RIDDLES OF CHATHAM COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. 365
Cato Riddles (2), third son of Cato² (1), was born in Chatham Coun-
ty, N. C., Dec. 22, 1796, and died a single man.
Mary Riddles (1), third daughter of Cato² (1), was born in Chatham
County, N. C., Oct. 28, 1799; was married to Daniel MacDaniel, farmer.
Jane Riddles (1), fourth daughter of Cato² (1), was born in Chatham
County, N. C., June 20, 1802; was married to Rev. William R. Stansel,
and removed to Pickens County (from Georgia), Ala., in 1831, where her
children now reside; among them Gen. M. L. Stansel, a prominent law-
yer at Carrollton. She died Oct. 16, 1868.
Matilda Riddles (1), youngest daughter of Cato² (1), was born in
Chatham County, N. C., June 11, 1805; was married to Charles Fort, of
Georgia, and died Sept. 18, 1852 (?).
William Riddle³ (3), a son of Julius² (1), married and had issue, of
whom hereafter. Lived in Chatham County, N. C.
Spencer Riddles (1), a son of Julius² (1).
Lloyd Riddles (1), a son of Julius² (2), born in Chatham County, N.
C., married, and had issue, of whom hereafter. He died at Aberdeen,
Miss., in 1840, aged about 60.
John Riddle³ (4).
German Riddle³ (1).
Elizabeth Riddle³ (2).
Lucy Riddles (1).
Children of Julius² (1).
Jane Riddle³ (2).
Sarah Riddle (3).
FOURTH GENERATION.
William-Thompson Riddle (4), eldest son of Thomas (1), was born
in Greene County, Ala., July 11, 1833, and died Nov. 5, 1866. The fol-
lowing taken from an obituary notice written by Col. J. W. Taylor, one
of the distinguished citizens of the State of Alabama, is said to be a true
delineation of this young man's character: "He was a young man of rare
and varied gifts of mind. His intellect was active and inquisitive, solid
in its grasp, quick in its perceptions, and wonderfully discursive in its
reach after knowledge. The logical and the imaginative were blended in
almost equal proportions in his intellectual structure, hence his equal
aptitude and taste for the solid and aesthetic branches of learning. He
was passionately fond of books, and loved literature with a clinging af-
fection, and for its own sake. A delicate and impaired physical organi-
zation excluded him from athletic exercises and the more active pursuits
of life, and he thus became a student, almost a recluse, from necessity
as well as choice. He lived in his library, and among his books sought
and found the instructive companionship coveted by intellectual natures.
His tastes were scholarly and refined. His reading was extensive in nearly
all departments of literature and science, and in some favored ones ex-
haustive and minute. The mystic problems of metaphysics had for him
a special charm, and he was familiar and fully acquainted with the litera-
ture and learning of mental science. He was also peculiarly fond of that
higher and nobler criticism which has for its aim the elimination of truth
in all branches of knowledge. Possessing a fine library, and having ample
time to indulge his literary tastes, he became one of the best read and
most generally informed men that the writer ever knew. Yet his mod-
esty, equal to his merits, led him to conceal rather than to obtrude his
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