The situation is the same with John H. Jr. as it was with his father--he was not known to be a nice man. Elvira divorced him after about 32 years of marriage and 14 children. He later remarried three more times and had 3 more children. The post about his other families can be found here:
http://turningourhearts-beth.blogspot.com/2017/02/harriet-margaret-wilson-and-her-husband.html
John Henry RIDDLEBAUGH, Jr. 2nd of 6 children born to John Henry RIDDLEBAUGH, Sr and Ann Catherine SHOEMAKER
2-Ethel Viola RIDDLEBAUGH
5-Earl Gillson RIDDLEBAUGH
6-Paul Byron RIDDLEBAUGH
8-Minnie Mae RIDDLEBAUGH
10-Doris Amelia RIDDLEBAUGH
13-Lulu Lo RIDDLEBAUGH
The following article is from the 20th Century History of Findlay and Hancock County Ohio (1910), by Kimmel, J.A., pages 345-346
JOHN HENRY RIDDLEBAUGH, one of Marion Township’s well known and highly respected citizens, carries on general farming and owns 195 acres of valuable land, situated on Section 25, not far distant from Findlay, O. He was born in Fairfield County, O., September 28, 1859 and is a son of Henry and Catherine (Shoemaker) Riddlebaugh.
Henry Riddlebaugh was born in Germany and on account of participating in the revolution of 1849, he was expelled with other revolutionists and came then to America. He located at Lancaster, in Fairfield County, O., where he followed the blacksmith trade during his active years. He still survives and in his long life of eighty-six years he has witnessed many wonderful changes, not only in his native land, but also in the one which he adopted. In 1856 he was married to Catherine Shoemaker, who was born in Pennsylvania and died in 1901, at the home of her son James, in Crawford County, O. The Shoemaker family came to Pennsylvania from Switzerland in 1742. Six children were born to Henry and Catherine Riddlebaugh, namely: Jacob, who lives in Crawford County; John Henry; James, who also lives in Crawford County; Theresa, who is the wife of John Snyder, of Hocking County, O.; Elizabeth, who is the wife of Charles Angle, of Hocking County; and Augustus, who resides in Columbus.
John Henry Riddlebaugh started out to take care of himself when he was twelve years old [due to his parents splitting up?]. He came to Hancock County and went to work for Charles Bright, with whom he remained for two years; worked then for George Wiseley, in Marion Township, for three years and for William Thomas for two years, and then went into Big Lick Township and worked one year for William Bright. He had been saving and by this time had enough capital to enable him to buy forty acres of land in Pleasant Township and later bought a second forty acres and sold the timber from both tracts. He then rented land for a short time, but in March, 1896, bought eighty-five acres of his present farm, purchasing from Charles Johnston; later bought thirty-five acres from Tolliver Jacobs; fifteen acres from A. Beard, and twenty acres from the A. Beard estate. To this was added forty acres which was given his wife. It is a fine thing to own 195 acres of valuable land, but it required much hard work to make a large part of it valuable. Mr. Riddlebaugh by his own toil cleared 100 acres of stumps, did all the necessary ditching and tiling, built his substantial barn and made the other improvements which have transformed what was once merely waiting soil into one of the richest farms and most comfortable homes of Marion Township.
On November 9, 1882, Mr. Riddlebaugh was married to Miss Elvira Wiseley, a daughter of Henry and Loraina (Wiseley) Wiseley, of Pleasant Township, and fourteen children have been born to them, the record being as follows: Iva, the eldest, is the wife of Edward Huntington, of Toledo, O. Ethel is the wife of Porter Shuck of Big Lick Township and they have one child, Pauline. The eldest son is this father’s helper and bears the name of Ray. Howard lives in Toledo. He married Mattie Westcott. Earl, Paul, David, May, Alice and Doris, all live at home. Margaret died when aged three years and Lulu died when aged two months. Irma and Helen complete the list. All the children remaining at home who have reached school age are bright, intelligent students. The family belongs to the United Brethren church. In politics he is a Republican but has never consented to accept public offices, the care of his large farm and his other duties so far absorbing the most of his time. He is identified with the Masonic fraternity at Findlay.
