In a message dated 11/23/03 5:03:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > There isn't much information available about the Hollingsworth family, > because they are still living people. A daughter of Truman A. Sisson > married a Hollingsworth man. Truman A. Sisson was from western Virginia, > descended from Robert Sisson by way of Caleb Sisson, who moved into the > Rockbridge County, VA area after the Revolution. Hi Laurie Welcome to your extended family. Caleb was known as the Squire of Rockbridge -- Big land owner around 1790 to 1810. There are a few Sissons in the area after that -- Abram Sisson in 1820. I reside in the Shenandoah Valley and could probable do a look up on the Hollingsworth family over Thanksgiving weekend. Note to Sharon: I thought Robert K. Sisson of Ohio (around 1880) was kin to the Caleb Sisson branch from Rockbridge-Roanoke. Don't we have a DNA link on that line? Steve Sisson Of Eugene Henry Jr, Eugene Henry Sr, Walter George, Eugene Townsend, John Augustine, Robert Townsend, Robert, William III, William II, William I, and Robert Sisson* of Richmond-Lancaster County, Virginia (1630-1699). * DNA ancestral patriarch. Noteables: Eugene Townsend Sisson, City of Alexandria, Board of Elections 1887-1889 John A. Sisson, Arlington Co., Union Scout, 1861-1865 Robert Townsend Sisson, Fairfax Co. Private, Virginia Militia, War of 1812 Robert Sisson, Richmond Co., Sergeant, 2nd VA Rgt, Revolutionary War 1775-1782 Robert Sisson, Lancaster Co., Clerk of Court, 1667-1671

Ok, my grandfathers name was Benjamin Reed Sisson His fathers name was George Roland Sisson (married Emma Louise Belfield) George's Fathers name was William Henry Sisson, who had sons named Benjamin, Roland, and John Hope thats good for starters.......... Laurie

Hello and welcome, Laurie. Westmoreland and Richmond Counties are certainly home country to one of the major lines of Sissons. I have a good bit of information about the families in that area. If you'll send me the names of your Sisson grandfathers as far back as you can, I may be able to connect you back to the founding Sisson, Robert of Richmond County. Sharon Sisson Miller ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 1:33 PM Subject: [SISSON-L] hi! > Hi ! I just joined the listserve. My name is Laurie Sisson (Also!) and my > family is from Westmoreland County. I have always lived in Maryland because my > grandfather, Benjamin Sisson, made it up this way before my father was born. > I am looking forward to talking to everyone! > Laurie > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Hi, Laurie, and welcome to the Sisson List. There isn't much information available about the Hollingsworth family, because they are still living people. A daughter of Truman A. Sisson married a Hollingsworth man. Truman A. Sisson was from western Virginia, descended from Robert Sisson by way of Caleb Sisson, who moved into the Rockbridge County, VA area after the Revolution. We don't have any information on Hollingsworths beyond the current generation, so can't help with your deadend, I'm afraid. But I'd be glad to help with any Sisson questions. There are a number of suggested sources for the Sisson name, including the reference to Soissons. But we have nothing more than speculation to back them up. Sharon Sisson Miller Of the Robert and Amy line of Virginia ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 11:10 AM Subject: [SISSON-L] Hollingsworth > I have found references to Hollingsworths in the Sisson line and am > interested because my maiden name is Hollingsworth and I have hit deadends with this > family research. > > The town of Soissons near Paris was one traditional Sisson beginning. The > family story says they went to England to conquor. Does anyone else have this > story? > Laurie Sisson > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Hi ! I just joined the listserve. My name is Laurie Sisson (Also!) and my family is from Westmoreland County. I have always lived in Maryland because my grandfather, Benjamin Sisson, made it up this way before my father was born. I am looking forward to talking to everyone! Laurie

I have found references to Hollingsworths in the Sisson line and am interested because my maiden name is Hollingsworth and I have hit deadends with this family research. The town of Soissons near Paris was one traditional Sisson beginning. The family story says they went to England to conquor. Does anyone else have this story? Laurie Sisson

I was informed that the "assertion that John Allerton (is a son of Isaac 3rd, grandson of Isaac 2nd, and great-grandson of Pilgrim Isaac Allerton and his wife Fear Brewster Allerton has never been proven." Do we Sissons have any proof? It seems that Isaac Allerton (1685-1750) is not named in his father's will. Did he die childless before his father? Has anyone found any Allerton family documents that John Allerton is a son of Isaac Allerton? Thank you for any insight, Laurie H. Sisson

The wine tasting cup? I'm not sure, but I did run across a case study in an MIS textbook by Laudon & Laudon (8th edition, published in 2003 by Prentice-Hall) that I use in a course I teach. Here are the highlights from the case. Peter Sisson founded WineShopper.com in 1997 with $46 million in venture capital raised from several investors (including Amazon.com). WineShopper.com was a very technically ambitious online wine retailer. According to the case, they took too long to get online and spent too much money. In August of 2000, WineShopper.com merged with Wine.com. The merged company was known as Wine.com. It also spent too much money and didn't take in enough revenue. In April 2001, Wine.com eventually went the way of the other dot-com bust companies and made massive layoffs. A more conservative competitor, EVineyard.com purchased its assets, mostly customer lists and the Wine.com Web domain name. Contact me directly if you'd like to see more details about WineShopper.com from the case, including quotes from Peter Sisson and the source articles for the case. Kim Troboy [email protected] (Take out the -NOSPAM- part of this address to email me.) (ps. My Mom is descended from the Sissons in Gilmer County, GA, who moved there from western NC and in SC just across the state line from Charlotte, NC. The line possibly came from Virginia before that. Our Sisson line is Pascal Spencer Sisson, George Wilburn Sisson, William Henry Sisson, and Richard B. Sisson. Before that, the line is possibly David, Thomas Jr., Thomas, William Jr., William, Robert, and Thomas Sisson who immigrated from England to Jamestown, VA.) -----Original Message----- From: Laura Thompson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 7:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [SISSON-L] Sisson items on ebay For those like me who rarely think of it, you might want to look at www.ebay.com and type in Sisson. Be sure to click on the little box underneath for the search to look in descriptions. There is a wide selection of items that came up for the Sisson name. I wonder what a Sisson wine bowl is? Laura Sisson-Thompson ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

For those like me who rarely think of it, you might want to look at www.ebay.com and type in Sisson. Be sure to click on the little box underneath for the search to look in descriptions. There is a wide selection of items that came up for the Sisson name. I wonder what a Sisson wine bowl is? Laura Sisson-Thompson

I found a site that lists heirlooms that have been found and the site owner lists them in an effort to reunite them with family. There is a postcard listed in regard to A.L. Sisson. The website is at http://www.surnameheirlooms.com Cathy

There's a website where you can search for old wills in the UK: http://www.documentsonline.pro.gov.uk/wills.asp There are 67 hits on "sisson", mostly wills from the 1700s and 1800s. There is also an explanation of how to order copies of wills that interest you. (Thanks Ann for this tip!) Carol Sisson Regehr Sisson-L list mom -- [email protected]

