RIDDLES OF RIDDLE'S FERRY, NORTH CAROLINA.
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and had issue several children, of whom hereafter. Mr. Riddle and wife
have been dead several years; their children live at Lakeville.
Benjamin Riddle (2), second son of Henry³ (1), was born June 18,
1823, and settled in Iowa.
Mary Riddle (3), eldest daughter of Henry³ (1), was born March 6,
1825; was married to Johnson, and has issue; resides near St. Mary's
Academy, South Bend, Ind.
William Riddle (2), third son of Henry³ (1), was born Sept. 4, 1827;
married, and settled at Crum's Point, Ind. Has three children, of whom
hereafter.
Nancy-A.-C. Riddle (2), second daughter of Henry (1), was born
Oct. 14, 1831; was married to Bowland, and is living near Tekamah,
Burt County, Neb.
J.-H. Riddle (3), fourth son of Henry (1), was born June 29, 1833;
married, and had issue eight children, of whom hereafter. He is a farmer;
has resided in Indiana and Kansas; now living at South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind. At one time owned two hundred acres of land at Warren
Centre. Was contractor on the railroad, and postmaster.
Sarah-Jane Riddle¹ (2), third daughter of Henry³ (1), was born Feb.
25, 1836, and died at home aged 16 years.
Emeline Riddle (2), fourth daughter of Henry (1), was born Aug.
11, 1839; was married to Ammons, had issue, and died at Bangor,
Mich.
Alexander Riddle¹ (1), only son of John³ (2), was born in 1825, and
went West many years ago,
some say to Texas, others, to Kansas, -
since when nothing is known of him.
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Ann-Janet Riddle¹ (2), eldest daughter of John³ (2), was born April
7, 1827, and died several years ago.
Emeline Riddle (1), youngest daughter of John (2), was born Dec.
3, 1829; was married Nov. 20, 1845, to Richmond Sheek, and resides in
Davie County, N. C.
Hon. Haywood-Yancy Riddle (1), only son of Wileys (1), was born.
in Hardeman County, Tenn., June 20, 1834; married Martha G. Shelton,
of Smith County, and had issue four children, of whom hereafter. Mr.
Riddle received his collegiate education at Union University, where, after
his graduation in 1854, he was for a short time assistant professor. He
was graduated at the Lebanon (Tennessee) Law School in 1857, and prac-
tised his profession for a short time at Ripley, Miss. He removed to
Smith County, Tenn., in 1858, and continued there until the beginning of
the war of the Rebellion; during the war he served on the staff of Gen.
Marcus J. Wright. In 1865, Mr. Riddle removed to Lebanon, and was
clerk and master of chancery there for ten years. He was elected to Con-
gress in 1875, and re-elected in 1876, to a seat in the Forty-fifth Congress.
His services as a statesman marked him as a man of a high order of intel-
lect and a judicious legislator. One of his colleagues in congress said of
Mr. Riddle: "No more zealous, upright, and conscientious member was
ever seated in that body. His life and temper were gentle, and although
firm and fearless in the advocacy of the true and the right as his studious
intellect saw it, his demeanor was ever marked by a knightly courtesy and
consideration for those who differed from him in opinion. His speeches,
always characterized by a scholarly grace and finish,- - were replete