(obviously, this entry was written after Helen’s birth in 1909 and before the divorce in 1913-14)
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Divorce trial of John Henry Riddlebaugh and Almeda Elvira Wiseley. These articles must have come from Findlay, but they had no dates or name of paper--Courier?
MOTHER OF FOURTEEN
Tells Wretched Story of Her Married Life to Judge Bapst Today.
RIDDLEBAUGH DIVORCE CASE
Attracts a Big Crowd to the Common Pleas Court Room Here
HUSBAND BLAMES CHILDREN
Interesting News Notes From the County Court House
Mrs. Almeda Elvira Riddlebaugh bared her heart to Judge Daniel Bapst, this morning, in the common pleas court in telling the wretched story of her married life in the trial of her divorce suit against her husband, John H. Riddlebaugh.
Her petition charges extreme cruelty and abuse and Franks & Franks are her lawyers.
The husband is fighting the case, not that he wants a divorce, and George E. Ross is his attorney.
What makes this case remarkable is the fact that the couple have fourteen children, twelve of whom are living. Mrs. Riddlebaugh held the youngest, four years old, on her lap while she testified. The child is a flaxen-haired little girl with rosy cheeks and she looks the picture of perfect health. The children are fine looking and there are five girls and one boy yet under age. They were in court today and it is evident that they are taking the side of their mother against their father.
Mrs. Riddlebaugh was a Ewing [sic] and she was born and reared in Pleasant township.
She and her husband lived on a farm in Marion township until about three years ago, when they moved to town. They are prominent and well known. About eleven months ago the couple separated, the mother going to live with her children. A little later she filed for divorce and this morning on the stand she told the court that in the past eleven months she had enjoyed more peace and rest than she had in many years before. She related the history of her married life, telling how she worked to help her husband.
“It was nothing,” she said, “for me to get up at 4:00 o’clock in the morning and get breakfast for seventeen people. I often washed three times a week and have churned as many as three times a day. I wanted to help along, hoping that after a while we could take our ease when the farm was cleared of debt.”
She testified that her husband whipped the children and had often shook her and tore her waists. He buggy-whipped one of the little girls once., the wife testified, until the blood ruined her clothing. “When I took off her little dress and the blood ran down over her shoulder, he sat by and grinned,” Mrs. Riddlebaugh told the court.
There are thirty witnesses and it may take all of tomorrow to hear the case if they all testify. The witnesses were excluded from the court room this morning, upon motion of Attorney Ross, who in his statement to the court declared that the case had been incited by the children and that it was wicked to have such a case in court.
At the request of the attorneys for Mrs. Riddlebaugh, Sheriff R. V. Kennedy is in the court room within easy reach of the defendant, it having been told the sheriff that there was danger of the defendant making a hostile demonstration.
There is a large attendance at the trial.
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NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ABOUT THE DIVORCE OF JOHN AND ELVIRA RIDDLEBAUGH
RIDDELBAUGH TO APPEAL
The Alimony Feature of the Divorce Decision Against Him.
WIFE GETS MINOR CHILDREN
Big Crowd Out to Hear the Opinion of Judge Bapst This Morning.
WELSH CASE TRIAL TODAY
Interesting News Notes From the County Court House.
There was a crowded court room here this morning when Judge Daniel Bapst rendered his decision in the divorce case of Mrs. Almeda Elvira Riddlebaugh against John H. Riddlebaugh, former prominent residents and farmers of Marion township.
Mrs. Riddlebaugh was granted the decree, the custody of the six minor children and she is to keep the household furniture she now has in her possession as well as the farm in her name free from any interest of the husband. He is to retain his forty-eight acre farm free of the wife’s dower or any other interest. The husband is to pay $12 a month to the clerk of the court for the support of the minor children. The divorce is granted on the grounds of gross neglect.
