Hi Charles I'm a bit lost here. I copied info I found excerpted out of a book or two. Did I quote something that didn't set well? I am a direct descendant of Joseph L Riddle. The 1775 birthdate is from Roger Hart's long research - but I think he put John Riddle's year instead of Joseph's. (John RIDDLE b: 10 Feb 1775 in Montgomery Co., VA); You are fortunate in that all of Isacc's family has been identified. We are still working on Joseph's. Who do you show Happy Rogers Riddle re-marrying... Thanks so much - Jodie Found this article quite interesting! source: http://www.jimcal.com/v04is01.htm#William William Riddle was taken before the Montgomery County Court several times as a > Loyalist starting in 1779.<A HREF="http://www.jimcal.com/#21">21</A>It was not uncommon for individuals to have > divided loyalties — to come forward for the patriot cause, and then switch > to the British standard — or visa versa. Thus families were often split > apart by these divided loyalties. Finally in 1781 William Riddle kidnapped > Col. Benjamin Cleveland, a patriot from Surry County, North > Carolina.Cleveland escaped, and shortly thereafter Riddle was caught and > hanged. The details of his death contain several contradictions in the > letters and pension declarations found in the Draper Manuscripts.There are > three separate accounts in A History of Watauga County, North Carolina with > Sketches of Prominent Families and in Draper’s King’s Mountain And Its > Heroes.<A HREF="http://www.jimcal.com/#22">22</A> One account in the actual Draper Manuscripts states there were > five men besides William Riddle hanged<A HREF="http://www.jimcal.com/#23">23</A> with him and two other accounts > state that Riddle and two sons were hanged together.<A HREF="http://www.jimcal.com/#24">24</A>Several accounts > assert that three Tories were hanged together at Wilkesboro by Cleveland,<A HREF="http://www.jimcal.com/#25">25</A> > and one account declares that the three hanged were William Riddle, Reeves > and Goss.<A HREF="http://www.jimcal.com/#26">26</A>Yet another account states that the tradition in the area of > Riddle’s Knob is that, in fact, Riddle was shot in the thigh at the time of > Cleveland’s rescue on Riddle’s Knob.His wife pled for him, and seeing that > he was mortally wounded, they left him to die with her.<A HREF="http://www.jimcal.com/#27">27</A> In the Draper > Manuscripts, 5DD110, W.W. Lenoir corrects his own earlier statement that > Riddle and two sons were hanged. He says he now believes the truth of the > matter is that Riddle and one son were hanged, together with a third man.It > is my feeling that this last statement is closest to the truth. I believe > the name of this son was Moses Riddle, age about 15 years.This concurs with > Scottish naming patterns, wherein the eldest son was named for the father’s > father – in the Riddle family, Moses Riddle, (sometimes the first son was > named for the mother’s father), and the second son – who was in the Riddle > family named "James," was named for the mother’s father.I therefore suspect > that Happy’s father was James Roberts, for whom the second son was named. In a message dated 1/4/2003 8:44:39 AM Eastern Standard Time, CharlesGenUK@aol.com writes: > Joseph L. Riddle was the twin of my ancestor > Isaac William Riddle > Born: April 1777 (Montgomery County, Virginia) > Died: 30 November 1861 (Titus County, Texas) > Married: 21 May 1801 (Russell County, Tennessee?) > > Some unreliable sources had their birth year as 1775 but it was 1777. > > Jodie, the twins went with their mother (Happy Rogers Riddle) to Tennessee > where she remarried. A lot of families, caught on the wrong side of the > American Revolution, went to Kentucky and Tennessee to leave behind the > past. > Happy died about 1784 in Kyles Ford, Hawkins Co., Tennessee at about the > age > of 36. The twins' father was William Riddle who was hung in the Spring of > 1781 in either Watauga Co. or Wilkesboro, North Carolina by a corrupt > colonial leader (yes there were good and bad on both sides, it was not as > black and white as the textbooks tell us). There is more to this story than > > just William being on the Loyalist side during the Revolution. > > Charles >