Arthur Sizemore (1/2 creek)

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    Arthur Sizemore & Mary "Polly" Bailey
    Posted by: Sherry Wilkinson (ID *****6795)     Date: June 08, 2008 at 23:23:36
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    While researching the Weatherfords (my line) I found the following which I thought some may be interested.
    
    Sherry
    http://www.texashistoryhunter.net
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    http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cmamcrk4/crkwr3.html#anchor461159
    
    In 1813, Red Eagle [William Weatherford; Indian name was Hoponika Futsahia] joined the Red Sticks' fight against the whites who were moving into their territory. Red Eagle and Peter McQueen, his cousin by marriage, planned an attack on Ft. Mims. It is said that Weatherford tried to stop the attack for he learned some of his family were there.
    
    Nearby, the Creeks -- the Red Sticks-- are mightily armed and preparing for war! They number over 1000. Their leaders are William Weatherford -- Red Eagle, Peter McQueen, and Josiah Francis. William Weatherford is surely torn for within the fort are his brothers and sister and their families. But there in the fort, also, are enemies and one, William's bitterest enemy, Dixon Bailey.
    
    
    http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cmamcrk4/smfm12.html#anchor1052283
    
    Arthur Sizemore
    
    LifeNotes: Arthur Sizemore kept a ferry at Gainestown. -- Sizemore's Ferry.
    
    Listed as a Half Creek Indian applying for his Creek Indian Land Reservation in the Treaty of Fort Jackson 1814 Special Acts. Also he is listed in the American State Papers under Volume 9 page 860 making a Creek Indian Land Claim according to an Act of Congress passed March the 3rd 1817 between the United States and the Creek Nation, to certain Chiefs and warriors of that Nation and for other purposes. This was provided by the First Article of The Treaty of Fort Jackson, August 9 1814. According to the evidence of these papers, Arthur Sizemore was a Member of the Creek Nation of Indians before the Removal of the 1830s. to Oklahoma.
    
    Arthur Sizemore was a friendly Creek during the Creek Civil War of 1813-1814. He is not known to have joined the Red Sticks; this is why his family suffered much loss to the Hostile Indians during the Creek War with the American Government.
    
    Born: Married: Died: about 1858, Monroe Co., AL.
    
    Mary "Polly" Bailey
    
    LifeNotes: Her siblings were Dixon Bailey and Peggy Bailey who figured so importnatly in the story of the Massacre of Fort Mims.
    
    Born: between 1759-70, AL
    Married:
    Died: 1/23/1862, Baldwin Co., AL, buried there. See the text of her will
    Parents: Richard Bailey and Mary, a Creek woman of the Wind Clan from the Creek Indian village of Autosse or Atasi. Richard was from Middlesex Co., England
    
    Their children were:
    
    Cynthia Sizemore, born 1800, AL. Married ? Padget. Their child: Elijah Padget (he was named as executor in his grandmother's will, but died before she did).
    
    Amelia Sizemore, born 1810, AL. Married Robert Stiggins, son of Joseph Stiggins and Nancy Grey. Their son: James Gray Stiggins.
    
    Celia Sizemore, born 1812, AL. See her page. Married William Colbert. See his page. Celia is named in her mother's will to inherit $500. Their children were: Mary Matilda Colbert (married George Washington Taylor), Hettie Colbert (lived in Monroe Co., AL and living as of 1906.), Elizabeth "Betsy" Sizemore, Child, Amelia Sizemore (dead as of 1906), Billy Sizemore (dead as of 1906), Sam Sizemore (dead as of 1906), Dickson Sizemore. Lived in Baldwin Co., AL (dead as of 1906).
    
    William Sizemore, born 1798, AL. See his page.William became a wealthy planter on the Alabama River. He is named in his mother's will as inheriting $5.00. On 3/16/1826, married Levitia Moniac, daughter of William Dixon Moniac and Polly Colbert. Their children were: Levitia Sizemore, Adaline Sizemore, William Sizemore, Elizabeth Sizemore, David H. Sizemore, Alexander M. Sizemore, Charles W. Sizemore, Virginia Sizemore, Fredericka Sizemore, Mary Sizemore, John W. Sizemore. William Sizemore died before his father.
    
    Absolom Sizemore, born in AL. See his page Married Susannah Stiggins Hathaway, daughter of Joseph Stiggins and Nancy Grey and *widow of Henry Hathaway. See her page. Their children were: Edward Sizemore, Mary Sizemore, William F. Sizemore, George W. Sizemore, Charlotte Sizemore (m. Ed Forbes), Joseph Sizemore, Susan Sizemore, Edwin Sizemore. He is named in his mother's will as inheriting $5.00. Absolom died before his father. (This is Linda Sizemore Teasdale's line; please contact her if you have information.) *Susannah or Susan was a survivor of the Massacre of Ft. Mims. Susan and her husband took refuge at Fort Mims; Susan escaped the Fort Mims Massacre, but her husband Henry Hathaway died in the battle. Susan was given aid by Efa Tuscanuggee. She saved a little girl named Elizabeth Randon.
    
    
    Nancy Sizemore, born in AL. Married ? Moniac. Their son: David A. Moniac (was appointed as his grandmother's executor after Elijah Padget died). Nancy is named in her mother's will as inheriting $5.00.
    
    Samuel Sizemore born in AL. He is named in her mother's will as inheriting $5.00
    
    Betsy Sizemore. Married ? Tarvin. Betsy is named in her mother's will as inheriting $5.00.
    
    Dixon Sizemore, born in AL.
    
    Joseph Sizemore. Married ?. Their child: Josephine Sizemore. Joseph died before his father.