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History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois, Page 899
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RIDDLE, DAVID, was born April 20, 1780, in Mifflin county, Pa.
He went to Champaign county, Ohio, in 1807.
Mary Hamilton was born in Mason county, about seven miles from Maysville, Ky.,
March 9, 1786. Her mother died when she was quite young, and she went to
Champaign county, Ohio, with some friends, and was there married, about 1808,
to David Riddle. Six children were born in Ohio, and the family moved, in 1819,
to Washington county, Ill., where one child was born, and Mrs. Riddle died there,
on July 11, 1821.
David Riddle was married in 1822, to Mrs. Elizabeth Crocker, whose maiden name
was Wakefield, and moved to Sangamon county, arriving at Springfield Oct. 14, 1822,
and the next day moved to a farm in Williams township.
They had two children in Sangamon county. Of his children--
JOHN, born Jan. 8, 1809, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county, Oct. 2, 1834, to
Sarah H. Clark.
They had five children. ELIZA C. died, aged twenty-four years.
MARY E. married John Tomlinson, have four children,
FRANK L., HELEN A., ELMER S. and CLARENCE A., and live near Mt. Pulaski.
FRANCIS A. enlisted at Springfield, July, 1862, in Co. A, 130th Ill. Inf., for three years,
was promoted to 1st Lieut., and acted as Captain, Major and Judge Advocate, and was
honorably mustered out of the service in August, 1865.
He was married in Jacksonville, Ill., to Sarah Gallaher. He is a lawyer, and resides in
Chicago.
SARAH W. is unmarried, and lives with her father. Mrs. Sarah H. Riddle died, and
John Riddle married Martha Archer, who was born May 24, 1819, in Greenville,
Bond county, Ill.
They have one child, NANCY E., who lives with her parents, one mile northeast of
Barclay, Sangamon county, Ill. John Riddle remembers that when he was a boy the
family found that there was a letter in the postoffice,but they had not the money to pay for it.
He gathered a load of corn, took it to town, and sold the whole load for ninety-five cents,
paid twenty-five cents for the letter, and returned home rejoicing.
JAMES, born April 30, 1811, in Ohio, was married in Sangamon county to Susan A. Sampson. They had two children. JOHN M. married Sarah M. Woltz. They have one child, CHARLES A., and live one and a half miles north of Barclay, Illinois. DAVID A. lives at DesMoines, Iowa. James Riddle was a soldier from Sangamon county in the Black Hawk war. He died March 4, 1849, and his widow lives with her son,
John M.--1874.
MARGARET, born Sept. 25, 1812, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Joseph Dement. He died, leaving a widow and four children in Logan county, Illinois.
ABNER, born Oct. 6, 1814, in Champaign County, Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Mrs. Mary A. Pickrell, whose maiden name was Elkin. They had one child, HAMILTON R., born Dec. 9, 1841, in Sangamon county, enlisted Aug. 1, 1862, in Co. B, 130th Ill. Inf., for three years. He was captured, with Bank's Red river expedition, April 8, 1864, imprisoned at Camp Tyler, Texas, thirteen months, and released in May, 1865. While in prison his regiment was consolidated with the 77th Ill. Inf., and he was mustered out as a member of Co. A, of that regiment, June 17, 1865, at Springfield. He was married, Sept. 2, 1868, to Cordelia F. Constant. They have three children, EARL A., ELIZA MAY and WILLIAM E. Hamilton R. Riddle graduated Feb., 1873, at Rush Medical College, Chicago, and is a practicing physician at Mechanicsburg, Ill. Mrs. Mary A. Riddle died, and Abner Riddle married Mary J. Clark. They have ten children. RUSSELL O. married Sabra Constant, have two children, MAY O. and LOUELLA, and live half a mile south of Barclay, Sangamon county, Ill. MARY J. married Samuel McCullough, and lives in Kansas. The other eight children reside with their parents, near Ottowa, Kan.
NANCY, born April 10, 1817, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Abraham Bird. See his name.
MARY, born May 13, 1819, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to William H. Fowkes. See his name.
ELIZABETH, born June 12, 1823, in Sangamon county, married Alexander Mills, and resides at Lincoln, Illinois.
SARAH A., born Sept. 30, 1826, in Sangamon county, married to Rev. Alexander Semple. They have three children, and live at Decatur, Ill. He is Presiding Elder in the M. E. Church.
David Riddle died August 12, 1846, and his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Riddle, died in 1854, both in Sangamon county.
RIDDLE, WILLIAM, was born Sept. 1, 1805, in Kentucky. He is a nephew of David Riddle. At six months of age, he was taken by his parents to Logan county, Ohio. Maxamillia Bousman was born in 1809 in Champaign county, Ohio, where they were married in 1826. They had four living children in Ohio, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving May 31, 1836, in what is now Williams township, where they had five children, and in 1851 moved to Douglas county, Oregon. Of their nine children--
JANE, born April 14, 1828, in Logan county, Ohio, married Jan. 15, 1850, in Sangamon county, to Thomas Wilson, who was born Nov. 4, 1817, in Dumfries-shire, Scotland. They have four living children, born in Sangamon county, namely: JANE F., WILLIAM R., JOHN T. and LILLIAS H., and reside two miles southwest of Buffalo Hart station, Sangamon county, Illinois--1874.
ARTAMESIA, born Oct. 11, 1830, in Sangamon county, married in Feb., 1849to James P. Chapman, who died, and she married William H. Merriman. See his name.
ISABELLA, born Jan. 16, 1835, in Ohio, came to Sangamon county with her parents; thence with them to Oregon, and was there married to Israel R. Nicholls. They have eleven children, and reside near North Canyonville, Douglas county, Oregon--1874.
WILLIAM H., born March, 1836, in Ohio, came to Sangamon county; thence with his parents to Oregon, and died there in July, 1836.
GEORGE W., born Feb. 22, 1840, in Sangamon county, married Anna Rice, has two children, and live near North Canyonville, Douglas county, Oregon.
ABNER, born in 1842, in Sangamon county, married Alice Rice, has two children, and reside near North Canyonville, Oregon.
JOHN B., born in 1845, in Sangamon county, married in Oregon, and his wife and child were drowned while crossing a stream in a wagon. He is living with his second wife in North Canyonville, Oregon.
ANNA M., born April 8, 1847, in Sangamon county, married Vincent Beal, has one child, and lives in Jacksonville, Oregon.
TOBIAS S., born Aug. 30, 1849, in Sangamon county, married Sarah Smith, has two children, and lives at Harney lake, Oregon.
Mrs. Maxamillia Riddle died August, 1868, and William H. Riddle resides at North Canyonville, Oregon--1874.
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