Person

Charles Riddle (Brown County, IL, laborer and murderer)

b. 1830?

Brown County, Illinois, laborer and prisoner. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Riddle. Father of Charles Riddle, Mary E. Riddle, Dicy A. Riddle, and James Riddle. Laborer in Brown County, Illinois, in 1850. Indicted for the murder of Jonah Clark in Brown County in May 1860. Imprisoned in Cooperstown in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Illinois, Brown County, Township 1SR1W, p. 125B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Illinois, Brown County, Cooperstown, p. 731.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Illinois, Menard County, Township 18 Range 6, p. 47A.

KYR-0001-022-0002.

Citation

Riddle, Charles. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200438 (November 12, 2026).

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