It’s Family Time~The Christopher Sides Family

Christopher Sides was borne abt 1829, a son of Daniel Sides and Esther Dry. He was their 3rd born child and Christopher had eleven siblings of which two were older.  There is a website that contains specific birth and baptism date for Christopher but I was unable to verify the dates. The same website contain a specific marriage date for Christopher and his wife.

Christopher Sides married Mary Ann Tays about 1858 in Iredell County, North Carolina. Their only child, William F. Sides was born on 18 Jan 1859 in Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina. He died on 25 Oct 1881 at the age of 22 in Bates County, Missouri.

Christopher Sides died of disease in the Civil War. He enlisted 1 Aug 1862. His official Military Record on Fold3 shows that he died of Disease on 2 October 1862 at Winchester, Virginia.  https://www.fold3.com/image/49833049

However there are 2 other documents containing different dates
for his death.

• SIDES, CHRISTOPHER, Private
  Resided in Iredell County where he enlisted on August 1, 1862, for the war. Died at Paris, Virginia, October 2 or October 30, 1862, of disease. [State Troops, Volume 11, page 406.].

• Death Date Source: Obituary for Mary Ann Tays Sides Mills. Christopher died 23 October 1862.

Mary Ann probated her Husband’s Estate on 6 December 1862 and then she and her son, William F. Sides, relocated to Missouri. There on 28 December 1874, Mary Ann (Tays) Sides married Elcania Mills in Lafayette County, Missouri. She died July 18, 1914 in Caddo County, Oklahoma.

Christopher Sides is my 1st Cousin 4X Removed.

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1. Bates- Flatt-Floyd-Smith-Witt/Whit, Halcyon Days (http://www.halcyondays.com/Sides/christopher_sides.htm : viewed 3 December 2022), Christopher Sides.

2. 1850 U. S. Census, Iredell County, North Carolina, population schedule, Iredell, North Carolina, Page: 404B (stamped); Line 4, Dwelling 6, Family 6, Household of Danl SIDES; online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 14 November 2014); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, Roll 634.

3. 1860 U. S. Census, Iredell County, North Carolina, population schedule, South of the River, Iredell, North Carolina, Page: 250 (stamped); Line 6, Dwelling 1029, Family 996, Household of Christopher SIDES; online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 3 December 2020); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M653, Roll 902.

4. Ancestry, "Civil War Service Records" database, Military Service Records (https://www.fold3.com/ : accessed 3 May 2020), entry for Christopher Sides, Private; Company "C", 48th Regiment; Confederate.

5. Iredell County, North Carolina, North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979, Christopher Sides; digital images, FamilySearch, FamilySearch.com (http://www.familysearch.org: viewed 3 December 2020); https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89GJ-F9DB-P?cc=1911121.

6. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 3 May 2020); Memorial page for Mary Ann Tays Sides Mills; (27 June 1838–19 July 1914); Find a Grave memorial # 9215790, Citing Olive Hill Cemetery; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA.