Sizemore

James M. Collins, being first duly sworn, deposes and says:

I live in Yadkin County, near Booneville. I am 48 years of age. I was born in Yadkin County, and have lived here all of my life. I am a cousin of Tabitha Stallings.

I claim Indian blood through my mother, Martha E. Sizemore. Isom Sizemore was her father, and he was a son ofDr. John Sizemore. I knew my grandfather, Isom Sizemore. I have heard that he was born in Virginia, but I do not know in what part of Virginia. I never heard where Dr. John Sizemore was born.

I think Isom Sizemore, my grandfather, has been dead about 29 years. I never heard my grandfather say that he was an Indian. I have never heard him say that he was related to the Indians.

My father died when I was about three years old.

I do not recollect hearing my mother say that we were Indians, but it has been thrown up to us. I never heard tell what kind of Indian.

My mother and father have always passed in the community as White people, and I have always passed as White.   My mother never received any money as an Indian, and I have never heard of my grandfather being enrolled as an Indian.

(Signed)James M. Collins
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Subscribed and sworn to before me at East Bend, N. C., this 25th day of March, 1908.

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Special Commissioner Court of
Claims