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I suspect the information regarding Redstone, PA, is incorrect.
James Franklin Corn's 1946 article entitled "The Corn Family of Mercer County, Kentucky" in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society states, "George Corn and his five stalwart sons, Timothy, George, Abram, Solomon, and Ebenezer -- all soldiers of the Revolution -- looked wistfully upon their simple home in Redstone, now Brownstown, Pennsylvania, on a March day in 1780 and resolutely turned their faces toward the mysterious wilderness of Kentucky . . .." This, in turn, had been taken from the pension application of George's son Timothy written in 1834.
A Brownstown, PA, is in Lancaster Co. in SE PA. Another, I am told, is near Pittsburg. I have found nothing which connects the name Redstone with Brownstown. However, there is a Fort Redstone in Brownsville, PA, south of Pittsburg in Fayette Co. The above referenced Corn article later states, "He is probably the same George Corn who, according to records of the Kentucky Historical Society, lived with his five son in Bedford County, Pennsylvania in 1777." This makes more sense since, I believe, all of what is now SW PA was, in those days, a part of Bedford Co.
At Fort Redstone, they have no record of a Corn family in 1777.
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