BIO: CARVILL HINSON REDDING, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, page 310
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    CARVILL HINSON REDDING, for many years a well-known coach-maker of Carlisle,
  Cumberland county, was a native of Baltimore, Md., born in 1814. He was of
  English descent, his grandfather having been a native of England who settled
  in Baltimore. He served as a preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church in
  both England and America: Mr. Redding's father was a hotel-keeper in
  Baltimore, conducting a temperance house. He married a lady named Hinson, and
  both died in Baltimore. Carvill Hinson Redding was one of a family of eight
  children, three sons and five daughters, of whom we have the following
  record: William died March 24, 1900, in Baltimore; another son went to sea,
  and was never again heard from; Mary Ann became the wife of Edward Wright;
  Eliza Jane became Mrs. Cann and died in Baltimore; Cornelia, Mrs. Rayberg,
  also died in Baltimore; Rebecca, Mrs. Newman, died in Baltimore; Octavia, who
  never married, also died in that city.
 
    Carvill Hinson Redding grew to manhood in his native city, received a
  common, school education, and there learned the trade of coachmaker, which he
  followed all his life. On leaving Baltimore he went to Gettysburg, Pa., where
  he married Miss Emeline Buckingham, who died in Gettysburg, and before his
  removal from that place he remarried, his second wife being Mrs. Sarah
  (Allison) Hixson. They came to Carlisle, Cumberland county, Pa., shortly
  before the Civil war, and there made a permanent home, Mr. Redding conducting
  a successful coachmaking establishment throughout his active years, being
  located on North Bedford street, and in a building which stood on the site of
  Bretz's livery stable, on North Pitt street. His death, which occurred March
  5, 1900, was mourned sincerely among the many who had learned to esteem him
  during his long and industrious career in Carlisle, for he was justly
  respected wherever he was known. He was a devout attendant on the services of
  the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Sarah Redding, who passed away in
  November, 1869, was a member of that Church. She was the mother of three
  children: Rebecca, born in Gettysburg, who is the wife of Cornelius
  Zimmerman; Carvill, who died March 17, 1900; and Edward, a resident of
  Smithville, Ohio. By his first wife Mr. Redding had one son, Elias H.