Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Riddick, Mills, 1877 

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MILLS RIDDICK

DEATH OF MR. MILLS RIDDICK

   This most estimable young gentleman, the oldest son of our esteemed 
County Judge, Hon. Nathaniel Riddick died at the residence of his father 
last Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock in the 33rd year of his age.  For many 
months he had been a great suffered with a terrible chronic disease but he 
bore all his severe trails with patient resignation and Christian fortitude. 
At the beginning of the late war he was  in William H. Harrison's High 
School in Amelia county, but like many of our noble Southern boys, when his 
country called, he left the school boy's desk  for the field of battle. He 
joined Captain J.T. Kilby's company in the Ninth Virginia Regiment and was 
with it in all its principle battles until the memorable days of 1863 when 
Longstreet besieged Suffolk, and then in sight of his own home he was 
wounded in the head. From this terrible wound he suffered for years. After 
the war he was engaged in Business at Pantego, North Carolina, until 
sickness compelled him to abandon work. Since that time he has been living 
with his father in Suffolk until death put an end to all his troubles.

   Naturally possessing a kind and obliging disposition he won the love and 
admiration of all with whom he came in contact, and here in his native place 
he was a general favorite even in the midst of his afflictions he always had 
a kind ward and a cheerful smile for those in whose society he was thrown. 
Greatly will his genial face be missed on our streets.  In their great 
affliction we tender his distressed relatives our most heartfelt sympathies. 
He was buried from his father's residence, Rev. J.B. Craighill officiating, 
yesterday morning at 10 o'clock and his remains were interred at the old 
family burying ground at the residence of Mill Riddick, Sr. Esq., a few 
miles from town.


Mills RIDDICK, Confederate veteran, 
d. 7 Aug 1877, Suffolk, age 33, 
interred on Mills RIDDICK farm, Nansemond Co., 
marker in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block E, Lot 28*), Suffolk, 
donated obit, newspaper unknown 

*Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_p.txt 


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