History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 581.
[Bourbon County]    [Ruddel's Mills Precinct]

CHARLES REDMON, farmer and trader, P. O. Paris, son of George and Sallie
(Hayes) Redmon, and was born on Flat Run, in Bourbon COunty, Sept. 13,
1816.  His father, George Redmon, was born in Pennsylvania in 1781, and
when only five years of age he came down the Ohio River, accompanied by his
father and settled on Flat Run, Bourbon County, where he was reared and
educated.  He began life as a farmer, an occupation he followed as long as
he lived.  In 1806 he was married to Sallie Hayes, a native of Maryland,
who was born in 1786, and when quite young was brought to Kentucky by her
parents.  George Redmon died on his farm Aug. 1844, and his wife followed
him in 1851.  The old place is now owned and occupied by Washington Redmon.
This couple had born to them a family of eleven children, seven sons, viz:
Thomas Jefferson, William T., George L., Charles, John W., Washington and
Solomon S.; and four daughters, viz: Mary Ann, who married Edmund Nunn;
Elizabeth, who married John K. Ashurst; Margaret who married Thomas M.
Smith; and Sallie, who married John W. Jones.  Of this large family only
only three are now living, viz: Charles, who is our subject, Washington,
and Mrs. Sallie Jones.  Charles, like many other boys raised at that date
of our country's history, was denied the advantages of a collegiate
education, but was sufficiently fortunate to procure at least a respectable
knowledge of such branches as were then taught in our common country
schools; he was married on Feb. 9th, 1845, to Catharine, daughter of
Samuel Talbott, of Bourbon; she was born July 12, 1822, and died Nov. 23,
1853.  Mr. Redmon was next married Feb. 5, 1856, to Elizabeth H., daughter
of Robert and Susan (Triplett) Trimble, of Fleming County, Ky.  Elizabeth
was born _______; her father, Robt. Trimble, was a native of North Carolina
and was born in 1788, and when only one year old he was taken by his
parents to Tennessee where he remained five years, at which time he came
to Kentucky, where he spent his after life; his wife, Susan Triplett, was
born in Virginia in 1806, married there in 1828, and moved immediately to
Kentucky, where she died in 1869.  Our subject, when he began business
for himself, embarked in agricultural pursuits, and from that period to
the present has been a successful tiller of the soil; by his first wife,
he had born to him three children, two of whom are now living; John W.
and Annie, who is now the wife of Harry James, of Paris.  George died in
1852, at three years of age; by his second marriage there were also three
children, two sons: Charles R. and Castleman N., and on daughter, Stella,
who is now a student at the Garth Female Institute, at Paris, Kentucky.
Mr. Redmon began life in moderate circumstances, and by industry, economy
and close attention to business, has acquired handsome property; he has
made it a rule through life to keep his surplus invested in land, thus
adding year by year to his beautiful home, known as "Cedar Grove," his
first purchase of land was in 1845, of 106 acres at $40 per acre; in 1849,
he brought fifty acres more, at a cost of $50 per acre; in 1852, he added
114 acres more, at an expense of sixty-five dollars per acre; the
following year he increased his farm ten acres, at $90.05 per acre; the
next tract he bought in 1864, containing fifty-two acres; cost him
$111.25 per acre, and in 1866, he added forty-two and one-half acres more,
at $115 an acre; the next he bough was a small tract of ten acres in 1871,
which cost him the enormous price of $166.60 per acre; his last purchase
was in 1879, of thirty acres, at $70 per acre; in 1853, to accommodate his
brother, George L., he sold him twenty acres, at $75 per acre; he
inherited from his mother's estate twenty-six acres; altogether, he now
owns 420 acres lying six miles north of Paris, on what is known as the
Redmon Pike.  Mr. Redmon has made a specialty of handling mules and
rearing and handling fine horses; beside, he has kept good grade cattle,
sheep, hogs, etc., in fact all such stock as we find on our model farms
of this blue grass region; he has attained considerable notoriety as a
horseman, generally bearing off his pro rata of the premiums at all the
fair where he has exhibited; he has never been troubled with any political
aspirations, and consequently never held an office in his life, but in all
political contests we find him very prompt to deposit his ballot in favor
of the Democrat champion.

Redmon Hayes Nunn Ashurst Smith Jones Talbott Triplett Trimble James
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