Picture needed. Does anyone have a picture of Clarissa Bronson, wife of Holder Sisson? Thanks, Jan Riess At 02:00 PM 11/8/2003 -0700, you wrote: >SISSON-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 185 > >Today's Topics: > #1 [SISSON-L] Sisson historic store n ["Laura Thompson" > <[email protected]] > #2 [SISSON-L] Mary Sisson Time frame ["Glitz" <[email protected]>] > #3 [SISSON-L] Mary Sisson again updat ["Glitz" <[email protected]>] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from SISSON-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no word or punctuation. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 19:58:58 -0600 >From: "Laura Thompson" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [SISSON-L] Sisson historic store near Fredericksburg >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hello, > While vacationing last week in Virginia, I stopped at the Fredericksburg >Battlefield. After giving my last name to the attendant, he excitedly gave >me information regarding SISSON's STORE, constructed in 1854. In the 1860 >census, it shows it was owned by David Sisson, age 45, along with Sarah >Sisson, age 38 and Landon Sisson, age 11. They were born in Virginia. > Sisson's Store was a prominent landmark on the path of the Union attacks >on Marye's Heights during the Dec. 1862 and May 1863 Battles of >Fredericksburg. > If anyone is interested in a more detailed description of the event, let >me know. I was given pp.172-173 from Noel Harrison's Fredericksburg >Battlefield site, H.E. Howard, publisher. > >Laura Sisson-Thompson, WI., of the Robert Sisson line, Fairfax, Va. > >______________________________X-Message: #2 >Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 07:52:56 -0600 >From: "Glitz" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [SISSON-L] Mary Sisson Time frame early 1500's real sketchy info here >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >All I really have is her name. Mary Sisson b sometime in 1500's presumably >in England. She married 5 X's her husbands name are: Nathaniel Pope (my >line), William Bridges, Lewis Nicholas, David Whitliffe/Wickliffe, and John >Rosier. > >She only had children by Pope and Whitliffe. > >Her child by Nathaniel Pope was Nathaniel also and he m 1) Jane (Brooks) >Brown 2) Elizabeth Pierce. > >Any help with this line would be very appreciated. TIA Glitz > >______________________________X-Message: #3 >Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 09:26:23 -0600 >From: "Glitz" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [SISSON-L] Mary Sisson again update she was b 1638 St Mary Maryland >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Ok---did some more searching on the web---found this: > >Mary Sisson was b 1638 St Mary Maryland no date of death. But she m >Nathaniel Pope 1668 Westmoreland Co Va and they had one child Nathaniel Pope >who m Jane (Brookes) Brown and Elizabeth Pierce. > >I also saw where Mary might be the daughter of Thomas Sisson from England or >George Sisson m to Sarah Lawton (anyone know for certain???) > >Any help on her would be ~greatly~ appricated--- I had not worked with this >line in a very long time. TIA Glitz Mrs. Jan Riess Program Advisor Mechanical Engineering 118 Randolph Hall Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0238

Sue, I wish I had taken down the name of the park ranger who was so excited to share the Sisson story with me when I visited the Fredericksburg battlefield. He had the other ranger haul out the book to copy down the two pages on the event (unfortunately, I didn't think to ask the year the book was published - Noel Harrison's Fredericksburg Battlefield site, H.E. Howard publisher). The story went, "On December 13, 1862, a member of the Eighth Ohio infantry and other Union soldiers broke down the front door of Sisson's store and discovered that a civilian -- perhaps Sarah Sisson - was inside. With bullets and shell fragments ......the Ohioan recalled the wounded comrades they had carried into the building [who] began to beg for water. The Federals dragged the poor woman out of her cellar and forced her out into the pelting shower of missiles to guide them to obtain water from an outside well. ..... He also recalled that the soldiers utilized Sisson's Store as a blockhouse for most of the day. The park ranger gave me detailed verbal directions to locate the current day building, but since it wasn't one from my lineage, I didn't try to locate the site. Good luck with your cemetery search. Laura ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 10:02 PM Subject: Re: [SISSON-L] Sisson historic store near Fredericksburg Laura!!!! that was my greatgrandfather ( Landon Sisson ) and david sisson being my gg grandfather, I knew of this but never had the chance to see or be there, I did have the copies mailed to me, if you know of anything else , I would love to hear all!!!!! I would love to go there some day to find old cemeteries!!! on the hunt for where David Sisson is buried , thanks for any info, I was told where there house was there is a new one built if this is true??? thanks sue ( from pittsburgh ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message scanned for viruses by Corecomm

