Uncle Cliff's personal family history that was created by cousin Mike Richardson in 2006.

1. From Ireland,From Ireland,
With LoveWith Love
Cliff Richardson, a partial family history.Cliff Richardson, a partial family history.
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2. Ψ Photos: Clifford E. Richardson Archives
Ψ Design & Production: Michael L. Richardson
© 2006 Paracomm Global Inc.

3. Hangin’ with Big Brother

5. Childhood

6. Young Rodney
Elmore with
Ethel, Aunt Sis
& Alma

7. Brother Bill, Hangin’ with Sisters

8. Childhood: Dreamin’ of Drivin’
• Red wagon man 1936

9. Youthful friends

10. Early Studly at 17 in 1943

11. Hanging with
Pop, Mel &
Jouett

12. The Family When … on Sterrett

13. Youngest Male in Family
• Last one on the tree

14. Freshman Student Council

15. Those Early Years
A guard on
Holmes HS Bulldogs

16. Ky. Championship Football Player

17. Catching Ink 1943

18. Cars Matter
• Sinatra Lookalike
Out Dating

19. Young Man

20. Once Handsome
• He Grew Out Of It

21. This Ol’
House,
Mom Frances
At Right on
Sterrett Avenue

22. Cliff served in WW II with
the Merchant Marine. He
no sooner got home when
the U.S. Army drafted him.
Within 6 months, he was
promoted from buck
private to Staff Sergeant,
serving two years in what
became South Korea.
Here, in Army at Camp
Stoneman, Calif. his
weapon is a broom.

23. Staff Sgt. Army Days in Korea

24. Young Entrepreneur
After time with
Pinkerton Detective
Agency, here selling
siding in South
Carolina

25. Richardson Bros. Landscaping

26. Sons Arising

27. ’70s: Still About Cars

28. Ladies & Little Man, Mike Meloy

29. Pop Then, Mom Later

30. Hangin’ with Bill & Sisters

31. The Elders

32. Then
Cometh
Phyllis

33. Sons Arisen

34. And They Dated …

35. And They Dated …

36. And They Dated …

37. And They Dated …

38. Laughs
at Last

39. Fun on Grandpa’s Farm

40. What One Man Can Achieve

41. Mike’s Bunch with notorious uncle

42. One Sang Bass, the Other Sang Tenor

43. Two Sober Executives

44. Flippsey’s Farm Frolics
Cliff
Carries
Everybody!

45. Early Retirement, Early Dementia

46. The Family Later … circa 1980

47. 2 Brothers & 7 Sisters

48. Nephews & Nieces

49. 2 Brothers & Their Sons 1979

50. Uncle
With
Mike’s
Bunch

51. Cliff Loved Grass

52. Farming Began and Grass Grew

54. 130 YEARS OF RICHARDSONS
John Thomas Richardson married Ellen
Lyons of Ireland in 1876; they had 7
children including, Eugene Michael
(“Mike”) who married Frances Spanton in
1905, and they had 11 children including
Clifford Eugene who married Jackie Carper
in 1950 and they had two sons, Eugene and
Douglas, each of whom married, and the
rest of the story is theirs to tell.

55. They
started
it
all
in 1876.
Ellen and John
Richardson

56. Earlier photo,
approx. 1883,
Ellen Lyons
Richardson
with her 3
daughters,
including
newest, little
Ellie, destined
to become
nun.
Ellen descends from a group
called “The Black Irish” who
were part-Spanish and part-
Irish. Spain had conquered
Ireland circa 1650. The
subsequent dark skin and
black eyes of the Richardsons
in northern Kentucky were
due NOT to American Indians
but to their Spanish-Irish
forebears.

57. Star of the American
Richardsons is Ellen
Lyons, at right. She was
born Aug. 9, 1855 in
Waterford County, Ireland.
Martin Lyons adopted
her. Her mother is
unknown. She emigrated
to the U.S. in the
Baltimore area and to
Covington, Ky. where at
21 she married John
Thomas Richardson (at
right). She bore him 7
children. Our stars are, at
left, Eugene Michael
Richardson, grandfather
of Gene and Doug
Richardson, and then
Ellen “Ellie” Lyons,
shown here, her youngest
daughter, who became
known as “Aunt Sis –
because she dedicated
her life to the service of
Christ as a nun. This
picture was taken June
25, 1906!

58. Years later, Ellen
Lyons
Richardson,
seated with her
husband John.
Standing left are
Ellen’s daughters
Irene and
Caroline, who
never wed.
Standing also is
her son Eugene
Michael “Mike”
Richardson – it is
his wedding day,
and his bride at
right is Frances
Spanton – it is
June 25, 1905.
Little Ellie, who
became a nun, is
seated. Dog’s
name unknown.

59. Same day, back row (right) is Cliff Richardson’s Dad, Michael and his
bride Frances. This is her clan – the Spantons, in Taylor Mill, Ky. Cliff’s
grandfather, Daniel Spanton, is seated at left. Goat unknown … Names:
See print record.

60. Spanish-Irish Richardson Tree
of Ellen Lyons Richardson

61. Cliff: From Ireland to Kentucky

62. On This day,
about 1923, Ellen
Lyons
Richardson, at
left, presents a
gift to her
daughter Ellen –
a.k.a. “Ellie” – as
the daughter
departs for the
convent and her
lifelong service
to Christ.
So begins the
career as Aunt
Sister Mary
Herbert, often
called “Aunt
Sis.”

