With his permission to forward his posting, Dr. Riddick added the following informative note. If you find that you connect to his lines, please send the Bowles list your discoveries, also. Linne I mentioned that my geneaologic material was in storage and that I wrote the note without going to source material. I did check the book written by Ruth Armstrong Ross in 1988 and find that Mr Bowles was Edward Thomas Bowles, not Edwin. In her book Ruth recounts that in 1972 Mr Bowles came to the annual Riddick Family reunion, held that year in Memphis TN. I was not in attendance that year and did not meet him. Mr. Bowles, a resident of Norfolk VA was following geneaologic leads and tracing the descendents of Willis J. Riddick born 1795 and Priscilla Hinton, born 1801, both of Gates County NC. Two of the sons of Willis & Priscilla, Jobe Riddick, Born 1823 and Wiley, born 1829, had left Gates Co in the 1840s for Yalobusha County MS, where a number of Gates County emigrees lived, several of whom were related to Jobe and Wiley. We have no record of Wiley, but have a full account of Jobe, from whom my branch of the family descends. He married a cousin, Caroline Augusta Ballard, whose parents had moved to Yalobusha in the 1820s. At any rate, Mr Bowles visited Coffeeville Miss in search of the Riddicks, only to find that they were all in Memphis that weekend for a family reunion. He travelled the 90 miles or so to Memphis and met his Mississippi relatives. Subsequent correspondence with Ruth Armstrong Ross provided her with the data on those members of the Riddick family who remained in North Carolina. Through this listing, I was able to correspond with and then meet a distant cousin, Floyd Riddick, Parliamentarian of the US Senate and author of several books on Senate Rules and Parliamentary Procedure, while I was in Washington DC on business. As to Edward Thomas Bowles, he was born Mar 30 1919 in Hertford County NC, had 4 marriages, lived in Norfolk VA and died in 1985. His parents were John Edward Bowles born 1885 and Cora Thomas Riddick, born 1889, both of Hertford County NC. Cora was the daughter of Lemuel Bembury Riddick 1864-1913, a lifelong resident of Gates County NC, Lemuel B. Riddick was the son of Mills Lynwood Riddick of Gates County NC, 1828-1898. Mills Lynwood was the brotrher of Jobe and Wiley Riddick. Willis J Riddick was the son of Col Robert Riddick of Gates County. I have an extensive database entitled The Riddick, Alston, Ballard and Kelly Families on RootsWeb. It can be accessed by entering any of the names listed here, locating my entry on that individual, then tracing up or down to find ancestors or descendents. Hope this is of interest to you. Frank A. Riddick Jr. MD ===================================================================== Match: Bowles Source: [email protected] From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [RIDDICK] charles e. riddick,son of drayton & vera This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: DrFrankRiddick Surnames: Riddick, Holowell, Bowles, Cross, Ross Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.riddick/328.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Chris- After Hurricane Katrina we moved to a high rise condo and all my source materials on geneaology are in storage. As best as I can remember, my listing of Sarah (Sally) Riddick as Christopher Riddick's wife comes from my cousin Ruth Armstrong Ross, who wrote 1986 a book on our branch of the Riddicks, from her correspondence in the 1950s qnd 60s with Edwin Bowles of Gates County NC who was a descendent of the Riddicks who stayed in NC rather than emigrating to Mississippi as did my forebears or to Louisiana, as did yours. one of them or perhaps both cite materials collected and collated in the 1930s and 1940s bu one William T. Cross, long time Registrar of Gates County NC and also a Riddick descendent. The one thing not in storage is my copy of Pioneers of the South published in the 1990s by June Runyan Riddick of Little Rock Arkansas, whose data generally agrees with mine and augments it considerable. June lists Sarah Hollowell as Christopher Riddick's first wife and ! the mother of a daughter, Mary, she lists Sarah Riddick, daughter of James Riddick, as Christopher Riddick's second wife and the mother of sons William Wright, Mills, Henry (from whom I am descended) and Lemuel (grandfather of Lamartine Riddick, who is your ancestor). My data show that Sarah Riddick was the daughter of Capt Joseph Riddick rather than his brother James Riddick. Whichever is correct and I see no way to find out after nearly 300 years, Sarah was the granddaughter of Lemuel Riddick of Nansemond County Virginia and a man of local importance in Colonial Virginia. Frank Riddick Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. ========================================