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Descendants of
WILLIAM SIREE KIDD and MATILDA JANE STONE
Descendants of William Siree KIDD and Matilda Jane Stone
First Generation
1. William Siree KIDD was born 9 Oct 1827 in Alabama. He died
22 Sep 1901 in Llano County, Texas and was buried in J. Berley
Ranch, Mason County, Texas. William was the son of George Kidd.
William married Matilda Jane STONE, daughter of Reuben Gilmore
STONE, Rev and Celia Lavina SCOTT, on 27 Jan 1864. Matilda was
born 12 Dec 1847 in Pulaski County, Missouri. She died 6 Feb 1929
in Llano County, Texas.
They had the following children:
2 F i. Mary Emma KIDD was born 1866 in Texas. She died 1961.
Mary married John TEAGUE.
+ 3 M ii. John Benton KIDD was born 1867 and died 1928.
+ 4 M iii. William Siree KIDD was born 15 Jun 1869 and died 25 Mar 1949.
5 M iv. Robert Henry "Bob" KIDD was born 1871. Robert married Laura ( ? ).
+ 6 M v. George Thomas KIDD was born 26 Jan 1873 and died 23 Apr 1953.
7 M vi. James Stanley "Jim" KIDD was born 1874. He died 1951.
James married Clair STEP.
8 M vii. Joseph Green "Joe" KIDD was born 1877. He died 1959.
9 F viii. Ida Annie KIDD was born 1878. She died 1931.
Ida married Bryant Porch.
10 M ix. Frank Garner KIDD was born 1881.
11 M x. Bennie Pinckney KIDD was born 1883. He died 1963.
Bennie married Marie HAM.
12 M xi. Jacob Shufford "Jake" KIDD was born 29 May 1885. He died 5 Feb 1905
in Llano County, Texas and was buried in J. Berley Ranch, Llano County, Texas.
Jacob married Eulah NICHOLS. Eulah was born 1 Apr 1883. She died 10 Feb 1926.
13 F xii. Rosina June KIDD was born 1887. She died 1925.
Rosina married Mit NICHOLES.
+ 14 M xiii. Reuben Pinckney KIDD was born 1890.
Second Generation
3. John Benton KIDD (William Siree) was born 1867. He died
1928.
John married Ollie Ann BAZE.
They had the following children:
+ 15 M i. Jefferson KIDD.
+ 16 F ii. Lilly May KIDD.
+ 17 M iii. Maurice Estes KIDD.
4. William Siree KIDD (William Siree) was born 15 Jun 1869 in Texas. He died 25 Mar 1949
in Llano County, Texas and was buried in Llano Cemetery, Llano County, Texas.
William married Mollie Ann BUSHMIRE?. Mollie was born 12 Feb 1873. She died 9 Apr 1957 in Llano
County, Texas.
They had the following children:
18 F i. Virginia KIDD.
Virginia married Howard PARTRIDGE.
6. George Thomas KIDD (William Siree) was born 26 Jan 1873 in Loyal Valley, Mason County,
Texas. He died 23 Apr 1953 in Katemcy, Mason County, Texas and was buried in Katemcy, Mason
County, Texas.
George married (1) Ida Alice JONES, daughter of James Lawson JONES and Amanda ALLUMS,
on 1 Oct 1895 in Katemcy, Mason, Texas. Ida was born 7 Jan 1877 in Katemcy Creek, Mason, Texas.
She died 12 Sep 1909 in Katemcy, Mason, Texas.
They had the following children:
19 F i. KIDD.
20 M ii. Amos Siree KIDD was born 2 Jan 1898 in Katemcy, Mason, Texas.
Amos married Amye TURNER.
21 M iii. KIDD.
22 M iv. Amzie Thomas KIDD was born 21 Mar 1902 in Katemcy, Mason, Texas.
Amzie married (1) Bertha JORDAN.
Amzie also married (2) Clara HUBBARD.
23 M v. George Emery KIDD was born 17 Dec 1903 in Katemcy, Mason, Texas.
George married Mary BISHOP.
24 F vi. Pearl Lona KIDD was born 28 Dec 1906 in Katemcy, Mason, Texas.
Pearl married Arch STARKS.
25 F vii. Ruby Ree KIDD was born 27 Aug 1909 in Katemcy, Mason, Texas.
Ruby married Jack KIMBROUGH.
