SIZEMORE

TIDBITS

AS TOLD BY THE OLD ONES

Ezekiel Sizemore Jr., as told by his great-grandchildren:

  Zeke shot a security guard and killed him in I think it was Blackwood, Va.  He shot the man whom he had worked with for a while in the processing of robbing the place the guard was guarding. Zeke was desperate for the money to come home on and shooting the guard was a matter of life or death for himself to get out. Ezekiel Sizemore Jr. s/o Robert Sizemore/Loucinda Sizemore

Robert (Bob) Sizemore, as told by his grandchildren:

Robert and his brother were in jail in Whitley County, Ky.  There was this black man who kept spitting in their food.  Everytime their food was brought in the black guy would spit in all their food.  One day Bob had had enough, so him and another guy hanged the black guy right there in jail.  It was put down as a suicide and no one was the wiser.  Bob got away with it and so did the other guy.
This is the Robert Sizemore who married Mary Jane Sizemore s/o Ezekiel Sizemore Jr. 

EZEKIEL SIZEMORE JR. As told by his grandchildren and children. 

His grandchildren had heard down the line that Zeke Jr. was actually a Collins raised by Pleasant and Mary Sizemore.  His children say though that it wasn't Zeke Jr. but his dad Robert Sizemore who was raised by his grandparents Pleasant and Mary Ann Sizemore.  Robert's mother was suppose to have been their daughter and his father a Collins.  NOTE: Census files may back up the Zeke's children view that it was Robert who was the Collins.  This Robert was born many years after the last child before him listed on the census.  It is not yet proven though.  One of Robert's grandchildren from his second wife remembers her grandmother telling her about her half-brother Zeke and taking her to see him.  So this proves along with the fact that we found a marriage record for Robert and Loucinda Sizemore (Zeke Jr.'s mother) dated 1884.  Zeke Jr. was born in 1885.  His father Robert re-married after his mother Loucinda died very early according to family stories in childbirth.  But, because of his birth year being 1885 and the 1890 census being destroyed we have not been able to determine exactly who raised Ezekiel Sizemore Jr. We did not however find him in the home of Pleasant and Mary Ann.  Nor did we find him in any other census as of yet as a child. 

This Story is yet to be proven by anyone.  I put it here because I believe that "Where there is smoke there is always fire."  It is my belief that all stories hold a grain of truth at least.  In any case this is an interesting story even if none of it is true.   Also this story was taken from the book called "The Rugged Trails of Appalachia" by Mary Brewer.  This tidbit was generously provided by:
Pam Powell:  [email protected]

When Kentucky was first being settled, emigrants from either North Carolina or Tennessee, headed by a
man named Cornett, reached the Kentucky River late one evening. They decided to camp and wait until
daylight before crossing the river. They had wives, children, livestock and equipment with them. After supper
they were sitting around their campfire talking, when suddenly Indians dashed into camp and captured two
of the girls. Three of the white men saddled horses and went after the Indians. Late in the night they caught
up with the Indians, who were not expecting pursuit and had made camp.  The men advanced near enough
to see the girls asleep on pallets near the fire. Each man agreed to dash in and grab one of the girls. This
they did and got away without a fight. When they came to their camp the men discovered that they had also
captured a little Indian girl. The next morning, after crossin the river, the emigrants decided to keep the Indian
girl. Mr. Cornett agreed to take her and raise her.  In the meantime, in another part of the area, the Cherokee Indians had also captured a white girl. One Indian Chief, seeing her beauty, became desirous of possessing her for his own, and took her into his teepee. However, his love was short-lived, for the girl's brothers made pursuit and brought the girl back to her own people, but under her heart she carried the child of the Indian Chief. This child was given the name of George All Sizemore.  (Information from Pleasie Woods, deceased.)
When George All grew to manhood he married the Indian girl whom Mr. Cornett had raised. George All and Agnes Shepherd thus became the progenitors of the Leslie County Sizemores.  Shepherd was Agnes' Indian name. She was sometomes called Shepherd and sometimes Cornett.

Resources are from the diary of Rhoda Sizemore, and Clay County Ancestral News, article

George All Sizemore being a prize fighter, and killed Willam Twitty in a fight.

George tended the man tearfully telling him it was not personal that he had nothing against him.

George was a large hairy man.

George Golden Hawk Sizemore is reputed to have fathered approximately 55 children, 1st wife, Sarah Sallie Sizemore
                  2nd wife Mary Ann Womack
                  3rd wife Althea Ally Jendo Richardson
                  4th wife Annie Elizabeth Hart

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