REDFORD BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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REDFORD, A. B. - b: 1819 Knox Co, TN
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 707
residence: Big Creek Twp

A. B. Redford, section 18, owes his nativity to Knox County, East Tennessee, 
where he was born July 18, 1819. His parents, Noah and Phebe (Dodson) Redford, 
were natives of Stokes County, North Carolina. In 1832 the family removed from 
North Carolina to Tennessee, and thence to Missouri, locating in Moniteau County. 
Here A. B. spent his youthful days on a farm. He was married in Johnson County in 
March, 1851, to Miss Hannah Anderson, of that county and a daughter of John 
Anderson, one of the early settlers of Johnson County and a Kentuckian by birth. 
After his marriage Mr. R. lived for about six years in Johnson County, and in 
March, 1857, he came to Henry County, purchasing the farm where he now resides. 
He has about 1,500 acres, all under fence, with 200 acres in timber, the balance 
being in pasture and cultivation, with a good residence and orchard. He makes a 
specialty of feeding and dealing in stock, and feeds annually about 100 head of 
steers and a like number of hogs. Mr. Redford has raised a family of four children, 
all of whom are married: Noah O., John E., Robert V. and Serepta A., (wife of John 
A. Overby). He is a member of the Masonic order, and Mrs. R. belongs to the M. E. 
Church South.

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REDFORD, Archalus Binum - b: 1829 Knox Co, TN
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 344
residence: Urich, Henry Co, MO

Archalus Binum Redford, a Henry County pioneer now residing at Urich, is a native 
of Tennessee. He was born in Knox County July 18, 1829, a son of Noah and Phoebe 
(Dodson) Redford. Noah Redford was a native of North Carolina. He came to 
Missouri in 1834 and first settled in Moniteau County, and moved from there to 
Johnson County, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a resident of 
Johnson County for over fifty years, and died in that county and his remains are 
buried at Warrensburg. His wife also died in Johnson County and is also buried at 
Warrensburg. A. Binum Redford is the only member of a family of eight brothers 
and sisters now living. Binum Redford came to Big Creek township, Henry County, 
in 1857, and first purchased two hundred acres of land at $7.50 per acre. He then 
entered one hundred sixty acres of Government land, which cost him seventy-five 
cents per acre, and he is now one of the large land owners of Henry County. He 
owns nine hundred ninety-nine acres. When Mr. Redford came here there were very 
few settlers in western Henry County, James Smith was the only settler in the 
vicinity where Mr. Redford located and the country was one broad expanse of 
unfenced prairie, and Mr. Redford recalls the days of free range with a sort of 
regret, common to the cattle men of the early days. There were no public schools 
when he came here and Clinton was a small hamlet. Mr. Redford has seen many 
changes in the sixty-one years of his residence in Henry County. When he came 
here there were a number of Osage Indians in this vicinity. They were friendly 
and inoffensive. During the Civil War Mr. Redford remained on his place and was 
one of the few men who had no trouble with either side, although some of his 
horses were taken. Mr. Redford's first wife was Hannah Anderson, to whom he 
was married in Johnson County, and the following children were born to this 
union: Mrs. Serepta Overbey, Urich, Missouri; Noah, deceased; John, deceased, and 
Robert, a farmer and stockman in Big Creek township. The mother of these 
children died in March, 1906, and Mr. Redford was married to Miss Dora Barnett, 
now deceased. Mr. Redford was united in marriage August 28, 1913, with Hannah 
N. Colson, widow of Archibald B. Colson, a Henry County pioneer, who settled in 
Walker township. He died in 1906. Mrs. Redford is a native of Missouri, born in 
Osage County, September 24, 1848. She is a daughter of Moses and Susan Glenn 
(Hibler) Sevier. They were early settlers in Henry County and came from Osage 
County in 1855. The father was a native of Birksville, Kentucky, and a grandson 
of Governor John Sevier, the first Governor of Tennessee. Moses Sevier was a 
captain of a Confederate company in the Civil War. He died September 11, 1876, 
aged sixty-eight years, at Dallas, Texas. His wife died in 1884. Mrs. Redford is 
the oldest of a family of ten children born to her parents, only two of whom are 
living. Mrs. Redford and Mrs. Pliny Hanes, Dallas, Texas. By her marriage to 
Archibald B. Colson, Mrs. Redford has seven children: Doctor John, Schell City; 
Mrs. Mattie Angle, Clinton, Missouri; Mrs. Laura Crissman, Bonham, Texas; Mrs. 
Mollie Clizer, Montrose, Missouri; Mrs. Gertrude Harness, Walker township, Henry 
County; B. S. Colson, Appleton City, Missouri, and Richard P., Montrose, Missouri. 
Mr. and Mrs. Redford are among the honored pioneers of Henry County and are 
highly respected in the county, which has been their home for over half a century.

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