Descendants of William Newsom

18 Generations of the Newsom Family
1-4     5-8     9-12     13-18

 

Generation No. 13

58. Harrison13 Newsom, Sr. (Lewis12, Sampson11, Thomas10, William9, William8, William7, Robert6, George5, John4, George3, John2, William1) was born 1775 in Rowan County, North Carolina, and died 1832 in Robinson Creek, Pike County, Kentucky. He married (1) Mary Margaret "Peggy" Lowe September 02, 1802 in Rowan County, North Carolina, daughter of Frederick Lowe, Jr.. She was born 1780 in Rowan County, North Carolina, and died Bet. 1841 - 1850 in Pike County, Kentucky. He met (2) Polly Kinney Abt. 1808 in Rowan County, North Carolina. She was born Abt. 1796 in Rowan County, North Carolina, and died Abt. 1876 in Robinson Creek, Pike County, Kentucky.

Notes for Harrison Newsom, Sr.:

Harrison Newsom was the first Kentucky Newsom, having moved from the ancestral Newsom roots of Virginia and North Carolina to Pike County, Kentucky in about 1815. He established two families there - one with his wife "Peggy" Lowe, and the other with a mistress, Polly Kinney. Harrison appears to have sired children by both women contemporaneously.

One story handed down through the generations by some Kinney descendants, and still told by them, is that Harrison brought Polly home to live with his family when Polly was just twelve. Peggy's initial reaction is unknown, but when Polly became pregnant at the age of eighteen, Peggy finally put her foot down and ordered the girl out of the house. Not to be outdone, after emigrating to the Caney Creek area in Pike County, Kentucky, Harrison dutifully built a house for Polly just a few miles down the road in Little Robinson Creek - a home he did not hesitate to visit from time to time.

Another version, told by Oma Bratley and passed along to Clarence Tackett, a Newsome cousin, goes as follows: Polly Kinney was a servant of Harrison and his wife Margaret "Peggy" (Lowe) Newsom in North Carolina. Polly became pregnant by Harrison and her father asked Harrison to keep her. Apparently there was some sort of agreement between all the parties, because in little time Polly had not one, but two, children by Harrison. When the move to Kentucky was decided upon in 1815, Polly took a bed tick and made a covering for her horse with a pocket on each side. The children were placed in the pockets and Polly walked the entire trip, holding the horse by the reigns and traveling alongside Harrison, Peggy and their children. When the group finally arrived safely in Kentucky, having wended their way through the Cumberland Gap wilderness, Harrison got a government grant of land on Caney Creek. A few Indians lived here and Harrison gave them guns, money, and dogs. They were thus satisfied to give up claim to their land, leaving on friendly and good terms. Polly and her children lived separately on nearby Little Robinson Creek. The two families worked together and helped each other. Each of Polly's children - eventually she and Harrison had seven together - was left 15 acres of land, a horse or a mule. In the end, Harrison willed each of his children by Peggy a farm (Deed Book A1, page 543, 1837, Pike County, Kentucky). Harrison died in 1836 and was buried on Little Robinson Creek near the Robert Newsom farm. Peggy died sometime in the 1840's. Polly, who never married, died about 1876 (sometime after the 1870 census). Both Peggy and Polly are buried beside Harrison, but no markers exist today.

Some Rowan County, North Carolina civil records still exist (Court Order Book 23, p. 189) which show that on April 15, 1814, Rowan County High Sheriff John Sith executed a civil court order and seizure of property against Harrison. The action was brought by a David Coss in the amount of forty-five pounds. The exact nature and origin of the dispute is not revealed in the documents, but the matter was resolved in August, 1814, when Harrison signed over 114 acres of "Flat Swamp," valued at forty pounds, to Mr. Coss. There are indications that there may have been at least one more civil action against Harrison at about the same time, this one initiated by a "Jacob..." Harrison left North Carolina for Kentucky the following year. Perhaps the foregoing matters were at least part of the reason for his emigration.

It is in subsequent generations forward that we see many Newsoms consistently adopting an "e" on the end of the surname. Since the family's roots in England the name was variously spelled Neesum, Newsam, Newsham and Newsom. Some branches of the family still spell the name minus the "e."

More About Harrison Newsom, Sr.:

Burial: Harrison Newsom, Sr., his wife Peggy Lowe, his mistress Polly Kinney, and several of their children are buried on the old Kinney property at the dead end of Little Robinson Creek Road off Old 23, about 3 miles south of Virgie. The graves are unmarked.

Children of Harrison Newsom and Mary Lowe are:

66 i. Hartwell14 Newsome, born 1803 in Rowan County, North Carolina; died Aft. 1870 in Pike County, Kentucky. He married (1) Jenny Mullins May 02, 1825 in Floyd County, Kentucky; born in Pike County, Kentucky. He married (2) Sarah Tolley March 13, 1831 in Pike County, Kentucky; born in Pike County, Kentucky.

Notes for Jenny Mullins:

Jenny Mullins was sister to Booker and Smith Mullins. These brothers married Newsome sisters Mary Polly and Margaret Peggy, in that order.

67 ii. Nancy Newsome, born Abt. 1805 in Rowan County, North Carolina.

Notes for Nancy Newsome:

There is a record (Court Order Book "A," p. 211) of an 1829 Pike County court subpoena being issued against Nancy Newsome ordering her to show cause why her six-year-old son William should not be "bound out..." The county sheriff gave notice in the proceedings that Nancy had fled the county and could not be found. Young William was eventually bound out to a Cornelius Roberts. No further records have yet been found which offer evidence as to what happened later to either Nancy or William.

68 iii. Henry Newsome, born 1807 in Rowan County, North Carolina; died Abt. 1864 in Pike County, Kentucky. He married Martha "Patsy" Branham September 02, 1831 in Pike County, Kentucky; born in Pike County, Kentucky.

