SOURCE: 1810 Ashe Co., North Carolina census; 1830, 1840, 1850 Lee Co., Virginia census; 1860 Wise Co., Virginia census; 1870 Wise Co., Virginia census (enumerated with son, James).

SOURCE: 1830 Lee Co, Virginia census (p. 320).

SOURCE: "The Lineage of the Boone Co., Missouri Stidham Family," Jacob H. Stidham.

RES: 1814, Virginia (Blackwood); lived on Cane Patch Creek, a tributary of the Powell River (Lee Co., now Wise Co.).

In a 1816, David Stidham, Beales Davis, and William Wells petitioned the Scott Co., Virginia court to reestablish the line of Scott County so as to leave them in Lee County. They lived on the Powell River in what later became Wise County.

Although David died in Wise Co., Virginia (formed in 1856), he probably had never moved from the original home place along the Powell River Valley a few miles down river from Norton, Virginia.

His log house was located on Rt. 23 leading from Norton to Appalachia and opposite the Blackwood Coal Co. He was living there in 1817 when he and William Wells and Beals Davis asked that the line of Scott County be relocated so as to leave them in Lee County. - SOURCE: "Adam Stidham Settlement" http://shadybanks.net/Wise2/AdamStidhamES.html

1860 Wise County census. 12 Aug 1860
Post Office, Wise C. H, Va
(Roaring Fork Branch)
HouseHold # 478
Stidham, David- age 37, M, born Va, Farmer 300/160 [415]
Anna 31, F, Va, Housekeeping
Martin 15, M, Va
Adam 12, M, Va
Jeremiah 10, M, Va
Margaret 7, F, Va
Abagail 4, F, Va
Joseph 3, M, Va
Franklin 1/12, M, Va

HH # 479
Wells, Mahal, age 38, M, born Va, Framer 500/35
Lavina, 36, F, Va, Housekeeping [403a]
Ira, 19, M, Va
Mary J, 15, F, Va
Rebecca A 12, F, Va
Abagail, 9, F, Va
Jeremiah 5, M, Va
Benjamin F, 4, M, Va
Zachariah, 2, M, Va
Wells, Rebecca, age 81, F, born NC

HH #480
Stidham, David, age 74, M, born SC, Farmer, 0/60 [281]
Rebecca, 73, F, NC

SOURCE: 1870 Wise Co., Virginia census (Gladeville, hse 185/184).--enumerated with his son, James Stidham.

• Married: ABT 1804

1. son [401b] STIDHAM b: ABT 1803
2. James [402] STIDHAM b: 1803 in ,Ashe County,North Carolina
3. Samuel [403] STIDHAM b: ABT 1806 in ,Ashe County,North Carolina
4. William Preston [404] STIDHAM challenged b: ABT 1823 in ,,Virginia
5. Lavina [403a] STIDHAM b: ABT 1824 in Virginia