Hello Charles, Here the information you asked me about ... Jodie sent this to me, so we can credit her 'Thank her' for finding this site! Date: 01/17/2003 5:17:12 PM Pacific Standard Time From: <A HREF="mailto:Dayjovu">Dayjovu</A> Elam Riddle, Surveyor, in Texas ...  "From Indian Springs To The Jordan River" Book: <A HREF="http://www.sulphurriver.net/evergreen.html"> http://www.sulphurriver.net/evergreen.html</A> I inquiried about the Books which both mention the Riddle family lines. The one above is twenty and the other book "The History of Titus County" is fourty five dollars and five dollars for any order for shiping and handling. Franklin County Genealogy Society P.O. Box 1563 Mt. Vernon, TX 75457 The "History of Titus County" was originally published as a two Volume set, now re-published as one volume. It gives a good breakdown of the Riddle family so I am told. The other book, "From Indian Springs ..." I am told is a collection of stories about Titus County, both books written by Traylor Russell. A excerpt is at the above website of this book. Hope this fills you in about the book ... haven't received the books myself yet. As always Charles you are a wealth of information about the family! Would like to ad your branch of Our Riddle / Grizzell / Stephenson / Simpson family into my family tree records some day when we can get cordinated to share. About the other book you mention ... I agree that Elam Riddle is the one actually pictured on page 25 of the book "Images of the Past ... " as does another cousin who has seen this picture before it ever was published in books. Did you realize that book also gave two different birth dates for Arelda Jane (Stephenson) Sparks daughter of AMERICA JANE RIDDLE ... reference pages 14 which gives Arelda's birth date as May 14, 1846 (the date I believed was correct and the only date I had ever heard or seen). While on page 38 of said book it gives her birth date contray as Sept. 11, 1846. I'd love pictures of these my Sparks relatives if anyone lives near Gladewater Cemetery in Texas to take the pictures!? This book is one that has been talked about a few years ago on this RIDDLE LIst before. So, this date conflict besides the misidentified photo are probably not the only errors in the book I am referring to (otherwise it is a very nice book!): <A HREF="http://palmermedia.etxmp.com/osb/itemdetails.cfm/ID/5">http://palmermedia.etxmp.com/osb/itemdetails.cfm/ID/5</A> There is also a book called, "REFLECTIONS" --- (In the above link) --- Does anyone know of this book?? DOES It also have family pictures of RIDDLE and descendant family photos in it?? There are probably other links for the same books on the Internet as well. I put this link for "Images of the Past ... " because I figured soon as I named the book someone would want to know where to get it ... or more info on it. Charles, however did you get to be living in England? Just curious ... always enjoy hearing from you. Hope I answered your question Charles, and hope I anticipated questions other might ask concerning this other book we referred to here in. I wonder if the book will ever update it's content with corrections in future reprints of that book. Thanks, Cousin Russ Merryman (Descendant of America Jane Riddle) =================== In a message dated 01/26/2003 3:14:14 AM Pacific Standard Time, CharlesGenUK@aol.com writes: > Subj: [RIDDLE] Re: RIDDLE-D Digest V03 #14 > Date: 01/26/2003 3:14:14 AM Pacific Standard Time > From: <A HREF="mailto:CharlesGenUK@aol.com">CharlesGenUK@aol.com</A> > Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:RIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com">RIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com</A> > To: <A HREF="mailto:RIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com">RIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com</A> > Sent from the Internet > > Russ... While I have some copied pages of Plum's book, I don't remember > where > I received them and I'm not sure where to get an actual copy of the book. > > We will probably never know for sure about William (the Tory) Riddle's > origins. > > What was the website for Elam? Yes, I believe he was a surveyor by trade > (and > I remember hearing that he surveyed quite a bit of Mount Pleasant, Texas, a > > town he helped to found). I have extensively researched Matilda Simpson's > side of the family. I have it back to the 1500s and with a theory of mine > about Matthew Rodham's parentage, which I have yet to present to a > qualified > genealogist, I can expand it quite a bit further. A lot of what is on the > family history site as well as in the Family History Center (which I have > spent countless hours at in Mesa, Arizona) is unverified. A giant leap > without proof was made about Matthew Rodham's parents being Edmund Roddam > and > Margaret Grey (Matthew Rodham was Matilda Simpson's 5-Great Grandfather). > It > was just assumed that since there was a Roddam family in England that this > must be where Matthew Rodham came from. With years of working on proof of > this personal brick wall, I am near presenting my findings. > > The Images of the Past photo is wrong and I have spoken to someone at the > Mount Pleasant Library/Historical Center about it. > > As an aside, Elam Riddle was the 6th Postmaster of Mount Pleasant, Texas, > appointed December 9, 1852. > > Connie... My father, and everyone else on this side of my family, is from > Mount Pleasant and the family dates back to the town's founding (and with > the > Cochran side, even before that). > > All... It is a balmy 52 in Kings Worthy, Winchester, England (70 miles > southwest of London). > > Charles Smith > > > ==== RIDDLE Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, please send the command "unsubscribe" in an email to: > RIDDLE-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or > RIDDLE-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode) > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >