I am researching all the descendants of Lewis
RIDDLE and Elizabeth BARBEE.
This particular query concerns one of Lewis and Elizabeth's great-great-granddaughters,
Nona M. Riddle, only child of
Elijah Spencer RIDDLE and his wife Annie. (She is only my 3rd cousin twice removed, so I am not a close relative, which is why I'm hoping someone closer will know more. Some of her children are very likely still living.)
Here is what data I have on
Nona and her parents:
Elijah
Spencer RIDDLE (known as
Spencer) was the son of George A. Riddle and his first wife Margaret Jane
Ferguson.
Bath Co. marriage records list the marriage of
Spence RIDDLE and Annie
Jones on 4 May 1896. (From a published index; I do not have access to the details.)
1900 census of
Bath Co., Ky,
Wyoming precinct, enumerated 1 June, list on p. 1A as family #3:
Riddle,
Spencer, 33, farmer; Annie H., wife, 24, b. May 1876, married 4 years, no children. Both born
Ky Ky Ky.
1910 census of
Wyoming precinct,
Bath Co., Ky, enumerated 18 April, lists on p. 1A as family #10:
Riddle,
Spencer E., 43; Anna H., 34, wife, married 14 years, no children;
Hobart, 11, nephew. All born
Ky Ky Ky. (Hobert is the son of Richard Andrew
RIDDLE and Dosha
Belle Craycraft.)
1920 census of
Bath Co., Ky,
Forge Hill precinct, enumerated 3 Jan, lists on p. 1B as family #14:
Riddle,
Spencer, 52;
Nannie, wife, 44;
Nona M., dau, 3 8/12;
Purvis, Myrtle, servant, 23. All born
Ky Ky Ky.
1930 census of
Bath Co., Ky, Owingsville precinct, enumerated 11 April, lists on p. 3B as family #100/104:
Riddle,
Spencer, farmer, 56, age at first marriage 21; Anna, wife, 52, age at first marriage 17. Both born
Ky Ky Ky.
Note that
Nona is not listed with the family. This is because she married very young. We'll get back to her.
Spencer's death certificate records
Spencer RIDDLE, age 77 yrs 5 mos 26 days, born 4 March 1868, died 30 Aug 1945 in Owingsville rural area, married, husband of Annie
RIDDLE, father George A. Riddle, mother’s maiden name Margaret
RIDDLE, cause of death organic heart trouble, informant Annie
RIDDLE, burial in Old
Virginia graveyard.
The best possibility I've found for Annie's death certificate is the Annie
Hester RIDDLE who died 19 Jan 1953 in Owingsville rural area, widowed, age 80, with a birthdate given as 20 May 1872. The age range is within reason, given the variance in census records and the fact that ages at death are often approximate. And she was buried in the Old
Virginia cemetery.
But the trouble with that identification is that her death certificate lists that Annie’s parents as John
Powell and Kate
Smith, and the informant is a Rollie
Powell, which is in conflict with the marriage record for
Spencer RIDDLE and Annie
Jones. However, she may have been previously married to a
Jones.
There was a Rollie K. Powell, age 16, born Oct 1883, son of Thomas
Powell (43) and wife Emma (age 40) listed two households before the family of
Spencer and Annie
RIDDLE in the 1900 census, which would tend to support this hypothesis.
Getting back to
Nona ...
1930 census of
Bath Co., Ky,
Forge Hill precinct, enumerated 2 April, lists on p. 1A as family #3:
Fawns,
Nannie B., 60, widowed; Alfred W., son, 20, age at first marriage 20;
Nona M., dau-in-law, 14, age at first marriage 13. All born
Ky Ky Ky.
The Kentucky birth index lists four children born in
Bath Co., Ky, with mother's maiden name of
Nona Riddle:
George Fawns, born 29 Mar 1931
Annie H. Pendleton, born 8 Mar 1933
Darlene
Pendleton, born 19 Nov 1938
Ronnie
Pendleton, born 30 Apr 1946
My questions include:
1. What was Nona's birthdate? I cannot find her in the
Ky birth index.
2. What was the given name of her second husband?
3. Does anyone have the two marriage dates?
4. Did Alfred Fawns die young, or were they divorced? (I suspect the latter.)
5. Was her mother's maiden name
Jones or
Powell? If the latter, who was Annie's first husband?
And of course, contact with descendents is always welcome.