REDENBAUGH-George - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

George Redenbaugh, farmer, retired, Steam Corner, was b. Sept 18, 1793, in Cumberland Co Pa. His parents, Frederick & Margaret (Haney) Redenbaugh, emigrated from Germany to Pa, then to Shenandoah Valley, then to Ohio and next floated won the Oh river on a flatboat to Jefferson Co, in where they lived til 1832. Geo. served in the war of 1812 under Gen. Harrison in Col. Tupper's division and was present at the treaty made by the national forces with 600 warriors, on the W. side of the river, who espoused our cause and fought their brother reds. Mr. and Mrs. Redenbaugh. in 1832 emigrated to Montgomery County, about six miles from Crawfordsville where they died in a few years. George was married to Margaret STUCK (sic - Stucker) and in 1836 moved to Fountain County, Indiana with a four-horse team. He arrived May 3, and unloaded his goods under two oak trees. The next morning stuck forks in the ground, cut down a tree and made clapboards with which he covered his shed and rived some boards which he stood up for sides and thus enclosed his goods and family. The first year he rented 14 acres of land near where Steam Corner is, which he planted to corn. He also cleared 8 acres of his own farm. After planting he hewed logs and built a house 18 x 20 in which he and family lived 10 years. He then built a larger log house and next erected his present reisdence. His farm of 160 acres which he entered took all his money but about $3.50, $3 of which went to buy corn and he spent 50 cents for chickens. He knew not from where the next would come but it was provided. In tilling his land he used the old Smeller Plow, a curiosity to his few neighbors. Mr. Redenbaugh worked on and gradually the forest gave way before him. His wife, the helpmate through these difficult times died March 3, 1873 aged 73. She was the mother of four boys & five girls; Margaret, Henry, Frederick, Willis, and Delila, living; Lydia, Isaac, Elizabeth and Amy, deceased. Mr. Redenbaugh is a member of the United Brethren Church. He has been a lifelong and strong democrat. He is now far beyond the age alloted to man, and has lived the history of his township.