When William Alexander Sides was born on 31 July 1846, in Fulton, Itawamba, Mississippi, United States, his father, John P. Davis, was 25 and his mother, Virginia Dare Compton, was 16. He married Angeline L Speer in 1902, in Athens, Limestone, Alabama, United States. He lived in Justice Precinct 2, Wise, Texas, United States in 1910 and Chico, Wise, Texas, United States in 1920. He died in 1933, in Wise, Texas, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Alvord Cemetery, Alvord, Wise, Texas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1856: Wise, Texas, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English: from Middle English side ‘slope, hillside’ (Old English sīde) + post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived by or on a hillside, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Syde (Gloucestershire) or Side in Saint Bridget Beckermet (Cumberland).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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