26 F viii. Ruth Lee KIDD was born 27 Aug 1909 in Katemcy, Mason, Texas.
Ruth married (1) Arch KELLER.
Ruth also married (2) Homer ANDERSON.
George also married (2) Anna Louise DAVENPORT on 30 Apr 1911 in Katemcy, Mason, Texas.
Anna died 22 Mar 1964 in , Mason, Texas.
They had the following children:
27 ix. KIDD was born after 1911. KIDD died after 1911.
28 M x. George Thomas KIDD Jr. was born 30 Jan 1913 in Katemcy, Mason, Texas.
George married Elizabeth PRIESS.
29 F xi. Thelma KIDD was born 4 Oct 1914 in Katemcy, Mason, Texas.
Thelma married (1) Walter GUENTERT.
Thelma also married (2) Ivan JOHNSON.
Thelma also married (3) Willis BIRK.
30 F xii. Anna Louise KIDD was born 30 May 1916.
Anna married Leroy LEOFFLER.
31 xiii. KIDD was born after 1916. KIDD died after 1916.
14. Reuben Pinckney KIDD (William Siree) was born 1890.
Reuben married Eulah NICHOLS.
They had the following children:
32 M i. Kenneth KIDD.
Third Generation
15. Jefferson KIDD (John Benton, William Siree).
Jefferson married Alice ( ? ).
They had the following children:
33 M i. Jerry KIDD.
34 M ii. Johnny KIDD.
16. Lilly May KIDD (John Benton, William Siree).
Lilly married Walter JORDAN. Walter died in lived in Mason County, Texas.
They had the following children:
35 F i. Mary Alice JORDAN.
Mary married Charles ( ? ).
36 F ii. Dorothy Nell JORDAN.
Dorothy married Rob ( ? ).
37 M iii. Walter JORDAN Jr..
38 M iv. James Richard JORDAN.
James married CHICK?.
DIED
In great peace at his home in Loyal Valley at 2 A.M.
Sunday September 22, 1901
WILLIAM SIRREE KIDD
aged 73 years 11 months 131 days. The subject of this humble
tribute was born in Alabama, October 9th 1827. At an early age
he was left an orphan and became an apprentice in Memphis,
Tennessee, where he learned the carpenter's trade. In 1847 he
came to Austin, Texas where for ten years he followed his occupation.
Later, he came to Loyal Valley and on January 27, 1864 he happily
united in marriage to Miss Matilda Jane Stone. The issue of this
union was thirteen children, ten sons and three daughters - all of whom
are living and were at the bedside of the venerable father during his last
hours on earth.
For nearly a half century, Mr. Kidd lived at or near Loyal Valley
and during the early days, was exposed to all the trials and hardships
incident to pioneer life and often in open conflict with Indians. He was
well and favorably known far and wide, and his integrity and strict
probity won for him the high regard of all who knew him and it was
known among men that his word was as good as a State bond.
In 1885, he became a member of the M.E. Church South and his
devotion to his church and all its ordinances and his godly walk were
the highest testimonials to the fact that he had, indeed, passed from
death unto life. During his long and useful life, aided by his devoted
companion who has ever been a ready help meet in every laudable
undertaking he accumulated a competency of this world's goods and
erected a splendid home from whose portals the poor, the friendless
and the wayfarer were never turned away.
Of his thirteen children, all are members of the church he loved
so well. Not one has ever wandered from the parental roof, and none
left the sacred-precincts of the old home to dwell elsewhere save
those who have assumed the marriage relation. Of the ten sons,
most of whom are grown, not one has ever been arraigned in any
court of justice on any charge whatever.
The funeral rites of this aged patriarch were conducted Sunday at
4 P.M. by the pastor, Rev. David Gregg and in the family cemetery
near the residence, and in the presence of the weeping companion
of nearly forty years, all his children, grand children and a great host
of mourning friends all that was mortal of the devoted husband,
affectionate father, and steadfast Christian friend was laid to rest
in the silent tomb where,
"The pains of death are opast,
Labor and sorrow cease;
And life's long warfare closed at last,
His soul is found in peace.
"Soldier of Christ well done!
Praise be thy new employ.
And while eternal ages run.
Rest in thy Savior's joy."
