This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Redding, McCartney, Odle, Stewart Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GeB.2ACI/713.2 Message Board Post: Hello..hope this reaches you okay...my great-great grandfather was Louis D. Redding, born in Abbeville, South Carolina about 1832. After marrying Mary McCartney of Ireland (Belfast) about 1850, he relocated up to South Bend Indiana before the War. My great-grandmother was born in South Bend, Indiana in 1857...she remembered when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. We have very little information regarding Louis' family. Family legend is that brother fought against brother in the War. There was a family photo album (tintype) with pictures of soldiers. I do not know the names of either Louis' mother or father. However, his father was born in Virginia and his mother was born in South Carolina. I assume that when Louis moved to Indiana that his family remained in SC. I do not have any names of his siblings. Of note.....his first child, my great-grandmother, was named Elizabeth Annis Redding....born in 1857....other names of his children: Louis Redding, Jr. Edward Charl! es, Sara, William Ballagh, Mary (minnie), Arthur Jeffries, John. Hope to hear from you. Janis Rozich