Possible Link Bewteen Edmond Kidd, John & Samuel
The Kidd name started in the 1800's with my great great great grandfather John Kidd. According to my grandfather Willis Kidd, John Kidd was originally John Alexander. When he was a child he was taken in by the Kidd family, who we believe to be Edmond Kidd and Virginia Ward Kidd. When he was placed in school they signed him in as John Kidd, and so our family and thousands of our cousins have taken the Kidd name.
John Kidd was married 2 times to a Perline Rose who died in her 20's or 30's. She had a case of measles and almost beat the sickness, but she had to go out in the rain to milk a cow and do some farm work and she had a backset of the measles and died very young. Before she died she and John had 6 children including my great great grandfather Samuel Kidd. Samuel was a hard working farmer who purchased a farm on Brush Creek, Lee County Kentucky that is still in our family today with many of our realitives living on it including many of my cousions and a uncle. Sam was a farmer who done basic farming, he also raised cattle and maintained his 400+ acre farm. Sam died of a Kidney blockage in 1937. They said awhile before he died and he was in bad shape that he would tend to his garden on his knee's because he could not walk. Samuel was married to Elmira King and they together had many children (10 I believe) including my great grandfather Greenberry Kidd.
Greenberry Kidd was married to Ida May Bailey of Lee County Kentucky. He was born, lived and died on the same farm that his father operated. During the 1930's Greenberry Kidd was offered $40,000 for our family farm when he found oil on it, and in those days $40,000 was enough to buy hundreds of acres of prime Bluegrass land in the central part of Kentucky, land that is now many thousands of dollars per acre. He did not sell the farm, but he did let them mine the oil, and he received revenue for each barrel of oil gained. Greenberry had 13 children including my Grandfather Willis Kidd of Lee County. Of all of Greenberry's 13 children, only two of them remain alive, my Grandfather Willis Kidd who is a successful trader, he trades in roots such as Yellow Root and Ginseng, and metals such as Aluminum, Steel, Copper, Old Coins, Knives, Guns and much more. His father Greenberry died in the early 1960's.