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Hi Denis, I tried to e mail you but for some reason I can never get through. Thank you so much for all the information on the Lawless family, I don't believe Mr.Hayes has as much on our Irish ancestors. Here is a short story about Redding Loyless's duel from the Hayes papers.
A tragic event that occurred in July of 1841. It may have kept Redding from becoming a powerful figure eventually in the financial and political life of Georgia. As young as he was, his interests were diversified and his crops good; aside from from his menting to this effect in a letter to Whitehead(his sister's husband) on June 1841. He also suggested that he might invest in gold mining. He also had a stake in the pioneering railroad indurtry. However, all began to fall apart for him when a man by the name of John Brown precipitated a duel with Redding on July 7, 1841. Redding had made a bet with another man by the name of Cole on the extraordinary heated presidential election of 1840.
A prominent business leader, George S. Black, held the stakes, including an undetermined amount from John Brown, a poor fellow with 8 mouths to feed. Brown had tried in vain to make a bet with Redding who refused because of he knew the family was in dyer circumstances. Evidently Brown made a side deal" with Black to cover part of Cole's wager. Redding had obviously bet for the Whig canidate, Gen. William Henry Harrison, who carried Georgia, as well as the national canvass, over the Democratic incumbent, Martin Van Buren. Reading won the bet. Black's refusal for 8 months since the election to hand over Redding's winnings was sinister. As Redding prepared to sue Black, Brown assulted Redding who viewed the attack as a challenge, especially after Brown refused to back down. In the duel that ensued, Redding wounded Brown who died eleven days later. Redding became so uneasy about the possibility of some form of local retaliation that he went underground and arranged to sell some of his properties in case he might have to leave the area. The political nature of this threat to Redding's interest was nothing compared to the personal danger that he now faced as the authorities in Cassville sought an indictment against him for murder.
Julia
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