Before giving his decision Judge Bapst stated that the case had given him such concern for the reason that it had so many bitter features. He gave Mrs. Riddlebaugh a splendid character, but voiced the opinion that she may have been too lenient with their large family of children and that the father was doubtless too severe and radical. That was the cause of all their trouble. The father’s radical method of making his children obey was to the mother too severe and she very naturally took their part and that led to the parting of their ways. Judge Bapst paid a tribute to mothers when he said that it was the mother who always stood with ready arms to welcome and shelter any child of hers. If the child was wayward and prodigal the mother loved him all the more, which was not so with the average father.
Judge Bapst declared that he would brush aside the grave charges hurled back and forth in the case and that he would not pass on that, leaving it with the children and parents themselves:
The Divorce Entry.
Following is the entry in the case made by Judge Bapst:
Finding the defendant guilty of gross neglect of duty towards the plaintiff. Plaintiff decreed a divorce from the defendant. The plaintiff to own and possess the 40-acre tract described in her petition to which title is in her name, the defendant barred of dower and other rights therein. The plaintiff to have the household goods now in her possession and to have the custody, care and control of the minor children until the further order of this court, with the right in the defendant to visit them at all reasonable times. The defendant is to have and possess the 45-acre tract which is now in his name free from the dower and other rights in the plaintiff and to have and possess all the personal property, other than that in the possession of the plaintiff. Each to quit claim to the other in accordance with this decree within ten days from this date, and in default thereof this decree to stand and operate as such conveyance. Each party to pay costs by them made. The piano subject to selection by either party, such party so selecting to pay the balance due thereon. The defendant to pay debts incurred for the family living prior to the separation . The defendant to pay to the clerk of this court for the use and support of minor children awarded to the plaintiff the sum of $12 a month. This ordered to stand until the further order of the court. Judgment accordingly.
Defense Will Appeal.
The husband, Mr. Riddlebaugh, is not satisfied with the alimony feature of the decision and his attorney, George W. Ross, stated today that an appeal bond would be filed and the matter carried to the court of appeals. Alimony feature of divorce cases is all that can be appealed.
The evidence in the case was concluded Thursday evening and when court adjourned for the night Judge Bapst announced that he would decide the case this morning at 9:00 o’clock.
Franks and Franks were the attorneys for Mrs. Riddlebaugh. Following were the witnesses in the case: Elwood Woodard, Sherman Switzer, Mrs. Rose Wells, Blaine Bright, Sherman Woodard, John Williams, Kelly Wingate, Mrs. Flora Eddie, Mrs. Addie Stephenson, Mrs. Lydia Hendricks, Mrs. Brass Woodward, Mrs. George Egbert, Milton Robinson, Warren Robinson, Lafayette Kring, Orto Kring, Alva Gordon, Melville Bibler, Arthur Stahl, Mrs. William Campbell, Do…baugh, Erma Riddlebau…Riddlebaugh, Mrs. H…the plaintiff and the defen…
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NOTE: It seems likely that the Elwood Woodard mentioned as a witness in the second article was Aunt Iva’s second husband, whom she married late in life--in the 1950’s.
Cousin Jody also wrote that her mother claimed that while John did beat his sons (he used a buggy whip on them) that Elvira never permitted her daughters to be beaten.
“Uncle Howard is the only one of the Riddlebaugh offspring I ever talked to who had good words to say about his father. He said he knew he was cruel to the others, and never understood why he hated his children so much--he never understood why he did not hate Howard, either. But while he beat and tormented the other boys, he indulged Howard in many ways: bought him a trotting buggy, sent him to college for a couple of years, bought him nice clothes, etc.”
