THE SYKES FAMILY IS FROM ALABAMA.THE WAID FAMILY IS FROM WALKER ALABAMA I HAVE TRACE THERE ROOTS ALL  THE BACK TO ENGLAND.ALSO OUR GREAT GRANDMA MANDY WAID [KEY] WHO MARRIED OUR GREAT GRANDPA JAMES  HAMPTON WAID I HAVE   TRACED HER FAMILY ROOTS ALL THE BACK TO THE 15 HUNDRENS IN YORKSHIRE ENGLAND.  OUR GREAT GRANDPA JAMES HAMPTON WAID WAS ALSO IN THE MILITARY HIS WAS A PVT IN THE CONFEDERATE STATE  ARMY CIVIL WAR.SILAS WAID GREAT GRANDPA ON HIS MOMS SIDE WAS A DOCTOR HIS NAME WAS DOCK CLIFTON KEY HE  ALSO WAS IN ARMY ON APRIL 1,1863 HE FOULT AT THE BATTLE AT CHICKAUGA WHERE HIS WAS WOUNDED AND  CAPTURED THEY TOOK HIM TO CAMP DOUGHAS PRISON IN CHICAGO ILL.IN NOV 1863 HE DIED FROM CHRONIC DIARRHEA  WHILE HE WAS THERE ON FEB 14,1865. HE DIED PRISONOR OF THE CIVIL WAR. I ALSO FOUND OUT THAT OUR  GRANDMAS IDA BELLE WAID [GARRETT ] BROTHER WILLIAM POE GARRETT MARRIED OUR GRANDPA SILAS WAID OLDEST  SISTER SOLENA WAID.                                                                I HAVE MORE TO POST SOON.             ANGIE