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RIDDELLS OF COLERAINE, MASSACHUSETTS, NO. 1.
FIFTH GENERATION.
Harriet-Fitch Riddel (2), eldest daughter of Samuel (2), was born
in Boston, Mass., Sept. 28, 1828; died Jan. 6, 1851; unmarried.
Lucy-Hopkins Riddell (2), second daughter of Samuel (2), was
born in Boston, Mass., July 31, 1830; died May 18, 1873, aged 43 years.
She was for many years afflicted with a nervous affection, and gradually
withdrew into a single room in the parsonage, excluded the light, closed
her sensitive eyes with a bandage, and lay thus year after
She
year.
suffered intensely in body and mind; her delicate yet tenacious organ-
ization was the counterpart of a singularly gifted mind. Her solitude
was broken by letters from a few friends, which were piece by piece
conveyed to her by her father, who read to her a few moments each day,
when she could bear it. Now and then some friend would call, and be
led groping into the dark chamber, to hold her hand and tell a few
tidings, and hear a few words from her thin lips in a fine, attenuated
voice; her own communications were in pencilled notes, and oftentimes
palimpsests, to the unaccustomed reader, and in short flights of song or
meditation, often of great beauty. Sometimes she would take her pen-
cil and paper to write to a friend, painfully record a few sentences, then
lay her materials aside, and be able only after months to resume them
again; she could then take up the same train of thought which had been
held by her wonderful memory. Some of the sentences she composed
seemed the product of an inspired and divinely-gifted mind, so sweet and
beautiful were they. To say that she was a strangely spiritual and won-
derfully gifted woman is no fitting tribute to her character and talents.
William-Park Riddell (7), eldest son of James¹ (2), was born June
20, 1824; resided at Sullivan, Wis.
Jane-Maria Riddell (8), eldest daughter of James (2), was born
April 2, 1827; married Elias W. Combs, in October, 1848.
died Jan. 4, 1850, leaving issue.
Mr. Combs
Mary-Eliza Riddell (4), second daughter of James (2), was born
Nov. 20, 1831; married to Ivory Longby, in 1850, and had issue.
Sybil-Marian Riddell (1), third daughter of James (2), was born
June 29, 1834.
Antis-Cordelia Riddell (2), fourth daughter of James (2), was
born Nov. 24, 1836.
John-Wesley Riddell (1), eldest son of William (5), was born in
Charlemont, Mass., August, 1834; married, and has issue, of whom here-
after. He resides at Greenfield, Mass.
Ellen-Maria Riddell (1), eldest daughter of Thomas (3), was born
at Wauwatosa, Wis., Nov. 22, 1841; married Nov. 22, 1864, to Rev.
Thomas C. Wilson, and has issue. Mr. Wilson is a Methodist presiding
elder of Appleton (Wis.) District, and member of the Wisconsin Con-
ference. He graduated at Lawrence University; residence, Waupaca,
Wis.
Thomas-Morris Riddell (4), eldest son of Thomas (3), was born at
Wauwatosa, Wis., Nov. 30, 1845; married Dec. 17, 1873, to Sophia A.
Eldret, and lives at Charles City, Ia.
Charles-Hill Riddell (2), second son of Thomas (3), was born at
Wauwatosa, Wis., Aug. 9, 1852; unmarried.
