Minnie Kidd Wells

My paternal great-grandmothers origins and parents are still unknown. The paper trail of her life consists of two documents, her marriage and death certificates.  

Family oral tradition states that she was an abandoned and/or orphaned Native American child but I think otherwise.

She married Doug (Bud) Wells in Lamar County Alabama in 1893. Census records list her year of birth as about 1880. Haywood Kidd gives consent as her father for 13 year old Minnie to wed.

     Family oral tradition names her siblings as: Arthur Culp b. 1882 AL.,John Culp/Kolb b. 1861, MS.
Deana Culp/Kolb b.uknown and Claude Kidd b. May 1879 AL.

     Her death certificate furthur complicates matters. Her "brother" Claude Kidd lists her father as Nelson Culpt!  He is on the 1870 and 1880 census for Sanford (later Lamar) County Alabama but there is no child in the house that could be Minnie. Nelson has a wife Susan and a daughter Elsa or Ella born about 1858. There is an Ella Kidd on 1880 census with the Nelson Kolb household who is the mother of Claude and his brother James. On Minnie Kidds death certificate Minnie Kidd is listed where mothers name belongs. An error, I think.  From her 1893 marriage to her death in 1934 Minnie was the wife of Bud Wells and mother of Rosina, Tezzie, Clemmie, Crenzy, Ghemma, Inez, Pearlie and Girlie, Joe, Cheek,Lela, Era and Zera Wells. A family antedote is that she died in one year and was buried the next in that she died after Christmas and was buried after New Years Day.

     I think that Nelson Culpt was her grandfather and Haywood Kidd her stepfather. Nelson Culpt/Kolb was born about 1835.Haywood Kidd was born in 1838. Haywood Kidd was married 3 times. First to Sarah Betts in 1868, Elvy or Slvy Sykes in 1872 and lastly to an  Ellen/ or Ella Smithson in 1880. I could not locate any African American Smithsons in Lamar County on census files. I think the Culps/Kolbs were relatives and that Ella/Elsa/Ellen is possibly her mother. Are there any relatives out there who can shed light on this matter?

     Minnie lived in the areas of Lamar County called Military District and later the Moscow community. 
She is buried beside her husband Doug "Bud" Wells in the Wells Family Cemetery in Sulligent, Lamar County, Alabama.