Carla, My family were also John W. Riddles from the KY area of Owen and Scott Co.'s. Where did your's come from? Susie ----- Original Message ----- From: caribym <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 9:18 PM Subject: Re: [RIDDLE-L] More Riddle's > Hello Carolyn, > Good to hear from you. Thanks for your e-mail. I love hearing about all the > different Riddle families. My mother was a Riddle, going back to John W. > Riddle, Sr.. I just started researching my Riddle ancestors about three > months ago. I have learned so much and met so many great people. It has been > very enlightening. I really knew very little about my Mother's family. Her > father, Ranzie Riddle, died when she was a young girl and all her > grandparents were gone long before I came on the seen. And for some reason > her brothers and sisters have never really shared much about there > ancestors. I think they were afraid they would find murderers and crazy > people in the family. So they decided to leave well enough alone. But then I > came along and started asking lots of questions. I've really tried to find > out about our Native American roots, but haven't had much luck. My 3rd great > grandmother was Nellie Cook Riddle, married to John W. Riddle, Jr. and she > was said to be full blooded Cherokee. But I don't know anything else. > If you've seen the last Riddle Newsletter, I am the Carla in one of the > articles. Somehow we kind of left out my last name, which is French. > Please keep in touch. Let me know what you find. > > God Bless, > Carla Sparks French > > > > ==== RIDDLE Mailing List ==== > -----------------RIDDLE Researchers Discussion List---------------- > Want to unsubscribe, and did not save your instructions? > Visit the RIDDLE Researchers Discussion List webpage to see how! > http://medgen.iupui.edu/~rebecca/roots/riddle.html > > > > > >