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The Morning Republican
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b. 28 September 1859 Burnstation, Fairfield, Ohio*
d. 28 September 1951 Findlay, Hancock, Ohio (yep, on his birthday)
d. 28 September 1951 Findlay, Hancock, Ohio (yep, on his birthday)
m. 2nd Mrs. Blanche GOOD around 1916 in probably the Parsons, Montgomery, Kansas area
m. 3rd Harriet Margaret WILSON 17 December 1918 in Montgomery county, Kansas
m. 3rd Harriet Margaret WILSON 17 December 1918 in Montgomery county, Kansas
m. 4th Alice May RITTER 16 November 1934 in Greenup, Greenup, Kentucky
There is a separate blog post about John H. and his 3 other wives:
*I cannot find Burnstation on the map. There are newspaper articles from Ohio where it states the people are from Burn Station. There is a Berne Station Night Club in Lancaster, Fairfield, Ohio now and I'm guessing there's a connection.
Almeda Elvira WISELEY 1st of 5 children born to Henry H. WISELEY and Lurany WISELEY
b. 2 August 1864 in Hancock county, Ohio
d. 31 October 1930 in Toledo, Lucas, Ohio
They were the parents of 14 children:
1-Iva Lurany RIDDLEBAUGH
They were the parents of 14 children:
1-Iva Lurany RIDDLEBAUGH
b. 11 August 1883 Hancock county, Ohio
d. 14 April 1968 Findlay, Hancock, Ohio
m. 1st Edwin HUNTINGTON on 3 April 1904
m 2nd Elwood WOODARD about 1955
2-Ethel Viola RIDDLEBAUGH
b. 26 Apr 1885 Hancock county, Ohio
d. 22 Oct 1976
m. Porter Lincoln SHUCK 5 September 1906
3-Oscar Ray RIDDLEBAUGH
3-Oscar Ray RIDDLEBAUGH
b. 22 December 1886 Hancock county, Ohio
d. 22 November 1963
m. Gertrude Elnora PEPPLE 31 March 1914
4-Howard Hayes RIDDLEBAUGH
4-Howard Hayes RIDDLEBAUGH
b. 1 July 1888 Marion Township, Hancock, Ohio
d. 7 March 1976 Arlington, Franklin, Ohio
m. Mattie Jane WESTCOTT 8 June 1909
5-Earl Gillson RIDDLEBAUGH
b. 7 February 1890 Hancock county, Ohio
d. 20 November 1970 Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona
m. 1st Sadie I. MILLER 19 July 1913
m. 2nd Marie SNYDER in 1930
6-Paul Byron RIDDLEBAUGH
b. 15 April 1892 Hancock county, Ohio
d. January 1960
m. Marjorie Marie TINKER 24 November 1914
7-David Gilbert RIDDLEBAUGH
7-David Gilbert RIDDLEBAUGH
b. 14 May 1894 Hancock county, Ohio
d. 6 June 1969 Toledo, Lucas, Ohio
m. 1st Bea NOVAK 1928-- they divorced --
m. 2nd Louise Frieda MITSCHING 8 June 1940
8-Minnie Mae RIDDLEBAUGH
b. 15 August 1896 Hancock county, Ohio
d. 9 January 1986
m. John Robert SCHUCK, Sr 31 December 1918
9-Alice Catherine RIDDLEBAUGH
9-Alice Catherine RIDDLEBAUGH
b. 17 November 1898 Hancock county, Ohio
d. 16 December 1978
m. Dr. Samuel Lewis BROWN 20 August 1924
I remember eating dinner at Uncle Sam and Aunt Alice's house and I was so afraid that I would do something wrong at the table. I also remember visiting his optometry office.
10-Doris Amelia RIDDLEBAUGH
b. 5 November 1900 Hancock county, Ohio
d. 19 April 1974 Findlay, Hancock, Ohio
m. Ralph R. JACOBS 15 June 1917
11- Margaret Marie RIDDLEBAUGH
11- Margaret Marie RIDDLEBAUGH
b. 5 January 1904 Hancock county, Ohio
d. 13 March 1907
12-Erma Lucita RIDDLEBAUGH
12-Erma Lucita RIDDLEBAUGH
b. 17 January 1905 Findlay, Hancock, Ohio
d. 11 August 1982 Sonora, Tuolumne, California
m. Walter Frederick NAUTS 14 June 1924
13-Lulu Lo RIDDLEBAUGH
b. 5 January 1907 Marion Township, Hancock, Ohio
d. 6 March 1907 Marion Township, Hancock, Ohio
14-Helen Elvira RIDDLEBAUGH
14-Helen Elvira RIDDLEBAUGH
b. 2 August 1909 Marion Township, Hancock, Ohio
d. 19 May 1989 East Lansing, Ingham, Michigan
m. 1st Theodore Gilbert MOMINEE on 18 April 1931-they divorced around 1936-37;--Helen and Ted are my biological grandparents.
