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Dr. H. X. Richardson, of Fowlkes Station, Tenn., was born in Tishomingo County, Miss., December 13, 1856; son of W. F. and Lucinda Richardson. The father was born in Lexington District, S. C., in 1818, and was of English descent. In 1825 he moved with his parents to northern Alabama. Here his father died in 1828, and he and his mother then moved to Tishomingo County, Miss. Here he married a year later and moved to McNairy County, Tenn., in 1858, where he purchased 160 acres of land. He now owns 700 acres, which he has earned by the sweat of his brow. In early manhood he taught school, and in 1846 was licensed to preach, and from that time until 1854 was an active worker in behalf of Christianity, advocating the Methodist Episcopal Church South doctrine. In 1854 he was admitted to the Memphis conference and traveled for several years, but owing to ill health was compelled to give up this work, but has preached since, when able. He is the father of six living children, all of whom have taught, or are teaching school. He lost his wife in 1865, and four years later he married Mrs. M. J. Mayfield, nee M. J. Rogers. The subject of our sketch was educated in Jackson District High School, Montezuma, Tenn., and Corinth, Miss. At the age of twenty-three he began teaching school and taught at different times for two years. During this time he began the study of medicine, his preceptor being Dr. J. M. Taylor, of Corinth, Miss., and later finished his medical education in the University of Nashville and Vanderbilt University of that city. In the winter of 1883 he located near Fowlkes, Tenn., and in 1885 moved to the station, where he has secured a lucrative practice. In politics he is a stanch Democrat, having cast his first vote for Gen. Hancock in 1880. He is a strictly moral, kind and courteous gentleman and fully deserves the success that has attended him.