Redman, Samuel K.

REDMAN, OWEN, FERGUSON, KIMBERLY, COLVIN, SHARP, SCOVILLE

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/7/2013 at 07:44:37

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

REDMAN, SAMUEL K.—Deep River Twp—pg 741-2. P.O. Deep River. His grandfather was a native of Ireland; married a German lady, and died in Virginia. His father (Eli) was born in Virginia, November, 1794; was a farmer. Served in the War of 1812. Moved to Whiteside county, Illinois, in 1838, and died in Carroll county, Illinois, October 29, 1862. His second wife was Catharine Owen, of Terre Haute, Indiana, who was born in Pennsylvania, June 18, 1820, and was probably of Dutch-Welsh extraction. They were married in 1838, and she bore him: Wm. H. (born March 5, 1840; married March 2, 1870, Susan P. Ferguson), Phebe Jane (born January 5, 1842), Sarah Emeline (born February 17,1844; married Wm. H. Kimebly, October 10, 1867, and died February 20, 1876), Nelson L. (born November 16, 1847), Eli Markle (born November 22, 1849; married Frances G. Colvin, April 3, 1880), unnamed, female (died November, 1851), Margaret Louisa ( May 7, 1854; married Charles Sharp, December 12, 1877), Samuel K. (born March 13, 1856) and Franklin O. (born August 10, 1861). The subject of this sketch was born in Whiteside county, Illinois, and came to this county when eleven years of age. He is at present caring for his widowed sister Phebe and her family. Mrs. Scoville was married March 14, 1867, and her husband, Edward F., died from disease contracted in the army, July 13, 1879. The fruits of their wedlock have been as follows: Steven Melvern (born November 18, 1868), Katie L. (born December 19, 1870; died February 1, 1873), Marion A. (born September 6, 1872), and Luella (born July 19, 1874; died September 27, 1874). Mr. R. received his education in this county, attending the graded school at Montezuma, and finishing at the Iowa College. He is a young man. He is now engaged in the profession of teaching, to which he brings the fruitful qualifications of a manly character, fine talents, natural adaptation, and thorough preparation, and to which he will probably devote the abilities of his entire life.