Thanks to Rebecca Sheffield for the photo of Calvin & Emma Sizemore & three of their children, taken about 1909. Calvin & Emma were her great-grandparents.
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Thanks also to FindAGrave member, Michael Sizemore (#48213197) for the following on Nov. 12, 2013.
"Virginia, I am really enjoying reading all this work you've done on the Sizemore/Belcher families. I am very proud to be related to these folks. One correction I'd like to suggest: On Calvin Sizemore's page you call Berlin a daughter. I remember my Uncle Berlin well. He was a son. I had a picture at one point where Berlin and Joseph (my dad) posed for a picture with my dad's guitar (still have that). They had a gospel radio show on WKEY, the Covington radio station. Some years later John Lee Davis, who for many years managed the station, told me it was a very popular local show."
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Calvin was the fifth of Owen & Charlotte (Belcher) Sizemore's ten children.

He married Emma Drucella Holcomb in Greenbrier Co, WV on January 16, 1904. Their children were: Herbert Alonzo, Elva Floretta, Aulden Curtis, Della Christine, Ava Catherine, Berlin Novel, Joseph Nelson, Lola Frances, Carl Lewis, Margie Bertran, & Nieva Ilene.

Calvin Louis Sizemore, age 34, and his wife, Emma Drucella, were living in Alleghany Station, Alleghany, VA when he registered for the WWI draft in Sept. 1918. The date of his birth was Jan. 38, 1884. He was working as a lumberman for T.L. Craft at Alleghany Station. His physical description was medium build & height with brown eyes and hair. Signed: Calvin Louis Sizemore

ON FEBRUARY 25, 1920,
Calvin & Emma, ages 35 & 31, were renting a home on Jerry's Run in Dunlap Precinct, Alleghany Co, VA near his parents. He had a job as a fireman in a local sawmill. Their children were Herbert A., age 15; Elva F., 13; Aden C., 11; Della C., 9; Ava C., 7; Berlin N., 5; Joseph N., 3 years & 4 months; & Lola F., 1 year & 2 months.

ON APRIL 8, 1930,
Calvin & Emma were renting a home on Clark St. in Covington Magisterial District, Alleghany Co, VA. He was working as a millwright in a rayon plant. Their daughter, Ava, age 17, had a job as a bleacher at a paper mill; their son, Berlin, had a job at the rayon plant with his father.

Emma had given birth to three more children; Carl L, now age 7; Marjorie B., 5; & Nera, 2.

ON APRIL 17, 1940,
Calvin, age 56, lived in Edgemont, Alleghany Co, VA, with his daughter, Ava Hurt, 27, a widow, who had a job as a reel inspector in a rayon plant.
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Calvin's death certificate indicates that he was a Retired Boiler Firman in WV Sate Home. He was a patient in Alleghany Reginal-Emmett Division hospital in Clifton Forge, VA when he died at 1:30 a.m. on January 4, 1979, from Atherosclerotic Heart Disease, due to Congestive Heart Failure. He had lived 94 years. Mrs. Ilene McCarthy was the informant on his death certificate. He was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Virginia, Death Records, 1912-2014
Name: Calvin Lewis Sizemore
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age at Death: 94
Birth Date: 28 Jan 1884
Death Date: 4 Jan 1979
Death Place: Clifton Forge, Virginia, USA
Registration Date: 11 Jan 1979
Father: Owen Sizemore
Mother: Shalotta Belcher
Spouse: Emma Holcomb Sizemore