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Nicole -
The link between the Searcy Co AR and Spartanburg Co SC Redmans is circumstantial. It is logical but still requires documentation. I'm hoping the 1812 records will lead to something more concrete. It is the first known document (other than census records)linking the Searcy Co folks to SC.
Family tradition has it John and Sterling Redman were fugitives from County Wexford, Ireland. However, I do know that their history was not passed down by a Redman but by Ben Bratton Jr, Mary Fredonia Redman's widower.
The sole surviving Redman of this line, (Oscar Redman, son of John Jr. and Dorcas McLerran)returned to AR about 1887 from Cooke Co TX as an orphan to claim his share of the Redman estate and was involved in a rather rancorous legal battle with Bratton. Some of the land in question was from the War of 1812 grant. Oscar prevailed.
Ben's son, Ulysses, was later involved as an attorney in a highly publicized murder case involving Blacks sentenced to death for their part in the Elaine (Phillips Co) riots of about 1919. Ulysses was part of the defense team that successfully defended the blacks before the US Supreme Court and as a result was hounded out of AR under threat of death. His father had remarried and burned the bridge to his son and the Redmans. In a brief biography Ben noted his marriage to Mary Fredonia (mother of their nine children) as follows: "My first wife was a Redman". Period.
At any rate, you can see why the history is not cohesive.
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