The Rickmonds: a Railroad Family
Leslie Watson Tomlinson 1 7 Kinship Determination Project–Narrative Lineage The Rickmonds: A Railroad Family First Generation 1. James Rufus Rickmond was born 16 February 1849 in Scottsburg, Halifax County, Virginia,1 and died 20 January 1931 in Dan River, Pittsylvania County.2 He married Mary Elizabeth Crowder on 25 January 1871 in Halifax County.3 She was born 13 March 1853 in the same county,4 and died 7 April 1931 in Spencer, Rowan County, North Carolina.5 JAMES RUFUS’S PARENTAGE James Rufus, or Rufus, as he was known to his family, was born before civil birth registration began in Virginia.6 Absent a birth record, the following independently-created evidence confirms his parentage: • On 15 March 1884 his father, H. J. Rickman, made a will naming Rufus as one of his six sons.7 • Rufus’s marriage record identifies his parents as H. J. and Harriet A. “Ruckman.” Rufus likely supplied the information for the record.8 1. For his birth month and year, see 1900 U.S. census, Pittsylvania Co., Va., population schedule, Dan River district, enumeration district (ED) 77, sheet 17B, dwelling 336, family 337, James R. Rickmond; Ancestry (http: www. ancestry.com : accessed 27 April 2018); NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 1722; citing microfilm 1,241,722, Family History Library (FHL), Salt Lake City. For birth day and corroboration of the month and year, see Leemont Cemetery (Danville, Va.), Rickmond and Perkinson family graves, James R. Rickmond marker; section 24.25, F.G., read and photographed by the author. For his birthplace see “James Rickmond Dies at 81,” The Bee, Danville, Va., 21 January 1931, page 3, col.
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