Redd House

The Redd House is a farm on Prentice Creek in Northumberland, VA. It was the home of the George family after they departed the George Home-place. The farm is named after the previous owners from whom Gordon D. George purchased the property in 1949.

Thomas Lester Redd was the son of Thomas Wesley Redd and Gertude Kain from Middlesex County. He married Amy Rebbecca Pittman in 1917 and almost immediately was drafted into WWI and sent to serve a year in France. Their first child was born while he was away. After the war Thomas and Amy settled in Ditchley where he became the mail carrier. They seem to have been living in the house by 1925, it is not clear if they built the house or it was already standing. According to newspaper clippings the Redd family only lived in the home until about 1936 when they moved to Washington D.C.. For a time the home was rented to a Mr. and Mrs. Mahan. Thomas and Amy divorced sometime before 1948 when he remarried to Lavenia Ann Righter. The home in Ditchley must have become the property of Amy because in 1949 her name was on the deed when it was sold to Gordon D. George. Amy died in 1972, she did not remarry and is buried at White Marsh Church in Lancaster County. Thomas died at Western State Hospital in Staunton, VA in 1981.

After a family dispute Gordon D. moved out of the George Homeplace and into the Redd House. He was in poor health and needed in home care so in 1963 he sold the house and property to his son Marvin L. George in exchange for his care and the sum of $35 a month. Gordon D. died in 1968. Marvin lived the rest of his life at the Redd House where he raised his family. The home has stood vacant since the early 2000's when Marvin's wife, Alease, had to be moved into assisted living. The property is still in the hands of their descendants.