12/30/2023 0 Comments Mustard plaster during civil war![]() ![]() His wife's brother, Henry Louis Smith, later president of Davidson and of Washington and Lee, was best man. Four years later he married Mary Lynn Smith, daughter of the Reverend Jacob Henry Smith, minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro. His mother died in January 1873 and Richardson, short of money, completed the four-year curriculum in three years, graduating in May 1875 as salutatorian of his class and winner of the Greek and Latin medals and the Debater's Medal of the Philanthropic Literary Society.įor four years he was principal of the Little River Academy in Lyndon, but finding prospect for economic advancement poor, he left teaching in 1880 and with his savings purchased a drugstore in Selma. At age fourteen he went off to the Horner and Graves School in Oxford and then in the fall of 1872 enrolled at Davidson College. His two older brothers, who had joined the Confederate army, were away when, in April 1865, the home and farm were looted by passing troops from William T. Lunsford was the youngest child and his closest companions were the people his family enslaved on the plantation. His father, Lunsford Richardson, Sr., died before he was two, and his mother, Laurinda Vinson, daughter of Archibald and Rutha Smith Vinson, took over the operation of the plantation and raising of the five children. Lunsford Richardson, pharmacist and founder of the Vick Chemical Company, grew up on a plantation in Johnston County southeast of Raleigh. Preyer, 1994 Revised by Jared Dease, Government and Heritage Library, January 2023 30 Dec. ![]()
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