69 iv. Mary Polly Newsome, born 1810 in Rowan County, North Carolina. She married Booker Mullins December 03, 1829 in Pike County, Kentucky; born Abt. 1809 in Pike County, Kentucky.

Notes for Mary Polly Newsome:

Two of the Newsome sisters, Mary Polly and Margaret Peggy, married two of the Mullins brothers, Booker and Smith, in that order. Their sister Jenny was Hartwell Newsome's first wife.

70 v. Margaret "Peggy" Newsome, born Abt. 1811 in Rowan County, North Carolina. She married Smith Mullins March 10, 1833 in Pike County, Kentucky; born Abt. 1810 in Pike County, Kentucky.

+ 71 vi. Frederick William Newsome, Sr., born January 05, 1812 in Rowan County, North Carolina; died Abt. 1899 in Robinson Creek, Pike County, Kentucky.

72 vii. Harrison Newsome, Jr., born 1815 in Rowan County, North Carolina. He married Mary Hall February 11, 1834 in Pike County, Kentucky; born Abt. 1818 in Pike County, Kentucky.

73 viii. Davenport Newsome, born 1816 in Pike County, Kentucky. He married Marinda Bryant April 06, 1837 in Pike County, Kentucky; born in Pike County, Kentucky.

74 ix. Elizabeth "Betty" Newsome, born Abt. 1817 in Pike County, Kentucky. She married William Hamilton

75 x. Martha "Patsy" Newsome, born Abt. 1819 in Pike County, Kentucky.

Children of Harrison Newsom and Polly Kinney are:

76 i. John14 Kinney-Newsom, born 1814 in Rowan County, North Carolina. He married Polly Branham June 19, 1834 in Pike County, Kentucky; born in Pike County, Kentucky.

77 ii. Nancy Kinney-Newsom, born 1815 in Pike County, Kentucky. She married William Elswick February 12, 1835 in Pike County, Kentucky; born in Pike County, Kentucky.

Notes for Nancy Kinney-Newsom:

The Kinney-Newsome sisters Nancy, Sarah and Margaret married the Elswick brothers William, John and James, in that order.

78 iii. William Kinney-Newsom, born 1816 in Pike County, Kentucky. He married Sarah Robinson May 07, 1853 in Pike County, Kentucky; born in Pike County, Kentucky.

79 iv. Sarah "Sally" Kinney-Newsom, born 1820 in Pike County, Kentucky. She married John Elswick December 31, 1835 in Pike County, Kentucky; born in Pike County, Kentucky.

80 v. Katherine Kinney - Newsom, born 1823 in Pike County, Kentucky; died 1885.

81 vi. Margaret Kinney-Newsom, born Abt. 1829 in Pike County, Kentucky. She married James Wesley Elswick December 28, 1844 in Pike County, Kentucky; born in Pike County, Kentucky.

82 vii. Leonard "Lin" Kinney-Newsom, born November 10, 1831 in Robinson Creek, Pike County, Kentucky; died March 30, 1930 in Robinson Creek, Pike County, Kentucky. He married Sarah Jane Johnson November 10, 1853 in Pike County, Kentucky; born in Pike County, Kentucky.

 

Generation No. 14

71. Frederick William14 Newsome, Sr. (Harrison13 Newsom, Sr., Lewis12, Sampson11, Thomas10, William9, William8, William7, Robert6, George5, John4, George3, John2, William1) was born January 05, 1812 in Rowan County, North Carolina, and died Abt. 1899 in Robinson Creek, Pike County, Kentucky. He married (1) Ansy Hall January 22, 1835 in Pike, Kentucky, daughter of Masias Hall and Unisiah Smith. She was born January 10, 1813 in Pound, Wise County, Virginia, and died July 17, 1869 in Robinson Creek, Pike County, Kentucky. He married (2) Aramina Spencer-Fraiser September 15, 1870 in Pike County, Kentucky, daughter of George Spencer and Elizabeth Brickley. She was born November 28, 1833 in Beaver Creek, Floyd County, Kentucky, and died April 17, 1920 in Robinson Creek, Pike County, Kentucky.

Notes for Frederick William Newsome, Sr.:

On November 9, 1861, some eight months after the birth of Tivis Newberry and seven months after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter (April 12), Frederick Newsome, at the age of 49, enlisted as a Private in Company G of the Fifth Regular Infantry of the Confederate States Army (C.S.A.). Not many details are known about Frederick's service other than that he served under a Captain D.J. Lykins and likely fought in several Kentucky engagements. It must be noted here that the old Civil War axiom, "Father against son, brother against brother..." sadly applies to the Newsome family. At least four of Frederick's sons fought in the War. Frederick's third child, Lackey, was killed in action February 25, 1865. See notes for Frederick's children.

After serving his term of enlistment, Frederick Newsome returned home to Ansy and eventually accumulated several hundred acres of land in the Robinson Creek area of Pike County, near its present border with Floyd County. These holdings were ultimately passed along to his children. His prominence in the area was such that a small parcel of Floyd County took on Frederick's nickname of "Fed." Fed, Hi Hat, was thus the birth place of many of the Newsome children of subsequent generations.

More About Frederick William Newsome, Sr.:

Burial: Frederick and Ansy are both buried in the Rob Newsome Cemetery, Newsome Cemetery Road, Little Robinson Creek, Pike County, Kentucky. Their weathered tombstones still stand.

Children of Frederick Newsome and Ansy Hall are:

83 i. Miranda S.15 Newsome, born November 28, 1833 in Pike County, Kentucky; died June 05, 1912 in Pike County, Kentucky.

