Lydia Richmond

1757-1849 · Virginia

Born 1757, Virginia

Died 1849

Children include Rev.

Lydia Richmond was born in Virginia about 1757. She married Richard Keele, who served as a frontier ranger in Henry County, Virginia, in 1776 and 1777 and later fought at King's Mountain. Their son John was born in 1777, and their son William in January 1781 in Washington County, in the Nolichucky country beyond the mountains. Their other children included Richard Richmond, Sarah, Jacob, Thomas and David.

The family settled in Middle Tennessee, in the Duck River country of Bedford County. On 22 September 1815 the Garrison Fork Baptist Church at Beech Grove "Received sister Lydia Keele by experience," which meant that she had told the congregation of her conversion and was taken in for baptism. Richard and their sons William and John were already active in the church, and William became its minister. In their last years they lived with their son David, just over the line in Rutherford County.

A great-granddaughter, Mrs. J. H. Wharton, wrote down that Richard Keele's "wife was Lydia Richmond, that is where the name Richmond came from." Her son Richard Richmond Keele carried it, and so did descendants for a century after her. She died in July 1849, the same month as Richard, and was buried beside him in the Keele Cemetery in Bedford County in an unmarked grave. Descendants set a stone for her in 2023.

Children

Rev. John Keele 1777-1860

Sources

Pension application of Richard Keele, S1977, Records of the Veterans Administration, National Archives; transcribed by Will Graves, Southern Campaigns American Revolution Pension Statements, revwarapps.org/s1977.pdf.

Garrison Fork Baptist Church (Beech Grove, Coffee County, Tennessee), Minutes 1809-1933, entries of 22 September 1815, 27 July 1816, September 1816, 22 May and 27 June 1818; FamilySearch images ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS5W-1W89-K, 3:1:3Q9M-CS5W-1WZP-V, 3:1:3Q9M-CS5W-1WZT-8.

Find a Grave memorial 93827758, with family links to memorials 54765220 and 97534989; letter of Mrs. J. H. Wharton copied in the Cordelia G. Williams genealogical collection, Texas, 1944 (FamilySearch image 3:1:3QHK-Q35V-55T); Garrison Fork Baptist Church minutes, 1809 to 1933, Beech Grove, Tennessee (FamilySearch images 3:1:3Q9M-CS5W-1W89-K, 3:1:3Q9M-CS5W-1WZP-V and 3:1:3Q9M-CS5W-1WZT-8)

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