, divorced with her occupation listed as “Seamstress, WPA Sewing Room.”

They were the parents of one child;

1. Eula Lee Richardson was born on 31 Dec 1903 in Upton, Coffee County, Georgia and died on 03 Dec 1998 in the Bishop Glen Retirement Home, Holly Hill, Volusia County, Florida. She married on 07 Oct 1923 in Flagler County, Florida, Abraham Harold Buckles, son of Joseph Jackson Buckles and Hulda Ann Elizabeth Richardson who born on 02 Aug 1904 in Haw Creek (later known as St. Johns Park), St Johns now Flagler County, Florida and who died from gunshot wounds on 12 Dec 1946 in Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida while in transit to a hospital. Both are buried in Shady Rest Cemetery, Holly Hill, Volusia County, Florida. (See sketch on Joseph Jackson Buckles for more information on this family).

As a jailer for Flagler County he raised, trained and handled bloodhounds, later moving to Daytona Beach. In a gun battle in the woods two miles west of Dupont, Flagler County, Florida on 12 Dec 1946, Marcus C. Strickland and his nephew Ernest Strickland, shot and killed Harold Buckles and his son Stanley Richardson “Son” Durrance and wounded Alfred Mullis of Holly Hill. Strickland got 3 bullets in his body, seriously wounded, and his nephew Everett, but not so seriously. Harold died in transit to hospital in Daytona Beach. Issue;

(1) Stanley Richardson “Son” Buckles was born on 01 Oct 1924 in St Johns Park, Flagler County, Florida and died on12 Dec 1946 two miles west of Dupont, Flagler County, Florida as the results of wounds received in a gun fight with Marcus C. Strickland and his nephew Ernest Strickland. Son is buried in Shady Rest Cemetery, Holly Hill, Volusia County, Florida.

(2) Lavada Louise Buckles was born on 07 Apr 1926 in St Johns Park, Flagler County, Florida and married on 26 May 1951 in Volusia County, Florida, Talmadge Styles Murray, son of Carl Floyd Murray and Willie Mae Mills who was born on 04 Jan 1921 in Pearson, Atkinson County, Georgia and who died on 07 Nov 1977 in Alachua County, Florida. He is in buried Shady Rest Cemetery, Holly Hill, Volusia County, Florida. Talmadge served in the U.S. Army in WW II and afterward was employed by the Florida Power & Light Company.

(3) Lily Minona Buckles was born on 11 June 1927 in St. Johns Park, Flagler County, Florida and died on 13 May 2008 in Bunnell, Flagler County, Florida. She married on 25 Dec 1949 in Folkston, Charlton County, Georgia, Lauds C. Gilley, son of William Cleveland Gilley and Minnie Lou King who was born on 09 Oct 1927 in Plant City, Hillsborough County, Florida and who died on 31 May 1991 in Flagler County, Florida. Both are buried in Espanola Cemetery, Espanola, Flagler County, Florida

L. C. served as a CD2, US Navy in WW II and Korea. He worked for Florida Power and Light in Daytona, then Bunnell, then back in Daytona. He was co‑owner with his wife of Bellevue Flower Shops of Daytona and Flagler Beach. In Mar 1975, L. C. was serving with the Sheriff's Department in Volusia County, Florida. Issue;.

(A) Annette Marie Gilley was born on 12 May 1953 in Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida and on 01 Jan 1974 married Michael Dale “Mike” Henderson, son of Carl H. Henderson and Elizabeth E. Hamilton who was born on 12 Apr 1940 in Miami, Dade County, Florida and who died on 29 Dec 1989 in Winter Park, Orange County, Florida (Divorced, 06 Jul 1978).

(B) Alice Lorraine Gilley was born on 12 May 1956 in Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio and died on 28 May 2002 in Homestead, Dade County, Florida. She is buried in Espanola Cemetery, Espanola, Flagler County, Florida. Alice was a zoo keeper for the Miami Dade Metro Zoo.

