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..a book on the Sidden family is available..I just got mine....Sidden..

..this book mentions the Mc Kinney connection and also says there was an older brother John..

A sister and her three brothers of the Sidden family settled in the Stone Mountain area of North Carolina around 1850 from Tannery Branch, a location along the Surry-Wilkes line.

The sister was Piety (Polly) 1825. The three brothers were....Andrew..1828..William..1829..Richard..1830

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Richard (Dick)..........1830
Richard Lafayette (Fed)..........1857
Charles F..........1879
Sarah Sabrina Sidden Flynt Keithley...........1905
Georgia Irene Flynt Ward Smith....1926
Ronald Edward Ward..........1943
Shawn Forrest Ward..........1970
Kara Alayne Ward..........1993

Picture of Richard Sidden my husband's gr, gr grandfather.

A story is told that Charlie was not really a Sidden, that the Sidden family took him in. They were really Kenny's?. I show that Charlie's grandfather's (Richard..Dick) sister, Polly was married to a Kennedy. Could she perhaps have had a child late in life? Died at the time? The dates do look right for that to have happened. ** Someone has e-mailed me saying Polly was alive many years later! She is shown living with her brother. Others have repeated this story of them not really being Siddens though! Charlie is shown living with the Siddens on the census when he is one year old in 1880. Any further information appreciated.

I do have the book Log Cabin Families of Stone Mountain, North Carolina by Hardin and Virginia Royall. This book has listings especially for Brooks, Brown, Cox, Higgins, Hincher, Holloway, Hutchinson, Miles, Roberts, Royall, Sidden, Sparks, Spicer, Vannoy, Warren, Wood, Woodruff, Woooten. Many other names are included. But the ones shown are for the cabins. Locations of the cabins are shown, pictures of a few, and many other pictures. I understand from the authors there are no more of these books available. If you want to see a copy, try inter-library loan. I am more than willing to look for anyone.

Man sitting..Joseph Cox..Woman sitting..Plutina Casey Cox..Man standing in overalls in back Alvin H Cox..Man standing in back between Joseph and Plutina..Everett Cox..man next to Everett..is Glennie Cox..man on very right is Hilery W Cox

Cox Birthday party 1937. Someone sent me the names and I lost them. I do have the following Surnames for the picture though...Someone has sent me the names for this picture and I lost them. I do have these surnames though. Cox, Sidden, Hollaway, Warren, Williams, Flynt, Cheek, Bogus, Holcomb, Mc Grady, Collins..

The Sidden family is mentioned in the Wilkes County Heritage Book.

Richard Sidden was a main character in the novel The Heart of the Blue Ridge by Waldron Baily. My mother in law Georgia, her brother Fred remember another character Plutina Cox. The World Film Company released the movie in 1915 then re-released it again in 1917 under the title of The Savage Instinct. Two bears were brought in from New York at a cost of $1500.

Robert Cummings is listed as having starred in this movie, is this the same Bob Cummings who had the TV show, if anyone knows let me know and I will also try to find out.

I have now found I am able to order a copy of this book, I can't wait to get it.

Last year there was an article about the movie in Reel North Carolina, the film publication for the state. I wrote the author telling her this was my husband's family, I sent her copies I had made from the book. She tells me there are two copies of this movie, they want 200$ for each. She has had contact with the author's grandson.

Many from the Sidden family are buried up at Traphill in the Union Baptist Church Cemetery next to the church. The cabin they lived in is still on the property...

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