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- this is from the family Bible belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Archie Lynch another birthdate from Mrs. Fisher: 7/18/1810
notes from Ann Lynch Boyer:
Richard never took the time to sign a will after the death of Mary Curtis Lynch. He died in 1864 at the age of 54.
At the signing of the will, he appears to have been in full control of the plantation of his father, PeytonLynch. His brother George had died in 1855 in New Orleans, (George was killed instantly when he was hit by a train), so he, George, was not living on the plantation nor had he been. Richard's first son, John Peyton Lynch, was old enough to serve in the Army of the Confederacy. He was studying to be a doctor, and, in fact, became a doctor. He mentions the plantation in a letter to the University of Virginia, written after the war (see under Johm Peyton Lynch). That war of Yankee aggression had destroyed the life that this young man had known before the war. His father had died, and who was left in charge or what may have been left, we do not know.
The children of his second marriage have disappeared from (ALB) family records.
There must have been, however, a stong family tie between the wife and children of George Lynch and the family of Richard Lynch, both before and after his death in 1864 and after. At least one of the children of George and Rosa (Bright) Lynch, their son Peyton Barker Lynch, was cetainly inpressed with his "aunt - by marriage"; impressed enough, that when he became a parent he named a daughter, Margaret Curtis Lynch! We know that my grand father, Willima Hugh Montgomery Lynch must have remained in close contact with these cousins because, it was to one of these cousins, and I believe one of the sons of George to whom he gave a great deal of plantation property, although I do not believe an actual deed has ever been located. It evolves that this very land "area" that he gave away, is the area producing the largest royalty of gas and oil today. Somehow, the George Lynch heirs receive more in royalty payments than do the heirs of William Hugh Montgomery Lynch. This is as I understand the dispersion of the oil funds, and I may be wrong.
But my grandfather was known to be a generous and kind man, and it is told that he had felt sorry for his cousins who did not seem to be doing very well financially. He thought that they might be able to "do" something with the acreage. I do not know what he had in mingd back then, or exactly when this occurred. All of that land today is swamp land or under water entirely. THe Lynch plantation site completely disappeared with the lower Mississippi Flood Control Project, but that came about after the death of William High Montgomery Lynch. In his day, all of that old plantation land was not under water, it may not have been totally "dry" land, byt it was not all swamp, either.
All I know of the original location, is being told of an old map on the court house wall in the St. Mary Parish Court House, in Franklin Louisiana, and that the map contains a location designated as "Lynch's Point". I was told that the plantation was acriss the Bayou Teche from the town of Franklin, Louisiana. (In our Sanders genealogy, you will find out that before the town of Franklin was a town, the whole was the plantation of James Sanders, II and his wife , Abby Ann (Nixon).
It seems to be of general opinion that the old Lynch plantation was named "Indian Head". This was the saw-mill plantation, or the working plantation. My first-cousin Garrett Lynch, has additional information handed down to him in the form of oral history, that the actual "living" house, or "plantation house" was at a location in or near the tiny village of Charentonn, at a bend in Bayou Teche and was named "Lynch's Lane".
I was never told of either of the two names, and have only recently been made aware of the names. However, I do know that mmy Daddy collected Indian Pennies at one time! He said "...they were old coins, and he just liked them!" Now I knwo there was " a little more to the story".
It seemed an appropriate necessity to tell more of the story of Richard Lynch and his families and his place in history, but it has been hard, if not impossible to get a firm grip on the "man", Richard Lynch.
He appeared to have remained with very strong ties to his native state of Virginia. (I wonder if he knew that he was a direct descendant, through his maternal line, of one of the first Goevernors of Virginia, Sir George Yeardley?)
He traveled back and forth from Virginia to Louisiana on a regular basis I think, for as we know, all three of his wives were from that state. He probably visited at every opportunity, because his mother was still living there. She had re-married to Benjamin Sutton after the death of Richard's father, Peyton Lynch. He, also, had younger brothers and sisters in that state. Brother James Lynch, who also signed the estate papers of their father Peyton Lynch, had returned to Virginia to live.
As time passed, Richard's VIrginia relations and kin haad families of their own, and I am sure that he wanted to stay connected with his Virginia nieces and nephews. And it was to the University of Virginia that he sent his son, John Peyton,although he had barely studied there for a year when the War between the States began.
After the death of his father, Richard, over a period of time appears to have gained complete control of the Peyton Lynch Plantation. He was probably a good businessman and assumed a prominent roll in all aspects of parish life and society.
In several books compiled by Mary Elizabeth Sanders on the court records of St. Mary parish, we find RIchard Lynch mentioned time and again as witness to an estate inventory;a buyer at the sale of an estate; called as a representative for a minor in the status of family friend.
Jan 1993. Ann Lynch Boyer Great grand daughter of Richard Lynch by his third wife, Margaret Curtis Lynch.
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1810 - 1864 (53 years)
