In a message dated 8/12/2006 2:24:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, mosesm@earthlink.net writes: I am guessing that you mean Sterling Newton rather than Newton Sterling. Sterling seems to have been a very popular name among the Appersons and the Harris lines that I look at. James Apperson and his wife Sarah (Sallie) Noell Guthrie Apperson name one of their sons Sterling Guthrie Apperson and he marries Eliza Newton. They name their son Sterling Newton Apperson. Another one of the grandsons of James and Sallie Apperson was named Samuel Sterling Harris. I have looked in my data base and don't find who the original Sterling was....but the name was used a lot. Marsha There was a Dr Sterling FORD who was brother to Hezekiah FORD b abt 1788 who married Elizabeth BALLOWE. Hezekiah FORD & Elizabeth BALLOWE had a son named Newton Sterling FORD. These people were in Cumberland Co, VA. It would not surprise me to find a connection there one of these days. To add a more recent one, the Sterling Guthrie APPERSON who married Eliza NEWTON had a son named Thomas Jefferson APPERSON. He married Sarah Frances ENGLAND and they named their son who was born 12 Feb 1880, Sterling Guthrie APPERSON after his grandpa. Ruby Talley Smith