84 ii. Davenport Newsome, born 1836 in Robinson Creek, Pike County, Kentucky; died 1879 in Pike County, Kentucky. He married Arminda Jane Hamilton April 08, 1858 in Pike County, Kentucky; born 1842 in Pike County, Kentucky; died 1888 in Pike County, Kentucky.

Notes for Davenport Newsome:

Davenport Newsom first served in the Union Army in the Civil War. He was a Private assigned to the 39th Kentucky Infantry, Company K. He deserted on July 7, 1864. Remarkably, he joined a contingent of the Confederate States Army (C.S.A.) operating out of Virginia - Captain Julius Williamson's Company of Smith's Battalion, Virginia Cavalry. This unusual and difficult circumstance is said to have arisen mainly out of an attempt by Union commanders to combine Company K of the 39th Kentucky Infantry with other Union commands which contained black soldiers. Apparently, while these Kentucky Union veterans opposed southern secession, they were far less sympathetic to the Union view of abolition and social integration. This animosity is said to have risen to such a fever pitch that elements of the 39th at one point actually fired shots at Negro troops.

In any case, Davenport's hiatus was relatively short-lived. He took advantage of President Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation of March 11, 1865, which granted full amnesty to all Union deserters, and returned to Union service on April 3, 1865, having served with his erstwhile Confederate foes for about eight months. He was honorably discharged from Union service at Louisville, Kentucky, on September 15, 1865, some five months after the end of the war. Davenport's younger brother Jarvey had a similar record in the Civil War, also serving on both sides at one time or another (see notes for Jarvey). Of course, the other brothers, Robert and Lackey, served their entire enlistments on the Union side. Lackey was killed in action on February 25, 1865 (see notes for Robert and Lackey). Source: Compiled Service Records for Confederate/Union Soldiers from Kentucky, National Archives, Washington, D.C., and archives of the "Sons of Confederate Veterans," East Kentucky Brigade, Hager Hill, Kentucky.

More About Davenport Newsome:

Burial: Davenport Newsome is buried in Rob Newsome Cemetery.

85 iii. Lackey Newsome, born 1838 in Pike County, Kentucky; died February 25, 1865 in Pike County, Kentucky. He married Matilda Baldwin May 28, 1860 in Pike County, Kentucky; born April 06, 1845 in Pike County, Kentucky; died May 09, 1906 in Pike County, Kentucky.

Notes for Lackey Newsome:

Lackey Newsome served in the Union Army in the Civil War. He was a Private assigned to the 39th Kentucky Infantry, Company K. He was k.i.a. - killed in action - on February 25, 1865, at Piketon, Kentucky, less than two months before the end of the war.

More About Lackey Newsome:

Burial: Lackey Newsome's remains were returned from the battlefield and laid to rest in Rob Newsome Cemetery.

86 iv. Robert K. Newsome, born December 25, 1837 in Robinson Creek, Pike County, Kentucky; died March 29, 1895 in Pike County, Kentucky. He married Phena "Phiney" Brown; born January 28, 1842 in Pike County, Kentucky; died March 21, 1918 in Pike County, Kentucky.

Notes for Robert K. Newsome:

Robert Newsome served in the Union Army in the Civil War. He was a Private assigned to the 39th Kentucky Infantry, Company K. He deserted on March 10, 1863, and was subsequently arrested and sentenced to five months at hard labor. The reason for this desertion is not clear. After serving his sentence, he returned to service with Company K, serving out the remainder of his term of enlistment. Along with his brothers Davenport and Jarvey, he was honorably discharged at Louisville, Kentucky on September 15, 1865. The fourth brother, Lackey, was killed in action at Piketon, Kentucky, on February 25, 1865.

More About Robert K. Newsome:

Burial: Robert Newsome is buried in Rob Newsome Cemetery alongside his parents and several siblings.

87 v. Jarvey Newsome, born December 27, 1839 in Robinson Creek, Pike County, Kentucky; died August 01, 1900 in Wheelwright, Floyd County, Kentucky. He married (1) Ellouisha Hall He married (2) Martha Baldwin He married (3) Darcella "Siller" Osborne April 02, 1871 in Pike County, Kentucky; born 1851 in Pike County, Kentucky; died 1939 in Wheelwright, Floyd County, Kentucky.

Notes for Jarvey Newsome:

Jarvey Newsome first served in the Union Army in the Civil War. He was a Private assigned to the 39th Kentucky Infantry, Company K. He enlisted on November 16, 1862. He received his first assignment and was "mustered in" on February 16, 1863, at Peach Orchard, Kentucky. He deserted just one month later on March 28, 1963. He was subsequently court marshalled and sentenced to hard labor. He deserted again, however, on December 6, 1864. Remarkably, he this time joined a contingent of the Confederate States Army (C.S.A.) operating out of Virginia - Captain Julius Williamson's Company of Smith's Battalion, Virginia Cavalry. He is listed on the muster roll of Williamson's Company as "present for duty" on December 31, 1864. This unusual and difficult circumstance is said to have arisen mainly out of an attempt by Union commanders to combine Company K of the 39th Kentucky Infantry with other Union commands which contained black soldiers. Apparently, while these Kentucky Union veterans opposed southern secession, they were far less sympathetic to the Union view of abolition and social integration. This animosity is said to have risen to such a fever pitch that elements of the 39th at one point actually fired shots at Negro troops.

In any case, Jarvey's hiatus was short-lived. He took advantage of President Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation of March 11, 1865, which granted full amnesty to all Union deserters, and returned to Union service on April 3, 1865, having served with his erstwhile Confederate foes for about three months. He was honorably discharged from Union service at Louisville, Kentucky, on September 15, 1865, some five months after the end of the war, under Special Order 156. Source: Compiled Service Records for Confederate/Union Soldiers from Kentucky, National Archives, Washington, D.C., and archives of the "Sons of Confederate Veterans," East Kentucky Brigade, Hager Hill, Kentucky.