63. 2005: 100th
Wedding Anniversary of Frances
Spanton and E. Michael Richardson – June 26
They had 11 children – the first of whom, Hazel, died at
infancy. There followed two sons: the first was William R. and
the last was Clifford E. In between were 9 girls. After 43 years
of marriage, he died in 1949 in Cincinnati at 65.

65. Father E. Mike Richardson featured “Six Singing Sisters” often in Covington, Ky.
at Immanuel Baptist Church. They are aunts to Michael Lewis, Gene and Doug;
from left:
Alma, Eugenia, Lois, Irene, Hester, Ethel.

66. To Cliff’s
grandchildren
these are
GREAT-
GREAT
AUNTS !
… and so
forth! They
sang for our
Lord Jesus
and built
strong,
God-serving
homes.

67. Cliff’s only Brother, William Robert “Rich” Richardson, in
1937 at age 28. A reported “ladies man,” here with two he
never married. He chose Ruth when he was 30.

68. Patriarch
Michael “Mike”
Richardson :
Cliff’s father, son
of Spanish-Irish
Immigrant Ellen
Lyons
Richardson,
shortly before he
died in 1949 at
65.

69. Name 12, get baptized, win trip to
heaven with Baptist discount!

70. Bill, 85, after being tossed from a hay wagon in
Somerset, with his favorite, Michele.

71. Irene’s chalk art at Bronston
… by fingernail!

72. Eugene
Michael
Richardson,
good and
godly father.

73. The Matriarch:
Cliff’s Mother, Frances Richardson.
Left: circa 1965, right: circa 1974.
She died at 90 on Jan.5, 1976.

74. By 1985,” Brothers Cliff & Bill, left, and Ethel, far right, whose Army
career (Captain, Women’s Army Corps WW II) kept her away for decades.

75. PIVOTAL POINT: The modern
Richardson men at 68th
Avenue
South in St. Pete,circa 1974.

76. Cliff with
niece
Michele
(Bill’s
grand-
daughter)
on her 17th
birthday,
January
1983

77. Circa 1985,
Eugenia,
Ruth, Irene,
Ethel
squired by
Bill, at
Woodson
Bend, Ky.
Where Cliff
had set up a
colony of the
Richardsons

78. Left, Cliff’s sister-in-law Ruth visiting
with Irene, Alma, Ethel, circa ’85.

79. Cliff’s Brother Bill, eldest sister Ethel when they
visited him. Cliff says he and Bill never argued.

80. Circa 1951, Indianapolis, 20-acre farm owned by
wn here with his son Mike,7, with a tractor-grader
and Cliff bought to form Richardson Bros. firm.

81. Cliff’s Brother Bill in 1956 upon being
inducted to the Greenwood Masonic
Lodge. He valued Masons because they
rescued his family when at age 7 his
parents were evicted from their home.
Eugene Michael’s mother despised his
Baptist marriage and his joining
Freemasonry. She had promised theShe had promised the
land to him on a handshake, but whenland to him on a handshake, but when
he refused to make his children accepthe refused to make his children accept
Catholicism, his mother had the SheriffCatholicism, his mother had the Sheriff
serve notice of eviction. Then aserve notice of eviction. Then a
Catholic bishop came to try to convinceCatholic bishop came to try to convince
Frances to send her children toFrances to send her children to
Catholic schools and worshipCatholic schools and worship. Frances
refused and threw a tub of hot water on
the priest. The next day the Sheriff,
acting on Michael’s mother’s request,
served notice of eviction. Ellen broke
her handshake agreement to sell her
homestead to her son, Mike.

82. Cliff’s terrific Aunt !
‘Aunt Sis’ was a faithful and
loving nun whose family
supported her.
Circa 1976. She was known
as Ellen “Ellie” Richardson,
and was the daughter of the
Ellen Lyons Richardson
who came from Ireland to
America as an adoptee,
fleeing the Irish “potato
famine.”

83. The Brothers Two: circa 1976 in
Bill’s Greenwood home after
they finished building the
fireplace on ‘Daddio’s Patio.’

84. Bill finally
prevailed on wife
Ruth to move to
Florida in 1977. It
took Bill 8 years to
convince her to
move from their
Indiana home.

85. ___________
May 2001:
Bill and Ruth
went to
heaven two
weeks apart
in Corbin,
Ky., site of
their
honeymoon.
Ruth was
from London,
Ky.
_________

86. Greetings to Cliff’s Family from great-nephew Mark, a Tulsa Baptist pastor, and nephew Mike,
journalist and Baptist deacon, December ‘05,working in Mark’s office on the
Sunday School curriculum he created as he finished his Seminary doctoral studies.

87. Cliff,
A Great Brother to nine!
Father of two. Grandfather
of four. Great-grandfather
of three. A great Uncle to
a dozen or so! And a truly
Great Man, Uncle and
Brother in Christ to me.
Keep the Love
Going,
Mike

88. Ψ Photos: Clifford E. Richardson Archives
Ψ Design & Production: Michael L. Richardson
© 2006 Paracomm Global Inc.