If you could get CYJ to chime in on this one I would say he would be the resident expert.

Like all pedigrees, they have to be taken with a grain of salt.

(copied the below form another board)

The Stidham blood was well known in the hills of NC. It goes back to solid Hemphill and Really the old red dogs. I loved all the guys from those mountains and Stidham may not been a house hold name but he was a serious breeder....If you look on my Panther's pedigree...his sire Monzon was down from the same blood as Jocko....which is why I tried to secure this blood from Fletcher ...before he was sold. There were several men that utilized that blood...Cable, Long, Hughes and Crebbs...Calvin Crebbs may have been the best dogman I ever met and nearly nobody knows him at all. He was an elderly black gentleman that was a serious chicken man also. He had trouble reading and writing thus he never registered any dogs. He was nuts about gameness and when he rolled a dog after it was schooled out it was either a keeper or gone period. All his dogs came from Long and Stidham as did Cables....Mr Crebbs would sell dogs to many of the SC and Georgia dogmen with no papers....and he said he never heard from them again. He said that Red Boy was from his yard and bred similar to Jocko's dam....maybe the Red Boy Jocko cross was actually line bred? Anyway check the ped of Haney's Gr Ch Little Roy out of Longs female...sister to panther's grand dam.....all those dogs foundation was from deep game dogs from serious men not peddlers. Remember there was not much money in dogs in those days and what you had had to pass the grade because most of those men bet on their own stuff. I am glad someone ask about that blood as it was special and rare. Panther 's sire Monzon was from the same group and he was dead game which I think was the main reason my Zebo dogs had much more heart than most of the other strains....and for me...I learned from those wise old men....the cornerstone of all lines has to be gameness I was just lucky enough to have produced one of the hardest mouth dogs in pit history - Panther - and he was full of those dead game genes, much like what george Long did with using Duke, son of Andy over top those Stidham dogs....I still have it 40 years later and I dont let much out....mainly because most dont appreciate the real effort that went into securing a solid line of dogs....sorry to ramble but I hope I answered your question....Crebbs, cable, Long , Hughes, Morris....knew what Stidham had...and used it accordingly