Re: Arkansas Hydes - Sarah C Hyde B: 1863
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Re: Arkansas Hydes - Sarah C Hyde B: 1863
Jay Verne Hyde 6/20/07
Hi Jay,
Thanks for the new info. I have some more new info as well.
I have found some confirmed Hyde descendant cousins.I have found one cousin who confirms the logical assumption of a woman with a middle intial of E having a high chance of the name being Elizabeth.My great gradnmothers name was Sarah Elizabeth Hyde.She first married someone whose last name was Franklin.Records of the marriage to this person have not yet been found.The marriage record between Sarah and my great grandfather Robert Bowlin Lewter have her down as Mrs. S.E. Franklin.She was married young and then widowed.In some pension papers she states she was born in Ark.I calculated her age from her death cert. based on her age at marriage and got her date of birth to be I think I used various bits of info to narrow her birth to January of 1856.Don't hold me to that is I do not have all my files and notes on her out right now.
I have also met a cousin, Edwin Hyde who is descended from her brother a John H. Hyde, and Ed knows no more of him than I do of her but we have teamed up to research our mutual grandparents.There is no doubt that Ed is my cousin as I have photos of his grandmother in my grandmothers photo album.One was labeled Mrs. Hyde and for years I was puzzled by it as I thought it was Sary Hyde Lewter and wondered why my grandmother would call a Mrs. Lewter Mrs. Hyde.But when I sent that photo to Ed last summer he had more of the same person and the same baby in the photo and knew her to be Bama James Hyde.Hyde being her married name.So I to have identical photos of people you are related to pretty much confirms a realtionship.
Ed has no idea where JH Hyde was born, but thinks he was born between 1849 and 1852.There was also another known sister to this family a Jennifer Hyde born in 1858, but where is not known.If she is truly younger than Sarah Hyde and Sarah is correct for having lived in Texas since she was about 5, Jennifer would likely have been born in Texas.Because of the coincidence of names and location I am convinced that they are descended from a brother or cousin of Anthony Gray Hyde of Nacodooches, Texas. I am sure it is the same family.I could be wrong, but my instincts have long suspected it.I thought at one time when I was less experienced in genealogy that Athony Gray Hydes daughter named Sarah was my grandmother, as they were about the same age, just months apart.But I totally ruled them out as being the same person when Athony's dauhter was living in his household unmarried at the same time my Sarah was married to my ggrandfather with one child.THey lived pretty much in the same region. Smith County was cut out of Nacoodooches, so they were living within crow flight distances of one another.But Sarah Elizabeth Hyde Lewter does not appear on any census records but the 1880 one.I can't find her on any 185, 1860 or 1870 census not as a Hyde or as a Franklin.She should have only been about 14 in 1870, somewhat too young to marry, but not necessarily true in those days when people teneded to die so young that 30 was middle aged.
As Hyde is not a very common surname the odds are very great we are cousins at some point.What needs to be found now is some record showing John H, Jenny and Sarah Hyde on the same record with their parents.Ed thinks our line could very well come from Georgia Hydes.It is certainly a tangled mysterious web.
But we all have to keep digging until we find all the connections between us as family is everything.
Barb
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Re: Arkansas Hydes - Sarah C Hyde B: 1863
Jay Verne Hyde 6/21/07