Evening Herald April 4, 1927 MRS. RIDDLE, BEATTY, DEAD Mrs. Jeff Riddle, Indian, wife of the famous Jeff Riddle, chronicler of the Modoc war, died this morning at 5:30 a.m. Her friends believed her death was caused by grief for her son George Riddle, who died of pnuemonia last winter. Her noted husband, Jeff, and two children were at her beside in the little Riddle home at Beatty, when the end came. From the day of her favorite son's death, Mrs. Riddle lost interest in life. When sickness laid its hand on her, she did not seem to care, did not resist. Funeral services will be held at Beatty in the next few days. Mrs. Riddle came from Oklahoma. Her husband was a boy when the Modoc Indian War was at its height. Riddle's father and mother were instrumental in aiding the whites in quelling the rebellious Modocs in the Lava Beds of Modoc County, California. ---------------------------- Evening Herald April 4, 1927 Mrs. Amanda Riddle, the beloved wife of Jefferson Riddle, well known resident of the Beatty district, passed away at the family residence at 5:15 this morning following a lengthy illness. Mrs. Riddle was born in Modoc County in 1864 and was in her 63rd year at the time of her passing. In addition to her husband, Jefferson Riddle, she is survived by the following children, Simeon and Bidwell Riddle, sons, and two daughters, May Copperfield and Minerva Brown of Klamath County. The funeral services will be held in the Beatty Methodist Church on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. Interment will be made in the Chief Schonchin Cemetery. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Klamath Republican July 7, 1904 Dairy - Matt Riddle of Missouri, who has been visiting his uncle near Yainax, passed through here on his road to Klamath Falls, one day last week. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Evening Herald November 8, 1937 Sim B. Riddle, a well known resident of Beatty, passed away at the Klamath Valley Hospital on Saturday, Nov. 6, following a brief illness. Sim Riddle was a leading tribesman of the Klamath Reservation and was a member of the business committee as well as serving on other important committee assignments. He was a son of Jeff Riddle, one of the widely known Indians of the state of Oregon. Funeral services were held from the Beatty Methodist Church on Wednesday with the pastor, the Rev. B.V. Bradshaw officiating. More than 300 of his many friends from the reservation and Klamath County gathered to pay their last respects. Interment was in the Chief Schonchin Cemetery. _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it now! http://toolbar.msn.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/