More About Jarvey Newsome:

Burial: Jarvey Newsome is buried in Buckingham Cemetery, Wheelwright, Kentucky, next to his wife Darcella "Siller."

88 vi. Andrew Jackson Newsome, born November 1844 in Pike County, Kentucky; died 1911 in Pike County, Kentucky. He married (1) Margaret Akers August 24, 1866 in Floyd County, Kentucky He married (2) Almira Smallwood Aft. 1890

Notes for Andrew Jackson Newsome:

Among Andrew Jackson Newsome's children was General Jackson Newsome, known to most of his friends and family as "Jack." Jack took up moonshining in the remote hills of southeastern Kentucky after the turn of the century to supplement his farming income. He was caught and arrested by federal authorities in the spring of 1911 and subsequently indicted for "selling whiskey without having paid the special tax required by law." On May 24, 1911, he pled guilty to the charge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, was sentenced to imprisonment in the federal penitentiary for one year and one day, and was ordered to pay a fine of one hundred dollars.

Jack apparently served most of his time, but perhaps due to his impoverished state and the effect the fine would have on his family, President of the United States William Howard Taft ordered a remission of fine on March 26, 1912. Upon his release from prison Jack returned home to his third wife Fanny and lived out the remaining six years of his life in Robinson Creek, Pike County. He died of "heart dropsy" in 1918. Source: Federal Court Records, Eastern District of Kentucky, and "The Halls of Muddy Creek" by Carmel Akers, Grethel, Kentucky.

More About Andrew Jackson Newsome:

Burial: Andrew Jackson Newsome is buried in the Rob Newsome Cemetery in Pike County, Kentucky.

89 vii. Rosannah Newsome, born 1846 in Pike County, Kentucky; died 1860.

90 viii. Cynthia Malissa Newsome, born 1847 in Pike County, Kentucky. She married John Hall; born 1838 in Pike County, Kentucky.

91 ix. Una Jane Newsome, born February 16, 1849 in Pike County, Kentucky. She married John M. Brown in Pike County, Kentucky; born 1848 in Pike County, Kentucky.

92 x. Anna Newsome, born 1850 in Pike County, Kentucky; died Unknown.

93 xi. Margaret P. Newsome, born 1852 in Pike County, Kentucky; died February 03, 1882. She married Craig Hamilton; born 1855 in Pike County, Kentucky.

94 xii. David Newsome, born May 25, 1853 in Pike County, Kentucky; died 1899. He married Mary Jane Tackett; born 1850 in Pike County, Kentucky.

95 xiii. Noah Newsome, born April 1855 in Pike County, Kentucky.

96 xiv. Nancy Newsome, born July 28, 1856 in Pike County, Kentucky; died 1900. She married Noah Hall; born 1853 in Pike County, Kentucky.

+ 97 xv. Tivis Newberry Newsome, Sr., born March 29, 1861 in Pound, Wise County, Virginia; died March 14, 1939 in Ashland, Boyd County, Kentucky.

Children of Frederick Newsome and Aramina Spencer-Fraiser are:

98 i. Mary15 Newsome, born June 01, 1872 in Pike County, Kentucky.

99 ii. Frederick William Newsome, Jr., born 1877 in Pike County, Kentucky.

 

Generation No. 15

97. Tivis Newberry15 Newsome, Sr. (Frederick William14, Harrison13 Newsom, Sr., Lewis12, Sampson11, Thomas10, William9, William8, William7, Robert6, George5, John4, George3, John2, William1) was born March 29, 1861 in Pound, Wise County, Virginia, and died March 14, 1939 in Ashland, Boyd County, Kentucky. He married (1) Nancy Jane Osborne Abt. 1884 in Pike County, Kentucky, daughter of Sherwood Osborne and Dilena ?. She was born January 14, 1867 in Pike County, Kentucky, and died Abt. 1890 in Pike County, Kentucky. He married (2) Mary Jane Newman Abt. 1890 in Pike County, Kentucky, daughter of Robert Newman and Juda Turner. She was born February 28, 1874 in Pike County, Kentucky, and died March 12, 1956 in Ashland, Boyd County, Kentucky.

Notes for Tivis Newberry Newsome, Sr.:

Tivis Newberry Newsome, Sr., was called "Newberry" by his second wife Mary Jane and "Teaberry," or just T.N., by friends. He worked variously as a surveyor, a logging engineer, a merchant and a farmer. After marrying his first wife Nancy Jane Osborne in about 1884 he began his earliest stint in the timber business. Nancy Jane bore him five children at their home near his company's operations in Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia. Three of their children died at birth or in very early childhood (see notes on the children). After the death of Nancy Jane at a young age, Jarvey and Margaret, the surviving children, still quite young, boarded with family and foster parents in the area.

In about 1890 Teaberry wedded his second wife Mary Jane Newman, whom he had met while surveying the Clear Creek area in Kentucky, and started a new family. Eventually the couple moved a few miles south to Pound, Wise County, Virginia, just across the Kentucky line. This was T.N.'s likely birthplace, as well as that of his mother Ansy. He and Mary Jane opened a general store there. Tivis, Jr., and perhaps Virgie and Lizzie, are said to have stayed for a while at the home of their maternal grandparents Robert "Hogue" Newman and Juda (Turner) Newman during this period.

After four or five years in the mercantile business, the growing family once more pulled up stakes and returned to Floyd County, where T.N. had bought some 550 acres of timberland. For a while he ran the U.S. Post Office in Fed, Hi Hat, a village named after his father Frederick. Most of their children were born there. A story is passed down that at least one, maybe more, of the Newsome properties were burned as a result of arson stemming from neighborhood feuds. These may have included the house as well as a barn on the farm. Not many details are remembered about this affair, though there apparently was more than one incident.

