Mary was married to the Rev. Joseph Henry Riddick on 11/13/1855. He was the brother of her brother William's Randolph-Macon College classmate, John R. Riddick. She first had a child, Charles Henry Riddick, who was born 9/6/1856 & died in April 1857. Mary became pregnant again but died while giving birth to twins. They too did not survive. All three children are buried with her at Mt. Airy without head stones.
Mary was married to the Rev. Joseph Henry Riddick on 11/13/1855. He was the brother of her brother William's Randolph-Macon College classmate, John R. Riddick. She first had a child, Charles Henry Riddick, who was born 9/6/1856 & died in April 1857. Mary became pregnant again but died while giving birth to twins. They too did not survive. All three children are buried with her at Mt. Airy without head stones.
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And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the spirit that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
What a world were this, How unendurable its weight, if they whom death hath sunder'd did not meet again!
Friend after friend departs
Who has not lost a friend?
There is no union here of hearts
That finds not here an end.
Were this frail world our final rest,
Living or dying, none were blest. J.H.R.
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