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Re: Poarch Band of Creeks

Posted: 27 Nov 2013 5:00PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: SEMOICE
Lisa
That sounds like something interesting to read. I am the ggg-grandaughter of John Semoice

Re: Chief Red Bird / Sizemore's in KY & Half Blood Creek Indian Arthur Sizemore

Posted: 12 Apr 2015 11:13PM GMT
Classification: Query
My name is Deborah Powell, and I am a Powell by birth, not by marriage. I have four siblings.

One of my brothers took a 111-chromosome Y-DNA test through FamilyTreeDNA.com, and he is a 109/111 chromosome match with a genetic distance of 2 -- referred to as a "tight" match -- with a male named Mr. M. A. Sizemore (name withheld for privacy reasons). This Mr. Sizemore is a direct descendant of Henry W. Sizemore. Both he and my brother are in Haplogroup "T." My brother is Haplogroup T subclave "1a" so far, but he is being tested to see if his subclave of T is carried out further from 1a (aka M70). Mr. Sizemore is Haplogroup T subclave 1a2b (aka L446).

My brother has "tight" matches with more than a dozen other Powell males who took the FTDNA Y-DNA test, and Mr. Sizemore is a tight match with those Powell males as well, which indicates that somewhere in the direct line of Henry W. Sizemore is a Sizemore male who was biologically a Powell.

As you probably know, in the Sizemore Y-DNA Project on FamilyTreeDNA.com, there are two descendants of Henry W. Sizemore, and they are the only Sizemore males in the T Haplogroup. Both are T subclave 1a2b (L-446) and are matches of the Powell males with whom my "Powell" brother is a match. (I'm assuming that one of these is M. A. Sizemore mentioned above.)

My siblings and I are direct descendants of Thomas Jefferson Powell (b. 5 Dec 1861; lived in McComb, MS; m. Sarah Virginia Alford in MS ca. 1882; d. 13 Apr 1899 New Orleans, LA; buried Gravesite C, Hollywood Cemetery, McComb, Pike County, Mississippi). His parents and siblings are currently unknown due to records being destroyed in a courthouse fire. However, I did find on the 1870 MS Census (Copiah County) a Thomas Powell born in 1861 (same as my 2x g-gf) in Mississippi and his younger sister Martha E. "Mattie" Powell (b. 1865 MS). They appeared to be orphans living with Franklin H. and Mary J. Kelly and their two sons Thomas Kelly (b. 1861) and John W. Kelly (b. 1866). This Thomas Powell may or may not be my 2nd g-gf.

My brother tightly matches a male descendant of Marion Powell -- son of Middleton W. Powell, b. ca.1816 GA; m. 1846 to Lucinda (McLeroy/McElroy) Powell Stackhouse (1831 GA - 18? AR); lived in Palding Co., GA 1850 and Tippah Co., MS 1860; d. ca.1869 MS(?).

My brother is an even tighter match (66/67 chromosomes with a genetic distance of 1) to a Powell male descendant of Silas Jesse Powell (b. 1829 GA(?) - d. 1915 TN(?)) and a male named Kleck who is a descendant of Holland Eugene Powell(?). Holland Eugene is a name carried down in the Middleton family who married into the Powell family -- indicating a further tie to Middleton W. Powell (parents and siblings unknown).

Anyway, just thought I would pass this on. I know there is a genetic connection between the Henry W. Sizemore and Thomas Jefferson Powell lines, but I would be interested in knowing what info anyone has on a documented Sizemore and Powell connection.

--Deborah Powell
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