Warren County Iowa Genealogical Society

George RIDDLE

Spouse: Bell RIDDLE
Children: Clarence, Burley, Geneva, Orville and Jeanetta

George RIDDLE moved to Lacona area from Columbia, Iowa about 1908. He felt the need for a Nazarene church in the area. He and others held Holiness Camp Meetings on Milt MITCHELL’S farm, now the farm of Lloyd WILLIAMS. George, his wife, Bell, and children were charter members of the church. (Source: History of the Lacona Nazarene Church, copied from The History of Warren County, Iowa, compiled by the Warren County Genealogical Society, Curtis Media Corp., Dallas, Texas, 1987, p. 371.)

In 1917, Charlie HADLEY, Roy MILLEN, George RIDDLE formed Lacona Auto Company. They sold Ford cars adding Fordson tractors, plows and discs in 1919. (Source: Chronology of the early settlers of White Breast Township and Lacona compiled by Edith HEEMSTRA and John FORD sometime around 1980.)