m. 2nd Albert R GOODELL on 27 April 1940-they divorced in 1944;
m. 3rd a Mr. JENKINS (her name was Helen Elvira JENKINS when she married Edwin Pentecost)
m. 4th Edwin Hare PENTECOST about January 1952
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The following article is from the 20th Century History of Findlay and Hancock County Ohio (1910), by Kimmel, J.A., pages 345-346
JOHN HENRY RIDDLEBAUGH, one of Marion Township’s well known and highly respected citizens, carries on general farming and owns 195 acres of valuable land, situated on Section 25, not far distant from Findlay, O. He was born in Fairfield County, O., September 28, 1859 and is a son of Henry and Catherine (Shoemaker) Riddlebaugh.
Henry Riddlebaugh was born in Germany and on account of participating in the revolution of 1849, he was expelled with other revolutionists and came then to America. He located at Lancaster, in Fairfield County, O., where he followed the blacksmith trade during his active years. He still survives and in his long life of eighty-six years he has witnessed many wonderful changes, not only in his native land, but also in the one which he adopted. In 1856 he was married to Catherine Shoemaker, who was born in Pennsylvania and died in 1901, at the home of her son James, in Crawford County, O. The Shoemaker family came to Pennsylvania from Switzerland in 1742. Six children were born to Henry and Catherine Riddlebaugh, namely: Jacob, who lives in Crawford County; John Henry; James, who also lives in Crawford County; Theresa, who is the wife of John Snyder, of Hocking County, O.; Elizabeth, who is the wife of Charles Angle, of Hocking County; and Augustus, who resides in Columbus.
John Henry Riddlebaugh started out to take care of himself when he was twelve years old [due to his parents splitting up?]. He came to Hancock County and went to work for Charles Bright, with whom he remained for two years; worked then for George Wiseley, in Marion Township, for three years and for William Thomas for two years, and then went into Big Lick Township and worked one year for William Bright. He had been saving and by this time had enough capital to enable him to buy forty acres of land in Pleasant Township and later bought a second forty acres and sold the timber from both tracts. He then rented land for a short time, but in March, 1896, bought eighty-five acres of his present farm, purchasing from Charles Johnston; later bought thirty-five acres from Tolliver Jacobs; fifteen acres from A. Beard, and twenty acres from the A. Beard estate. To this was added forty acres which was given his wife. It is a fine thing to own 195 acres of valuable land, but it required much hard work to make a large part of it valuable. Mr. Riddlebaugh by his own toil cleared 100 acres of stumps, did all the necessary ditching and tiling, built his substantial barn and made the other improvements which have transformed what was once merely waiting soil into one of the richest farms and most comfortable homes of Marion Township.
On November 9, 1882, Mr. Riddlebaugh was married to Miss Elvira Wiseley, a daughter of Henry and Loraina (Wiseley) Wiseley, of Pleasant Township, and fourteen children have been born to them, the record being as follows: Iva, the eldest, is the wife of Edward Huntington, of Toledo, O. Ethel is the wife of Porter Shuck of Big Lick Township and they have one child, Pauline. The eldest son is this father’s helper and bears the name of Ray. Howard lives in Toledo. He married Mattie Westcott. Earl, Paul, David, May, Alice and Doris, all live at home. Margaret died when aged three years and Lulu died when aged two months. Irma and Helen complete the list. All the children remaining at home who have reached school age are bright, intelligent students. The family belongs to the United Brethren church. In politics he is a Republican but has never consented to accept public offices, the care of his large farm and his other duties so far absorbing the most of his time. He is identified with the Masonic fraternity at Findlay.
