William C. Redus

William Clementine Redus b. Nov 28, 1796, Grainger County, Tennessee, m. Apr 22, 1818,
in Alabama, Leminder Brown, b. Jan 5, 1799, N. Carolina. William died Jul 31, 1859,
Shannon, Mississippi, buried: Shannon, Mississippi.
		     Children:
		   i Mary Ann "Polly" Redus b. Feb 25, 1819.
		  ii John Wesley Redus b. Nov 5, 1820, m. Emily Sanders, b. Feb 15, 1825,
		     d. Nov 17, 1895, Shannon, Mississippi, buried: Shannon Mississippi. John
		     died sep 23, 1895, Shannon, Mississippi, buried: Shannon, Mississippi.
		 iii Lydia Matilda Redus b. Dec 22, 1822, Alabama, m. Newton F. Morton, b.
		     1826, Alabama, (son of James B. Morton and Mary Brown) d. Sep 8, 1900.
		  iv Mahala Clementine Redus b. Nov 21, 1824, Alabama, d. Jan 19, 1856.
		  v. Jennet Catherine Redus b. Dec 14, 1826, Alabama.
		  vi Elizabeth Adaline Redus b. Apr 16, 1929, Alabama.
		 vii William de la Fletcher Redus b. Jul 5, 1831, Alabama.
		viii Amelia Caroline Redus b. Oct 19, 1833, Shannon, Mississippi, m. Jan 12,
		     1859, in Shannon, Mississippi, Samuel King Feemster, b. 1836, (son of
		     Minos Barzillai Feemster and Martha Matilda King) d. 1899. Amelia died
		     May 27, 1891, Faulkner County, Arkansas.
		  ix Washington J. Redus b. Dec 25, 1835, Alabama, m. Mary A. "Addie", b. Jan 6, 1834,
		     d. Jan 25, 1927, Shannon, Mississippi, buried: Shannon, Mississippi. James
		     died Jun 1, 1910, Shannon, Mississippi, buried: Shannon, Mississippi.
		   x George Franklin Redus b. Aug 7, 1838, Alabama, m. Feb 5, 1861, in Lowndes
		     County, Mississippi, Nancy J. Hendley.
		  xi Isabella Minerva Redus b. Jul 6, 1840, Marion, Alabama, m. jeb1, 1859, in
		     Pontotoc County, Mississippi, Robert Marvin Bailey, b. 1835, Mississippi,
		     d. Oct 26, 1919, Lamesa, Texas, buried: Childress, Texas. Isabela died Apr
		     26, 1909, childress, Texas.

R. E. Gryder, Jim Trice, Mary Ware Vaughan, Jim Redus, Frank Redus,
George Shannon, Leon Hood, Lee Dallas, and Tom Banks

Leon Hood, Mary Ware Vaughan, Jim Redus, R. E. Gryder,
Frank Redus, Jim Trice, and George Shannon

Jim Trice, Leon Hood, R. E. Gryder, Frank Redus,
Jim Redus, Mary Ware Vaughan, George Shannon

Exerpts from "History of Shannon and Surrounding Areas" by Roy D. Barnett, Sr. in 1976.

"Time has come and gone. Many are the people who have lived around Shannon. My father moved us to Shannon to the house that was owned by Mr. Albert Cunningham where James Long lives today. We moved there in 1907 or 1908. My father became marshall of the town. We lived across the street from the W. B. Redus home and the late J. N. Redus families. Mrs. W. B. Redus brought the first peach sherbet over to our house, the first I ever ate.

Back in those days people traveled mostly by horse or buggy and wagon. I can remember seeing Rial Mathis, a Negro man, hitching Mr. W. B. Redus' grey horse to the buggy for a drive out in the country.

The W. B. Redus and Sons Mercantile became a thriving business. Dating to the beginning, I believe, to 1878. He took his sons in later than 1878. I have been told by people as far away as Wren that they came there to trade. The business continued until the 1940's. They operated a corn elevator for years. Most of the corn was sold through a grain firm in Birmingham, Alabama. Lots of it was exported for food consumption because it had high food value. The firm handled Hamilton Brown shoes which finally became Brown Shoe Company. When the Redus firm went out of business, the shoe firm said, Redus firm was their oldest customer. They were originally where Whitehead's furniture store is now. They moved down to where the old Evans store building was and built a warehouse about 1919 or 1920. Redus Bros. Store finally became Carl Estes and Black's Mercantile Store......

......On the first day of January 1871, Mr. John Simonton deeded the land to the trustees and their successors of Methodist Episcopal Church South at Shannon, Mississippi. The trustees were Samuel Dickerson, John W. Redus, W.J. Redus, and A.J. Carrol....

......Mr. J.N. Redus left Shannon to be a traveling salesman. Mr. Frank Redus moved into Mr. Jim Redus' house and lived in it until Mr. Jim (Redus) came back, then Mr. Frank (Redus) moved back in the house with his father and mother who lived there until they died. Mr. Frank died before Mr. Jim. Mrs. Frank Redus now lives in Memphis. Their only child lives in Memphis also....

.....Robert Redus, a brother to Mr. Frank and Mr. Jim, was a dentist during World War I. There were some girls in the Redus family. The only living that I knew was Miss Lena Redus. She is dead now. The late Senator Pat Harrison visited often in the J.N. Redus home....

....Clarence Harris built a house in the 1930's on part of the Wash Redus property. Mr. and Mrs. Wash Redus lived in the next house.....

....I have been told that Mr. Wash Redus once lived on part of my father's estate."