Herbert S. Riddle and Estella E. Wilson

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Husband Herbert S. Riddle ¹

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           Born: 21 Aug 1877 - Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA 1
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           Died: Aft 1919
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         Father: John Alphonse Riddle (1851/1852-1922) 2 3
         Mother: Mary Melissa Sterrett (1854-1937) 2 4

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       Marriage: 24 May 1899 1

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Wife Estella E. Wilson ¹

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            AKA: Elettie E. Wilson 5
           Born: 12 Feb 1878 - Wolf Creek Twp, Mercer Co, PA 5
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         Father: John B. Wilson (      -1916) 1 5
         Mother: Mary Jane McConnell (1844-Aft 1919) 1 5

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Children

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1 M Robert Boyd Riddle ¹

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           Born: Dec 1900 1
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           Died: 21 Mar 1995 - ? Franklin, Venango Co, PA
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         Spouse: Estelle E. Shaffer (      -      )
           Marr: 1919 - ? Venango Co, PA

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2 M Ralph Wilson Riddle ^{1 6}

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           Born: 3 Mar 1916 - Frenchcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Eileen Kathryn Wygant (1917-      ) 6
           Marr: 4 Dec 1941 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 7

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3 F Mary Louise Riddle ¹

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           Born: 3 Mar 1918 1
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General Notes: Husband - Herbert S. Riddle

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He remained on the home farm until he came of age. He had conscientious home training and excellent schooling, begun in the country schools near home and continued at the Barkeyville Academy under Professors Eakin, Myers and Manchester. He taught one term of school in Irwin Township, Venango County, PA. At the age of twenty-one years he turned to merchandising, in which line he was engaged for ten years at Franklin. He was the first to occupy the brick building at the end of the French creek bridge. In the fall of 1909 Mr. Riddle became one of a company which secured an oil lease on a tract of about eighty acres in French Creek Township, some three miles west of Franklin, the operations being delegated to others until about 1912, when Mr. Riddle went to work at the holding as pumper. At that time there were fifteen producing wells there. Soon afterward he bought out his partners, and besides acquiring sole ownership of the original tract added one of thirty-three acres, the McCarty farm. Besides giving most of his time to the production of oil, he also did some gardening and poultry raising, in which he was very successful, his early experience in that line having been of the most practical order.
Aside from his business he was particularly active in Sunday school work. He was a steward of the Nicklin M. E. Church and for several years filled the position of superintendent in the Sunday school; was president of the Seventh District Venango County Sunday School Association, with ten active Sunday schools under his supervision and two district conventions, and was on the executive board of the Sunday School Council of the county. His political support was given to the Prohibition Party, and he served as a member of the election board in French Creek Township ever since he settled there. He joined the I. O. O. F. when he reached his majority. [CAB, 678]

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General Notes: Wife - Estella E. Wilson

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from Centertown, Mercer Co, PA

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 678.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 964.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 596, 677.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 596, 678.

5 Alexander Turner, A History of the Turner Family and Their Connections (Sheakleyville, PA: Press of W. R. English, 1890), Pg 31.

6 Unknown, History of James Wygant Family (Self-published, 1960.), Pg 47.

7 Venango Co, PA, Marriage License, #22813.