T.N. was encouraged to leave Floyd County by Mary Jane who was terrified over the arson problem. Teaberry was perennially fiddle-footed anyway, so after a few years of overseeing his logging interests and carrying out his postmaster duties in Fed he purchased some two hundred acres of land (some say more, some say less) in Hoods Creek, Boyd County, Kentucky. On February 24, 1912, he moved the family yet again. After settling in the Ashland area, T.N. opened still another general store. The last of T.N. and Mary Jane's children, Ida "Babe" Newsome, was born in Hoods Creek.

After a while the couple experienced considerable marital discord and eventually divorced. Mary Jane stayed on at the Hoods Creek homestead and Teaberry moved to the vicinity of Wakefield in southern Ohio. He eventually took in his grandson Freddie, one of Jarvey's sons - Jarvey having been killed in a logging accident in about 1927 (see notes for Jarvey). After several years of separation from Mary Jane, Teaberry finally returned to Hoods Creek where the pair remarried. Teaberry lived out his days with Mary Jane until his death in 1939.

After T.N.'s passing, Mary Jane lived alone in the house on Hoods Creek until her death in 1956. Many members of the large family came to bid farewell to their beloved "Gramaw" at her funeral at the little Hoods Creek house. Among the mourners were twenty-seven-year-old Charles W. Newsome, Jr., who came with his parents and siblings to pay respects to his grandmother. His wife Beverly Jean (Taylor) Newsome stayed home in Trenton, Michigan to attend to the couple's young sons Charles III and Ricky Alan.

As a last point of interest, James L. Ellington, his wife Nannie Alice (Perry) Ellington, and all of their children to date, moved to Ashland, Kentucky from their generations-old roots in Morgan County (West Liberty, Blairs Mills) about 1918, some six years after the arrival of the Newsomes to the area from Floyd County. The Ellingtons traded at the store owned by the Newsomes. It was there that Leta Mae Ellington, third child of James L. and Nannie, and Charles W. Newsome, Sr., seventh child of T.N. and Mary Jane, met and ultimately married, thus uniting the Newsome and Ellington lines. Leta Mae remarked of Charles W. upon seeing him for the first time that he was "the prettiest boy I have ever seen..."

More About Tivis Newberry Newsome, Sr.:

Burial: Tivis Newberry Newsome and Mary Jane (Newman) Newsome are buried side-by-side in the Dixon Cemetery at Fairview (Westwood Station), Boyd County, Kentucky.

Children of Tivis Newsome and Nancy Osborne are:

100 i. Elizey Jane16 Newsome, born November 07, 1885 in Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia; died Bef. 1890 in Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia.

Notes for Elizey Jane Newsome:

Elizey Jane Newsome was either stillborn or died as a very young child.

101 ii. General E. Lee Newsome, born April 04, 1886 in Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia; died Bef. 1890 in Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia.

Notes for General E. Lee Newsome:

General E. Lee Newsome was either stillborn or died as a very young child.

102 iii. Anzie Newsome, born June 14, 1887 in Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia; died Bef. 1890 in Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia.

Notes for Anzie Newsome:

Anzie Newsome was either stillborn or died as a very young child.

103 iv. Jarvey Newsome, born April 19, 1888 in Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia; died Abt. 1927. He married Lola Hill; died 1928.

Notes for Jarvey Newsome:

Jarvey Newsome was the eldest son of T.N. Newsome and the namesake of his father's older brother Jarvey who had served in the Civil War. Young Jarvey, a WWI veteran, was killed in a logging accident in 1927, before he turned forty. After his death, and after the equally untimely death of his wife Lola Hill only a year later, two of the couple's four young children - Charles Leroy and Margorie - went to live with other members of the Hill family.

Tivis, Jr., called "Little Tivis," and Frederick, called "Freddie," lived with various members of the Newsome family. Freddie lived with his grandfather T.N. and his step-grandmother Mary Jane in Hoods Creek until they split up and then continued to live with his grandfather in Ohio when the elder Tivis and Mary Jane divorced. He also stayed occasionally with his uncle and aunt Charles W. Newsome, Sr. and Leta Mae (Ellington) Newsome, and another uncle and aunt, William McKinley Newsome and Anna (Springer) Newsome, in Michigan.

Little Tivis stayed mainly with his aunt and uncle Judy (Newsome) Runyon and August Runyon at their home in Hoods Creek although he, like his brother Freddie, stayed for a time with his Uncle "Charlie" and Aunt Leta in Michigan. Anticipating the military draft as WWII swept Europe and the Far East, Little Tivis returned to Kentucky and enlisted in the U.S. Army on November 10, 1941, less than a month before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. He was killed in action, purportedly by a Japanese sniper, on July 28, 1944. He is buried in the jungles of New Georgia Island.

104 v. Margaret Newsome, born August 16, 1889 in Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia; died April 02, 1923 in Floyd County, Kentucky. She married James William Jones

Children of Tivis Newsome and Mary Newman are:

+ 105 i. Virgie16 Newsome, born 1890 in Fed, Hi Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky; died 1961 in Ashland, Kentucky.

+ 106 ii. Tivis Newsome, born November 14, 1893 in Fed, Hi Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky; died November 11, 1972 in Bradenton, Florida.

+ 107 iii. Elizabeth "Lizzy" Newsome, born March 22, 1895 in Fed, Hi Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky; died April 25, 1984 in Wheelersburg, Ohio.

+ 108 iv. Juda "Judy" Newsome, born September 03, 1898 in Fed, Hi Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky; died December 25, 1980 in Trenton, Michigan.

+ 109 v. William McKinley Newsome, born January 10, 1901 in Fed, Hi Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky; died March 29, 1978 in South Point, Ohio.

