Born in Tennessee according to the book “The Sizemore Family of Eastern Kentucky”. (SV-1839.22)
Sizemore DNA participant #3829 is a direct descendant. His DNA matches participant #0000 and indicates 90% native American. (SV-1035)
Sharon Joers says he was born in North Carolina. (SV-518)
Sizemore DNA particpant #3829 says he was born in North Carolina in1776. (SV-1035)
No Sizemore purchased a land grant from VA for land in KY from 1782 to 1792 (SV-303 pg 1046)
1733-1831 No Sizemore married in Montgomery or Fincastle Co., VA. (SV-892)
1778-1841: No Sizemore bought or sold land in Washington Co., VA. (SV-889)
1810 Census: Is this his family or brother John living in Clay Co., KY ID no. 5776 (SV-130) ??
Is this him?? 1810 Clay Co. census married with son & daughter (SV-298 pg 5)
1817 Moved to the Hyden area from North Carolina. (SV-51 & SV-310)
Settled at the mouth of Rock House Creek. First to settle in what is now Hyden, KY (SV-52 & SV-1839.22
Dickey Diary interview of Abijah Gilbert (S/O John & Mary): “When my father (John Gilbert) came to Clay County there was plenty of buffalo, elk and deer. His wife was Mary Bowling. She had brothers, Eli, William, John, Levi, sisters Nancy (m. John Sizemore), her son William lived with my father. He gave him a farm on Middlefork on Rockhouse Creek. His brother John Sizemore assessed Clay County many times.” (SV-1839.22))
He is buried in Churchyard, Hyden, KY (SV-129)
SV-310 says he was perhaps 1/2 Cherokee.
1820 Census: Is this his family in Clay Co., KY ??? (SV-130)
1830 Clay Co., KY Census: John Sizemore (40-50) and wife (40-50) and male (<5 John); 2 males (5-10); male (10-15 William); male (20-30 Henry); female (<5); female (5-10); female (10-15);and female (15-20 Mahala). (SV-300)
1836 Is this him?? John Sizemore purchased grant for 50 acres in Clay Co., KY (SV-303 pg 1061)
John Gilbert was his brother-n-law, but how?? (SV-310)
1840 KY Census (Ancestry.com): John Sizemore’s that are too young are found in Clay & Floyd counties, but non in Perry county.