Here's what Mom got.

Mom was taking notes, so she'll be right when we differ.

What I learned from Catherine Smith
11/12/11
The Great Aunts, Julia and Adalide Riddle were born in ……….Kansas.
Father was John Henry Riddle, Mother Elizabeth Galey
Siblings of Julia and Adalide were David, George, Sussanah, (Suda)
and Bloomfield.
How the family went to W.T.
They were active Methodists. They were at a meeting, singing. George
was playing the harmonica, badly. One girl gave someone a nickel to
give to George if he would stop playing. George was mad, a fight
broke out with David and George and another kid. A knife was
involved. And a kid was killed! David was convicted, but the whole
town knew that David was a nice kid, the kid who died was a bully.
David went to jail. He was there 3 years, and then his family got a
judge to let him out. The whole family immediately went to Waitsburg,
W.T. on the Oregon Trail!!! The father, J
That is how Cora came to be born in W.T. Her mother was Suda. Suda
contracted typhoid and died. Cora had 2 siblings Myrtle & Elmer
(?). Myrtle was a nurse. She died at a young age of stomach cancer.
We have pictures of her with fantastic hats.
The family moved to Chicago (?).
David Riddle became a doctor.
George became a policeman (we have a picture of him in uniform).
Cora was married 3 times. Arthur Colvin was Cora’s second husband.
They had mother and Alfred. She then married Mr. Bigelow, and had
Aunt Betty.
Cora was a nurse. Arthur was married 5 times.
The ‘Great Aunts’ went to medical school in Chicago. They had one of
the first cars in their town. Picture we have is of a parade in
which the car is decorated with flowers with probably them driving.
Arthur Colvin, mothers father, was married 5 times. We may have
relatives we do not know about.
However, Cora’s children are the only ones in the Riddle line. None
of the other siblings of The Great Aunts had children. And mother is
the only one of her siblings to have children.
There are letters about the cruelty of the Great Aunts.
The reason mother knew Lydia and Ed Kreck was they took her in and
defended her when she was suing to leave the Great Aunts.