RIDDLE'S OLD FIELD AND RIDDLES OLD FIELD SCHOOL
ON SC.HIGHWAY 92' WHERE MARTIN'S LAKE ROAD JOINS 92' WAS A SCHOOL HOUSE KNOWN AS RIDDLE'S OLD FIELD SCHOOL. IT WAS TYPICAL COUNTRY SCHOOL.THE SURROUNDING LAND IS WHERE JOHN RIDDLE SETTLED.A LARGE FLAT FIELD TO THE FRONT AND RIGHT OF THE SCHOOL BUILDING KNOWNED AS RIDDLES OLD FIELD WAS USED AS A MUSTERING GROUND DURING THE CIVIL WAR.AFTER THE WAR THE OLD SOILDERS REUNION WAS HELD AT THE SCHOOL HOUSE.THE BENCHES IN THE SCHOOL WERE LONG'STRAIGHT AND CRUDLEY MADE.THIS IS WHERE KATHLEEN RIDDLE GARRETT STARTED TO SCHOOL IN 1921.THE TEACHER WAS MRS. EDNA RIDDLE FOY WHO IS THE GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER OF JOHN RIDDLE.THIS BUILDING WAS DESTROYED BY A TORNADO IN 1926.ON A KNOLL BEHIND RIDDLE'S OLD FIELD SCHOOL IS A BURYING GROUND. MANY OF THE HEAD AND FOOT STONES OF GRAVES ARE FIELD ROCKS WITH NO NAMES OR DATES ON THEM.ONE SMALL WHITE ROCK HAS AN R ON IT AND ANOTHER ROCK HAS M.R. ON IT.WE ARE SURE THAT JOHN AND MARY ARE BURIED HERE.THERE WAS A FENCE AROUND THE BURING GROUND.WHERE IT HAS BEEN TOLD THAT SLAVES WERE BURIED THERE ON THE OUTSIDE.WHICH THIS ALL OF THIS HAS BEEN PLOWED OVER.MAY GOD BLESS YOU IS MY PRAYER.IF YOU WANT TO E MAIL ME TO ASKED ME ANYTHING FILL FREE TO DO SO. HERE IS MY E MAIL [email protected] A GREAT DAY AND NIGHT.