Amanda Clorinda Redman^[1]

1833 - 1910  (77 years)

• Name	Amanda Clorinda Redman
  Born	25 Jan 1833	Georgia
  Gender	Female
  Died	4 Dec 1910	Mississippi
  Person ID	I18318	My Reynolds Line
  Last Modified	2 Jun 2017

  
  

  Father	George W. Redman,   b. 9 May 1806, Lunenburg [later Halifax] Co., Virginia Colony ,   d. 12 Feb 1842  (Age 35 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Saunders,   b. 1810,   d. Abt 1838, Panola Co., Mississippi  (Age 28 years)
  Family ID	F6711	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	George Marion Cox,   b. 28 Jul 1833, Georgia ,   d. 4 Nov 1914, Belen, Mississippi  (Age 81 years)
  Children	+ 1. Lelia Clorinda Cox,   b. 22 Apr 1866, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi ,   d. 17 Jun 1952, Jackson, Mississippi  (Age 86 years)
  Last Modified	1 Jun 2017
  Family ID	F6712	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Amanda Clorinda Redman p18318AmandaClorindaRedman.jpg

  
  

• Sources

  [S150] Photograph, https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/41398908/person/19620603808/media/557dcb61-cabd-4c94-a66c-3c32984b3a46?_phsrc=Tkn104&usePUBJs=true. Walter Turner's Line "She didn't smile much." (Clorinda Turner Odom) Amanda was born January 25, for the records agree about that. The year is, however, uncertain. The bible of Lelia Turner says she was born 1833. An envelope from Annie V's with notes about the Redman/Cox/Turner families says she was born 1834. The 1850 Census lists her as 15 (thus b. 1835). The 1860 Census is illegible. It may be 20 or 30. With imagination, 26. The 1880 Census says she was 44 (thus b. 1836). The 1900 Census says she was born in January, 1835. Her Belen tombstone gives her dates as 1835-1910. The dates for her husband vary accordingly, always showing him born half a year before she was. The 1850 Census is most likely correct, so she was probably born in 1835. I suggest the following reason for the variation in birth years. I am pretty sure George was half a year older than his wife. He was probably born in 1834. In 1855 the US government broadened the amount of land veterans could apply for, and George Marion's father Isaiah applied for more land. He was allowed to transfer his allotment to a son only if that son was not yet 21 years old, so it is probable that George's age was falsified so as to make him eligible. Amanda Redman Cox was a school teacher, even after she married. They lived far out in the country, so I have never understood how the children got to her. At any rate, it was a one-room school, and it must have been in her home. My grandmother and her sisters taught with their mother. Lelia, Etta and Annie went away to school, my grandmother, at least, to the Union Female Academy at Oxford. Two years, I believe. She was proud all her life that at the age of 14 she had passed the State test for teachers with a grade high enough for a life-time certificate. Each girl, they say, came home and taught a couple of years, to help pay for sending the next one away to school. Aunt Ada refused to go. Aunt Annie went somewhere else. Her autograph book from 1888 (probably now in Susan Vetrano's possession) shows it was Mary Sharp College at Winchester, Tennessee. Aunt Annie was born in 1868, so she was 20 then. [S239] Walter Turner. James Turner + Kerenhappuch Norman Elizabeth Turner + Joseph Morehead Elizabeth Morehead + Benjamin Redman George W. Redman + Elizabeth Saunders Amanda Clorinda Redman + George Marion Cox Lelia Clorinda Cox + William Venoy Turner Walter Vernon Turner + Mae Claire Rivers Walter Vernon Turner, Jr. (This is me.)