Atkinson Milling Co., Inc.

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John Richardson built mill April 1757 and died 1802 - mill passed to his son William Richardson who died 1822 - mill passed to his son Dr. Joseph Richardson who died 1840 - mill passed to his son Lunsford Richardson who drowned at the mill in 1856 at age 48. He had five children, William, Clement, Martha (Pattie), Rozetta and Lunsford II. Rozetta married Dr. Joshua Vick of Selma. Her brother Lunsford II operated a drug store in Selma; thus Vicks Vaper Rub was developed along with several other Vicks products, that was later known as the Vick Chemical Company, which became a world wide empire. Mill passed to Martha (Pattie) Richardson, who married Thomas H. Atkinson, a wealthy land owner near Boone Hill (Princeton) in 1859. Thomas died 1905 - Pattie died 1912. At that time the property consisted of a cotton gin, sawmill, general store, blacksmith shop, wheat and corn mill. Thomas and Pattie Atkinson had seven children, Robert, Minna, Joseph, Albert, Robena, Thomas II, and Wade. Mill passed to their son Thomas Atkinson II and later to another son, Dr. Wade Atkinson. Wade died 1942 - Thomas died 1947. Mill passed to Mrs. Mary Atkinson, widow of Dr. Wade Atkinson who owned and managed mill until it burned in 1950. Atkinson Milling Company was incorporated, with shareholders being Mrs. Mary Atkinson (widow of Dr. Wade H.), Jean McLean, Ruth McLean and Cora MacLean. The McLeans are daughters of Robena Atkinson, granddaughters of Thomas H. and Pattie Atkinson. Present Mill...

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