Re Patsy & Gerald Johnson's note to you: "I can trace William R. family back to the landing of the ship "Lydia" in 1742, landing in Waldoboro, Maine, from Wurtemberg, Germany." My Sides ancestors also came over on the Lydia; so we're all shirttail cousins! Sheila Sides Lauducci ----- Original Message ----- From: Patsy Johson <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 1:17 AM Subject: Re: [TXBROWN] Sides Family > Juanita, I just read your post on the Brown county queries, as luck > would have it, I have been looking for you for about 7 or 8 years. My > mother-in-law is the daughter of William Lee Sides half- sister Emma Dee > SIDES Calder. She is 86 and she lives with me. I recently sent to > Wheeler Co., Tx. for Williams death certificate to try to find out who > his mother was. Effie Cheatwood was the informant and she did not know > the name of his mother. I found William and Sarahs marriage liscense and > Effie Dees birth certificate, also a birth certificate for Roy Lee Sides, > son of William and Elizabeth Green Sides in Williamson county some time > ago. I have been trying to track down two other Children of William R. > Sides and wife unknown, Amanda and Martin. Found Martins marriage in > Colorado and read in a book information that Roy Sides had provided that > Martin died in Colorado in 1940; wrote for a death certificate but was > unable to find one. I got an address for a relative named Haskins from > the LDS library, wote to him and the response was that Martin died in > Oregon, but again was unable to find a death certificate. Amanda was > still living at home in the 1870 census but have found no trace of her > since. > > Amanda , Martin, and John William Lee belong to William R. (Riley) Sides > and wife unknown. I have always been under the assumption that William > R. married after he came to Texas, but have been unable to find out where > or to whom. 1860 has William in Bastrop Co., but he appears to be single > at this time. However the 1870 census has him living on a farm with Tom > Tyeen ( Tyreen), with three children and no wife, the oldest child age is > given as 11, making her birth in 1859, possibly after the census were > taken. Writing this raises another question, if the dates and ages are > right did William marry a woman already pregnant? My, My, things get > even more tangled, do they not. > > Emma Dee, Lemon Dee, (twins), and Riley Sides belong to William R. and > Eliza Jane Whitmire Sides. > > After William died in 1888 Eliza later married John Middleton Sarratt and > they had a daughter named Gracie Valentine; Gracie's daughter Lois lives > in Oklahoma, if she hasn't passed on in the last couple of years. > > I have photos of William and Eliza, John Wm., Emma and Dee; Effie and > Gracie, and of Gracies family. A picture of Gracie and Emmas oldest > daughter, Myrtle, made in 1895, they were babies. I have a photo of a > man holding a baby on a horse that Lois and I believe might have been > made at > Effies house but not sure of the person or location. > > I can trace William R. family back to the landing of the ship "Lydia" > in1742, landing in Waldoboro, Maine, from Wurtemberg, Germany. > > Where do you live, maybe we live close enough to get together to exchange > info and pictures in person. > > Since Emma is my husbands grandmother and she and William have the same > father, that would make William his great uncle. Will be glad to share > what I have. Well I guess I have made this too long as I usually do when > I get started after making a new connection. So I guess I had better say > goodnight, hope to hear from you soon. > > Patsy and Gerald Johnson,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Brownwood, Brown Co., Tx. > > > ==== TXBROWN Mailing List ==== > ********BROWN COUNTY, TEXAS GenWeb******** > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbrown/ > > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >