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William Richard “Bill” Sizemore

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William Richard “Bill” Sizemore

Birth
Cusseta, Chattahoochee County, Georgia, USA
Death
23 Feb 1946 (aged 83)
Chireno, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA
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Bland Lake, San Augustine County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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William Richard Sizemore was the son of James and Caroline Pate Sizemore of Chattahoochee Co., Ga., the third child of twelve. He married Mary Kizar Johnson 18 Nov 1882, Cuessetta, Ga. The first three children were born in Georgia, the next seven were born in San Augustine County, Texas, following their move from Georgia to San Augustine.

Family history has William and family leaving Georgia in the spring of 1887 with an ox drawn wagon following what was then knows as the "Three Chopped Way" road through Mississippi. The trip took six months to complete.

Reasons given for the move: 1) Economic - WRS wanted to farm cotton and saw Texas as better farmland. 2) Family - WRS was the only Sizemore of the twelve children to leave Georgia, but Mary K. Johnson's parents and siblings had been in San Augustine for several years. One morning she woke up, looked at WRS and said: "Bill, cotton farming is better in Texas than here in Georgia and besides that, all my family is in San Augustine, and that's where we need to go." and so they went. My grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Sizemore was the first child to be born in Texas following the move.

Initially, they settled in the Bland Lake area of San Augustine County, later in the Cushing area. At time of death, WRS was living in Chireno with his daughter, Mary Elizabeth, then married to a Ira L. Pack.
William Richard Sizemore was the son of James and Caroline Pate Sizemore of Chattahoochee Co., Ga., the third child of twelve. He married Mary Kizar Johnson 18 Nov 1882, Cuessetta, Ga. The first three children were born in Georgia, the next seven were born in San Augustine County, Texas, following their move from Georgia to San Augustine.

Family history has William and family leaving Georgia in the spring of 1887 with an ox drawn wagon following what was then knows as the "Three Chopped Way" road through Mississippi. The trip took six months to complete.

Reasons given for the move: 1) Economic - WRS wanted to farm cotton and saw Texas as better farmland. 2) Family - WRS was the only Sizemore of the twelve children to leave Georgia, but Mary K. Johnson's parents and siblings had been in San Augustine for several years. One morning she woke up, looked at WRS and said: "Bill, cotton farming is better in Texas than here in Georgia and besides that, all my family is in San Augustine, and that's where we need to go." and so they went. My grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Sizemore was the first child to be born in Texas following the move.

Initially, they settled in the Bland Lake area of San Augustine County, later in the Cushing area. At time of death, WRS was living in Chireno with his daughter, Mary Elizabeth, then married to a Ira L. Pack.

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