Ahnentafel Chart for Carol Louann Kidd Hall
Notes:
!CENSUS: 1870 Llano Co. Texas P 2 D 9 P. O. Llano
W. S. Kidd 42 m w Stockraiser b Ala married
!Cemetery Records of Llano County & some of adjacent Counties
by Johnson, Gladys Hanks Jan 1971
Mason County History Book, Mason County Historical Commission 1976
...At Walnut Creek and Pecan Creek (now called Round Mountain),
he came upon a religious settlement that had migrated from Pulaski
County, MO. Reuben Gilmore Stone was the pastor of the Baptist Church
whose members had founded this settlement.
...Kidd and Stone families built cabins two miles east of Loyal Valley, in
Mason County, on Cold Spring Creek around 1869.
...In 1871, Indian pressure kept increasing and forced them to settle in the
townskte of Loyal Valley on Lot #10, for whish Reuben Stone obtained a
deed. ...then building a new home of native rock one-half-mile east of
Loyal Valley. ...William Kidd started buying land at 50 cents an acre,
eventually accumulated sizable ranches in Mason and McCullogh Counties.
2.from Howard Parsonage who was
married to Virginia L. Kidd. She has since died and he has remarried
and is in poor health himself. The William S. Kidd Family Association
is headed by someone else now. Kenneth Kidd of Mason (915/347-5734) can
tell more than I can about most of the children of William and Matilda.
I’ll check with him to see who has the most information.
Here is the story form that I have from Howard:
"Family tradition relates that three Kidd brothers in Dublin, Ireland,
emigrated to America. These three brothers had just enough money to pay
the steerage passage fare for two of them. The third brother became a
successful stowaway. This enable all three of them to travel together
to the Virginia colony.
The brothers split up after arriving in American. They traveled through
Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. From there some
of the Kidd brothers and their offsprings settled in the Tennessee River
Valley of Alabama. This part of the Kidd family also settled in the
Winston County and Tuscumbia area of Alabama.
Other offshoots of these brothers spread further arount the country in
many different directions. The family members were actually not a very
close nit unit.
BILL (WILLIAM SIREE) KIDD and his brother, BEN, were raised in Benton,
Arkansas. From there Bill moved to Memphis, Tennessee and then later he
migrated to Texas.
In Texas, Bill established his own branch of the Kidd family by raising
thirteen children. He became the family patriarch. The family was very
close nit during his entire lifetime.
JOHN STONE was born in the Carolinas about 1780. His wife, ELIZABETH,
was born around 1790, also in the Carolinas. They had several sons born
in Alabama. One was AMBROSE Y. STONE who was born in 1825; another was
REUBEN GILMORE STONE who was born on July 11, 1823; and two other boys
who included SIDNEY and WILLIAM.
They moved from Alabama to Osage County, Missouri in the late 1830’s.
In 1840 they moved to Pulaskie County and settled on the waters of Bag
Maries in a log cabin that had a full twenty foot square interior with
fifteen to eighteen inch faced hand hewn logs that had dovetailed
corners.
In 1844 a Primitive Baptist Church was organized in their home. The log
cabin then became both home and church. On October 11, 1845, a
constitution for their church was drawn up and it was named the
Friendship Baptist Church.
Two of their sons, REUBEN and AMBROSE, became Missouri Baptist
Association delegates and were very active in the church. REUBEN
preached regularly in his father’s church while he was in his teens.
Around the year 1845 REUBEN married CELIA SCOTT in their Friendship
Baptist Church.
The REVEREND JOHN STONE and his wife ELIZABETH both died around the year
1860, sometime before the outbreak of the Civil War.
Cherokee blood was introduced into our Kidd family line first in South
Carolina, next in our Scott line in Kentucky, and then in our Stone line
in Missouri through the Scotts.
When the Kidd brothers arrived in America they found friendly Cherokee
Indians living there and that European women were not plentiful. The
Indians found that whites often took advantage of them so that marriage
to an "une ga," or white man, gave them protection. The solution for
them both was intermarriage.
The Cherokee Indians called themselves "Ani’-Yun’wiya," or the principal
people. They were settled people who lived in villages and farmed in
the Southern Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. Their wooden
homes were made with posts supporting plastered basket-like walls and
thatched or bark roofs.
Some Cherokees adopted to the white culture particularly in housing,
farming, dress, religion, and language. This new technology and life
style improved their living standard but forced them to abandon their
matriarchal and matrilineal kinship system, and many of their Indian
cultural and social traditions.
A number of Cherokees took European names before they married their
white neighbors. With the adoption of European names and no longer
associated with their tribal organization or family clan, they blended
into the white culture quite completely.
Contact: Louann Hall
Mary Bonsal
