CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: B. P. RIDDLE 

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Submitted by Doris Peirce - ginlu@charter.net
1 February 2002 
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson 
B. P. RIDDLE

B. P. Riddle, of Wills Point, is one of the old landmarks, well known 
throughout the county and this section of Texas.  The Riddles came 
from North Carolina, where Harmon Riddle, the grandfather of our 
subject, was born, who was a farmer, and also where Alexander 
Riddle, the father, was born; he was a farmer and a salesman.  He 
came to Texas in 1847.  He married a Bynum.  She was born in South 
Carolina and was married in 1820.  They had ten children.  Both he 
and his wife died in Cherokee county, Texas, she July 1850, he in 
1856.  B. P. Riddle himself was born January 25, 1829, in Jackson 
county, Alabama.  He was educated in Talledega county; began farming 
in 1849, and has continued in that vocation ever since.  He married 
Miss Mary A. Bass Feb. 8, 1850.  They have eight children, three 
girls and five boys, and have lost five children.  He moved to Texas 
in 1847 from Talledega county, Ala., and came from Cherokee county, 
Texas, to Van Zandt 31 years ago.  Mr. Riddle is a great Baptist, 
and has been one of those useful, active pillars of the church and 
society all these years.  He engaged in the Confederate service and 
has in all these years and in many capacities been a soldier, and 
a heroic one at that.