SIZEMORE DNA Fact

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OBJE:_META	<metadataxml><content><line><span style="font-size: 12px">Native American Indian Blood/DNA Results for Sizemore<div><div style="color: #777777; font-style: italic; margin-: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-: 0px; font-size: 11px">Added by&nbsp;zondu&nbsp;on 15 Sep 2007</div></div><p style="margin-: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-: 0px; line-height: 1.3; font-size: 13px">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-: 0px; line-height: 1.3; font-size: 13px">The results of James Sizemore&rsquo;s Y-STR test shocked many but simply confirmed what others in the family had known all along. Most Sizemores are&nbsp;<strong>Native American</strong>. Q3 is the only haplogroup exclusively associated with American Indians. Subsequently, three other Sizemores/Sisemores matched our subject and a large Sizemore Surname DNA Project was undertaken. This project found several distinct Sizemore lines, with the apparently largest being ours. James Sizemore traces his lineage back to a William Ephraim Sizemore born about 1700 who married Winifred Green<strong>,</strong>&nbsp;the daughter of Henry Green (whose will William Sizemore witnessed in 1761) and Elizabeth Griffin. According to family tradition, the family always lived on the frontier, which moved, beginning across the river from Jamestown in&nbsp;<strong>Surry County</strong>&nbsp;and later becoming fixed in&nbsp;<strong>Pittsylvania County</strong>, finally in&nbsp;<strong>Kentucky</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-: 0px; line-height: 1.3; font-size: 13px">Several years ago,&nbsp;<strong>Virginia Easley DeMarce</strong>, a professional genealogist, attempted in a long discussion paper on the Internet once and for all to lay to rest all claims of Indian blood by Sizemores (the pages have since been removed). In the same spirit, she attacked and dismissed&nbsp;<strong>Brent Kennedy&rsquo;s book The Melungeons</strong>&nbsp;(National Genealogy Society Quarterly Vol. 84, No. 2, June 1996). Sizemore family history is now in a state of great agitation.</p><p style="margin-: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-: 0px; line-height: 1.3; font-size: 13px">The big question is: What kind of Indian? My guess is&nbsp;<strong>Arawak</strong>&nbsp;or some other&nbsp;<strong>Caribbean India</strong>n. As&nbsp;<strong>Kennedy</strong>&nbsp;suggested, the first Sizemore in America was a&nbsp;<strong>Portuguese Jew</strong>&nbsp;and servant or slave on&nbsp;<strong>Barbados</strong>. SIZEMORE is cognate with Cismor and similar&nbsp;<strong>Jewish</strong>surnames. A related word is &ldquo;assize,&rdquo; which means tax or payment.&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-: 0px; line-height: 1.3; font-size: 13px">The surname does not occur in&nbsp;<strong>England&nbsp;</strong>except as the name of a merchant, likely a foreigner. I believe when the English liberated Barbados they freed certain slaves. One of them was a&nbsp;<strong>Creole&mdash;Indian&nbsp;</strong>mixed with black. He bore his master&rsquo;s name, a&nbsp;<strong>Portuguese Jew</strong>&nbsp;called Cismor. It is a little appreciated fact that Indian males were used to breed Negro slaves who would have greater heat resistance on the sugar plantations. Usually, the &ldquo;stud&rdquo; was actually himself the product of a mixed union of white and Indian.&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-: 0px; line-height: 1.3; font-size: 13px">A William Sismor and wife Martha were counted among the Living and the Dead in&nbsp;<strong>Virginia</strong>, 1623. He was identified as &quot;Negor.&quot; Famous members of the family have been George Goldenhawk Sizemore, George Chief of All Sizemore, John Gourd Sizemore, an Indian doctor, and Old Ned Sizemore. The Sizemores filed over 2,200 applications for the&nbsp;<strong>Eastern Cherokee Band</strong>&nbsp;in 1907, representing over 7,000 persons and filling the entire vol. 10 in the Guion-Miller depositions. In the late 1830&#39;s, Sizemores are said to have taken in&nbsp;<strong>Cherokees</strong>who escaped the&nbsp;<strong>Trail of Tears</strong>.&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-: 0px; line-height: 1.3; font-size: 13px">This is the point at which many may have literally become&nbsp;<strong>Cherokee</strong>. Momfeather, Chief Elder of the&nbsp;<strong>Southern Band of Cherokees</strong>informed me that Sizemore is a well-known&nbsp;<strong>Cherokee</strong>&nbsp;name and that the Sizemores and other Indian families in&nbsp;<strong>Eastern Kentucky</strong>were known as the&nbsp;<strong>Stick People</strong>. This name was given, according to legend because large piles of sticks high in the Appalachian ridges were used by Sizemores to hide numbers of&nbsp;<strong>Cherokees</strong>&nbsp;who escaped the horrible Trail of Tears in the1800&#39;s. Evidently they later mixed with these&nbsp;<strong>Cherokees</strong>, which may have been the founding of the&nbsp;<strong>Whitetop Laurel Band of Cherokees</strong>.</p><p style="margin-: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-: 0px; line-height: 1.3; font-size: 13px">Following is an excerpt from an article on the George All Sizemore and Aggy Shepard connection to the&nbsp;<strong>Creeks</strong>&nbsp;and the Whitetop Laurel Band of Cherokees. &quot;The marriage of George &quot;ALL&quot; Sizemore to Aggy Shepard originated from a raid of Indians on the white man&rsquo;s camp where they captured a white girl. In retaliation, the white men followed and rescued the girl and captured an Indian girl who was later given to a white family to raise (Aggy). Aggy is thought to have been a&nbsp;<strong>Creek Indian</strong>. George lived in both the white man&#39;s world, and the Whitetop Cherokee tribe throughout his life.&quot;</p><p style="margin-: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-: 0px; line-height: 1.3; font-size: 13px">The SIZEMORES intermarried with cousins by the name of GREEN, BLEVINS, JACKSON, HART, GREGORY, BOLLING, COOPER and ANDERSON.</p><p style="margin-: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-: 0px; line-height: 1.3; font-size: 13px">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-: 0px; line-height: 1.3; font-size: 13px">Source: http://www.melungeons.com/articles/melungeondnaproject.htm#Sisemores&nbsp;</p></span></line></content></metadataxml>
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Alive Dead Death>100 Death<=100 Birth>100 Birth<=100 Roots Leaves
Given names	Surname	Sosa	Birth		Place		Death		Age	Place	Last change
Edward Old Ned Tory Sizemore Edward Sizemore Edward Old Ned Tory Sizemore Sixkillers Edward 'Old Ned' (The Tory Sizemore) Sizemore (1\2 Cherokee #4451) Chief(dna) Edward Old Ned Wallace Sizemore (Cherokee) Edward Old Ned Wallace Sizemore (Cherokee) Father: Henry Sizemore Mother: Elizabeth Rhodes Father: William Ephraim Blackhawk Sizemore Mother: Winnifred Dorcas Green				1725 1725 before 1725	299	Wilkes, Ashe, North Carolina, United States McGrady, Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States of America Brunswick, Virginia, British Colonial America	5	1780 October 1780 July 13, 1790 July 13, 1790	244	55	Wilkes, Ashe, North Carolina, United States Rutherford County, North Carolina, USA Wilkes, Ashe, North Carolina, United States Wilkes County, Stokes, Pitt, North Carolina, USA	Never	M	YES	YES

Both alive Widower Widow Both dead Roots Leaves Not married Marriage>100 Marriage<=100 Divorce Multiple marriages
Given names	Surname	Age	Given names	Surname	Age	Marriage		Place		Last change