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RIDDLE, ROBERT T., farmer and stock-grower, Sec. 34; P. O. Denmark; son of Ebenezer Riddle, whose biography appears elsewhere; was born in Adams Co., Ill., in 1833; when 18 months of age, was brought by his parents to Des Moines Co.; received a limited education. At 23, married Ruth A., daughter of Henry Walker, one of the first settlers of Des Moines Co., from Indiana; she was born in Des Moines Co., Union Tp., in 1837, and married on the same farm on which she was born, and, with her husband, continued to reside there until 1869, then sold and purchased a farm of 207 acres in Danville Tp., where they remained until the 15th of January, 1878, when, still retaining his Danville farm, he purchased the one he now occupies, consisting of 336 acres, valued at $40 per acre, the other valued at the same; they have eight children — Geo. S., born the 1st of September, 1856, died Sept. 5, 1857; Tennis L., born the 12th of March, 1858; Marcus E., the 8th of September, 1859; Flotilla V., the 16th of August, 1861; Douglas, the 23d of February, 1863; Effie A., the 25th of February, 1865; Clara J., the 30th of November, 1867; Flora May, the 24th of April, 1872. Democratic; members of the M. E. Church.