Family Group Sheet


Name Nathan Riddle, 1C3R
Birth 1873, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Death 1929 (?), Rowan Co., Kentucky
Burial Riddle Cemetery, Slab Camp Road, Rowan Co., Ky
Father Commodore Riddle (~1847-)
Mother Amanda Elizabeth Nickells (1852-)
Marriage 6 Oct 1892, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Spouse Mary Elizabeth Brown, 1C3R
Birth 11 Mar 1875, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Death 31 Mar 1969, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Burial Clearfield Cemetery, Rowan Co., Ky
Father John B. Brown (1856-1933)
Mother Sarah Jane Jones (1853-1927)
Other spouses William Henry Dehart
Children
1 M Millard Riddle, 2C2R
Birth 18 Feb 1894, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Death 26 Sep 1986, Morehead, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Spouse Etta Myrtle Hall, 1C2R
Spouse Helen Inez Lambert
2 F Versie Riddle, 2C2R
Birth 26 May 1896, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Death 30 Jun 1980, Morehead, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Spouse Clarence Ellington ("Bennie") Perkins
3 M Arthur Riddle, 2C2R
Birth 18 May 1899, Kentucky
Death 6 Aug 1937, Rowan Co., Kentucky
4 F Josie Lee Riddle, 2C2R
Birth 29 Jun 1902, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Death 23 Sep 1981, Morehead, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Spouse Mr. Perkins
5 F Nettie Mae Riddle, 2C2R
Birth 17 Dec 1904, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Death 26 Jul 1994
Spouse Robert Lee Jones, 2C2R
Notes for Mary Elizabeth Brown
Either Mary's date of birth (from death and cemetery records) or her parents' date of marriage (from Gary D. Lewis) may be wrong, since together they have her born 14 months before her parents married. Unfortunately, there are no Rowan County court records for the 1870's. The 1880 census listed her as age 4, which would be consistent with a birthdate in 1876, but census ages are often only approximate.

Gary Lewis's charts also give her name as Mary Ellen, but the consent note for her first marriage calls her Mary Liz.

She is not buried with either husband, but instead with her parents. (Nathan Riddle is buried alone, and William Henry Dehart is buried with his first wife Sarah Ellen Clark.)
Notes for Nathan & Mary Elizabeth (Family)
Rowan Co. Marriage Register Book A, p. 52, records marriage of Nathan Riddle and Mary E. Brown on 6 Oct 1892 at Comodore Riddle's. The marriage bond is in book 1, p. 99, with a consent note attached from Commodore Riddle, witnessed by D. K. Jones and John B. Brown, giving consent for his son Nathan to marry Mary Liz Brown.

Nathan and Mary may have been divorced, because she remarried to William Henry Dehart in 1926, but Nathan's gravestone says "1873-1929". On the other hand, sometimes stones erected years afterwards by children or grandchildren of the deceased will have an incorrect death date.
Last Modified 13 Mar 2001 Created 30 Jun 2002 by Reunion for Macintosh