Born ‎± 1822 at Jackson Co.,AL‎. Occupation: ‎ 1850 at Jackson Co.,AL; laborer

Born ‎ 1827 at Jackson Co.,AL‎

Born ‎ Jan 25, 1829 at Jackson Co.,AL, died ‎ Jun 30, 1906 at Willis Point,Van Zandt Co.,TX‎, 77 years, buried ‎ Jul 1906 at Cana Cemetery. Occupation: ‎ 1849 at Texas; farmer
Cause of Death: "a pernicious fever"
Excerpt from "The Southland"**, vol. XII, no. 1, Waco, TX, 1904

"...is one of the old landmarks, well known throughout the county and this section of Texas. The Riddles came from North Carolina, where Harmon Riddle, the frandfather of our subject was born, who was a farmer and also where Alexander Riddle, the father was born; he was a farmer andalso a salesman. He came to Texas in 1847. He married a Bynum. She was bornin South Carolina and married in 1820. They had ten children. Both he and his wife died in Cherokee county, in Texas, she July 1850, he in 1856. B. P. Riddle himself was born January 25, 1829, in Jackson county, Alabama. He was educated in Talledega county; began farming in 1849, and has continued in that vocation ever since. He married Miss Mary Ann Bass February 8, 1850. They have eight children, three girls and five boys, and have lost five children. He movedto Texas in 1847 from Talledega county, Alabama and came from Cherokee county,Texas to Van Zandt thiry-one years ago.

Brother Riddle is a great Baptist and has been one of those useful active pillars of the church and society all these years. He engaged in the Confederate service and has in all these years and in many capacities been a soldier, and a heroic one at that. Acquired quite a little landed estate where he now lives, but has given his land to his children and used it in one benevolence or another, until it has been reduced to a good home, on which he lives and where he enjoys life. He has the love and respect of probably as many people as any man who may be found in the county or section, he is honored and loved by all the people. He has lived in wisdom's ways,and his investments have been of that enduring kind, tableted on the hearts ofthe people, the fragrance of whose record will be enjoyed in the years to come."

**taken from "Texans Who Wore The Grey", by Sid S. Johnson, Captain 3rd Texas Cavalry, Ross Brigade, C.S.A. and Brigadier General Texas Brigade, Forrest's Cavalry, U.C.V.

Born ‎ 1835 at Jackson Co.,AL‎

Born ‎ 1836 at Jackson Co.,AL‎

Born ‎ 1839 at Jackson Co.,AL‎

Born ‎ 1842 at Jackson Co.,AL, died ‎ 1862 at Little Rock,Arkansas‎, 19 or 20 years, cause of death: civil war
Name Suffix: Jr.