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From: Richard Leamer <>
Subject: Re: REDDEN/LEWIS
Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 11:47:53 -0400


Dear Mark,

I am still attempting to track down my REDDEN family. On another mail list,
I contacted Alicia Whitehead, and she sent me a great deal of information
placing the person I believe to be my great grandfather, James Washington
REDDEN, in the family of Nehemiah REDDEN, born c. 1812. She had been given
this genealogy by someone else, and it said that this Nehemiah was the son
of Nehemiah REDDEN, grandson of Nehemiah Redden who died in 1795. I had
written down the titles of two monographs in the Library of Congress on this
family written by Richard Stephen Uhrbrock, and went there on Monday to
track them down. In these short books, which I have xeroxed, the lineage of
these Nehemiahs is traced, but Mr. Uhrbrock goes off to trace his own
lineage descending from the 2nd Nehemiah's eldest son Stephen. He only says
that the 3rd Nehemiah was born "posthumously", as his wife was pregnant when
Nehemiah II died in 1830. He could not have been the father of the family I
need.

I have located in the census the family of Nehemiah born c. 1812, and all
the details of that family jibe with what Alicia Whitehead told me.
However, his father must have been someone other than the Nehemiah in the
line Mr. Uhrbrock wrote about.

Since these books were written in the 60's and Mr. Uhrbrock was born in
1894, I am sure he is not around anymore. But he quotes correspondence with
Mark C. Lewis of Parksley, VA dated January 21, 1957. I assume that this
would be your father, but wondered if you might have any information on this
confusing family. I need to get over to Salisbury again to do a lot more
research, but when I saw that name I was thinking, Mark Lewis, I know that name!

Any tidbits of information would be appreciated! Nehemiah seems to have
been a very popular name back then!

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