Can someone help this person? Her granddad Sissle could have been the slave
of a Cissell or Cecil.
Melissa
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From: susiespopp [mailto:bglore@earthlink.net]
Subject: sissle, et al
i cannot trace my name beyond my grandfather's, born 1852 in Lexington,
KY, George A Sissle..Family folklore has it that he went to court (was
from the slave era though educated as a minister, etc) to change his
name legally and did not spell it correctly..While my dad was performing
in Ind. or Ken., someone (a white gentleman) came up and asked him why
he did not spell his name correctly, and then this gentleman disappeared
into the crowd. Granddad's family was Roman Catholic, but he converted
to Methodist at 20.....that is all I know. The 3 Sissles I have found
alive that are not my family are all under the impression, as my family
was, that we are the only Sissles on the planet.. Whoever we are, we
must be a very rare group no matter how you spell it. Could any of your
"etc, etc." have been part of my family's world?
Cynthia