(4) Abraham Harold Buckles, Jr. was born on 08 Oct 1928 in Bunnell, Flagler County, Florida and married on 24 Apr 1949 in Holly Hill, Volusia County, Florida, Bernice Louise (Bunny) Baylor, daughter of John Jefferson Baylor and Florence Lavada Roberts who was born on16 Oct 1928 in Volusia County, Florida and who died on 15 Jan 2010 in Ormond Beach, Volusia County, Florida (Divorced 05 Dec 1986)

Harold was a building contractor in the Ft. Lauderdale area and also worked in Hong Kong. Bunny was a graduate of Mainland High School and was a volunteer Airplane and Submarine Spotter during World War II. She worked for Western Union, was a legal secretary and a medical office administrator. Issue;

(A) Connie Sue Buckles who married Borden Rhea Hallowes, Jr

(B) David Stanley Buckles

Abraham Harold Buckles, Jr. married 2nd on 17 Oct 1987 in Broward County, Florida, Waichun Tang.

(5) Mark Alvin Buckles was born on 08 Jan 1930 in Bunnell, Flagler County, Florida and married on 14 Aug 1970 in Ft Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida, Zeida C Castro. He was a tile setter in Ft. Lauderdale.

(6) Brady Otto Buckles was born on 01 Apr 1931 in Bunnell, Flagler County, Florida and died on 14 May 2001 in Bristow, Prince William County, Virginia. Brady married on 02 Sep 1951 in Hanover, Hanover County, Virginia, Lydia Elaine Jenkins, daughter of George Thomas Jenkins and Etta Gill Smith (Divorced 15 Dec 1960). Issue;

(A) Brady Otto Buckles, Jr. who was born on 05 Jun 1953 in Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia and married on 01 Aug 1981 in Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, Michelle Louise Furr, daughter of Robert Cleveland Furr and Nancy Ray Pridigen who was born on 27 Jun 1962 in Virginia.

(B) Sharon Darlene Buckles who was born on 06 May in Virginia and who married on 02 Nov 1973 in Prince William County, Virginia, Jeffrey Charles Batson, son of Charles Clifford Batson and Joyce Vivian Olsen who was born on 22 Oct 1954 in Japan.

(C) Cynthia Faye Buckles who was born on 25 May 1955 in Virginia and who married on 07 Dec 1973 in Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia, William John Kennedy, son of Clarence Sidney Kennedy and Ila Imogene Kohns who was born on 14 Oct 1956 in Virginia

(D) Darrell Lee Buckles who was born on 26 Oct 1956 in Virginia and who married on 05 Nov 1983 in Rectortown, Fauquier County Virginia, Lori Anne Settle, daughter of Sherman C. Settle and Mary Ann Ross, who was born on 21 Dec 1964 in Washington, DC.

(E) Melody Mechele Buckles who was born on 08 Apr 1958 in Virginia and who married on 20 Oct 1984 in Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia, Carroll Meredith Quick II, son of Carroll Meredith Quick and Joyce Cynthia Hensley, who was born on 19 Sep 1961 in Virginia.

Brady married 2nd on 27 Oct 1963 in Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia, Louis Minerva Kierstead, daughter of Thomas Kierstead and Lillian Brown.

(7) Homer Lee Buckles who was born on13 Sept 1932 in Bunnell, Flagler County, Florida and who died on 04 Jan 2012 in Volusia County, Florida. Homer married on 10 Jan 1954 in St. Mary's Church, Korona, Flagler County, Florida, Mary Louise Gowen, daughter of Lawrence Edmund Gowen and Charlotte A. Pickels who was born on 01 Feb1938 in Queens, New York City, New York (Divorced Aug 1959).

Homer Lee Buckles married 2nd about 1960, Lois Louise Woods, daughter of Lewis Woods and Addie Ezell Brooks, born about 1938 in Flagler County, Florida (Divorced 18 Oct 1976). Issue;

(A) Deborah Elaine Buckles who was born on 03 Nov 1959 in Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida and who died on 17 Mar 2001 at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Columbia County, Georgia. Deborah married on 31 Jul 1976 in Volusia County, Florida, Douglas Wayne Holmes who was born on 17 Jul 1959. Deborah is buried in Flagler Palms Memorial Gardens, Flagler County, Florida.

