Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Eli Riddle    
                Born: Nov-11-1804           1,2 (see note 1)
                Died: Oct-28-1896           1
              Buried:                      in Riddles Chapel Cemetery, Co Rd 16/10, near Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV  3,4
              Census: 1870                 in Clay District, Ritchie Co, WV  
              Census: 1850, 1860           in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  
          Occupation:                      minister  3
              Father: John Clinton Riddle   (1778 - 1858) 
              Mother: Tamer Goff   (1782 - 1823) 
Other spouse 1
Other spouse 2
Notes 
                Wife: Augusta J. Henry     
             Married: Jul-17-1873          in Ritchie Co, WV  5
                Born: ca 1817               6
              Buried: (unmarked)           in Riddles Chapel Cemetery, Co Rd 16/10, near Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV  3
              Father: John Henry 
              Mother: Bertha ___ 

Sources:
(1) Headstone. 
(2) Doddridge County WV Marriages 1845-1937, Wes Cochran, 156 Gihon Meadows, Apt 150, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Jan 1993) 
(3) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, 
McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. 
(4) Findagrave.com. 
(5) Ritchie County Marriage Records, Harrisville, WV, Identified as Eli Riddle, widower, 68, b. Hampshire Co Va, res. 
Ritchie Co, son of John & Tamer; and Augusta J. Osburn, widow, b. in (blank), res. Ritchie Co, dau of John & Bertha.  
Married Jul 17 1873.  (Note:  The record is unclear whether Osburn was her maiden name or her previous married name.  
But Minnie Kendall Lowther's "History of Ritchie County," p. 93, clarifies that she was Augusta Henry of New York, who 
was married to a Welsh, then remarried and was widowed in 1871 by John Osbourne.), MR p. 
28. 
(6) Ritchie County Marriage Records, Harrisville, WV. 

Event Notes
Note (1) Birthplace given in 1859 marriage as Monongalia County, but in 1873 marriage
as Hampshire County.  Some researchers report Randolph County.







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