please do not send any more email to this address, please forward it to Loretta1125@msn.com thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: Carol Gross <allyssa@home.com> To: <RIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 9:46 AM Subject: [RIDDLE-L] Introduction > Hi everyone, > > My name is Carol Gross and I am brand new to this discussion group and > fairly new to the joys of Genealogy! I want to take this opportunity to say > hi to everyone and give you a history of my roots in the Riddle line as I > know them. I should be able to keep this brief since I really don't know > very much. My father has a coveted box of research passed down to him from > his late sister Wilda Maxine REMMINGTON. Unfortunately, when I was living > close to him I did not take the time to sort the research, thinking it would > be boring! Now I am living near Toronto and a two day drive from the years > of research that my Aunt had accumulated! > > I am the daughter of Arthur Wayne RIDDLE, son of Earl Alfred RIDDLE and > Louie Florence DAVID, Earl is the son of William Milo RIDDLE and Magnolia > TIMMONS, William Milo is the son of Isaac RIDDLE and Sarah HAYNES, Isaac is > the son of "The Second" Thomas RIDDLE and his second wife. Thomas is the > son of William RIDDLE. This information I know for fact. > > My father gave me very short pieces of information to start working on. He > referred to the following: > > Isaac having a disagreement with his half brothers when he sold his fathers > property in TN; > Thomas being referred to as "The Second Thomas" > mention of Thomas or William being from Bledsoe County and or Morgan County > TN; > that Thomas and William's children shared the same names; > Riddle Knob; > an ancestor that was hung by the Tories or because he was a Tory; > a wife who was widowed and lost custody of her children because of a law > stating that an unmarried woman could not have children, she later got her > children back when she remarried; > > So those are the stories that I am currently sorting out. At the site where > I found this discussion group I found the information referring to William > Riddle and am attempting to confirm that Thomas was his son. Any > information that anyone can give would be deeply appreciated and I humbly > offer my assistance to all in our attempts to find our pieces of the puzzles > left by our fore-fathers. > > Carol Gross > (sorry...guess not so short, promise to do better next time!) > > > > > ==== 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 > > >