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Sidney E. Bills

b. 1824

Life

8 Sep 1824Born

Records & Research

Sidney E. Bills was born September 8, 1824, the child of Chester Bills (1791-1845) and Mary Day (1790-1852), per the 2006 family report. No public record could be found that independently confirms or adds to these facts: searches of FindAGrave, FamilySearch, WikiTree, BillionGraves, and the dav4is RootsWeb Bill-family genealogy returned no citable match identifiable as this person by multiple anchors. The death, burial, and place of birth remain unknown. A surname-only lead ('Sidney S. Bills' of Lebanon, Madison County, NY) was investigated and rejected (see open questions): the FindAGrave memorial that names him was fetched and verified to give a different middle initial (S, not E), no birth year, and no parents matching Chester Bills / Mary Day, so it shares zero independent anchors with this person.

No additional public records have been confirmed yet — only what the family report records.

Open questions (6)
  • No death date, death place, or burial location could be found for Sidney E. Bills.
  • Birth place is unknown; given parents' dates (Chester Bills 1791-1845, Mary Day 1790-1852) the family was likely in New England or New York, but no record confirms this.
  • A possible-but-unconfirmed lead was REJECTED on identity: 'Sidney S. Bills' (middle initial S, not E; died 1907; married Virtue R. Barber, b.1820) of Lebanon, Madison County, New York, was the father of Perley Chester Bills (1856-1899) per a FindAGrave memorial (findagrave.com/memorial/70350204). I fetched and verified that memorial: it gives Sidney S. Bills NO birth year, names NO parents (so cannot be matched to Chester Bills / Mary Day), and the middle initial conflicts (S vs E). The only points in common are the surname 'Bills' and the appearance of 'Chester' in a grandson's name (Perley CHESTER Bills) — 'Chester' was a very common given name and is not an independent anchor. Zero matching anchors; identity is NOT established and the match is correctly rejected.
  • A FindAGrave search for 'Sidney Bills' born 1824 +/- 4 years in New York returned NO matches, indicating no FindAGrave memorial currently records a Sidney Bills with a birth year near 1824 in NY.
  • The dav4is RootsWeb Bill-family outline-descent-tree genealogy (149 'Bill/Bills folks') contains no Sidney Bills, no Chester Bills, and no Mary Day, so this person is not part of that documented Bill family.
  • The surname may appear as 'Bill' (singular) rather than 'Bills' in some records; further work on the Day family (Mary Day 1790-1852) and on Chester Bills (1791-1845) probate/census records may surface Sidney as a named child, including a sex (currently unknown).
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Ancestry

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Sidney E. Bills b. 1824
father Chester Bills 1791–1845
father Daniel Bills
mother Abigail
mother Mary Day 1790–1852