Tabitha Sizemore daughter of Owen and Elizabeth Bingham Sizemore SR married Aaron Anderson, no children from this marriage, after Aaron died there was a dispute over the land on July 16, 1857 land actually fell to Aaron's mother who was 75 on above date. Tabitha widow of Aaron Anderson married Raliegh Dobson 17 July 1856 .

Here's an article this morning in the Kingsport Times about the Hawkins Co TN project, we're really all going to benefit from the work of these volunteers, I surely do appreciate all of you who are working on this. Right now they are running on donations, hope they can keep up the pace they are going. Penny Ferguson London, KY Volunteer archivists on treasure hunt through Hawkins County Courthouse Tuesday, February 01, 2005 By JEFF BOBO Times-News ROGERSVILLE - They say that one man's junk is another man's treasure. In Rogersville, there's a treasure hunt going on every day for a group of volunteers who are sifting through the tons of documents dating back into the 1700s which until now have been piled like junk in no particular order in the basement of the 169-year-old Hawkins County Courthouse. The Hawkins County Archival Project has been under way for about three weeks since moving into the former state employment office location at 955 E. McKinney Ave., which is owned by the county. About 30 volunteers sort through the endless boxes of documents as their schedule permits. On Monday, there were about eight people participating in the painstaking process, which involves reading the mostly handwritten records, cleaning the aging paper, recording it by year, and then recording it again by alphabetical order of the principal parties involved. It may sound like tedious work, but volunteers were having a ball Monday, as every new document told a long forgotten tale of what life was like in Hawkins County 150 years ago. For example, volunteer Martha Lane ran across a series of circuit court records relating to a lawsuit over "an iron gray mare" that was taken by Confederate soldiers from a woman named Matilda Shanks in 1864 and "allegedly" wound up in the possession of a fellow named Thomas Gibson several years after the Civil War ended. The court battle must have lasted a long time, because Lane found page after page of subpoenas, motions and affidavits supporting Shanks' claim that the mare was taken illegally and Gibson's contention that he acquired the mare legally. Records indicate it was difficult to prove that Gibson's iron gray mare was the same one taken from Shanks years earlier by the Confederate soldiers. Lane hadn't come across a court decision in the case by midday Monday. But, judging by the stack of briefs in the case, she joked that she'd be surprised if the mare hadn't died of old age by the time the case was settled. Another interesting find Monday involved a petition filed in October 1861 on behalf of a 47-year-old freed former slave named Leland Breeden seeking to "relinquish his free status" and "enter back into servitude" of a man named W.C. Kyle. The petition doesn't offer any reason why Breeden would make such a request, but he sets his own value at $450. The petition was denied by the court. Volunteers were also interested to find another case Monday involving a free black man named Ambrose Hopkins who was ordered by the circuit court in 1858 to leave Hawkins County and the state and never return because he had illegally voted in a Hawkins County election held in 1845. Apparently Hopkins didn't obey the court order, because Hawkins County Archivist Jack Goins found another document from 1863 in which Ambrose's wife was suing him for divorce. The group working Monday also had a laugh over an 1850 court document found by Lane where a man accused of stealing and killing 10 chickens - valued at a total of $1 at the time, according to the records - was fined $1,000 by the court. Lane speculated that $1,000 in 1850 must have been more like $100,000 in modern value, making those 10 chickens among the most expensive in history. Volunteer Albert Parker found a 1860 bank note from the Branch Bank of Tennessee at Rogersville, which he found interesting considering the bank folded during the Great Depression. His wife, Noreeda Parker, came across some promissory notes from 1866 sealed with 10 cent and 25 cent George Washington stamps that would probably make any stamp collector's mouth water. There is evidence, however, that stamp collectors have already raided the courthouse basement at some point, as Noreeda Parker also found an envelope from the same era with the section where the stamp would be neatly cut out. The Hawkins County Commission voted late last year to provide the McKinney Avenue location to the county archivists after the state employment office announced it was moving to another location in Rogersville at the first of the year. A permanent archive location was one of the requirements for a $5,000 state grant awarded to the county last year to help pay for acid-free storage folders, cleaning materials and containers for the old documents. Goins, who was appointed county archivist by County Mayor Crockett Lee, said Monday his volunteers have made a slight dent in the tons of documents stored in the courthouse basement. He estimated that at the group's current pace it will take about two years to sort through everything, index it all in a computer, and file it by year and name. Records will also be photographed and stored on microfilm, with a copy to be sent to Nashville for storage in state archives. By the time they've completed the job, Goins anticipates the McKinney Avenue location will have become a popular tourist attraction in Rogersville for genealogy and history buffs. "We've got documents dating back to 1795, and we're going to archive everything up to 1950," Goins said. "We're trying to do everything in 10-year increments except for 1795 to 1810, which is more rare, so we'll do that batch in 15. There's a lot of history in these old boxes, and right now we've really barely scratched the surface. "By the time we're done, you can give us a name and we ought to be able to point out for you every document here that contains that name. " There will be finds with significant historic value above chicken thievery, Goins said, such as the original Tennessee land grants to Joseph Rogers, the founder of Rogersville, dating back into the 1790s which have already been discovered. In the first three weeks of the project, however, they've mainly been going through circuit court records from the mid-1800s, and most of the finds so far are generally of a more personal nature. For example, Goins was surprised to find a record of one of his ancestors, his great-grandfather's brother's son, John Minor Jr., who was charged with using profanity in a public assembly in the 1850s. More surprising was the fact that the warrant quoted what Minor was accused of saying, which was shocking even by modern-day standards. "That went to circuit court, so it must have been a pretty serious crime," Goins said. "I don't know what they fined him because we haven't gotten that far yet. I found another one the other day for the same charge against the brother to my great-great-grandfather for interrupting a church service with profanity, and what he said was even worse." Goins was quick to point out that he didn't take after that branch of his family tree, at least as far as use of language is concerned. http://www.timesnews.net/article.dna?_StoryID=3463175