(B) Karen Lee Buckles who was born on 19 Oct 1961 in the Flagler Clinic and Hospital, Bunnell, Flagler County, Florida. She married on 08 Sep 1979 in the First Baptist Church, Farmer's Branch, Dallas County, Texas, Joseph Mack King, Jr., son of Joseph Mack King and Haroldine Bowden who was born on 04 Dec 1954.

Homer Lee Buckles married 3rd on 16 Sep 1978 in Anchorage, Anchorage County, Alaska, Cecelia Anne (Betty) Zuber, daughter of Robert Zuber and Elizabeth Louise (Betty) Finley who was born on 24 Sep 1947, Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida (Divorced 19 Jul 2001).

(8) Lorraine Lee Buckles who was born on 10 Feb 1934 in Bunnell, Flagler County, Florida.

Eula Lee Richardson married 2nd on 15 July 1961 in Volusia County, Florida, Clarence James Couey, son of William G. Couey and Adell Rounds who was born on 11 Jan 1888 in Excelsior, Sauk County, Wisconsin and who died on 21 Aug 1979 in Volusia County, Florida. He is buried in Shady Rest Cemetery, Holly Hill, Volusia County, Florida.

Source: The First Families of Flagler by Mary Ketus Deen Holland who cites as her sources, Census and Published Articles.

Additional sources used by the compiler were:

1900 United States Federal Census, Arlington, Duval CO, FL; 1910 United States Federal Census, Precinct 7, St Johns CO, FL; 1930 United States Federal Census, Bunnell, Flagler CO, FL; 1940 United States Federal Census, Clark’s Turpentine Camp, Flagler CO, FL, Bunnell, Flagler CO, FL

Florida Marriage Collection, 1822‑1875 and 1927‑2001; Georgia Marriage Records from Select Counties, 1828-1978; Virginia Marriage Records, 1936-2014

US Social Security Applications and Claims Index. 1936-2001; US Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014; Florida Death Index, 1877‑1998

The Flagler Tribune, Bunnell, Florida, 11 Apr 1945, 19 Dec 1946; The News-Journal, Daytona Beach, Florida, 24 Dec 1998, 31 May 2002, 02 Jun 2002, 10 Jun 2010

Please send questions, corrections or additions to Sisco Deen, P.O. Box 637, Flagler Beach, FL 32136 or email him at Sisco_Deen@hotmail.com

Updated: 09 Mar 2018

Thomas Turner Richardson, son of William Zeno Richardson and Martha Jane Wallace, was born on 14 Mar 1872 in Carthage, Moore County, North Carolina and died on 05 Feb 1946 in Flagler Hospital, St Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida. He was buried in Espanola Cemetery, Espanola, Flagler County, Florida. Sometime after 1963 his remains were moved to Shady Rest Cemetery, Holly Hill, Volusia County, Florida

He was married on 15 Jun 1899 in Ware County, Georgia to Aleph Walker, daughter of David Rasberry Walker and Catherine E. White, who was born on 21 Nov 1878 in Ware County, Georgia and who died on 03 Apr 1963 in Volusia County, Florida. She was buried in Shady Rest Cemetery, Holly Hill, Volusia County, Florida.

In 1900, they were living in Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida where his occupation was “Contractor.” The family is listed on page 55 of the 1910 census of St. Johns Co with his occupation given as "Stiller Turpentine." In 1930 census his occupation was listed as “Janitor, Flagler County Court House.” In the 1940 census of Flagler County, Florida he is listed as divorced and living in Clark’s Turpentine Camp with his occupation listed as “Working Boxes, Wholesale Turpentine Still” while she is listed as living in Bunnell, divorced with her occupation listed as “Seamstress, WPA Sewing Room.”

