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- [S4] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online.
Record for Edward SIZEMORE
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=20446349536&indiv=try
- [S18] Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1850; Census Place: District 31, Lee, Virginia; Roll: M432_955; Page: 319B; Image: 167.
- [S3652] History of Pittsylvania County Virginia.
THE HISTORY of PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA
1746, Edward Sizemore enters 400 acres on the South side Banister River beginning a little below the little Rock House about the mouth of little Polecat.Dawes Commission Index, 1896
"Ned" probably moved from Halifax Co VA with the New River Settlers, in 1767 near the border of Fincastle/Montgomery Co VA & Surry Co NC. Present day this area is Ashe Co NC and Grayson Co VA. A tax list 1771-4 of Surry Co NC, records Edward Sizemore.
According to legend, Edward "Ned" Sizemore was hung by Benjamin Cleveland in a corn field near Wilkesboro NC about 1780. One Witness was James Gwynn.
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