8. | Benjamin Franklin Riddle, Sr. was born about 1765 in Allegheny Co., Maryland (son of James Clinton Riddle and Anne Welsh); died in 1855 in Gilmer Co., West Virginia. Notes:
"Sims Index"
Lewis Co., Benjamin Riddle, 50 Wts. Lit. Kan. 1836 1 276; 100 Tanner's
Fork 1838 1 341; 83 Tanner's Fork 18 38 1 342; 100 Farmer's Fork 1838 1
404; 180 Leading Cr. 1826 1 100; 100 Stink Stinking Cr. 1844 2 222; 100 Leading
Cr. 1840 2 35
Justice of the Pease 1811, "History of Randolph Co., W. VA. from it's
earliest exploration & settlement to the present time"
Ancestry.com, Ritchie County, West Virginia History, Chapter XIX, Grass
Run Settled: Benjamin Riddel married Miss Nancy Anne Goff, daughter of
Salathiel Goff, and settled at Hollow Meadows, on the Cheat River, in
Randolph (now Tucker) County; but near the close of the war of 1812, he
sold his possessions there, and removed to Gilmer county, and became one
of the pioneers, at the mouth of Leading Creek. Here he passed from
earth, and here his ashes lie. He was the father of ten sons and one
daughter; Salatheil, died in Roane County, in 1907, at the age of ninety
years; Silas T., the youngest son and the only survivor of the family,
resides near Washburn, in this county; and the others were Hiram, Richard
Welsh, John Goff, Benjamin Junior, George Washington, William (died in
infancy), William Slavens, James S. and Dorcas, who married William
Holbert, of Gilmer County.
Benjamin married Nancy Ann Goff on 14 Jan 1805 in Randolph Co., Virginia. Nancy was born about 1784 in Allegheny Co., Maryland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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