Wilson, Douglas L., ed; Davis, Rodney O., ed. 'Register of Informants' in 'Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements About Abraham Lincoln' . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. [format: book], [genre: history]. Permission: University of Illinois Press
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Richardson lived on Thomas Lincoln's land in Spencer County after the Lincolns left Indiana for Illinois. He was a brother-in-law of WHH informants David Turnham and John S. Houghland. (Indiana Pocket Weekly. IPW, February 2, 1884; Federal Census, Spencer County, Ind., 1880; Richardson file, LBNM)