The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.
Birth: Dec 16, 1778 Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
Death: age 58, June 15, 1837–USA
Burial: Freeland Cemetery
Henderson County, Illinois, USA
Memorial #: 71328453
Bio: Oldest son of Anne Wynn and Benjamin Redman.
In 1803, Rezin was an Ensign in the Clark Co. Militia.
Nov 29, 1809 he was promoted to Major. He participated in the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 and became a Lt. Col. on June 10, 1813. He reached rank of Col. From the Roll of a detachment of the Field & Staff of IN. Militia Rezin is listed as Major from Sept 11 - Nov. 24, 1811 under the command of Lieut. Col. Bartholomew.
Near the end of 1813, he was a Judge in a court held in Charlestown, IN. A number of land records show transfer of land from Benjamin Redman to Rezin Redman. Straw's Mill on Silver Creek, Jeffersonville, IN, was put up not long after 1804 by Rezen Redman.
He married Elizabeth Stacy abt. 1808. They had two sons before she died abt. 1811. He then married Elizabeth Downs Dec 19, 1811 in Jeffersonville, Clark Co., IN. They had four children.
After she died in 1824, Rezin moved to Warren Co., IL. (land located in present day Henderson Co., IL.)
The earliest permanent white inhabitant of Henderson Counties was Captain Rezin Redman. A veteran of the War of 1812, but not a recipient of a warrant in the county.
According to research by Laura Stewart, "He was an officer in the second war with England, and became imbued with that daring spirit, dauntless resolution and matchless strategy which are such necessary characteristics in the frontiersman and pioneer. Early history reports Redman came up the Mississippi in 1825 before a foot of the county's virgin soil had been polluted by the touch of man. He immediately built a crude lean-to shelter on Honey Creek along a slough where it emptied into the Mississippi. He brought his family here and put up a small two-room log cabin, where the family remained for years." (Copied from History of Henderson County 1882 page 341.) He married a third time to Nancy Eberman and they had four children.
His will was on file in Henderson Co., IL., but the original record can not be located.
(Copied from Rivers Railways, and Roads a history of Henderson County page 10)
Not until 1834 though was Redman able to secure a deed to his homestead.
In that year he purchased Lot: W2SW Section Number: 12 Township: 08N Range: 06W Meridan: 4 County of: Henderson Acres: 80 Price per Acre: $1.25 Total Price: $100.00 Type of Sale: FD Date of Purchase: 11/03/1834 Volume: 699 Page: 070.