1. Eula Lee Richardson was born on 31 Dec 1903 in Upton, Coffee County, Georgia and died on 03 Dec 1998 in the Bishop Glen Retirement Home, Holly Hill, Volusia County, Florida. She married on 07 Oct 1923 in Flagler County, Florida, Abraham Harold Buckles, son of Joseph Jackson Buckles and Hulda Ann Elizabeth Richardson who born on 02 Aug 1904 in Haw Creek (later known as St. Johns Park), St Johns now Flagler County, Florida and who died from gunshot wounds on 12 Dec 1946 in Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida while in transit to a hospital. Both are buried in Shady Rest Cemetery, Holly Hill, Volusia County, Florida. (See sketch on Joseph Jackson Buckles for more information on this family).

As a jailer for Flagler County he raised, trained and handled bloodhounds, later moving to Daytona Beach. In a gun battle in the woods two miles west of Dupont, Flagler County, Florida on 12 Dec 1946, Marcus C. Strickland and his nephew Ernest Strickland, shot and killed Harold Buckles and his son Stanley Richardson “Son” Durrance and wounded Alfred Mullis of Holly Hill. Strickland got 3 bullets in his body, seriously wounded, and his nephew Everett, but not so seriously. Harold died in transit to hospital in Daytona Beach. Issue;

L. C. served as a CD2, US Navy in WW II and Korea. He worked for Florida Power and Light in Daytona, then Bunnell, then back in Daytona. He was co‑owner with his wife of Bellevue Flower Shops of Daytona and Flagler Beach. In Mar 1975, L. C. was serving with the Sheriff's Department in Volusia County, Florida. Issue;.

(A) Annette Marie Gilley was born on 12 May 1953 in Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida and on 01 Jan 1974 married Michael Dale “Mike” Henderson, son of Carl H. Henderson and Elizabeth E. Hamilton who was born on 12 Apr 1940 in Miami, Dade County, Florida and who died on 29 Dec 1989 in Winter Park, Orange County, Florida (Divorced, 06 Jul 1978).

(B) Alice Lorraine Gilley was born on 12 May 1956 in Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio and died on 28 May 2002 in Homestead, Dade County, Florida. She is buried in Espanola Cemetery, Espanola, Flagler County, Florida. Alice was a zoo keeper for the Miami Dade Metro Zoo.

(4) Abraham Harold Buckles, Jr. was born on 08 Oct 1928 in Bunnell, Flagler County, Florida and married on 24 Apr 1949 in Holly Hill, Volusia County, Florida, Bernice Louise (Bunny) Baylor, daughter of John Jefferson Baylor and Florence Lavada Roberts who was born on16 Oct 1928 in Volusia County, Florida and who died on 15 Jan 2010 in Ormond Beach, Volusia County, Florida (Divorced 05 Dec 1986)

Harold was a building contractor in the Ft. Lauderdale area and also worked in Hong Kong. Bunny was a graduate of Mainland High School and was a volunteer Airplane and Submarine Spotter during World War II. She worked for Western Union, was a legal secretary and a medical office administrator. Issue;

(A) Connie Sue Buckles who married Borden Rhea Hallowes, Jr

(B) David Stanley Buckles

Abraham Harold Buckles, Jr. married 2nd on 17 Oct 1987 in Broward County, Florida, Waichun Tang.

(5) Mark Alvin Buckles was born on 08 Jan 1930 in Bunnell, Flagler County, Florida and married on 14 Aug 1970 in Ft Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida, Zeida C Castro. He was a tile setter in Ft. Lauderdale.

(6) Brady Otto Buckles was born on 01 Apr 1931 in Bunnell, Flagler County, Florida and died on 14 May 2001 in Bristow, Prince William County, Virginia. Brady married on 02 Sep 1951 in Hanover, Hanover County, Virginia, Lydia Elaine Jenkins, daughter of George Thomas Jenkins and Etta Gill Smith (Divorced 15 Dec 1960). Issue;

(A) Brady Otto Buckles, Jr. who was born on 05 Jun 1953 in Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia and married on 01 Aug 1981 in Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, Michelle Louise Furr, daughter of Robert Cleveland Furr and Nancy Ray Pridigen who was born on 27 Jun 1962 in Virginia.

