{"id":1471,"date":"2018-02-08T10:51:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T17:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2018-02-08T10:51:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T17:51:37","slug":"a-return-to-the-riddles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=1471","title":{"rendered":"A Return to the Riddles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\/Back in the 90’s, I spent a tremendous amount of time researching my Riddle family line. I had a great deal of assistance from two other Riddle researchers, James Anderson and Ruby Prestly, both now deceased. We compiled our information and related our findings in a short book about Olive Dunbar Riddle (1823-1902) and her descendants. We used Olive as our subject because we could trace her ancestry to colonial times.\n<\/p>\n

Her husband, John Davis Riddle, provides more of a challenge. We never could find a birth family for him. Now, twenty years later, I plan to spend this year trying to find out more about him.\n<\/p>\n

I have these facts about his life:\n<\/p>\n

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  1. John Davis Riddle was born on either the 10th<\/sup> or 15th<\/sup> of May 1821 in Pennsylvania. I do not know the birth county or who his parents were.\n<\/li>\n
  2. He married Olive Hall Dunbar on 12 January 1843 in Summit County, Ohio. Oddly, his name on the record appears as John Davis, not John Davis Riddle.\n<\/li>\n
  3. On 9 September 1847, John and Olive sold Ohio land she had inherited.\n<\/li>\n
  4. By 1849, they had moved to Mendon, St. Joseph County, Michigan where they spent the remainder of their lives.\n<\/li>\n
  5. John (or J. D., as he was commonly known) and Olive raised a family of eight children. They also raised a grandson.\n<\/li>\n
  6. John became blind in his later years. He lost one eye in an accident, and he developed a cataract in the other.\n<\/li>\n
  7. Fearing blindness and poverty, John committed suicide by hanging himself in his barn on 20 August 1896. He was 75 years old.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Thus, my family tree for the Riddle line ends with John Davis Riddle. I would love to extend it this year.\n<\/p>\n

    When I worked on this project previously, James and Ruby and I represented family lines descending from three of the Riddle children. James’ ancestor was Theodocia Riddle Evert, Ruby’s was John Hoxey Riddle, and mine was Laura Riddle Edmonds. Now, I know of no other Riddle researchers in this family. I am in this alone.\n<\/p>\n

    My research resumes with investigation all the rich resources on the Seeking Michigan website (http:\/\/seekingmichigan.org\/<\/a>). They have collected all sorts of Michigan records that I had not seen in my previous research. Last week I found John and Olive on the 1884 Michigan state census.\n<\/p>\n

    With new records to find, it should be a satisfying year for research. I hope I can move this family back a generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Back in the 90’s, I spent a tremendous amount of time researching my Riddle family line. I had a great deal of assistance from two other Riddle researchers, James Anderson and Ruby Prestly, both now deceased. We compiled our information and related our findings in a short book about Olive Dunbar Riddle (1823-1902) and her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-riddle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}