Posted by Natalie
on 4/26/2004, 1:51 pm
64.12.116.203
Hi all.
I have a booklet, 44 pages of Sizemore history. This was written by Aura Hess Sizemore born July 19, 1909 in Buckhannon County, VA. Son of Harvey & Carmittee Sparks Sizemore. Married Elizabeth Ellen Lawson, daughter of Eustice & Jennie Bellamy Lawson, of Welch,West VA. (formerly Logan County.)My grandmom's dad was John Herbert Sizemore. I have already found one relation from this :>), would love to find more!!! I'm not sure how "we' began, but read on it's a cool "legend or story" take it how you please. I will be HAPPY to send copies to anyone interested.
******"SOME TIME DURING THE EARLY 1700'S, WHILE THE WHITE MEN WERE BUYING THE LAND FROM THE RED MEN AND THE RED MEN WERE FIGHTING THE WHITE MEN TO PROTECT THEIR INHERITANCE RIGHTS OF THE LAND ON WHICH THEY LIVED.THE NAME LIZEMORE, SIZEMOUR, SISEMORE, SIXIMORE, OR SIZEMORE CAME INTO BEING AS LEGENDS AND RECORDS HAVE IT.****
"THE WORD OF MOUTH LEGENDS AND STORIES HANDED DOWN,HAVE IT THAT AT ONE TIME THERE WAS A TRIBE OF INDIANS BY THE NAME OF SIZEMORE. THE TRIBE MAY HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE GROUP OF CHEROKEES, WHOSE HOMES WERE IN GA., EAST TENN., AND N.C. THIS TRIBE WAS ON OF THE LARGEST AND STRONGEST TRIBES OF INDIANS. IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ONE OF A TRIBE OF SHAWNEE, DELAWARES OR NINGOS WHO CLAIMED THIS SECTION NORTH OF THE GREAT KAKAWHA RIVER AND WEST OF THE ALLEGHENY MTNS., WHO DEFENDED THEIR POSSESSIONS AS THEIR RIGHT OF INHERITANCE."*****
KEEP READING!!!
"THIS LEGEND CONTINUES WITH THE STORY OF A MARRIED WOMAN MOTHER OF 3 CHILDREN(NO NAMES GIVEN)FALLING IN LOVE W/ A MAN BY THE NAME OF WHITE, WHO WAS ALSO MARRIED. THE WOMAN'S HUSBAND WAS FOUND MURDERED AND WHITE WAS ACCUSED OF MURDERING HIM BECAUSE OF THE INCONVENIENCE OF MAKING LOVE TO HIS WIFE WHILE HE WAS STILL ALIVE.
BY THE TIME THE MURDER HAD BEEN DISCOVERED, WHITE AND THE MURDERED MAN'S WIFE AND CHILDREN WERE ON THEIR WAY FROM N.C. INTO KENTUCKY, AND BEFORE THE OFFICERS COULD LOCATE THEM, THEY HAD MADE THEIR WAY ACROSS THE STATE LINE INTO WEST VA. WHICH WAS THEN VA. AFTER GETTING INTO WEST VA., THE OFFICERS LOST TRACE OF THEM, ALLOWING THEM TO SETTLE DOWN AND LIVE AS MAN AND WIFE WITH A NEW NAME, THAT OF SIZEMORE, WHICH WAS KNOWN TO WHITE, BECAUSE OF HIS ACQUAINTENCE WITH THE TRIBE OF INDIANS BY THAT NAME."
FOR THAT STORY, SORRY NO DATES WERE GIVEN, BUT NOW I CAN OFFER THIS AS 'FACT'...
"SOMEWHERE, WE SUSPECT IN N.C. ON MAY 9, 1799 A SON WAS BORN. THE SONS NAME WAS OWEN SIZEMORE. OWEN MARRIED REBECCA (NO LAST NAME GIVEN)BUT SHE WAS BORN JUNE 4, 1791. THEY HAD 4 CHILDREN: CHARLOTTIE, MARRIED 9/15/1839, ANDERSON, BORN 4/30/1820-MARRIED 2X 1ST TO MARY JANE PATON (FROM SCOTLAND) ( I DERIVE THRU ANDERSON AND MARY JANES LINE)THEY MARRIED ON MARCH 3, 1839, HE WAS 19. POLLY MARRIED MARCH 4, 1831 AND HIRAM MARRIED 2X 1DS TO VIRGINA DINKOUS HAD 7 KIDS THEN TO FRANCIS MORTON MARCH 11, 1829.THEY HAD 8 KIDS, 3 WE HAVE NAMES.
ANDERSON MARRIED MARY JANE AND THEY HAD 7 CHILDREN:
JOHN BORN JUNE 8, 1841
CHARLOTTIE BORN DEC. 16, 1842
DAVID BORN JUNE 8, 1843-NEVER MARRIED CAPTURED IN CIVIL WAS, DIED IN PRISON
CLEVELAND BORN JULY 27, 1845...(MY GREAT GREAT GRANDDAD)
SHADRICK BORN MARCH 16, 1848
FRANKLIN BORN FEB 14, 1852
HIRAM BORN APRIL 25, 1850
I HAVE TONS MORE INFO. LOOKING 4WARD TO HEARING FROM YOU.
NATALIE :>)
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