History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 677. [Harrison County] [Cynthiana City and Precinct] GEORGE REDMON, farmer, P. O. Cynthiana, was born on the old homestead of the family, March 29, 1816, son of Charles and Mary (Reibolt) Redmon; he, born above Pittsburg in 1779, and emigrated with his parents to Bourbon County, and learned the saddler's trade at Millersburg. Settled off South Fork of the Licking, and afterward moved to the farm, one and a half miles from Cynthiana, where he died; his wife was a native of Lexington, born about 1782, and died in 1856; they were the parents of eight children. Our subject was in the clerk's office for eighteen months, with Samuel Endicott, Clerk of the County, but has followed farming since 1870, at present owning 183 acres of land, for which he gave $18,300 cash, a nice residence in Cynthiana and a vacant lot that cost $4,000. In 1870, he was elected Police Judge of Cynthiana for four years, which position he filled creditably and to the entire satisfaction of his fellow citizens. Previous to his removal to his magnificent farm, Mr. Redmon had sold goods in Cynthiana for about eight years. Nov. 14, 1839, he married Eliza Lair, born Oct. 12, 1820, daughter of Charles Lair, a native of Rockingham County, Va., by which union there were two daughters, one of whom died in 1859, and the other married Joseph Cosby. Mrs. Redmon dying in 1847. Mr. Redmon married, Jan. 2, 1855, Mrs. Ruth T. McGee, daughter of Henry and Eliza (Miller) Warfield, who died in 1875, having borne one child, which died in infancy. March 13, 1877, he married Miss Mattie E. Martin, daughter of William and Delilah J. (Brannock) Martin, of Harrison County. Mrs. Redmon is a member of the Methodist Church. Mr. Redmon was a Union man during the war, and he is a Republican. Redmon Reibolt Endicott Lair Cosby McGee Miller Warfield Martin Brannock = Bourbon-KY Fayette-KY Rockingham-VA PA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/harrison/redmon.g.txt