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cowboy
08-15-2007, 09:07 AM
I would like to post this since there is alot of Sizemore descendants on this forum and i doubt if they were cherokee.


This document comes from my mother cherokee files they were
her people i was wondering if anybody knows who this William Sizemore was. I also have records of a Richard Blevins and Squire Blevins who married into this cherokee
line they were in the Wayne co Ky area but came down into
the cherokee nation and Richard married my 5th grandfather's sister that is how the Blevins got on the rolls.
GA. Gen. Soc. Quarterly Vol. 15, #3 Fall 1979
[info found in GA Murderers, Murders and Murder Victims 1832-1840 by Robert Scott Davis,Jr.]
Issued 14 Jan 1836
On 4 Jan. instant, WILLIAM SIZEMORE of Anderson Dist., SC was murdered in Franklin Co., GA by James WILKERSON of Franklin Co., WILKERSON is 50-60 yrs. old, dark skin, rather heavy made, round shouldered, and about 5 ft. 6 or 8 in. tall.

SC Marriages Vol.II 1735-1885 Implied in SC Law Reports by Barbara R. Langdon p.84:
Edward WILKINSON - Cootee (an Indian woman of the Cherokee Nation) living in 1818. Pendleton Dist.
[Vol.2 Nott & McCord's Law Reports pp.292-294]

And from Betty Willie, compiler, PENDLETON DISTRICT, S.C. DEEDS 1790-1806 (Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1982), 1.
DB.A pp.20-23: 6 Jan. 1789. Thomas JONES and BETSY JONES, his wife, of Ninety-Six Dist., S.C., planter, to Alexander DRUMGOOLE, merchant, for £50, 640 acres on First Creek, branch of Rocky River, granted to BETSY JONES, then BETSY WILKISON [sic JK], 2 May 1785. Wit: Noah PITTMAN, John BRINER, Louis D. MARTIN.
Signed: Thomas JONES and BETSY (or ELIZABETH) JONES.
John BRINER made oath 4 Jun. 1789 before Robert ANDERSON, J.P

Elizabeth Wilkerson Jones was my 5th grandmother James Wilkerson was her nephew Edward Wilkerson that married Cootee was her brother.

They were the children of Edward Wilkerson Sr. married Mollie Wolf at Keowee were Edward was the agent along with Stuart and Cameron 1760's.

Cowboy (Keeper of the Bow)

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cowboy
08-15-2007, 09:34 AM
1819Petition to Stop the Removal of White settlers from Cherokee Lan
ds - Sequatchie and Marion Counties, TN Residents of Indian Land in 1819 E
lisha Blevins, John Blevins, Jonathan Blevins, Jacob Meek, Henery Meek Ri
chard's name not mentioned. If he and Luke were still here, I wonder if t
hey were considered legal because of Richard's wife being Indian or part I
ndian, assuming he was already married to one of the Jones sisters)
1829Nickajack, AL from Cherokee Immigration Rolls 1817-1835 transcrib
ed by Jack Baker "We whose names are hereunto subscribed acknowledge th
at we have voluntarily enrolled ourselves as emigrants for the Arkansas Co
unty under the Treaty made between the United States and the Cheroke
es of Arkansas on the 6th of May 1828 and do hereby relinquish our right a
nd claim to all lands on the East side of the Mississippi River for lan
ds on the Arkansas and its tributary streams.....
Date: 9 Dec. 1829
# 127Richard Blevin5 in family
# 128Squire Blevin4 in family (a note in parenthesis below the na
me of SquireBlevin reads: (13 White children in Richard and Squire Blev
in families)

Are these Blevins connected to the Sizemore's if so should they not be mixed bloods they were on the 1803 i think Wayne Co. Ky tax rolls.

danricecote
08-15-2007, 10:32 AM
This is very interesting as I had thought the Sizemore family was Cherokee based on "Old Ned's" petition which was accepted by the feds. I believe Ned is brother to this William mentioned above.
I could not in good faith connect my Blevins to the Sizemores. Many gen-researchers showed my ancestor's father as one person but when I studied census, dates, times, households, etc., I found I could not agree with previous data - but due to other info am now "about to" take another look when I have time and resource.
I'm not sure the following link gives "Old Ned's" petition or not - but should link anyone to it - it's certainly available online.
And thanks for the info Cowboy!!
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~craingen/SIZEMORE1.html

danricecote
08-15-2007, 10:23 PM
Y'know, Cowboy, the more I look at the Sizemore and Blevins info - the more I'm thinking this is not the line(s) I'm referring to above - This tree looks more like an orchard - so, if my prior post does not apply, please forgive - ... Dan C

cowboy
08-16-2007, 08:27 AM
Dan that's alright tracking the Blevins is like a forest i would like for somebody to know something about the Richard and Squire that i posted.

Since you have a Blevins connections i suggest you contact Betty Renfroe at Betty brenfroe@cswnet.com and visit her site she as alot on these Blevins she is a Powell at of that Ky and Tenn. area.

granny8
08-16-2007, 08:37 AM
Cowboy, where is her site? I am kin to the Powells and one of the Blevins married a Mathews that is my kin. Thank you. Darlene

danricecote
08-16-2007, 08:45 AM
Dan that's alright tracking the Blevins is like a forest i would like for somebody to know something about the Richard and Squire that i posted.

Since you have a Blevins connections i suggest you contact Betty Renfroe at Betty brenfroe@cswnet.com and visit her site she as alot on these Blevins she is a Powell at of that Ky and Tenn. area.

Thanks Cowboy.
I took the liberty of posting your post (ID not included) on a gensite where I know of Sizemore decendants - hoping for a response. Hope you don't mind that. I'll certainly send it your way if it comes.
And I will check out the link. This'll be fun - my second "Orchard" this year (first was the Adkins/Coleman farms).

Granny 8 - ... knoblands?? I like that!

granny8
08-16-2007, 01:54 PM
Dan , that is really what it is called here in Ky. I have hills in front of me ,hills on both sides and hills be hind me.If I go someplace that is flat I feel unprotected. From what...I don't know! LOL