Julia S. Riedel Collection

Collection

Identifier: MGC-1080

Scope and Contents

This collection contains the genealogical research of Julia Bess Slemons Riedel. Most of the content’s focus is around Julia Slemons Riedel and her immediate family, the Gardner Family and the Slemons Family. The collection also contains some information about the McCoy, Snodgrass, Harrison, Biggart, Mark Ray, and Hartsfield families. These families are either directly related to Julia Slemons Riedel or related by marriage. Most information in the records covers the history of the families and how they are related to each other. Among the records are correspondence, family trees, and self-written family histories.

Dates

Creation: c.1650-2003

Creator

Riedel, Julia Slemons, 1910-2005 (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Julia Slemons Riedel was born on 3 October 1910 in Monticello, Drew County, Arkansas. Her parents were Wirt Adams Slemons and Julia Desay Gardner. She also had two brothers (John Collins Slemons and Gordon Wirt Slemons) and two sisters (Suzanne Leighman Slemons, and Marguerite Slemons). Later in her life she moved to Shreveport, Louisiana in 1930, and to Kansas City, Missouri in 1941. She died on 12 October 2005 in Union, Franklin County, Missouri. During her life she also wrote a book titled Brigadier General William F. Slemons, C.S.A.: His Ancestors & Descendants. She was also married twice. First she married Roy St. Clair Harrison, and after her first husband’s death she married Bill Riedel.