Marriage Notes for Joseph Madison Idol and Jane HOBBS-90347
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Jimmy Idol died young.
Estate Files for Guilford County, North Carolina show a death date of 1891.
Marriage Notes for Andrew Jackson Idol and Hannah Eliza PAYNE-90359
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William Frederick Idol did not marry.
Marriage Notes for Barnett Bynum Idol and Haidee Florence FENLEY-90363
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Marriage Notes for Joseph Sinclair Ragsdale and Emily Jane IDOL-90224
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William Willis Wiley taught school at Washington, North Carolina, Wytheville, Virginia and Black Jack in Guilford County, North Carolina. He operated general stores, was a surveyor and served in the North Carolina legislature for two terms. After the Civil War, he bought small farms for "Uncle Isaac" Allen and "Uncle Blount" Tonkins (both of whom were black) and allowed them to repay him as they could. When "Uncle Blount" was wrongfully accused of stealing homemade soap, William went to Raleigh and obtained a pardon from the governor. He never used tobacco and would not allow it to be raised on his land.
The Idol family moved to Guilford County when Julia Idol was a girl. She attended boarding school at Thomasville and High Point.
Marriage Notes for William Millis Wiley and Julia Caroline IDOL-90225
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Samuel Wiley attended Guilford College and was a lifelong student. He read Latin every day until a short time before his death. He taught in several schools, was assistant postmaster at Greensboro, North Carolina and, for many years, traveled over the South supervising the installation of cotton gins. At one time, he and his brother operated a broom factory. From World War I until his death, he farmed the family homestead and operated a dairy.
James Knox Polk Idol and his family moved to Kansas.
Marriage Notes for James Knox Polk Idol and Kate ALEXANDER-90380
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Marriage Notes for William Hussey Idol and Louisa RAPER-90383
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Catherine Cobb was called Kate.
Marriage Notes for Stephen Douglas Idol and Catherine Susan COBB-90388
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When she was 19 years old, Mary Ellen Idol received a marriage proposal from S. G. Armfield of Friendship, North Carolina. She wrote him 1 February 1880 as follows: "As the goddess Sun has long since disappeared in the western sky and nature seems to be silent in the calm repose of this pleasant Sabbath night, I will endeavor to reply to your much honored missive which it was my pleasure to receive a few days ago. I hope you will allow me the acknowledgment of my surprise on perusing its contents. I feel myself very highly honored to receive such a message from you. But not wishing in any way to trifle with you, I think it will be advisable for me to decline your proposition. I have never made love affairs my study, therefore friendship is as far as I have ever gotten. I hope you will cherish no hard feelings whatever on account of it. May Heaven's choicest blessings ever be yours is my sincere wish for you. Respectfully, Mollie E. Idol."
Marriage Notes for James Rufus Gordon and Mary Ellen IDOL-90229
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