Richard E. Echols

Source: http://www.armory.com/~vern/family/newsletter/echols.htm

HISTORY OF ECHOLS FAMILY by MILNER ECHOLS 1850

Richard Echols was the fifth son of English John Echols who married Caty Evans - he was my grandfather - and by her had fourteen children. Three died in infancy. The rest lived to raise families. Their first son was Moses who married Betsy Wynne. They raised a considerable family. Their first son was John who married Fanny Formby and moved from Virginia to Tennessee. I know but little of the family. He was a one-eyed man, he was very smart and had great property. Their second son was Obediah. He married Betsy Terry. He died at about 65 years of age. I know but little of his family, only one son who lives in the western district of Tennessee by name of Champness Terry Echols, a Baptist preacher. Moses third son was by name of Moses who married a Miss Terry - cousin to his brother Obediah’s wife. I know nothing of his family. Their fourth son was by name of Evans who married Anna Terry, sister to his brother Moses wife. They live in Virginia. I know no more of their family. Old Moses daughters were by name of Rebecca, Priscilla, Tabitha, Betsy, Lucy and Frances. Rebecca married Edward Akin. I have no knowledge of their family. Priscilla married David Bates in Halifax County, a very large man who offered for the legislature in the county that he was born and raised in when he was about twenty-five years old. He got every vote that was given in the county and the county was very large. He continued to go to the legislature as long as he stayed in Virginia. He then moved to Georgia, Wilkes County. He became a representative of Wilkes County in Senate and was once appointed President Senate pro tem - you can see his name in the digest of the laws of Georgia. He became so fat that it was supposed by the doctors that his fat melted in him, killed him before he was sixty years old. He weighed nearly four hundred pounds. He raised his family in Wilks County, Georgia but after his death they moved to Tennessee. I have but little account of them since. He had one son named Randolph and one named Anderson. Of the rest I have no account only one daughter named Susanah who marriedJames Johnson of Oglethorpe County.

John Echols married Mary Cave in 1670, Caroline, Brunsick,Virginia.

References: History of the Echols Family (by Milner Echols, 1850); John Echols in Lunenburg, Virginia, History of Echols Family, W.R. Echols, 2005, Phx. AZ.)

When Richard Echols was born in 1706, in King and Queen, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, John Echols, Jr., was 56 and his mother, Mary Cave, was 45. He married Catherine Evans in 1728, in Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 15 January 1778, in Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States, at the age of 72.