Edmund Madison Redd

Name/Title

Edmund Madison Redd

Entry/Object ID

2023.30.5

Description

Photographic portrait of Edmund Madison Redd adhered to a tan-colored matte. Taken by photographer James M. South, of Danville, Virginia. Inscription on the back reads: EM. Redd [Mat-Redd] Brother to Annie Elizabeth Redd

Made/Created

Studio

John M. South, Photographer

Notes

Original

Provenance

Notes

Edmund Madison Redd, a great-great-grandson of Patrick Henry, was born in Virginia on December 18, 1844, to Edmund Burwell Redd (1808-1850) and Sarah Ann Fontaine (1815-1909). He married Anna J. Richardson in 1880; there are no children documented. He died on October 2, 1928, in Reidsville, North Carolina, and is buried at Old Reidsville Cemetery. This photograph was taken by photographer John M. South in in Danville, Virginia. This item was given to the PHMF on May 3, 2023, by Monique and Philip Heller. They inherited this object and the others in this accession from her stepmother, Catherine Spotswood Fontaine Lawrence (1938-2015), a third-great-granddaughter of Patrick Henry.