(obviously, this entry was written after Helen’s birth in 1909 and before the divorce in 1913-14)
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Telegraph-Forum
Bucyrus, Ohio
24 February 1914, Tuesday, page 5:
Findlay--The divorce case of Mrs. Almeda Riddlebaugh against John H. Riddlebaugh was heard here Thursday. The wife charges extreme cruelty and the husband is fighting the case. They have 14 children.
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MOTHER OF FOURTEEN
Tells Wretched Story of Her Married Life to Judge Bapst Today.
RIDDLEBAUGH DIVORCE CASE
Attracts a Big Crowd to the Common Pleas Court Room Here
HUSBAND BLAMES CHILDREN
Interesting News Notes From the County Court House
Mrs. Almeda Elvira Riddlebaugh bared her heart to Judge Daniel Bapst, this morning, in the common pleas court in telling the wretched story of her married life in the trial of her divorce suit against her husband, John H. Riddlebaugh.
Her petition charges extreme cruelty and abuse and Franks & Franks are her lawyers.
The husband is fighting the case, not that he wants a divorce, and George E. Ross is his attorney.
What makes this case remarkable is the fact that the couple have fourteen children, twelve of whom are living. Mrs. Riddlebaugh held the youngest, four years old, on her lap while she testified. The child is a flaxen-haired little girl with rosy cheeks and she looks the picture of perfect health. The children are fine looking and there are five girls and one boy yet under age. They were in court today and it is evident that they are taking the side of their mother against their father.
Mrs. Riddlebaugh was a Ewing [sic] and she was born and reared in Pleasant township.
She and her husband lived on a farm in Marion township until about three years ago, when they moved to town. They are prominent and well known. About eleven months ago the couple separated, the mother going to live with her children. A little later she filed for divorce and this morning on the stand she told the court that in the past eleven months she had enjoyed more peace and rest than she had in many years before. She related the history of her married life, telling how she worked to help her husband.
“It was nothing,” she said, “for me to get up at 4:00 o’clock in the morning and get breakfast for seventeen people. I often washed three times a week and have churned as many as three times a day. I wanted to help along, hoping that after a while we could take our ease when the farm was cleared of debt.”
She testified that her husband whipped the children and had often shook her and tore her waists. He buggy-whipped one of the little girls once., the wife testified, until the blood ruined her clothing. “When I took off her little dress and the blood ran down over her shoulder, he sat by and grinned,” Mrs. Riddlebaugh told the court.
There are thirty witnesses and it may take all of tomorrow to hear the case if they all testify. The witnesses were excluded from the court room this morning, upon motion of Attorney Ross, who in his statement to the court declared that the case had been incited by the children and that it was wicked to have such a case in court.
At the request of the attorneys for Mrs. Riddlebaugh, Sheriff R. V. Kennedy is in the court room within easy reach of the defendant, it having been told the sheriff that there was danger of the defendant making a hostile demonstration.
There is a large attendance at the trial.
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NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ABOUT THE DIVORCE OF JOHN AND ELVIRA RIDDLEBAUGH
RIDDELBAUGH TO APPEAL
The Alimony Feature of the Divorce Decision Against Him.
WIFE GETS MINOR CHILDREN
Big Crowd Out to Hear the Opinion of Judge Bapst This Morning.
WELSH CASE TRIAL TODAY
Interesting News Notes From the County Court House.
There was a crowded court room here this morning when Judge Daniel Bapst rendered his decision in the divorce case of Mrs. Almeda Elvira Riddlebaugh against John H. Riddlebaugh, former prominent residents and farmers of Marion township.
Mrs. Riddlebaugh was granted the decree, the custody of the six minor children and she is to keep the household furniture she now has in her possession as well as the farm in her name free from any interest of the husband. He is to retain his forty-eight acre farm free of the wife’s dower or any other interest. The husband is to pay $12 a month to the clerk of the court for the support of the minor children. The divorce is granted on the grounds of gross neglect.
