RIDDELLS OF PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 343
SECOND GENERATION.
James Riddell (1), son of George¹ (1), was born at Red Banks,
Shenandoah County; married Rebecca and had issue, of whom
hereafter.
Mary-Ann Riddell² (1), daughter of George¹ (1), was born at Red
Banks, Shenandoah County, Va., and lived with her uncle, Cornelius Rid-
dell, after the death of her parents, until her marriage with Francis
Sibert, of New Market, by whom she had seven children, four sons and
three daughters. This woman was christened about the year 1772, by
Peter Muhlenburg, the distinguished Lutheran divine, soldier, and states-
man, and while he was performing the solemn rite, she slapped him in the
face.
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​RIDDELLS OF PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
Zachariah Riddell' (1) lived in Albemarle County, Va., but from
whence he came, whom he married, or when he deceased, is not known. His
Christian name is not in any known branch of the Southern families of
Riddell or Riddle. One correspondent writes by dictation of the late
Ephraim Riddle, of Warrenton, Mo., that this ancestor came from
Maryland to Virginia, and that he was a native of England or Ireland.
If Ephraim's statement be correct, his grandfather lived in Loudoun
County, Va., where he and his father were born. He had three children,
and probably others whose names do not appear.
SECOND GENERATION.
John Riddle² (1), son of Zachariah¹ (1), was born in Loudoun County,
Va., and had three sons, of whom hereafter. No record of birth or death.
THIRD GENERATION.
James-A. Riddles (1), eldest son of John² (1), was born in Pittsylva-
nia County, Va., in 1801; married Nancy A. and had issue, of whom
hereafter. He was called one of Virginia's best citizens. Died in 1843.
Ephraim Riddle³ (1), second son of John² (1), was born in Pittsyl-
vania County, Va., Feb. 7, 1803; married, Dec. 22, 1822, to Judith Grave-
ley, and had issue eight children, of whom hereafter. He removed to
Lincoln County, Mo., in 1838, where he lived one year, and then settled
on a farm at Warrenton, in Warren County, where he lived till his death,
April 15, 1874. He is represented as having been a true man in all the
relations of life, a loving husband, kind and indulgent father, a sturdy
and true friend and neighbor, carrying out in all he did the maxim,
"Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto
them."
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John Riddle (2), third son of John² (1), was born in Pittsylvania Coun-
ty, Va., Feb. 14, 1804; married, and had issue four children. He married
secondly, Martha P. Myers, and by her, who was burned to death with
one of her children in their house, Feb. 2, 1866, had five children, of
whom (with the other children) hereafter. Mr. Riddle escaped from his
burning house in Carroll County, Va., where he resided, and died April
22, 1879, near Thorn Hill, Granger County, Tenn. He married a third
