Seiz, Seitz or Sides Family
Seiz, Seitz or Sides Family
Note: the German spelling of this name is SEIZ. Early American records usually render it SEITZ. By mid-19th century it had become SIDES, the modern spelling.
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Children of Johann Philipp Christoph Seitz and Eva Rothrock
Jacob Seitz (1793-1840) m. Maria Spach (1793-1868)
Elisabeth Seitz (1795-1869) m. Johann Heinrich Spach (?-1834)
Catharina Seitz (1796-1827) m. George Spach (1789-1866)
Johannes Seitz (1799-1827) m. Matilda Hitchcock
George Seitz (1800-1897) moved to Texas, m. Amelia Mary Leonard (1800-?)
unnamed infant (b. & d. 1804)
unnamed infant (b. & d. 1808)
Solomon Seitz (1809-1810)
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Children of Johann George Seitz and Catharina Claus
Christian Jacob Seitz (b. & d. 1795)
Philipina Elisabeth Seitz (1796-1859) m. Jacob Livengood (1795-1858). Who were his parents?
Maria Salome Seitz (1798-1857) m. John Styers (1786-1856)
John Michael Seitz (1801-1816)
Anna Seitz (1803-1845) m. John Brendle (1801-1851)
Christian David Seitz (1805-1879) m. Alpha Monroe Vawter (1818-1907)
Margaretha Elisabeth Seitz (1809-1835) m. Armsworthy Bevel (1805-1835)
Rebecca Seitz (1811-1858) did not marry
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Children of Johannes Seitz and Susanna Elisabeth Hummel
Justina Seitz (1806-1870) m. Samuel Stewart (1806-1867)
Anna Susanna Seitz (1810-?) m. Bennet Swaim
Philipina Elisabeth Seitz (1814-1894) m. Heinrich Herman Butner (1792-1879)
Johann Gottlieb Seitz (1818-1892) m. Florina Elizabeth Kerner (1827-1881)
UPDATE: This family group revised November 2001, thanks to Kristina Turner.
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Children of Jacob Seitz and Maria Spach
Maria Sides (1818-1874) m. Robert Alexander Reich (1821-1890) (moved to Collin Co., TX)
Lucinda Sides (1820-1864) m. Edward Foltz (1818-1884)
Louis (Ludwig) Sides (1821-1906) m. Malissa C. Dodson (1830-1891) (married in Collin Co., TX)
Eli Sides (1823-1907) m. Jane Longworth (1832-1906), d/o George Longworth, (born ca. 1796 in VA)
Catherine Sides (1826-?) m. Alfred Kimel (1827-1870)
Philip Sides (1828-?) m. Theresa Roberts White (?) (married in Fannin Co., TX)
Salome Sides (1830-1891) m. William Coston Johnson (1823-1882)
John Sides (1832-1834)
Anna Sides (1834-1872) m. Norman Faw (1834-1874)
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Children of George Sides and Amelia Mary Leonard
Richard Ellison Sides (1826-?); lived Bastrop Co. TX, died near Little Rock AR in Confederate army service;
Evy? Mary Elizabeth? Sides (1827-?) m. Stephen Smith, lived Williamson Co. TX
George Washington Sides (1831-ca. 1851)
Larkin Clark Sides (1833-?)
Philip Leonard Sides (1837-?) lived Bastrop Co. TX
John Henry Day Sides (1841-?)
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Children of Christian David Seitz and Alpha Monroe Vawter
George Michael Sides (1834-?) m. Abigail Lashmit (ca. 1840-?) d/o Benjamin Lashmit and Nancy Alspach
John Philip Sides (b. & d. 1836)
James Henry Sides (1838-1878). Did he marry Susan Zimmerman in 1865?
Maria Rebecca Sides (1840-1914) m. Amos Faw (1838-1883) (a Dunkard clergyman)
Maria Catharine Sides (1843-1917) m. 1) Benjamin Franklin Reich (1833-1863), 2) Aaron George Spaugh (1843-1874), 3) Samuel Hege
William Francis Sides (1845-1884) m. Antoinette Spaugh
Christian Parmenio Sides (1848-1890) m. Nancy C. Burk (1840-1891)
Levi Herman Sides (1850-1916) m. Nancy Faw (1853-1926)
Ambrose Edwin Sides (1852-?) m. Sarah Catharina Spaugh (1857-?)
Elizabeth Jane Sides (1857-?) m. Henry W. Johnson (1856-1942)
Rosina Isabella Sides (1863-1873)
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Children of Louis Sides and Melissa Dodson
William Sides m. Mary Curtis
John Sides m. Annie Spaugh
Robert Sides
Mary Sides
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Children of Eli Sides and Jane Longworth
Anna Caroline Sides (b. & d. 1854)
Jacob Sides (1855-1893) m. Sarah Williard (ca. 1871-1888), d/o Roberson Williard and Phebe Weavil
Alfred Sides (1858-1921) m. Flora Catherine Shoaf (1864-1944), d/o David Shoaf and Catherine Lucinda Nading
Samuel Sides (1860-1951) m. Gertrude Pope (1868-1943)
Edward Sides (1862-1949) m. Ida Eudora Nifong (1876-1961), d/o John Robert Nifong and Minerva Marshall
Salome Sides (1864-1949) m. Albert G. Hartman (1859-1941)
Martin A. Sides (1867-1936) m. 1) Minnie Alice Bodenhamer (1874-1903), 2) Lizzie Hand (ca. 1883-1910)
Augustus Sides (1869-1944) m. Mary Roxana Bodenhamer (1876-1915)
Lenore Sides (1872-1913) m. Noah Snyder (1868-1929)
Theodore Sides (twin of Lenore; b. & d. 1872)
Abigail Sides (1874-1875)
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Children of George Michael Sides and Abigail Lashmit
James Emory Sides (1857-?)
Phebe Jane Sides (1859-?)
David Franklin Sides (1861-?)
Henry Sides (ca. 1863-?)
Malinda Sides (ca. 1866-?)
Rebecca Sides (ca. 1867-?)
John Sides (1869-?)
Dan Stevenson is a Sides family researcher and provided some details on the Sides family in Texas. Dan's email address is:Dan_Stevenson@lajolla.sparta.com
Also thanks to Diane Anderson for information on some of the Texas families.
Records of the Moravians in North Carolina, 12 volumes; Publications of the North Carolina Historical Commission.
Forsyth Co. NC Cemetery Records
Sides, Roxie (1963), Early American Families. Sides, Rominger, Rothrock, Spach, Longworth, Shoaf, Nading, Foltz, Vogler. Winston-Salem NC.
Old Broad Bay Bund und Blatt, newsletters and information from Will Whitaker, 6094 So. Glenoaks Dr., Murray UT 84107-7661
Old Broad Bay Family History Association
This page was updated on June 18, 2005.