(B) Sharon Darlene Buckles who was born on 06 May in Virginia and who married on 02 Nov 1973 in Prince William County, Virginia, Jeffrey Charles Batson, son of Charles Clifford Batson and Joyce Vivian Olsen who was born on 22 Oct 1954 in Japan.

(C) Cynthia Faye Buckles who was born on 25 May 1955 in Virginia and who married on 07 Dec 1973 in Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia, William John Kennedy, son of Clarence Sidney Kennedy and Ila Imogene Kohns who was born on 14 Oct 1956 in Virginia

(D) Darrell Lee Buckles who was born on 26 Oct 1956 in Virginia and who married on 05 Nov 1983 in Rectortown, Fauquier County Virginia, Lori Anne Settle, daughter of Sherman C. Settle and Mary Ann Ross, who was born on 21 Dec 1964 in Washington, DC.

(E) Melody Mechele Buckles who was born on 08 Apr 1958 in Virginia and who married on 20 Oct 1984 in Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia, Carroll Meredith Quick II, son of Carroll Meredith Quick and Joyce Cynthia Hensley, who was born on 19 Sep 1961 in Virginia.

Brady married 2nd on 27 Oct 1963 in Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia, Louis Minerva Kierstead, daughter of Thomas Kierstead and Lillian Brown.

(7) Homer Lee Buckles who was born on13 Sept 1932 in Bunnell, Flagler County, Florida and who died on 04 Jan 2012 in Volusia County, Florida. Homer married on 10 Jan 1954 in St. Mary's Church, Korona, Flagler County, Florida, Mary Louise Gowen, daughter of Lawrence Edmund Gowen and Charlotte A. Pickels who was born on 01 Feb1938 in Queens, New York City, New York (Divorced Aug 1959).

Homer Lee Buckles married 2nd about 1960, Lois Louise Woods, daughter of Lewis Woods and Addie Ezell Brooks, born about 1938 in Flagler County, Florida (Divorced 18 Oct 1976). Issue;

(A) Deborah Elaine Buckles who was born on 03 Nov 1959 in Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida and who died on 17 Mar 2001 at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Columbia County, Georgia. Deborah married on 31 Jul 1976 in Volusia County, Florida, Douglas Wayne Holmes who was born on 17 Jul 1959. Deborah is buried in Flagler Palms Memorial Gardens, Flagler County, Florida.

Eula Lee Richardson married 2nd on 15 July 1961 in Volusia County, Florida, Clarence James Couey, son of William G. Couey and Adell Rounds who was born on 11 Jan 1888 in Excelsior, Sauk County, Wisconsin and who died on 21 Aug 1979 in Volusia County, Florida. He is buried in Shady Rest Cemetery, Holly Hill, Volusia County, Florida.

Source: The First Families of Flagler by Mary Ketus Deen Holland who cites as her sources, Census and Published Articles.

1900 United States Federal Census, Arlington, Duval CO, FL; 1910 United States Federal Census, Precinct 7, St Johns CO, FL; 1930 United States Federal Census, Bunnell, Flagler CO, FL; 1940 United States Federal Census, Clark’s Turpentine Camp, Flagler CO, FL, Bunnell, Flagler CO, FL

Florida Marriage Collection, 1822‑1875 and 1927‑2001; Georgia Marriage Records from Select Counties, 1828-1978; Virginia Marriage Records, 1936-2014

US Social Security Applications and Claims Index. 1936-2001; US Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014; Florida Death Index, 1877‑1998

The Flagler Tribune, Bunnell, Florida, 11 Apr 1945, 19 Dec 1946; The News-Journal, Daytona Beach, Florida, 24 Dec 1998, 31 May 2002, 02 Jun 2002, 10 Jun 2010

Please send questions, corrections or additions to Sisco Deen, P.O. Box 637, Flagler Beach, FL 32136 or email him at Sisco_Deen@hotmail.com