Family Geneology

Just to let you know I'm working on our family genealogy and if you have any information you'd like to contribute, please let me know either by email or by leaving a comment on this blog. My email is cmoore2659@wowway.com.

Today I traced some of my Grandfather Riddle's family line. On his gravestone, pictured above, it gives his name as Laurenza Riddle, born March 4, 1873, died Sept. 6, 1948. In the genealogy records I found online it gives his name as David Lorenzo Riddle Given Name: David Lorenzo

Surname: Riddle Birth: 1873 in Letcher County, KY Death: in Perry County, KY

Father: Isom Riddle b: 1819 Mother: Susannah Wilson b: 1852

Marriage 1 Martha Jane PRATT b: ABT 1879
Married: 1898

I mention the difference in his name because I didn't know his first name was David until Dad told me during one of my visits to him a couple of years before Dad died. We were talking about my son David and Dad said "Did you know my Dad's first name was David?" "No, I didn't" I replied, "but it's good to know", and it was so interesting that I had named my first son David with no clue I was naming him after a Grandfather I didn't remember.

Dad was the youngest child in his family and therefore, when his first child was born, me, I guess I had a special place in Grandpa Riddle's heart. I have been told that Grandpa Riddle adored me and on one occasion set me up in the middle of the kitchen table and allowed me to walk around while folks were eating dinner. I wish I could remember this man but I don't. He was a minister and rode horseback to preach. It's my hope that I'll get to not only meet him one day, but to live for eternity getting to know him and hear the stories he has to tell about his life and how he came to faith in Christ; how he met his wife Mattie and what sort of work he did to support 9 children in the hills of Eastern Kentucky.

Clyde also had a grandfather he never met. His Dad's father, John Moore, died at 42 years of age back in 1943. Interesting again is that he picked out the name of our son Shawn, which is Irish for John. In a way, these two men live on in our sons and their children. One man knew me and loved me as his granddaughter; the other didn't live long enough to know that his oldest son Vernis, would one day marry and have two sons and eventually two grandsons to carry on his name.

It was my intent when I started this blog to give information about family. I hope this post helps do that for all those who called Winford Riddle either 'Dad' or 'Papaw'. And hopefully all the great-grandchildren will be able to read this and learn more about where their parents and grandparents have come from.

Your input in this is important. You all have a voice and a say in what is printed for all of us to read. Send your photos and memories and stories to my email and I'll see that they're posted here. Together let's learn more about this big group of people we call Family.

Blessings to each of you.