Sidney was born about 1823 in White Co., Tennessee. She was the daughter of Jesse Dodson and Sarah Yates.
In February, 1849 she married Moses Josiah Prater. On the 1850 census, Moses and Malinda were living beside Moses's parents and had a six-month-old infant, Elizabeth. They went on to have a dozen children.
Sydney Malinda died in 1876. Moses died in 1892. They were buried at Graveyard Ridge Cemetery, Van Buren, Tn.
Sources
Tennessee marriage record: Moses Prater and Malinda Dodson, 21 Feb 1849, White, Tn. Record & image at Ancestry.com.
1850 U.S. Census, White, Tennessee. Record and image at FamilySearch. Moses Prater household. Name age birthplace: Moses Prater 27 Tn, Malinda 26 Tn, Elizabeth 6 mo Tn. Moses’s parents and family are next door.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Sidney by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Sidney: