 1861 - 1939 (77 years)
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| Name |
Tivis Newberry NEWSOM |
| Suffix |
Sr |
| Birth |
29 Mar 1861 |
Pound, Wise county, Virginia  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
14 Mar 1939 |
Ashland, Boyd County, Kentucky |
| Burial |
Dixon Cemetery at Fairview (Westwood Station), Boyd County, Kentucky |
| Notes |
- 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.
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| Person ID |
I7132 |
Johnson & Hanson |
| Last Modified |
1 Apr 2006 |
| Father |
Frederick William NEWSOM, b. 5 Jan 1812, Rowan County, North Carolina d. Abt 1899, Robinson Creek, Pike County, Kentucky (Age 86 years) |
| Mother |
Ansy HALL, b. 10 Jan 1813, Pound, Wise county, Virginia d. 17 Jul 1869, Robinson Creek, Pike County, Kentucky (Age 56 years) |
| Marriage |
22 Jan 1835 |
Pike County, Kentucky |
| Family ID |
F2644 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Nancy Jane OSBORNE, b. 14 Jan 1867, Pike County, Kentucky |
| Marriage |
Abt 1884 |
Pike County, Kentucky |
| Children |
| | 1. Elizey Jane NEWSOM, b. 7 Nov 1885, Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia d. Bef 1890, Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia (Age < 4 years) |
| | 2. General E Lee NEWSOM, b. 4 Apr 1886, Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia d. Bef 1890, Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia (Age < 3 years) |
| | 3. