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From: "Vonne Bricker" <>
Subject: [OHBROWN-L] REDDICK
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 23:42:00 +0100

>From Brown County Biographical Sketches page 800

MARTIN REDDICK, farmer, P. 0. Marathon, a native of Clermont County, was born January 22, 1812, and is a son of'
Richard and Mary Miller
Reddick who came to Ohio about the year 1800. His days were spent on a farm until sixteen years old, when be went
to Cincinnati and drove team nine years. He was married March 23, 1837, to Matilda, daughter of William and
Catharine Nitzer, who was born March 30, 1812, in Essex County, N. J., and came to Ohio with her parents when she
was five years old. Mr. Reddick and wife raised eight children Richard P. , married Esther Cramer; Emily Jane,
wife of P. P. Applegate; William M., married Mary Jane Bursall ; Elisha, married Sarah Reed ; Theodore, married
Evaline Boose; Mary Elsie, wife Abram Liming; Maria Louisa, wife of Alexander Work; and Hannah A., wife of Walter
Gordon. Mr. Reddick bought the farm where be now resides in 1839; and, moved on it. Besides his own family, he has
raised three orphan children. His boys made the following honorable record during the war of the rebellion. Richard
Reddick was in the Seventy-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; William in the First Ohio Volunteer Cavalry and went with
Sherman to the sea ; and Elisha was in the Forty-eighth, and wounded at Shiloh, in three places. Mr. Reddick is an
old school Democrat and served in the capacity of Supervisor and School Director for some time.

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