John Sidle
Among the Pennsylvanians who immigrated to Ohio, and assisted in the development of Holmes County, may be mentioned Philip and Mary (Frysinger) Sidle, who came with their family about 1824 and settled in Wayne County, near the present village of Lebanon. They bought forty acres of land, afterward adding twenty acres to it, and at one time they owned 160 acres in Stark County, and the same quantity in Holmes County. While the husband was felling the trees and preparing the soil for tillage, the wife was, in addition to attending to the wants of her household, weaving, and together they accumulated property and became prosperous. The husband died in 1874, aged eighty years, and the wife when aged seventy-nine years. They had a family of six children: John, Leah, Sarah, Mary, Lavina and Catherine.
John Sidle was born in York County, Penn., in 1822. His life was spent in Wayne County, Ohio, assisting his father on the farm, until his twenty-sixth year; he then came to Holmes County, and located on land bought by his father, which he improved and made his home until 1882, when he retired from the active labors of the farm, and now resides in the village of Shreve. Mr. Sidle was married in 1847 to Rebecca Watson, who died leaving two children: William and Franklin; he afterward married Jane, daughter of John and Fanny (Singer) Donelly, formerly of Lancaster County, Penn., and later of Holmes and Wayne Counties, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Sidle have two sons: Reuben J. and Philip S. Reuben J. is a successful farmer, and owns 200 acres of valuable land in Ripley Township, Holmes County; he married Millie Jane Vance, and has three children: Mina Jane, Jessie May and Sophronia. Philip S. married Louisa Bushey and has four children: Blanche, Pearl, Esther and Roscoe; he owns 203 acres of land in Prairie Township, Holmes County, and is a successful farmer. Mr. Sidle and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he is a Democrat.
From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Wayne and Holmes, Ohio, J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1889