John Baker Reding

John Baker Reding

• Father: Robert Reding b. say 1770
• Mother: Ann Baker b. say 1770, d. circa 30 September 1818

• John Baker Reding was born on 5 March 1817 in Tennessee probably in Davidson County.
• John Baker Reding became a ward of his brother Iredell Reding upon the death of his father.
• Iredell Reding and Nancy Brooks appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Montgomery County, Texas. Other members of the household included John Baker Reding, Elizabeth C. Reding.
• He was a farmer, according to the 1850 census.
• On Monday, 24 January 1852, Green Wood recorded in his plantation daily account book: "Sent ten hands to the river & Mr John Reding," likely for some brickwork related to building the new cotton warehouse."
• On Tuesday, 8 February 1853, Green Wood recorded in his plantation daily account book: "Went to the river with 8 hands & Mr Reding," and on the following day, "John & Quarles working at Mr Con's for John Reding." On Monday, the 14th, "7 hands at work on flats & two at Con's at work for John Reding.
       John Conn was the husband of John Reding's sister Nancy, who died in 1851.
• On Wednesday, 2 March 1853, Green Wood recorded in his plantation daily account book: "Mr Reding turned & put in the river the 2nd flat to day."
• Green Wood recorded: "1860, Nov 5th: Paid Iredel Reding for Brick for Double Chimney & Pillars for New house (11,500 Brick), $92.00; Paid John Reding for Brick, $58, and for plastering 3 cisterns, $28; Paid E. A. Anderson for Painting Blinds, $19. Nov 6th: Paid C. H. King for work on New House, $259.00; Paid King & Stubblefield for Lumber, $131.00, for Window sash, Blinds & Doors, Hawling."
• He married Eliza Jane Cheshire, daughter of Richard Jesse Cheshire and Matilda Dunham, on 16 January 1872 in Montgomery County, Texas.
• John Baker Reding died on 27 October 1877 at age 60 in Montgomery County, Texas.
• He was interred at the old Danville cemetery, Montgomery County, Texas, on present-day Shepard Hill Road, near Willis.
• For an account of his CSA service in Company B, 24th Texas Cavalry Regiment, see his profile in Karen McCann Hett's Danville Mounted Riflemen.

• Last Edited: 4 Jan 2014