Benton Co., AR - Biographies - Simeon B. Riddle

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Simeon B. Riddle, farmer, of Bentonville, Ark. One of the prominent and 
influential families of Benton County is that of Riddle. There is 
scarcely a State in the Union in which the name is not found, and 
always among the very best class of citizens. The gentleman whose name 
heads this sketch is no exception, and fully maintains the honor and 
hospitality of this old family. He was born in Meade County, Ky., in 
1826, and is a son of George and Nancy S. (Frans) Riddle, who were 
born in Maryland and Virginia, respectively. The former's birth 
occurred in 1787, and when a young man he moved to the "Hoosier" 
State, but afterward moved to Hardin County, Ky., where he married, 
and followed the occupation of farming until his death, which occurred 
in 1857. His wife was a daughter of John Frans, who was a Virginian, 
and a captain in the Revolutionary War. Mrs. Riddle died on the 1st of 
May, 1849, in Buchanan County, Mo. The following are her children: 
Madison F., Benjamin, John, Arden (deceased), Simeon, Martha 
(deceased), Tazewell F. and Susan (deceased). Simeon Riddle was 
married in Hardin County, Ky., on the 1st of February, 1849, to Martha 
Pauley, who died in 1866, having borne seven children: James M., Mary 
N., Simeon B., Tazewell F., Martha E. (wife of John Beasley), 
Theodocia E. (wife of Wilson Finch) and Lydia. October 6, 1867, Mr. 
Riddle married his second wife, Mrs. Angeline Lockard, who was born in 
Ray County, Mo., and is a daughter of John H. King. Mrs. Riddle had 
one child by her first husband, William S. Lockard (deceased), and six 
children have been born to her union with Mr. Riddle: George H., Mary, 
Charles E., Susan E., Myrtie and Benjamin F. (deceased). Mr. Riddle 
left Kentucky in 1849, went to Buchanan County, Mo., and in 1855 went 
to Clinton County, where he remained three years. then locating in Ray 
County. In 1862 he enlisted in Company H. Twenty-ninth Missouri 
Volunteer Infantry, and was in the engagement at Jackson, Miss., the 
siege of Vicksburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge. Resaca, 
Dallas, Atlanta, Fort McAllister, Kenesaw Mountain, and many others of 
less note. He returned to Ray County after the war, but moved to 
Franklin County, thence to Texas, and in 1884 came to Benton County. 
He owns 120 acres of fertile land in Benton County, and is an 
Independent Greenbacker in his political views. He is a member of the 
Christian Church.