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 > > >