+ 110 vi. Theodore Roosevelt Newsome, born October 10, 1903 in Fed, Hi Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky; died November 02, 1989 in Miller, Ohio.

+ 111 vii. Charles Warren Newsome, Sr., born January 11, 1905 in Fed, Hi Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky; died January 26, 1969 in Trenton, Michigan.

+ 112 viii. Sada "Sadie" Newsome, born June 15, 1908 in Fed, Hi Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky.

+ 113 ix. Nancy Newsome, born November 17, 1909 in Fed, Hi Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky; died October 26, 1996 in Boyd County, Kentucky.

+ 114 x. Ida "Babe" Newsome, born February 02, 1913 in Hoods Creek, Boyd County, Kentucky.

 

Generation No. 16

Note: Dates have been removed from
Generations 17 and 18 and some dates from
Generation 16 to protect the privacy of these
Newsom(e) families. For more information,
please contact Charles W. Newsome, III.

105. Virgie16 Newsome (Tivis Newberry15, Frederick William14, Harrison13 Newsom, Sr., Lewis12, Sampson11, Thomas10, William9, William8, William7, Robert6, George5, John4, George3, John2, William1) was in Fed, Hi Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky, and died 1961 in Ashland, Kentucky. She married William "Will" Martin. He died Abt. 1954.

Children of Virgie Newsome and William Martin are:

115 i. Tonia17 Martin.

116 ii. Elizabeth Martin.

106. Tivis16 Newsome (Tivis Newberry15, Frederick William14, Harrison13 Newsom, Sr., Lewis12, Sampson11, Thomas10, William9, William8, William7, Robert6, George5, John4, George3, John2, William1) was born November 14, 1893 in Fed, Hi Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky, and died November 11, 1972 in Bradenton, Florida. He married Kathleen Nave.

Children of Tivis Newsome and Kathleen Nave are:

117 i. Charles17 Newsome.

118 ii. Donald Newsome.

119 iii. Doris "Dotty" Newsome.

120 iv. Fern Newsome.

121 v. Helen Newsome.

122 vi. Mary Margaret Newsome.

123 vii. Tivis Newsome, Jr..

124 viii. Virginia Newsome.

107. Elizabeth "Lizzy"16 Newsome (Tivis Newberry15, Frederick William14, Harrison13 Newsom, Sr., Lewis12, Sampson11, Thomas10, William9, William8, William7, Robert6, George5, John4, George3, John2, William1) was born in Fed, Hi Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky, and died April 25, 1984 in Wheelersburg, Ohio. She married (1) John Jones. She married (2) Robert Frazier. He died in Greenup County, Kentucky.

Notes for Robert Frazier:

Bob Frazier died a particularly unusual and grisly death. While plowing a field with a team on the family farm he was kicked in the head by one of the horses. Either dead or unconscious, the team proceeded to pull a heavy corn planter over him.

Children of Elizabeth Newsome and John Jones are:

125 i. Clinton17 Jones.

126 ii. Verdie Jones.

Children of Elizabeth Newsome and Robert Frazier are:

127 i. Lucille17 Frazier.

128 ii. Ed Frazier.

129 iii. Goldie Frazier.

130 iv. Lee Frazier.

131 v. Marie Frazier.

132 vi. Lorraine "Dickie" Frazier.

133 vii. Walter Frazier.

134 viii. Theodore "Teddy" Frazier.

108. Juda "Judy"16 Newsome (Tivis Newberry15, Frederick William14, Harrison13 Newsom, Sr., Lewis12, Sampson11, Thomas10, William9, William8, William7, Robert6, George5, John4, George3, John2, William1) was born September 03, 1898 in Fed, Hi Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky, and died December 25, 1980 in Trenton, Michigan. She married August Runyon. He was born 1899 in Carter County, Kentucky, and died 1969 in Ashland, Boyd County, Kentucky.

Children of Juda Newsome and August Runyon are:

135 i. August17 Runyon, Jr..

136 ii. Arvilla Runyon.

137 iii. Eva Runyon.

138 iv. Helen Runyon.

109. William McKinley16 Newsome (Tivis Newberry15, Frederick William14, Harrison13 Newsom, Sr., Lewis12, Sampson11, Thomas10, William9, William8, William7, Robert6, George5, John4, George3, John2, William1) was born in Fed, Hi Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky, and died in South Point, Ohio. He married Anna Springer.

Children of William Newsome and Anna Springer are:

139 i. Francis17 Newsome.

140 ii. Opal Newsome.

141 iii. William Newsome.

142 iv. Tivis Newsome.

143 v. Russell Newsome.

110. Theodore Roosevelt16 Newsome (Tivis Newberry15, Frederick William14, Harrison13 Newsom, Sr., Lewis12, Sampson11, Thomas10, William9, William8, William7, Robert6, George5, John4, George3, John2, William1) was born in Fed, Hi Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky, and died November 02, 1989 in Miller, Ohio. He married (1) Kythryn "Kitty" Jones. He married (2) Ella Boggs.

Children of Theodore Newsome and Kythryn Jones are:

144 i. Lowell17 Newsome.

145 ii. Ted R. Newsome.

111. Charles Warren16 Newsome, Sr. (Tivis Newberry15, Frederick William14, Harrison13 Newsom, Sr., Lewis12, Sampson11, Thomas10, William9, William8, William7, Robert6, George5, John4, George3, John2, William1) was born in Fed, Hi Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky, and died January 26, 1969 in Trenton, Michigan. He married Leta Mae Ellington in Ashland, Kentucky, daughter of James Ellington and Nannie Perry. She was born in Blairs Mills, Morgan County, Kentucky, and died December 07, 1994 in Trenton, Michigan.

