OCCUPATION: woodsman and farmer most of life in NE Ark. and bootheel of MO; musician.

SOURCE: 1930 Craighead Co., Arkansas census (Buffalo)

SOURCE: Roy Stidham of Las Vegas, Nevada; Ollie Cleveland & Bobbie Stidham of Oakview California, family group sheets entitled "William Riley Stidham," July
20, 1998.

HOBBIES: played fiddle

SOURCE: Maye [2592] Stidham Shaw of Vallient, Oklahoma, letters to OEJS dated Jan 1978 and 14 February 1978.

RES: Edd left Tuckerman, Arkansas for Indian Territory with his father when Edd was 5 years old. He never sawhis twin sisters,or his half sister, Ida Hartwick Abernathy, for 31 years. ref. Mrs. Edward Cleveland (Minnie) [2581] Stidham of Oceola, Arkansas, letter to OEJS dated April 1978.

RES: Edd and Minnie moved 1950, Gobler, Missouri; 1951, Evening Star, Arkansas;1955, Paragould, Arkansas; 1978, Blythsville, Ark; Osceola, Arkansas. Also lived in California (1944), Hornersville, Missouri; St. Louis, Missouri; Kennet, Missouri; Hugo, Oklahoma; Valliant, Oklahoma (1934). Settled in Arkansas in 1949 and stayed. - ref. Mrs. Edward Cleveland (Minnie) [2581] Stidham of Oceola, Arkansas, letter to OEJS dated 10 Jul 1978, wherein she wrote: "[Edd'e dad] and Edd were the same chip off of the same old block. Whatever they wanted to do they done it. One day Edd come to the house. We were picking cotton. He said to me get ready pack everything you will need the worst. We are going to Oklahoma 3 hundred miles away. Se we went out to Valliant, Oklahoma. We were back in Arkansas in a years time. That was October. I came back the coming September 1935. We went out there in 1934. Boy we really went. We went to California in June 1944. Came back 3 times. In 1948 we came to Oklahoma. Came back to Arkansas January 4th 1949. Been in Arkansas ever since. Rolling stone gather no moss, so we have no moss."

MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: Ollie Cleveland Stidham of Osceola, Arkansas, letter to OEJS dated 24 Nov 1996 with attached family chart for Edward Cleveland Stidham.

PHOTOGRAPHS

• Married: 18 May 1907 in Wewoka,Seminole Co.,Indian Territory

1. William Harrison [5103] STIDHAM b: 2 Apr 1909 in Weleetka,Okfuskee Co.,Oklahoma
2. Burtus Leroy "Bert" [5104] STIDHAM b: 26 Aug 1911 in Holdenville,Hughes Co.,Oklahoma
3. Ollie Cleveland [5105] STIDHAM b: 8 Feb 1919 in Rufe,,Oklahoma
4. Vestel Eugene [5106] STIDHAM b: 1 Jan 1922 in Tuckerman,Jackson Co.,Arkansas

• Married: 1924 in Cardwell,Dunklin Co., Missouri

1. Edward Zanual [5107] STIDHAM b: 1 Jun 1924 in Cardwell,Dunklin Co., Missouri