Born 1920s.
Ancestors 
Daughter of James Basil Kidd
and Pricie Evelyn (Case) Kidd
Sister of
Ola (Kidd) Collins, O C Kidd, Olof Kidd, [private sister (1930s - unknown)], Ellis B Kidd, RVon (Kidd) Rose and Oinbe Kidd
Descendants 
Mother of
Covon Parsons, Nolan Parsons, Bonnie (Parsons) Osborne, Kernie Parsons, Bernie Parsons, George Parsons Jr., Dwight Parsons and [private daughter (1950s - unknown)]
Died 1980s.
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Biography
Opal Kidd was born in an area known as Honaker, Floyd County, Kentucky, USA, located on Little Mud Creek. The exact area where she was born was once known as Big Branch, with right and left forks. Now, the right fork is known as Kidd Fork. Her grandfather, George Riley Kidd, was buried in his little one-room house at the head of Kidd Fork.
She married George Parsons, Senior, reared on what was then known as Left Fork of Big Branch, but now is merely Big Branch, Floyd County, Kentucky, USA.
They both attended Spruce Pine School on Little Mud Creek, Floyd County, Kentucky, USA. They walked from their respective homes to the school.
They first resided with Opal Kidd's grandfather, George Riley Kidd. They moved to Drift, Floyd County, Kentucky, living in four different places: Cow Hollow; across the creek by the cemetery; on what was known as the Busy Corner; and last, in a house that sat catty-corner behind the W. J. Turner building, which was attached to the Drift Theater building.
After a separation in 1961, Opal Kidd Parsons moved with her five youngest children to New London, Huron County, Ohio, USA, in June of 1962. She was enticed by her husband back to Martin, Floyd County, Kentucky, USA, in late November, 1964, where he divorced her soon after.
In 1969, she moved the family to Flatwoods, Greenup County, Kentucky, USA. There, she married Joseph "Joe" Harvey, who was her former brother-in-law until the death of his first spouse.
After two of the five remaining children married, in the summer of 1975 Opal Kidd Parsons Harvey moved with her second husband and three youngest children back to Big Branch, Floyd County, Kentucky, USA. In late 1977 they moved to Westwood, Boyd County, Kentucky, USA, where she lived until her death from a massive heart attack in 1986, leaving her husband widowed.
Her body was buried In the Bell Tower Section, Rose Hill Cemetery, Ashland, Boyd County, Kentucky, USA. Her second husband married again, and upon his death, his body was interred next to Opal Kidd Harvey's in Rose Hill Cemetery.
The above was written by her son, Bernie Parsons, on 09-24-2014.
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DNA Connections
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Opal by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
- Bernie Parsons
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Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup T2b6b
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50.00%
100.00%
Bernie Parsons :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A202945 [compare], Ancestry member Parsons_Kidd_Boy
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