Notes for Leta Mae Ellington:

This is the complete text of the eulogy delivered at Leta's funeral at the Ralph W. Ridge Funeral Home in Trenton, Michigan, December 10, 1994, by grandson Charles W. Newsome III:

"Leta Mae. Mom. Mamaw. It seems too short a name for such a wonderful story to lie behind it. She wiped a thousand tears away and listened to a hundred tales of woe. Often the tale she used to bind the wounds and heal the hurt was a tale of her own - better than any pill, or any salve, better than any doctor's prescription.

'Long ago, there was a place,' she would say, 'in the hills of Kentucky, called Possum Ridge...' A family lived there on a farm. And while this family was mostly like other families of that place and that time, there was an enchantment there, a magic that was a match for any story of the Brothers Grimm.

The spring came early, and there was dogwood, and mountain laurel, and the redbud trees were like the purple of a painter's palate splashed across the green hillsides.

In the summer there were wild greens for supper, and green onions, and radishes and early tomatoes, and Kentucky Wonders. In the woods there were blackberries as big as your thumb, and the bluebirds would chatter in the trees over your head.

The water in the well was not good to drink, but its cold, dark water was a wonderful refrigerator, and many a jug of milk, or buttermilk, was lowered by rope to cool there. And you got fresh water to drink from the little spring beneath the cliff. And the girls washed their hair in the waterfall in the gentle stream nearby.

In the fall there was squash and sorghum, and corn eight feet tall, and white sweet potatoes as long as your forearm. And when you looked out from the top of the ridge across the hollows the colors would take your breath away.

When winter came, and the canning was done, and the smokehouse was filled, the father would sometimes take jobs lumber jacking far away in the log woods. He was terribly missed, and the cold black nights were as long as years. But after a week or two, one bitter cold evening as you sat quietly at the hearth, watching the flames dance and listening to the oak logs pop, you heard him returning home up the lane. You cocked your head and listened hard and you could hear him coming. His heavy, baggy trousers would get wet on the long walk home and then freeze in the winter cold. The legs rubbed together and softly swished a steady, rhythmic swish as he came near. And then the door would be open and he would be home.

The man who came home was Grampaw, of course, and the little girl who listened so carefully was Mamaw - Leta Mae. And of all the wonderful things that took place on Possum Ridge, the most magical of all was the family - the unquestioning, absolute love that each had for the other.

And that is the story of Leta Mae, of Mom, of Mamaw. Unlike Hemingway or Faulkner or Frost, she never set pen to paper. She didn't need to, you see. Her whole life was a tale to be told. The kind, unselfish old heart that failed her at last was itself a poem to be recited.

In your mind's eye do you see the log house in the woods? Do you feel the cool soil of the garden sift through your fingers on a sunny day, the sky so blue it hurts to look at it? Can you hear the sound of Grampaw's frozen trousers as he trudges home in the cold night?

Of course. Of course, you can. And that, you see, is Mamaw's gift to us. That is the medicine that makes the hurt go away. Mamaw's legacy is her story. And the lesson of the story is to remember. And the responsibility of each of the younger members of our big family is to not let the story die with the story teller.

So I say to all of the young Newsomes and Chambers, Heavlins and Kaskes, and Littles and all the rest: when your little one falls and bumps his head, wipe away his tears and take him on your lap. When your teenager despairs at the ending of her first love, take her by the hand and draw her close. And then tell them the story. Tell them about the place, the magical place, where blackberries grew big as your thumb.

Finally, I will say just this, and borrow a line from one of the great writers: 'Out of all of my travels, and of all of the souls that I have known, hers was the most human...' "

Children of Charles Newsome and Leta Ellington are:

+ 146 i. Lorraine17 Newsome, born in Westwood, Boyd County, Kentucky; died May 30, 1996 in Alabama.

+ 147 ii. Charles Warren Newsome, Jr., born in Millseat, Boyd County, Kentucky.

+ 148 iii. James Newsome, born in Westwood, Boyd County, Kentucky.

+ 149 iv. MaryAnn Newsome, born in Berlin Township, Monroe County, Michigan.

112. Sada "Sadie"16 Newsome (Tivis Newberry15, Frederick William14, Harrison13 Newsom, Sr., Lewis12, Sampson11, Thomas10, William9, William8, William7, Robert6, George5, John4, George3, John2, William1) was born June 15, 1908 in Fed, Hi Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky. She married (1) Clyde Ramey. He was born Abt. 1901, and died Abt. 1926. She married (2) Bert Holbrook. She married (3) Raymond Yates.

Notes for Clyde Ramey:

Clyde Ramey died in a logging accident at the age of twenty-five.

Children of Sada Newsome and Clyde Ramey are:

150 i. Robert17 Ramey.

151 ii. Ruby Ramey.

Child of Sada Newsome and Raymond Yates is:

152 i. James17 Yates.

113. Nancy16 Newsome (Tivis Newberry15, Frederick William14, Harrison13 Newsom, Sr., Lewis12, Sampson11, Thomas10, William9, William8, William7, Robert6, George5, John4, George3, John2, William1) was born in Fed, Hi Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky, and died October 26, 1996 in Boyd County, Kentucky. She married Butler Earwood.

Children of Nancy Newsome and Butler Earwood are:

153 i. Betty17 Earwood.

154 ii. William Earwood.

114. Ida "Babe"16 Newsome (Tivis Newberry15, Frederick William14, Harrison13 Newsom, Sr., Lewis12, Sampson11, Thomas10, William9, William8, William7, Robert6, George5, John4, George3, John2, William1) was born in Hoods Creek, Boyd County, Kentucky. She married (1) Curl McGraw. She married (2) James Moody.

Child of Ida Newsome and Curl McGraw is:

155 i. Charles17 McGraw.

 

Generation No. 17

Note: Dates have been removed from
Generations 17 and 18 and some dates from
Generation 16 to protect the privacy of these
Newsom(e) families. For more information,
please contact Charles W. Newsome, III.

146. Lorraine17 Newsome (Charles Warren16, Tivis Newberry15, Frederick William14, Harrison13 Newsom, Sr., Lewis12, Sampson11, Thomas10, William9, William8, William7, Robert6, George5, John4, George3, John2, William1) was born in Westwood, Boyd County, Kentucky, and died in Alabama. She married Joseph Chambers in Trenton, Michigan. He was born in Ozark, Alabama.

Children of Lorraine Newsome and Joseph Chambers are:

156 i. Joseph18 Chambers.

157 ii. Michael David Chambers.

158 iii. Randall Timothy Chambers.

159 iv. Sandra Chambers.

160 v. Lisa Chambers.

161 vi. Stephen Chambers.

162 vii. Jeff Chambers.

163 viii. Heidi Chambers.

147. Charles Warren17 Newsome, Jr. (Charles Warren16, Tivis Newberry15, Frederick William14, Harrison13 Newsom, Sr., Lewis12, Sampson11, Thomas10, William9, William8, William7, Robert6, George5, John4, George3, John2, William1) was born in Millseat, Boyd County, Kentucky. He married (1) Beverly Jean Taylor in Trenton, Michigan, daughter of Ernest Taylor and Edna Gorham. She was born in Trenton, Michigan, and died in Trenton, Michigan. He married (2) Judith Sperling in Trenton, Michigan. She was born in Wyandotte, Michigan. He married (3) Karen Sage in West Branch, Michigan. She was born in Detroit, Michigan.

Marriage Notes for Charles Newsome and Beverly Taylor:

Divorced

Marriage Notes for Charles Newsome and Judith Sperling:

Divorced

Children of Charles Newsome and Beverly Taylor are:

+ 164 i. Charles Warren18 Newsome III, born in Trenton, Michigan.

+ 165 ii. Ricky Alan Newsome, born in Trenton, Michigan.

Children of Charles Newsome and Judith Sperling are:

+ 166 i. Dwayne18 Newsome.

167 ii. Debra Newsome.

168 iii. Donald Newsome.

148. James17 Newsome (Charles Warren16, Tivis Newberry15, Frederick William14, Harrison13 Newsom, Sr., Lewis12, Sampson11, Thomas10, William9, William8, William7, Robert6, George5, John4, George3, John2, William1) was born in Westwood, Boyd County, Kentucky. He married (1) Joan Puhl in Melvindale, Michigan. She was born in Wyandotte, Michigan. He married (2) Yvonne Knightstep 5 in Gibralter, Michigan. She was born in Martinez, California.

Marriage Notes for James Newsome and Joan Puhl:

Divorced.

Children of James Newsome and Joan Puhl are:

169 i. James18 Newsome.

170 ii. Faye Newsome.

171 iii. David Newsome.

172 iv. Elizabeth Newsome.

149. MaryAnn17 Newsome (Charles Warren16, Tivis Newberry15, Frederick William14, Harrison13 Newsom, Sr., Lewis12, Sampson11, Thomas10, William9, William8, William7, Robert6, George5, John4, George3, John2, William1) was born in Berlin Township, Monroe County, Michigan. She married Carl Heavlin in Monroe, Michigan. He was born in Wyandotte, Michigan.

Child of MaryAnn Newsome and Carl Heavlin is:

173 i. Richard18 Heavlin.

 

 

Generation No. 18

164. Charles Warren18 Newsome III (Charles Warren17, Charles Warren16, Tivis Newberry15, Frederick William14, Harrison13 Newsom, Sr., Lewis12, Sampson11, Thomas10, William9, William8, William7, Robert6, George5, John4, George3, John2, William1) was born in Trenton, Michigan. He married (1) Connie Kay Zucker in Saginaw, Michigan, daughter of Herbert Zucker and Virginia Melcher. She was born in Saginaw, Michigan. He married (2) Patricia Kay Loftis in Woodhaven, Michigan. She was born in Detroit, Michigan.

Marriage Notes for Charles Newsome and Connie Zucker:

Divorced

Notes for Patricia Kay Loftis:

Had a daughter by first husband Steven Lewis: Kay Marie Loftis.

Marriage Notes for Charles Newsome and Patricia Loftis:

Divorced.

Children of Charles Newsome and Connie Zucker are:

174 i. Charles Warren19 Newsome IV, born in Trenton, Michigan.

175 ii. Lorien Jean Newsome, born in Trenton, Michigan.

165. Ricky Alan18 Newsome (Charles Warren17, Charles Warren16, Tivis Newberry15, Frederick William14, Harrison13 Newsom, Sr., Lewis12, Sampson11, Thomas10, William9, William8, William7, Robert6, George5, John4, George3, John2, William1) was born in Trenton, Michigan. He married Deborah Catarino in Trenton, Michigan. She was born in Wyandotte, Michigan.

Children of Ricky Newsome and Deborah Catarino are:

176 i. Kellie19 Newsome

177 ii. Justin Newsome

178 iii. Derek Newsome

166. Dwayne18 Newsome (Charles Warren17, Charles Warren16, Tivis Newberry15, Frederick William14, Harrison13 Newsom, Sr., Lewis12, Sampson11, Thomas10, William9, William8, William7, Robert6, George5, John4, George3, John2, William1). He married Kimberly Frasier in Lincoln Park, Michigan. She was born in Lincoln Park, Michigan.

Children of Dwayne Newsome and Kimberly Frasier are:

179 i. Brandon19 Newsome.

180 ii. Steven Newsome.

181 iii. Courtney Ann Newsome.

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