Hugh Riddle and Rebecca Lee

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Husband Hugh Riddle ¹

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           Born: 1779 - County Down, Ireland 1
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           Died: 1856 2
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         Father: [Father] Riddle (      -      )
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       Marriage: 1814 - Centre Co, PA 2

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Wife Rebecca Lee ¹

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         Father: Jacob Lee (Abt 1770-1847) 3
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Children

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1 M John M. Riddle ²

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           Died: Aft 1887
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2 M James Riddle ²

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           Died: Abt 1874
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         Spouse: Margaret Fulton (      -      ) 2

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3 F Mary Riddle ²

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           Died: 1871 2
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         Spouse: John Rorabaugh (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Hugh Riddle

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He was born in County Down in the north of Ireland; came to the United States about the time of the Irish rebellion in 1798, and lived awhile with his brother William, at Bellefonte. His brother had come to America some years before. While there he went to Wilmington, Delaware, after his baggage, and there being no public conveyance, he started on horseback and reached the Susquehanna at Clark's Ferry, near the mouth of the Juniata, where the river is a mile wide. Having recently crossed the ocean, the distance over the Susquehanna seemed insignificant, and urging his horse forward he entered the stream. The current was strong, and horse and rider were swept down the river, till fortunately the horse rested on a large rock that was but two or three feet below the surface. After resting a while he pushed forward again, and by a desperate struggle succeeded in reaching the shore, where he found several persons who had been watching him in his perilous adventure and expecting to see him drown. He was carried down the river more than a mile. An account of this undertaking was published by the newspapers of the time, and it has ever since been regarded as a feat performed by no other man. He was for many years employed as superintendent of the iron works of Roland Curtin, father of Gov. Curtin.
He married and followed farming till 1824, when he removed to Clearfield County and settled near his father-in-law. Part of Mount Zion cemetery was taken off his land in 1830. He taught school in his own house some years after, by voluntary subscription, before there were any public schools.

He and his wife had nine children; all were deceased before 1887 except one.

1 Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 483.

2 Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 484.

3 Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 483, 701.