Yes, Joyce, Virginia is chock full of history that doesn't seem so many years away as I grow older. Alas, according to the book below, the original Sisson brick store is no longer standing. Destroyed in 1893, a frame building was subsequently erected on the site. If you give me your address, I will mail to you the pages describing the store and the story about the woman who lived there during the Fredericksburg battles. Laura ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joyce Dever" <[email protected]> To: "Laura Thompson" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 3:14 PM Subject: RE: [SISSON-L] Sisson historic store near Fredericksburg > Hello Laura; > > My name is Joyce LUCAS DEVER, and David Sloan SISSON is my maternal > GG-grandfather. I have been to the old SISSON homestead, the SISSON > Cemetery, and to the store. Although, as much as I begged and pleaded, Mrs. > Angle wound not allow my brother and I to go into the store and take photos. > It broke my heart. > > I would certainly love to have the information on the SISSON store. > Anything you can share would be super, and I cannot thank you enough. > > It sounds as though you had a wonderful trip to VA. It is an awe inspiring > place. > > Thanks again, > > Joyce LUCAS DEVER, near Seattle > [email protected] > > Please feel free to share my name and email address with any of the others > interested in the SISSON store. Bless you! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Laura Thompson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 5:59 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [SISSON-L] Sisson historic store near Fredericksburg > > Hello, > While vacationing last week in Virginia, I stopped at the Fredericksburg > Battlefield. After giving my last name to the attendant, he excitedly gave > me information regarding SISSON's STORE, constructed in 1854. In the 1860 > census, it shows it was owned by David Sisson, age 45, along with Sarah > Sisson, age 38 and Landon Sisson, age 11. They were born in Virginia. > Sisson's Store was a prominent landmark on the path of the Union attacks > on Marye's Heights during the Dec. 1862 and May 1863 Battles of > Fredericksburg. > If anyone is interested in a more detailed description of the event, let > me know. I was given pp.172-173 from Noel Harrison's Fredericksburg > Battlefield site, H.E. Howard, publisher. > > Laura Sisson-Thompson, WI., of the Robert Sisson line, Fairfax, Va. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > _____________________________________________________ > This message scanned for viruses by CoreComm >

Ok---did some more searching on the web---found this: Mary Sisson was b 1638 St Mary Maryland no date of death. But she m Nathaniel Pope 1668 Westmoreland Co Va and they had one child Nathaniel Pope who m Jane (Brookes) Brown and Elizabeth Pierce. I also saw where Mary might be the daughter of Thomas Sisson from England or George Sisson m to Sarah Lawton (anyone know for certain???) Any help on her would be ~greatly~ appricated--- I had not worked with this line in a very long time. TIA Glitz

All I really have is her name. Mary Sisson b sometime in 1500's presumably in England. She married 5 X's her husbands name are: Nathaniel Pope (my line), William Bridges, Lewis Nicholas, David Whitliffe/Wickliffe, and John Rosier. She only had children by Pope and Whitliffe. Her child by Nathaniel Pope was Nathaniel also and he m 1) Jane (Brooks) Brown 2) Elizabeth Pierce. Any help with this line would be very appreciated. TIA Glitz

Hello, While vacationing last week in Virginia, I stopped at the Fredericksburg Battlefield. After giving my last name to the attendant, he excitedly gave me information regarding SISSON's STORE, constructed in 1854. In the 1860 census, it shows it was owned by David Sisson, age 45, along with Sarah Sisson, age 38 and Landon Sisson, age 11. They were born in Virginia. Sisson's Store was a prominent landmark on the path of the Union attacks on Marye's Heights during the Dec. 1862 and May 1863 Battles of Fredericksburg. If anyone is interested in a more detailed description of the event, let me know. I was given pp.172-173 from Noel Harrison's Fredericksburg Battlefield site, H.E. Howard, publisher. Laura Sisson-Thompson, WI., of the Robert Sisson line, Fairfax, Va.

I found a site that has school records for Michigan on-line. They're mostly from counties in the upper part of the lower peninsula, but might help someone who is researching in MI. The site is at: http://www.mifamilyhistory.org/yearbooks/links.asp Cathy

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2568956329&category=2196 George Sisson & John Brown Jr of Swansea Defendants

Does anyone here recognize this man? The record shows that W. L. Sisson was private in Company A, Ist Battalion Texas Sharpshooter's. On the roll of the company for the months of September and October, 1863, he is reported absent, left sick at hospital, Marksville, Louisiana, since February 20, 1863. No later record found. If this is your direct descendant, let me know. Thanks, Kathleen I'm a card-carrying member of the ACLU and encourage you to join! Get informed, become a member and get active.