Adam J. Sides, son of Jacob Augustus Sides and Elizabeth Walbeck, was
born in Mar 1829 in East Wheatfield, Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA. He died
on 18 May 1911.
He married a woman named
Matilda, and had no children. Matilda was born August 12, 1824 in Indiana County, PA and lived to the age of 96.
Death of a Pioneer
The cruel hand of death has claimed another prominent resident of Dakota county in the person of Adam J Sides, whose familiar figure has been one of the landmarks of this vicinity for nearly half a century.
On Friday evening at about 9
o'clock, January 1, 1909, the final summons came, and as he had been in failing
health for several years, the end was not unexpected.
Deceased was born March 20, 1829, in Indiana county, PA,
where he spent the early years of his life on a farm. Was married August 7,
1861, and she who had been his helpmate and counsellor in all these years
survives him. He moved with his family to Dakota county in April 1867, and has
made this his home continually since, and where he leaves a host of friends and
relatives who remember him for his kindly ways and genial disposition. Besides
the devoted wife, he leaves four sisters - Mrs. Sarah Morgan, of Hesbon, PA;
Mrs Kate Lichtenfels, of Boliver, PA, and Mrs Milton Foreshoe and Mrs George
Leamer, of this precinct.
Deceased
served his country during the civil war, enlisting in Co H, 206 Regiment
Pennsylvania Infantry in 1863 and served until the close of the war, and
received an honorable discharge.
Deceased's early life was a strenuous one. Before
reaching his majority he started out for himself, and about the first move he
made was to take the long trip to California - that was in '49 and during the
gold fever that swept the country that year. He made the long trip by boat,
going "round the Horn", and it was interesting to hear him tell his
experiences connected with that trip. He returned east ten years later, a
wiser, if not a richer man. The return trip was fraught with as much danger and
hardship, if not more, than the tedious ocean trip going, as it was made overland,
on horseback, over mountains and across desert plains infested with barbarous
Indians and wild beasts, and for thousands of miles bare of any signs of
civilization. But nothing daunted Adam J Sides when he had made up his
mind to do a thing.
The last
chapter is closed on a once busy life - one that brings words of commendation
from all who knew and speak of him.
Dakota County Herald, March 18, 1920, page 5:
Mrs. Matilda Sides Passes Away at Age of 95 Years
For over half a century a resident of Dakota precinct, and residing all of this time on the same farm, Mrs. Matilda Sides, probably the oldest resident of the county, passed peacefully away last Thursday, march 11th, at the home of her son, Adam O. Sides. Her death was due to old age.
Mrs. Sides was born in Indiana county, Pa., August 12, 1824, and was in her ninety-sixth year at the time of her death. She was married to Adam j. Sides before leaving her native state, and came west with him in 1865, locating on the farm where she spent the remainder of her days. Mr. Sides preceded her in death January 3, 1904.
the home of this estimable family was always a pleasant place to go, and where their friends often met to enjoy their hospitality. She was a good Christian woman, and leaves behind numberless friends and relatives to mourn her taking away.
Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock, from the Westcott chapel in Sioux City, Rev. C. R. Lowe, pastor of the Salem Lutheran church, conducting the serice. Burial was in the Graceland Park cemetery.
Thus another Dakota county pioneer leaves the ranks to take up her abode in that better land, from whose bourne no traveler returns.
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