This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HKB.2ACI/1036.1041.1043.1.1 Message Board Post: I don't know a lot about the African American Wilsons there now but I got a lot on the early Wilson's there who were related by marriage to one of the earliest Newsoms in that area. I have Frank and Rachel Newsom in 1870 with children Pleas and Coleman. Coleman is my great great grandfather. His mother Rachel later had several more children by Ed Harper: Edward, Will, Virgil, James, Mollie Addie, Robert. Virgil's grandchildren and Wills grandchildren live down there now. I've got a lot of research and references if any of this rings a bell. Send me your Newsom connections.