E. Leyburn Riddle and Sarah E. Smith

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Husband E. Leyburn Riddle ^{1 2}

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            AKA: E. O. Riddle 1
           Born: 15 Oct 1860 - Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA 3
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           Died: Aft 1919
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         Father: William Clark Riddle (Cir 1822-1887) 4 5
         Mother: Mary Davidson (Cir 1820-1892) 6

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       Marriage: 5 Oct 1882 - Clintonville, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 7

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Wife Sarah E. Smith ^{1 8}

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           Born: Abt 1860
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         Father: Samuel Smith (1820-1880) 8 9 10
         Mother: Eliza McMillen (1829-1904) 9 11

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - E. Leyburn Riddle

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He spent his boyhood on the home farm, remaining there up to the time of his marriage. For a number of years afterward he farmed in the vicinity on his own account, selling his property about 1899, after which he had a store and huckster business, also teaming, until about 1912. He then bought a half interest in a marble and granite business at Rocky Grove, his partner being J. W. Kerr, who had established the trade thirty years before. Mr. Kerr had charge of the mechanical end, Mr. Riddle handling the outside work and selling. Their patrons were scattered over a wide territory, and the firm supplied marble and granite work of all kinds, making a specialty of monuments, for which they were noted. They commanded by far the largest part of the local trade in that line, and most of the finest stones in the Amity and Calvert-Riddle cemeteries were cut and placed by them, good specimens of their work being found in all the burial places in this vicinity.
He was interested in public questions but did not care for office, though he has served his fellow citizens in Sugar Creek Township in connection with the improvement of roads. He was a Republican in political sentiment. During his early years he attended the Amity Presbyterian Church, and he later was associated with that denomination at Rocky Grove. [CAB, 1016]

1 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 966.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 725, 1015.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1015.

4 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 984.

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

6 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 677, 1015.

7 Joan S. Hanson & Kenneth L. Hanson, Marriages from Venango County Sources (Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 1994), Pg 206.

8 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 725.

9 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 601.

10 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 965, 966.

11 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1066.