Before giving his decision Judge Bapst stated that the case had given him such concern for the reason that it had so many bitter features. He gave Mrs. Riddlebaugh a splendid character, but voiced the opinion that she may have been too lenient with their large family of children and that the father was doubtless too severe and radical. That was the cause of all their trouble. The father’s radical method of making his children obey was to the mother too severe and she very naturally took their part and that led to the parting of their ways. Judge Bapst paid a tribute to mothers when he said that it was the mother who always stood with ready arms to welcome and shelter any child of hers. If the child was wayward and prodigal the mother loved him all the more, which was not so with the average father.
Judge Bapst declared that he would brush aside the grave charges hurled back and forth in the case and that he would not pass on that, leaving it with the children and parents themselves:
The Divorce Entry.
Following is the entry in the case made by Judge Bapst:
Finding the defendant guilty of gross neglect of duty towards the plaintiff. Plaintiff decreed a divorce from the defendant. The plaintiff to own and possess the 40-acre tract described in her petition to which title is in her name, the defendant barred of dower and other rights therein. The plaintiff to have the household goods now in her possession and to have the custody, care and control of the minor children until the further order of this court, with the right in the defendant to visit them at all reasonable times. The defendant is to have and possess the 45-acre tract which is now in his name free from the dower and other rights in the plaintiff and to have and possess all the personal property, other than that in the possession of the plaintiff. Each to quit claim to the other in accordance with this decree within ten days from this date, and in default thereof this decree to stand and operate as such conveyance. Each party to pay costs by them made. The piano subject to selection by either party, such party so selecting to pay the balance due thereon. The defendant to pay debts incurred for the family living prior to the separation . The defendant to pay to the clerk of this court for the use and support of minor children awarded to the plaintiff the sum of $12 a month. This ordered to stand until the further order of the court. Judgment accordingly.
Defense Will Appeal.
The husband, Mr. Riddlebaugh, is not satisfied with the alimony feature of the decision and his attorney, George W. Ross, stated today that an appeal bond would be filed and the matter carried to the court of appeals. Alimony feature of divorce cases is all that can be appealed.
The evidence in the case was concluded Thursday evening and when court adjourned for the night Judge Bapst announced that he would decide the case this morning at 9:00 o’clock.
Franks and Franks were the attorneys for Mrs. Riddlebaugh. Following were the witnesses in the case: Elwood Woodard, Sherman Switzer, Mrs. Rose Wells, Blaine Bright, Sherman Woodard, John Williams, Kelly Wingate, Mrs. Flora Eddie, Mrs. Addie Stephenson, Mrs. Lydia Hendricks, Mrs. Brass Woodward, Mrs. George Egbert, Milton Robinson, Warren Robinson, Lafayette Kring, Orto Kring, Alva Gordon, Melville Bibler, Arthur Stahl, Mrs. William Campbell, Do…baugh, Erma Riddlebau…Riddlebaugh, Mrs. H…the plaintiff and the defen…
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NOTE: It seems likely that the Elwood Woodard mentioned as a witness in the second article was Aunt Iva’s second husband, whom she married late in life--in the 1950’s.
Cousin Jody also wrote that her mother claimed that while John did beat his sons (he used a buggy whip on them) that Elvira never permitted her daughters to be beaten.
“Uncle Howard is the only one of the Riddlebaugh offspring I ever talked to who had good words to say about his father. He said he knew he was cruel to the others, and never understood why he hated his children so much--he never understood why he did not hate Howard, either. But while he beat and tormented the other boys, he indulged Howard in many ways: bought him a trotting buggy, sent him to college for a couple of years, bought him nice clothes, etc.”
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The Morning Republican
Findlay, Ohio
November 1, 1930 Saturday
EXPIRES AT SON'S
HOME IN TOLEDO
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Mrs. Elvira Riddlebaugh, 66,
Expires--Funeral in
Findlay Sunday
Mrs. Elvira Riddlebaugh, 66, former Findlay resident, died last evening at the residence of her son, David Riddlebaugh in Toledo. She had been in failing health for several years and bedfast for the last few weeks. A complication of diseases was the cause of death.
Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the First United Brethren Church, of Findlay. Rev. Fletcher of Toledo and Dr. S. F. Daugherty, pastor of the church, will officiate. Burial will be in the Mt. Zion Cemetery, east of Findlay.
Mrs. Riddlebaugh was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wiseley and was born in Hancock County on August 2, 1864 She was married in 1882 to J. H. Riddlebaugh.
Twelve children survive. They are Mrs. E. C. Huntington, Mrs. S. L. Brown, Mrs. Walter Nauts, Miss Helen Riddlebaugh and David Riddlebaugh all of Toledo; Howard Riddlebaugh, Philadelphia, Pa.; Earl Riddlebaugh, Dayton; Mrs. Porter L. Shuck, Biglick Township; Paul Riddlebaugh, Eagle Township; Ray Riddlebaugh, Mrs. Ralph Jacobs and Mrs. J. R. Schuck, all of Findlay. Two of the children died in infancy.
Three brothers and a sister are living also. They are Mrs. Amelia Pickens and Scott E. Wiseley, Pleasant Township; Rev. Milton C. Wiseley, Moreland, Ind.; and David M. Wiseley, Boston.
Mrs. Riddlebaugh had been a member of the United Brethren Church until she left Findlay to make her home in Toledo.
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unknown newspaper
Findlay, Ohio
November 3, 1930, Mon.
MRS. RIDDLEBAUGH
BURIED IN FINDLAY
The funeral of Mrs. Elvira Riddlebaugh, 66, was held Sunday at 2 p.m. in the United Brethren Church in Findlay, O., and burial was in that town.
Death, Friday in the home of her son, David Riddlebaugh, 504 Clark Street, was hastened by an injury received when she was thrown out of an automobile four years ago.
Surviving are the daughters and sons: Mrs. E. C. Huntington, Mrs. S. L. Brown, Mrs. Walter Nauts, Miss Helen Riddlebaugh, David Riddlebaugh, Toledo; Howard Riddlebaugh, Philadelphia; Earl Riddlebaugh, Dayton; Mrs. Porter Shuck, Paul Riddlebaugh, Ray Riddlebaugh, Mrs. Ralph Jacobs and Mrs. J. R. Schuck, Findlay; sister Mrs. Ben Pickens, McComb; and brothers Scott E. Wiseley, McComb; the Rev. Milton Wiseley, Moreland, Ind., and David M. Wiseley, Boston.
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The Republican-Courier
Findlay, Ohio
September 29, 1951, Saturday Morning, 2:6
JOHN RIDDLEBAUGH
TAKEN BY DEATH
Resident Expires
On 92nd Birthday
John H. Riddlebaugh, Northview Convalescent Home, died at 7 a.m. yesterday in Blanchard Valley Hospital of infirmities of age. He had been in failing health for the past five years.
Mr. Riddlebaugh, who died on his 92nd birthday, was born in Logan on Sept. 28, 1859. He was a son of Henry and Catherine (Shoemaker) Riddlebaugh.
He moved to Findlay two months ago from Lancaster.
His wife, the former Elvira Wisely, died in 1930. There were 14 children born, two of whom preceded him in death. Three brothers and two sisters also are dead.
Mr. Riddlebaugh was a member of the Masonic Lodge whose services will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Barnhart Memorial.
Final rites will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home, the Rev. Donald Carver of the First Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be in Maple Grove Cemetery.
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| Elvira Wiseley around 5 years old |
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| John Henry Jr. |
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| JH Jr and his buggy |
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| Elvira with her granddaughter Jan Brown |
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| Mae, Alice, Doris, and Erma (seated) |
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| Mae and Alice standing, Margaret, Doris, and Erma sitting |
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| clockwise from left: Iva, Ray, Ethel, and Howard |
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| Earl, David, and Paul |
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| David, Mae, Alice, Doris |
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| Helen (Toots)--my biological grandmother |
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