Brief Life History of William Alexander
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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Family Time Line
Sources (9)
- William Sides in household of Holan Sides, "United States Census, 1870"
- W. A. Sides, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
- William Alexander Sides, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1856
Historical Boundaries: 1856: Wise, Texas, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
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.
Name Meaning
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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