Welcome to the American Legion Morton-Richardson Post 128 in Richland, Georgia.

 

Morton-Richardson Post 128 was Chartered on November 9, 1920.

The Post was named in memory of two World War I veterans, John Randall Morton and Seymore Nicholas Richardson, and was chartered on November 9, 1920. Both of these veterans had pioneer roots established in the Pleasant Valley Community and Randall’s Crossing, near Richland. In 1921, membership numbered at 15, and William L. Shepard was the first Commander of the Post. The Post made outstanding strides in community service, Americanism, Rehabilitation, and service to veterans of all wars and their families.

 

Mr. Morton, born on March 2, 1892, and died on November 22, 1918, died as an Army private in Medical Detachment Base Hospital # 118. Mr. Morton was inducted into the U.S. Army on August 8, 1918, in Lumpkin, and was assigned to CO I, Replacement Group Medical Department on September 4. 1918. He was at Motor CO 10, Camp Greenleaf, Ga. at the Medical Detachment Base Hospital # 118, until September 11, 1918. Family records has it that he was buried at sea on the date of his death, November 22, after succumbing to meningitis, evidently while on his way overseas aboard a ship. His name is among those memorialized on Tablets of the Missing in the Suresnes American Cemetery, at Suresnes, France, just outside Paris. http://www.abmc.gov/search-abmc-burials-and-memorializations/detail/WWI_8128#.VLGnhnuvw4k

 

Mr. Richardson, born on January 27, 1897, died on November 5, 1918. He was inducted in to the Army on October 24, 1918, and was in the Army only a few weeks when he succumbed to Lobar pneumonia. He is buried at Fort Screven, Chatham County, a part of the town of Savannah Beach.