My great grandfather, William Steward Woodside, was born about February 1853 in Swanwick, Perry County, Illinois. His parents were John Morrow Woodside and Lucinda Eveline Pettit. He married Rose Ann Lyons Smith on 3 February 1876 in Swanwick, Perry County, Illinois. He was a farmer for most of his life.
Rose Ann and William had four children:
- John Thomas - born 15 June 1877 in Swanwick, Perry County
- William J. - born 23 January 1879 in Perry County
- Annie - born 12 December 1880 in Grand Cote, Perry County
- male child - born 18 June 1886 in Greenville, Bond County
Rose Ann died shortly after giving birth to her 4th child. William remarried on 2 December 1886 at Greenville, Bond County, to Frances E. (Grimes) Pate, a widow. It is unknown at this time what happened to Frances, but William married a third time on 20 September 1888 at Smithboro, Bond County, to Mary (Kedler) Powell, a widow.
Sometime between 1900 and 1910 William and Mary, along with her 2 sons from her previous marriage, moved to Poinsett County, Arkansas. William died in 1919 in Craighead County, Arkansas.
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