When Isaac Marion Riddle was born in 1841, in Cleveland, Bradley, Tennessee, United States, his father, Thomas Riddle, was 71 and his mother, Delilah Burks, was 38. He had at least 2 sons and 3 daughters with Sarah Catherine Haymes. He lived in Montana Township, Labette, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Cimarron Township, Morton, Kansas, United States in 1910. He died in 1911, at the age of 70, and was buried in Conway, Laclede, Missouri, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
English:
habitational name probably chiefly from Ryedale, a river valley in North Yorkshire. The placename derives from the river name Rye (of uncertain etymology) + Old Norse dalr ‘valley’. There are, however, other places called Rydale (in Westmorland for example) which could have given rise to hereditary surnames.
of Norman origin, from an Old French personal name Ridel, perhaps a pet form of ancient Germanic names such as Ridbald and Ridhari(us).
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