1900 J A Newsome (born in Alabama in Feb 1866, married for 10 years) lived in Punta Gorda, Desoto County, Florida, in a household with Samantha Newsome (29), Neptune Newsome (8), John Newsome (6), Ju?i??E Newsome (4), Ellen Newsome (2), and James Newsome (1). J A Newsome's parents were both born in Alabama. J A Newsome was a merchant. J A Newsome's residence was h, F. [1]
1910 Jas A Newsome (age 42, born in Florida, married for 20 years) lived in Fort Meade, Polk County, Florida, in a household with Samantha M Newsome (38), Neptuna Newsome (18), John H Newsome (16), Justine E Newsome (15), Samantha E Newsome (13), James E Newsome (11), Lucile M Newsome (8), William G Newsome (5), and Mark D Newsome (2). Jas A Newsome's parents were both born in Georgia. Jas A Newsome could not read or write. Jas A Newsome was a retail store. Jas A Newsome's residence was a house, Mortgaged. [2]
1920 James Newsome (age 55, born in Florida, married) lived in Fort Meade, Polk County, Florida, in a household with Samantha Newsome (48), James A Newsome (21), William Newsome (15), Mark Newsome (13), Robert Newsome (10), and Margaret Newsome (8). James Newsome's parents were both born in Alabama. James Newsome could read and write. James Newsome was a merchant. [3]
1935 Jas A Newsome Sr (age 68, born in Florida) lived in Polk County, Florida, in a household with Katherine Padrick (85), Samantha M Newsome (65), Wm G Newsome (28), and Robt T Newsome (24). [4]
1943 James Alexander Newsome, spouse of Samantha Melissa Newsome, died in 1943. He was born in 1865. [5] [6]
1945 John Emmett Carnahan and Lucille Newsome were married on April 8 in Roanoke, Virginia. Lucille Newsome, child of Jas Alexander Newsome and Melissee Mayo, was born about 1904. [7]
1943 An obituary reported that James A. Newsome died on November 15 in Fort Meade and named his children. He had lived at Wauchula, Hardee, Florida. [8]
1953 Samantha Melissa Newsome, spouse of James Alexander Newsome, died in 1953 in Polk County, Florida. She was born in 1871 in Florida, daughter of Marques De Lafayette Mayo and Martha E Mayo. [9]
Research Notes:
Robert Wolfe and his siblings have many dna matches with descendants of James Newsome and Samantha Mayo. Many of those dna matches are shared matches with other likely descendants of Nancy Cochran's ancestors. We do not know how James Newsome or Samantha Mayo might be related to the Cochran line. The parents of both James Newsome and Samantha Mayo seemm to be well documented, although no dna matches have been found among descendants of any of the siblings of James Newsome or Samantha Mayo. We seek clarification of how the descendants of this couple might be related to Nancy Cochran.
[1] United States Federal Census, 1900, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[2] United States Federal Census, 1910, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[3] United States Federal Census, 1920, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[4] Florida State Census, 1867-1945, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[5] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[6] Florida Death Index, 1877-1998 (Florida: Florida Department of Health, Office of Vital Records, 1998), [AncestryRecord].
[7] Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[8] U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current, [AncestryRecord].
[9] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].