No. 5190 Sizemore

Date was 8th December 1806.
 1. State full name: 
       English name: Claborn Pennington 
        Indian Name: _______________ 
 2. Residence: _______________ 
 3. Town and post office: Sturgill's  
 4. County: Ashe
 5. State: NC 
 6. Date and place of birth: Born in Ashe Co. N.C. in 1830 
 7. By what right do you claim to share? If you claim through more than one relative living in
    1851, set forth each claim separately: 
    By Cherokee Indian Blood derived through my father Samuel Pennington and by virtue of the
    decree of the Supreme Court of the United States of April 30, 1906 
 8. Are you married: yes 
 9. Name and age of wife or husband: Charity Pennington 
                Born in 1834 age 72 years 
10. Give names of your father and mother, and your mother's name before marriage.
    Father---English name: Samuel Pennington
             Indian name: _____________
    Mother---English name: Elizabeth Pennington
             Indian name: _____________ 
             Maiden name: Elizabeth Anderson 
11. Where were they born?
        Father: Grayson Co. Va
        Mother: Grayson Co. Va 
12. Where did they reside in 1851, if living at that time?
        Father: Ashe Co. North Carolina
        Mother: not living " "' (sic) 
13. Date of death of your father and mother---
        Father: Died 1862 Mother: Died 1846

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14. Were they ever enrolled for annuities, land, or other benefits? If so, 
    state when and where:              
    Unknown 
15. Name all your brothers and sisters , giving ages, and if not living, the date of death:        
    Celia Kilby       1830 
    Lucy Spencer      1824 
    Elisha Pennington 1834 
16. State English and Indian names of your grandparents on both father's and mother's side, 
    if possible:
        Father's Side         Mother's Side 
        Andrew Pennington     Hattie Pennington 
17. Where were they born? Ashe Co. North Carolina 
18. Where did they reside in 1851, if living at that time? Not living. 
19. Give names of all their children, and residence, if living; if not living, 
    give dates of deaths:
        Celia Cornette 
20. Have you ever been enrolled for annuities, land, or other benefits? If so, state when 
    and where:
        No unknown

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21. This is same as Celia's #21 Remarks Section is same as Celia's.

                                  (signature) Claborn H. Penington
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8th day of December, 1906

My commission expires
 Feb 17th 1910                     Wm M. Baldwin

Notary Public


End of transcription.  The affidavit which follows is witnessed by W. (J. or G.) Kilby who 
stated he had known applicant for 40 years and by M Mohr (?) who stated he had known applicant 
for 40 years also. Both signed their names.
 Dated 8th December, 1906.

On the next page that I have the deposition by Claborn Pennington and it is dated a year 
and a half later on 4th day of April, 1908. My last page is just a copy of two pieces of 
paper which look slips of identifying paper added to the file. One says "Sizemore Case" 
and under Action: it says Rejected. 

#'s 7, 21, and Remarks appear on both applications to have been written in by a clerk or 
someone like that. I don't know if the Notary would have done it or maybe the Notary was 
the examiner. I meant to say Notary Public instead of examiner in my earlier message today. 
Folks keep saying that Andrew Pennington and Hester Ann Blevins (Hettie Blevins) could not 
be Sam's parents, but since this says Hattie Blevins, maybe James and Lydia Blevins had a 
dau. name Henrietta. Hattie could be a nickname for that. She would have had to have died 
very young and there may not be much written material left to record her life. But I'm just 
spinning out possibilities.
-From Barbara Keene in August 2000.

I am 77 years of age. I was born and raised in Grayson County, Virginia, and that has been my home most of my life. I claim my Indian blood from the Sizemore race. My father's mother was a Sizemore. When I was five or six years of age my father moved to Lee County, Va. and we lived there close neighbors to these Sizemores. Old Ned, Owen and George Sizemore visited at my house and called my father Uncle Sam and my mother Aunt Betsie, and we called them uncles and aunts. Old Ned Sizemore lived on a Creek called Blackwater, that ran into Clinch river right at where he lived in Lee County, Va. Old man Owen lived up on Clinch river on the Virginia side, and Old man George lived near him. I never heard of but one Ned Sizemore. Owen and George and Ned were brothers. I was at their houses often. I was about eight or nine years of age at that time. They were farmers, like everyone else in that day and time. I do not know whether George Sizemore had a son Ned or not. George Sizemore had a son called Tom, and we played together. I do not know who was the father of George, Owen and Ned Sizemore. My father's mother was a Sizemore, and died when my father was quite a boy, There were only two children--a boy and a girl. My father was raised a bound boy by a man by the name of Randlow in Powell's Valley. George and Owen and Ned Sizemore had children about grown a the time I knew them, but I do not know how old they were themselves. After I was grown and lived in H(a)wkins County, Tenn about seven years, these old men, George, Owen and Ned Sizemore still lived in Lee County. I never heard of any of them going to West Virginia. I suppose they were recognized White people, for there was nothing said about Indian or Negro in those days. Owen Sizemore was a tolerable dark, heavy set man, with black hair and beard, George Sizemore was not quite as dark as old Ned, but he was kind of dark. All three of them favored. I do not recollect hearing anything mentioned about their being Indians--I cannot remember, I was not much acquainted with the Harts in Ashe County, but I knew all the Harts in the White Top country. I do not know that I have ever seen James and Ned Hart who lived in Ashe County, N.C. I have never received any money from the Government on account of my Indian blood. I never applied before this matter came up. I did not apply because I thought I was Indian, for I did not know, but I am kin to the Sizemores. I never applied before the Dawes Commission. I was persuaded to apply by some of the Sizemores.

C H Pennington
Subscribed and sworn to before me at Grassy Creek, N.C. this 4th day of April, 11, 1908.

J. Edward Taylor
Assistant to Special Commissioner Court of Claims.