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RIDDELLS OF SOMERSET COUNTY, NEW JERSEY,
a term of three years. His papers show that for many years he held the
office of trustee and treasurer of Mill Creek township.
He was always an active friend of popular education, and long before
he died donated a valuable lot of land for a school-house site, and sub-
scribed liberally toward the erection of the building. This lot and house
are now a part of the eighteenth district graduated school of Cincinnati.
He was one of the original subscribers to the organization of the first
Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati, and was a member of that body till
his death. Colonel Riddle was known all through the Miami valley as an
honest, patriotic, and public-spirited citizen; and when he died, full of
honors as well as of years, he left a fair fame behind him of which his
numerous descendants may well feel proud. His career was always pros-
perous, and his prosperity the result of his own industry, good sense,
habits, and perseverance. On the 17th of June, 1847, in the eighty-sev-
enth year of his age, he died very suddenly of strangulated hernia. His
remains were deposited in the grave in the family cemetery on his farm,
and were followed to their resting-place by a large concourse of citizens
and soldiers, including the old pioneers then living. The burial was con-
ducted with military and civil honors. His remains have since been re-
moved to the family lot in the beautiful cemetery at Spring Grove, where
an elegant monument has been erected, upon which, in full relief, are em-
blems of his military, civil, and agricultural achievements.
The old dwelling-house in which he lived is still (1873) standing at
Camp Washington, near Cincinnati, O. It was built of heavy oak tim-
ber, hewn square, and trenailed together, but has since been weather-
boarded and otherwise modernized. It is two stories high, narrow, and
quite long; before the front door are several very large and old cedar trees
FOURTH GENERATION.
William Riddle* (4), eldest son of John (2), was born in New Jerl
sey, March 19, 1785. He was a soldier in a cavalry regiment in Genera-
Hull's army; was a farmer, and died at his father's house, unmarried,
March 19, 1834.
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Anna Riddle (1), eldest daughter of John (2), was born in New
Jersey, Dec. 5, 1787; died (unmarried) at her father's house, Oct. 18, 1801.
John Riddle (3), second son of John (2), was born in New Jersey,
April 11, 1790; married, April 12, 1814, Catherine Long (she was born in
Kishacoquillas Valley, Penn., Dec. 13, 1788), and died Aug. 24, 1872
(death caused by a fall), and had issue eight children, of whom hereafter.
Mr. Riddle died on his farm at Spring Dale, Hamilton County, O., Feb. 1,
1867.
Mary Riddle (1), second daughter of Johns (2), was born in Mill
Creek township, O., Sept. 10, 1797; was married, Dec. 10, 1818, to James
B. Ray, Esq., afterwards governor of Indiana, and died at Brookville, Ind.,
July 4, 1823, leaving issue.
James Riddle (1), third son of John³ (2), was born in Mill Creek
township, Hamilton County, O., May 13, 1799; married Jan. 20, 1824,
* Col. John Riddle's grandson, John-Jackson Riddle, and Gen. Thomas Young,
who twice married members of the Riddle family, volunteered to undertake the
work of compiling a biography of Col. John Riddle, and a pedigree of his descend-
ants, and all connections of the family should feel grateful for the able manner in
which each discharged his self-imposed work. General Young furnished the bio-
graphical sketch of Colonel Riddle, and John Riddle the records.
