U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Riffle, Jonathan M. (b. 1842) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Upshur County West Virginia From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by W. B. Cutright Buckhannon, W. Va., July 1, 1907 Page 561 JONATHAN M. RIFFLE, son of George S. Riffle and Rebecca (McCartney) Riffle, who was the daughter of Thomas McCartney and Sarah Bennett. George S. Riffle was a soldier in Company B, 10th W. Va., during the Civil War. Was married three times and raised a family of twenty- three children, of which the subject of this sketch was the fourth child by the first wife. Jonathan M. Riffle was born October 15, 1842. Was raised on a farm in Lewis County and at the outbreak of the war enlisted in Company B, 10th West Virginia Infantry, wherein he served three years and contracted disabilities such as now obtain for him a pension of $17 per month. He now lives in Bank's District, owns a farm of seventy acres on Kanawha Run, where he and his wife, who was formerly Nancy P. Strader, daughter of John Strader, Jr., who was the son of John Strader, Sr., and Mary B. Wolfe. Mr. Riffle is a deacon and local preacher in the M. E. Church, is a Republican in politics and is proud of the fact that his father and three brothers served with him in Company B. during the war. ------------------------------------------------------------------- (wife of Jonathan Riffle) Register of Deaths, Upshur County, WV (Page 328) FULL-NAME: Nancy Riffle AGE-AT-DEATH: 62y-4m-2d DEATH-DATE: March 1, 1910 DEATH-PLACE: Kanawha Run MARITAL-STATUS: Married CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Consumption ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Upshur County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/upshur/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------