please do not send any more mail to this address, please forward it to Loretta1125@msn.com. thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: Mary Hill <mevhill@burgoyne.com> To: <RIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 8:14 PM Subject: Re: [RIDDLE-L] Introduction > Hi Carol, > > Your accounts sure sound like the Riddle family line I have followed for > several years! I wrote a book about William Riddle and his wife, Happy, > about a year ago. It was William Riddle who was hung at Wilkesboro, Wilkes > Co., NC. He had a hideout on Riddle's Knob in Ashe Co., NC. Been there and > seen it! Really beautiful country, with a special feeling there. His sons > James and John were bound out in Montgomery Co., VA court records in May, > 1782. Happy remarried William Ingraham, and got the children back again as > far as I know. However, she died not long afterward. The children stayed > in the area until the early 1800's. John, James, Thomas and Joseph went > down to Bledsoe Co., TN. Joseph later went to Cumberland Co., KY. Thomas > had two marriages - to Mary Igou and Delilah Burks. Isaac Riddle was his > son, by his second marriage. Sounds like we may tie into each other. Please > email me at: > mevhill@burgoyne.com > I'd love to share more with you! > > Mary Hill > > At 12:46 PM 11/5/1999 -0500, you wrote: > >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 > > > > > > > > > ==== RIDDLE Mailing List ==== > ---------------RIDDLE Researchers Discussion List----------------- > Want to contact the ListMom?! > E-mail Rebecca at; > rebecca@collector.org > > > > >