Kit Carson County, Colorado
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Kit Carson County Pioneers:
Fred A. Redinger, 8 South 45 West
Fred filed on a quarter in Morgan County,
Colorado, in sections 30 and 31, 5N 55W in 1888,
witnesses Wm. Knearl of Brush, and Samuel Knearl,
Charles W. Krofft, and Frederick Parsons of Snyder, Colorado.
But this was not proved up.
Fred proved up a quarter in section 33, 8S 45W, Kit Carson County, in 1895.
There's a Fred Redinger in 1880 Socorro County, New Mexico, a laborer, 36, born in Germany,
married to Joseph 15 born in New Mexico. This is not the Kit Carson one, as a researcher wrote "Although he did, for a time being, go by the name Fred Redinger, his birth name was Friedrich Jacob Wolfel. The following decade, in 1890, he would go back to the surname Wolfel (on the 1890 Veterans Schedules of the U.S. Federal Census), and then would keep using the surname Wolfel from that point forward (he also entered the civial war as a Wolfel [Wilfel] in 1864).
Although I can tell you that in 1895, he was living in Trinidad, Colorado. He got married under the name Wolfel at that time, but then the name would be crossed out and "Willford" was added; no idea why.
The name Rettinger was his mother's maiden name, Wolfel being his father's surname. "
There's a Frederick Redinger in Harrison County, Missouri in 1880, farming, 46, born in Ohio, but if he was financing a land claim, it would have been his sons William 21 or George 17 who would have claimed the land in Colorado, most likely.
THIS ONE IS TOO YOUNG
Fred Redinger was born August 1891 in Kansas to Mike Redginer and Maggie, both born in Germany.
Hutchinson Kansas, May 2, 1980
" Alice Redinger, 84, 410
East 9th, died Thursday at Golden Plains
Convalescent Center. Born Alice Wedel Feb. 9, 1896,
at Moundridge, she married Fred A. Redinger
Sept. 20, 1914, at Kismet. He died April 3, 1960.
She lived here since 1925. She was a member of
Park Place Christian Church.
Survivors: sons: Arthur, 312 East 7th;
Cecil, 912 32nd Terrace; Rowland, 1603 Cochran;
daughters: Mrs. Fay Dunn, 17 Rambler;
Mrs. Darlene Unruh, 218 West B;
brothers: Rudolph Wedel, Moundridge;
Wesley Wedel, Augusta;
Jake Wedel, Los Angeles, Calif.;
sisters: Mrs. Katie Kohen, Lamar, Colo.;
Mrs. Pauline Wooddall, Spokane, Wash.;
Mrs. Mary McCown, Moundridge;
nine grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren.
Funeral will be 2 p.m. Monday at Elliott Chapel; the Rev. William E. Dorman. Burial will be at Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the chapel. "
IF ANYONE HAS INFORMATION ON THE KIT CARSON COUNTY LAND CLAIMANT, PLEASE LET US KNOW.
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