This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: NEWSOM NEWSON NEWSOME Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lIB.2ACE/583.1 Message Board Post: I AM A NEWSOME AND MY GGGRANDFATHER WAS DAVE NEWSOM. HE RESIDED IN SIMPSON COUNTY MS. HE WAS BORN AROUND 1865 AND DIED IN 1926. HE WAS MARRIED TO ANNIE POWELL OF SIMPSON COUNTY MS. THEY HAD SEVERAL CHILDREN, ONE OF WHICH WAS MY GREAT GRANDFATHER JOE L. NEWSOME. WHAT I HAVE NOTICED IS THAT THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT SPELLINGS OF THE LAST NAME. SOME WITH AN E SOME WITHOUT, AND SOME WITH AN "n" AT THE END. SOME NAMES IN MY GG GRANDFATHERS CHILDREN WERE DAVE, PALLIE PINE,JOE JOHN, NIECY, MARTHA, CHARLIE, LEVASTUS. IF ANY OF THESE SOUND FAMILIAR LET ME KNOW. I AM TRYING TO FIND WHERE DAVE NEWSOM CAME FROM. I HAVE CENSUS DISCS FROM 1870 - 1930. HE IS LISTED IN 1890- 1930. BUT PRIOR TO THAT I CANT FIND HIM.