Sidney Ambrose Greathouse 2 3 4
- Born: 13 Sep 1841, , Warren County, Kentucky 2 3 4
- Marriage: Demarius Josephine Strange on 27 Sep 1862 in , Warren County, Kentucky 1
- Died: Bef 1902
- Buried: Oakland -Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery, Warren County, Kentucky
 Details of his life include:
• He appeared on the 1850 U. S. Federal census in Second District, Warren County, Kentucky
The household of Samuel B. Greathouse
Sidney A, 9 m, b. KY
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• He appeared on the 1860 U. S. Federal census in Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky
In the household of Saml Greathouse,
Sidney, 18 M, laborer, KY
4
• Sidney Ambrose Greathouse [663] Resided: 1862, in Old Polkville Rd., Warren County, Kentucky. 5
This log residence, off Highway 68 on the old Polkville Road, was for fifty years the home of Miss Lois Greathouse, of Smiths Grove. Her grandfather purchased the property from John Gaines. The grandfather was Sidney A. Greathouse and Grandmother Josephine Strange Greathouse, a daughter of William Strange and his wife who was a Miss Davis. They bought the property in 1862 when the house was an unfinished one room log structure and added other rooms and an ell. After Lois Greathouse left the residence it was occupied by her brother and his family.
Sidney A., and Josephine Strange Greathouse had three children, Perry Andrew, Drillie B., and Joseph Edgar Greathouse.
Inside the house is typical of the times with hugh fireplace, closed stairway to upstairs bedrooms and wide plank floors. There is a pond nearby for stock and a family graveyard not far away.
Sidney A. Greathouse was a son of Samuel (1812-1881) and Mary Arnold Greathouse.
Samuel is buried on the Ernest Rector farm on the Polkville Road. The property is presently owned by Howard Pearson.
• He appeared on the 1880 U. S. Federal census in , Warren County, Kentucky
Supervisors Dist 2, Enumeration Dist 237, page 23
Greathoue, S. A., WM 39, farmer, Warren, Warren, Warren
J., FW 38, wife, housekeeper, KY, KY, KY
P. A. , WM 16, son, farmer, Warren, Warren, KY
D. B. WF 14, daughter, house keeper, ", ", "
J. E., WM 9 , son, ", ", " 6
Sidney married Demarius Josephine Strange, daughter of William Alloway Strange and Demarius Davis, on 27 Sep 1862 in , Warren County, Kentucky.1 (Demarius Josephine Strange was born on 3 Apr 1842 in , , Kentucky and died on 26 Dec 1935 in Oakland, Warren County, Kentucky.)
Items of interest in their marriage were:
• Alt. Marriage: 26 Mar 1862.
• Alt Marriage: 7 Oct 1863.
• Alt Marriage: 7 Oct 1863, , Warren County, Kentucky.
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