Absolum Sizemore
1790 - Bef 1830 (40 years)-
Name Absolum Sizemore Born 1790 Baldwin County, Alabama 
[1] Gender Male Died Bef 1830 Alabama [1, 2] Person ID I5718 Dickinson Last Modified 5 Nov 2011
Father Arthur Sizemore, b. 1761, d. Bef 1840, Baldwin or Monroe County, Alabama (Age 79 years) Mother Mary Bailey, b. abt. 1770, Atasi, Upper Creek Nation (Macon County, Alabama) , d. 23 Jan 1862, Baldwin County, Alabama (Age ~ 92 years) Notes - "Polly Bailey became the wife of Sizemore who kept a ferry at what is now Gainestown. She was an expert in swimming, and sometimes acted as ferryman. Sizemore lived on the west side of the Alabama and did not take refuge in Fort Mims. Peggy Bailey lived with her mother, an Indian woman, on the east side. Mrs. Sizemore lived to a great age in Baldwin county, and died in 1862. Her daughter, who became Mrs. Podgett, was living in 1890, then one hundred years old." [3]
Family ID F1517 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Susannah Stiggins, b. Dec 1795, Alabama , d. 1865, Eliska, Monroe, Alabama (Age ~ 69 years) Married 14 Feb 1816 Clarke County, Alabama [4] Children + 1. William F Sizemore, b. Baldwin County, Alabama , d. May 1859, Macon County, Alabama + 2. Charlotte Sizemore, b. abt. 1820, Baldwin County, Alabama + 3. George W Sizemore, b. Abt 1825, Baldwin County, Alabama Last Modified 5 Oct 2011 Family ID F1521 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 1790 - Baldwin County, Alabama 
Married - 14 Feb 1816 - Clarke County, Alabama = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Sources - [S336345] A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814, Gregory A. Waselkov, (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2006), 51.
- [S014596] 1830 United States Federal Census, Bureau of the Census, (Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration), 1830 U S Census: , Monroe, Alabama, Page: 56; NARA Roll: M19-2; Family History Film: 0002329.
Susannah Stiggins Sizemore appears as the head of household. - [S336342] The Creek War of 1813 and 1814, H. S. Halbert and T. H. Ball, (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1995 ), 165.
- [S038634] Alabama Marriage Collection, 1800-1969, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: Alabama Center for Health Statistics; Alabama Marriage Index, 1936-1969; Alabama Center for Health Statistics, Montgomery, Alabama; Dodd, Jordan R., et. al. Early American Marriages: Alabama to 1825, Bountiful, UT: Precision Indexing Publishers, 19xx; Hunting For Bears, comp. Alabama marriage information taken from county courthouse records. Many of these records were extracted from copies of the original records in microfilm, microfiche, or book format, located at the Family History Library; Dodd, Jordan R., comp. Early American Marriages: Alabama, 1800 to 1920.).
- [S336345] A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814, Gregory A. Waselkov, (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2006), 51.