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The dates that you listed for Nicholas Sidener (Jr) and Margaret Bussard are their dates
of death, not their birth dates.
Here is the biography on them from
"1882 History LaGrange County, Indiana" by F.A.Battey & Co.., - Van Buren
Township
NICHOLAS SIDENER owns 300 acres of land in this township, which is well improved. He came
to La Grange County, in 1835, and bought his present farm. Returning to Ohio, he was
married April 6, 1837, to Margaret Bussard, and soon after settled in this township, on
Section 30, where his farm was located, and where he had entered 160 acres. Mr. and Mrs.
Sidener are both natives of Fairfield County, Ohio. He was born December 3, 1811, and she
June 27, 1817. They have had nine children - Dellia J., Henry M., Samuel L., Willard,
John, Mary, James E., Martha E. and Margaret E. They are among the oldest resident
pioneers, and belong to the M.E. Church, of which Mr. Sidener has been a member since
1839. He is the son of Nicholas and Nancy Sidener. His father was born in Virginia
September 1, 1773, and was twice married; first in Kentucky, to the subject's mother,
who was born in Pensylvania in 1782, and died in Farifield County, Ohio, in 1821; they had
eleven children. His second wife!
was Mrs. Sarah Prough, by whom he had five children. He died in 1851. Mr. Sidener has
accumlated all his present wealth (except $1,000) by his own exertions, and has sold 113
acres of fine land. He has assisted in laying out the roads, and in building the bridges
in the township, and is a respected and valued citizen. Both his grandfathers came from
Pennsylvania, and resided at one time in Kentucky; his grandfather Kline subsequently
locating in Ohio at an early day.
End of Biography
I have Nicolas Sidener Sr’s death as 20 Jan 1849, not the 1851 date listed in the
biography above. I have encountered similar date problems in other biographies in the
“1882 history”, so I tend to believe the 1849 date. His first wife Nancy’s maiden name was
Kline.
Sarah Winder Prough Sidener was born 17dec 1789 and died 19 Dec 1860. Her first marriage
was to George “Johan Jurg” Prough. (In some earlier documents he is listed as Brach,
before the family changed the name.) They were married on 8 Jul 1806 and had a son Peter
(18 July 1808) George died a week later 25 july 1808. She married Nicholas Sidener (Sr)
on 6 march 1825.
Peter Prough (Nicholas’s step brother) came to Indiana in 1832, eventually settling in
Emma (Eden Mills) Indiana. Since he and Nicolas Jr were close in age, He may be the reason
that Nicholas Jr moved out from Ohio.
Hope that helps.
Ken