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Author: keithbuckley22
Surnames: Reding, Redding, Boling, Needham, Cosand, Trogdon, Ballard
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Dorcas Reding Boling was Thomas R Reding's cousin, not his niece. Her father, John
Reding, and Thomas's father, also named Thomas, AND Jonathan Reding, were all
brothers, sons of Joseph Reding and Jean Needham Reding. (Johnathan Reding was a state
senator for Randolph County, N.C. for two terms, and also raised Thomas R. Reding and his
three brothers when Thomas Reding Sr. and his wife, Polly Winningham Reding, both died
sometime prior to 1815). I believe Dorcas Reding was the eldest of Joseph's
grandchildren as she witnessed his will. Dorcas. Thomas R. Reding, his three brothers
(Iredell, Michael, and James B. Reding) all came to Indiana, along with two aunts
(Elizabeth Reding Trogdon and Freelove Reding Cosand). Iredell, Michael and the Cosands
settled in around New Castle in Henry County, the Trogdons in southern Monroe County, and
James B. Reding on the eastern edge of Lawrence County.
I wrote a book on Thomas Reding in 1984, but at that time knew only that he had a brother,
James-- there was absolutely no information about their parents and I found them listed
as orphans in court records from Randolph County. In 1989 I actually visited the property
on which Joseph and Jean Reding lived and were buried in the Back Creek area of Randolph
County, N.C., but was not able to cement these relationships until late last summer when I
discovered a letter to Iredell Reding from James Reding's widow, Nancy Ballard Reding.
(I should note that Iredell and Michael spelled their last names Redding, as have their
descendants.)
I would eagerly entreat any researchers working on any of these families to contact me.
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