George Edward (All) Sisemore
- Born: Abt 1751, Wilkes County, North Carolina
- Marriage (1): Agnes Shepherd-Cornet about 1771 in Shenandoah County, Virginia
- Marriage (2): Anna (Aruna) Elzabeth Hart in 1770 in Rowan Co., NC
- Died: Abt 1822, Clay County, Kentucky about age 71
General Notes:
Birth: 1751 in Ireland ?
Immigration: DEC 1801 KY Birth: 1751 in Ireland ? Immigration: DEC 1801 KY//When Kentucky was first being settled, the Cherokee Indians had 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 George All Sizemore. (Information from Pleasie Woods (deceased).) Rugged Trails of Appalachia by Mary T. Brewer. p131-132.
Children of GEORGE SIZEMORE and AGNES SHEPHERD are: i. RUTH3 SIZEMORE, m. JOHN JONES. ii. SALLY ANN SIZEMORE, b. 1770, Clay County, Kentucky. iii. WINFRED WINNIE SIZEMORE, b. 1772; d. September 20, 1855, Perry County, Kentucky; m. WILLIAM BEGLEY; b. 1771, Virginia; d. 1852, Perry County, Kentucky. Notes for WINFRED WINNIE SIZEMORE: Quoted interview with Felix T. Begley, Bull Creek, KY, 27 March 1898. "My grandmother was Minny (Winnie) Sizemore. She was a daughter of "Old George All" Sizemore, who came with my grandfather William Begley from Hawkins County, Tennessee. He had sons as follows: Henry, John, Ned, and George; Minny (William Begley), Rhoda (Roberts), Ruth (John Jones), and Susan (Bolling). .... Sizemore is a Cherokee Indian name. He is said to be half or more Indian...." 3. iv. ROCKHOUSE JOHN SIZEMORE, b. Abt. 1776, Tennesse; d. 1850, Perry County, Kentucky. 4. v. GEORGE GOLDEN HAWK SIZEMORE, b. 1781; d. May 06, 1864. 5. vi. RHODA SIZEMORE, b. 1783, Virginia; d. Perry County, Kentucky. 6. vii. SUSAN SIZEMORE, b. 1784, Virginia; d. Bef. 1848. 7. viii. HENRY HUNTING SHIRT SIZEMORE, b. 1790. 8. ix. EDWARD SIZEMORE, b. 1778, Shenandoah, Page, Virginia; d. November 27, 1856, Clay County, Kentucky.
George All Sizemore was an Indian kidnapped by mistake about 1750 and raised by a family named Cornett. Yes, George All Sizemore was the grandson of William Efraim and Winifred Greene Sizemore.
The story goes that George was named All by his mother to remind him that he was all indian.
Here is how the line goes.
William Efraim Sizemore + Winifred Greene Son- Edward Ned Sizemore + Elizabeth Rachel Jackson
Edward Ned Sizemore + Elizabeth Rachel Jackson Son- George All Sizemore + Agness ( Aggie ) Shepherd
George All Size + Agness Shepherd Son- Edward Ned Sizemore + Louanna Bowling
The story goes that George All Sizemore's mother was taken to the indian camp, when she was rescued and returned to husband Edward Sizemore, she had this child George All Sizemore, supposedly the son of a Indian Chief.
George was given the name of Sizemore , thus the reason for the name of All to remind him he was all indian.
George's mother, Elizabeth was the daughter of Chief Bear Hart alias William Jackson, a white name taken by Chief Bear Hart.
Noted as a preacher and reverend. The ancestor of most of the Whitetop Band of Cherokee, as told in the following story. This is from an old article in "The Plow" written by Danny Miller, entitled "The Blevins Family--Early Settlers at Whitetop, The Descendents of Old Ned Sizemore". "About 1774 James Blevins married Lydia Sizemore, daughter of a full blooded Cherokee Indian. Edward (Old Ned) Sizemore. James and Lydia may have resided for a time in the Laurel Springs area of Ashe County, near Cranberry, since this is where the Sizemores lived. James and Lydia, however, moved at sometime to the Whitetop area in Grayson County, where they lived until their deaths and where many of their descendants still live." "The Sizemore family connections with the Blevinses and other large families in this area (the Harts, Osbornes, Stampers, and Millers, to name a few) are fascinating. In the early 1900's, the federal government instituted a program to reimburse descendants of the Cherokee for the lands taken away from them in the Great Smoky Mountains when the Cherokee Nation was forced to move westward. At this time also--in the late 1800's and early 1900's--all of the Sizemore descendants in the Ashe-Grayson area, having as always claimed Cherokee Indian blood, formed an organization known as the Whitetop Band of Cherokee Indians in order to demand the rights of the group in a formal body. At the formation of the organization there were over two thousand members, all Sizemore descendants. William H. Blevins, son of Armstrong Blevins, and grandson of Lydia Sizemore Blevins, was elected "Chief" of this Band and worked to procure the government's reimbursement for the Sizemore claimants."
"In 1908, the federal government's Special Commission Court of Claims began to take testimony from the Sizemore descendants reguarding their Indian blood in order to establish grounds for the disbursement of money. These testimonial affidavits are filled with wonderful information about the Sizemores and Blevins families. Most of the people were in their sixties or older, and thus would have been born in the 1850's or earlier. Celia Hart for example, testifying at Wessels, NC, stated: "I am 73 years of age, and live in Ashe Co., NC, and claim Indian blood through my father Wells Blevins..He died about 40 years ago. He moved from below the Blue Ridge in Wilkes County as a boy, but was born in Ashe County. Wells Blevins was a son of Jim Blevins who married Lydia Sizemore, a daughter of Ned Sizemore...I have seen Ned Sizemore, and have seen Lydia Sizemore..She was a red-faced woman with dark hair....My grandmother's father was always called a full blooded Indian. He was left when they drove him out.""
"Frances M. Woody, age 82, in 1908, described Old Ned Sizemore as "a great big-boned fellow. His hair was long and straight, he had a beard, and his complexion was dark, and he had high cheekbones..Old Ned Sizemore's wife claimed to be a white woman. I believe she was a Blevins.""
"Despite the efforts of the Whitetop Band of the Cherokee Indians, however, the Sizemore claims were all rejected by the federal government on the grounds that it did not appear "THAT ANY ON THE CLAIMANTS OR THEIR IMMEDIATE ANCESTORS EVER LIVED AS INDIANS WITH THE CHEROKEE NATION OR WITH THE EASTERN CHEROKEES". Old Ned Sizemore, however, was undoubtably a Cherokee, although he was not living with the Indian Nation when they were forced on their "Trail of Tears"......"
Sizemore is a Cherokee Indian name. He is said to by half or more Indian. The Sizemores are very numerous in the mountains. The Sizemores settled first on Middle Fork, the went to Clay, Floyd and other Counties."
George All and Aggie settled in what is now Leslie County, owning most of the land opposite the town site of Hyden. This land was later owned by son John (Rockhouse) and wife, Nancy who built the first home in this section now known as Hyden. In 1842 John sold the property to James Lewis. @HI20@
Noted events in his life were:
• Immigration:, Dec 1801, KY.
George married Agnes Shepherd-Cornet about 1771 in Shenandoah County, Virginia. (Agnes Shepherd-Cornet was born about 1754 in Cherokee Nation, North Carolina and died about 1833 in Clay County, Kentucky.)
George next married Anna (Aruna) Elzabeth Hart in 1770 in Rowan Co., NC. (Anna (Aruna) Elzabeth Hart was born about 1750 in Logan, VA.)
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