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Rev Jonathan M. Riffle

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Rev Jonathan M. Riffle

Birth
Lewis County, West Virginia, USA
Death
26 Jan 1911 (aged 68)
Upshur County, West Virginia, USA
Burial
Arlington, Upshur County, West Virginia, USA Add to Map
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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.

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(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
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.

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(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


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