Rev. John Redick and Elizabeth "Betsey" Coulter

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Husband Rev. John Redick ^{1 2 3}

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            AKA: Rev. John Redic
           Born: 1787 - near Hannastown, Westmoreland Co, PA
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           Died: 1846 or 1850 - Armstrong Co, PA 1 3
         Buried: 

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         Father: John Redick (      -      ) 1 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Sorrell (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 1812 4

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Wife Elizabeth "Betsey" Coulter ^{1 4 5}

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           Born: 17 Nov 1788 5
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           Died: 11 Jan 1873 - Freeport, Armstrong Co, PA 5
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         Father: John Coulter (1740-1789) 5
         Mother: Abigail Parshall (1748-1790) 5 6

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Children

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1 F Mary E. Redick ⁷

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           Born:  - near Slate Lick, Armstrong Co, PA
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         Spouse: Dr. R. L. McCurdy (1824-      ) 7

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2 M James H. Redick ³

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           Born: 1817 - Pennsylvania 3
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           Died: 1881 3
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         Spouse: Elizabeth Patterson (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. John Redick

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He was accidentally wounded while on a hunting expedition, and consequently unfitted for farm labor. He was educated for the Presbyterian ministry, and was pastor of Slate Lick and Union Congregations, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, from 1815 to 1848. [HBC 1883, 446]

In Butler County, Pennsylvania, he for several years aided his father in his agricultural pursuits, which, perhaps, he would have followed through life, had he not been wounded by the accidental discharge of a gun in a canoe while crossing the Allegheny, with others, on a hunting excursion. His father then concluded to educate him, and he was soon placed under the instruction of Rev. Robert Johnston, who was then the pastor of the Presbyterian churches at Bear creek and Scrubgrass, where the late Chief Justice Lowrie, Rev. James Wright and Rev. Alexander Crawford were among his schoolmates. Thence he went to the academy at Greensburgh, later Darlington, Beaver county; afterward pursued his theological studies under the instruction of his old preceptor, Rev. Robert Johnston, and was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Erie, at Meadville, October 20, 1813.
He was the pastor of Slate Lick and Union churches until the autumn of 1848, when, by reason of the infirmities of age, he sought and obtained a dismission, and the relation between those two churches was then dissolved. He had purchased 50 acres of land at Slate Lick, soon after the commencement of his pastorate, on which he resided until his death. He won the high esteem and affectionate regards of his co-presbyters and parishioners by his sincere devotion to his chosen work and his earnest endeavors to promote the best interests of the individuals and families in both of his congregations, so that he was endearingly called "Father Redick."

He was born east of the Allegheny mountains, and afterward moved to Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, being one of the earliest settlers in that section.

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 446.

2 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 451.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 905.

4 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 452.

5 Beverly L. Linsky, My Lineage Thru John Crawford and Isabelle Parker (Personal genealogy research, April, 2014).

6 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 191.

7 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 493.