BIO - Aunt Mary Emaline Redman - Logan County, Oklahoma
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Submitted by: Loretta Mackey
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Aunt Mary Emaline Redman

Aunt Mary Emaline came to our home, when I was about 12 years
old.  She impressed me a lot.  Her pretty gray hair was combed
back with a coil about 3 inches back from her forehead.  Her 
White apron was starched and she went about in a run.

Then she told about Sam's children.  She and Uncle Sam were
married and she had many underskirt with an embroidered
flounce, so she started ripping them up.  She told the girls
to do the work as she had sewing to do.  She made each of
them a white embroider dress, washed their hair and did the
hair in rags.  The next morning (Sunday), Aunt Mary Emaline,
lined the girls up outside with their curls, white embroider
dresses and marched them down to the church and inside, down
to the front and looked at the audience to show them WHY she
married that "old man" with a house full of kids.

The children went barefoot until they got a short distance
from the church and then had their shoes on when they made
"their entrance" with their shoes on for show.

There are Redman descendants in Logan County, Oklahoma today.
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This was submitted by Loretta Mackey.  She can be reached by
writing to the Logan County Genealogy Society, PO Box 1419,
Guthrie, Oklahoma  73044.