Hi Everyone, There is a conflict between sources for the death date of Redding Cannon DeLoach that I am trying to resolve. In the copy of his Bible record, it states: Redding C. DeLoach departed this life in the full triumph of a Gospel faith the 28th of Oct 1886 In James Kilgo's book "PIPE CREEK to MATTHEW'S BLUFF", there is this information on pages 69-71: "By 1850 the DeLoach girls were living at Bonneywood, and Redding's obituary in The Christian Advocate and Journal in 1853 hints rather quaintly at a scandal: "Pecuniary difficulties interrupted his early christian course; but christianity enabled him to finally triumph over his embarrassments. In the last years of his life he was correct and exemplary as a christian." This last statement may have been necessary if there were people who remembered the deceased when he was not correct and exemplary. Whether his "pecuniary difficulties" were a result of the cotton market or of some scandalous conduct, they probably occurred between the time of Martha's death and 1840 when he and his new wife joined the Methodist Church. And they may have resulted in the loss of Oakland. By 1850 Redding and Esther with three children of their own seem to have moved from St. Peter's Parish, leaving his older daughters - at whose insistence, one wonders - with his formidable mother-in-law. Mysteriously, Redding DeLoach appears nowhere in the 1850 Census for South Carolina, but the Advocate notes his death in Barnwell District in the fall of 1853." Does anyone have any records or source material which might resolve this conflict? Mike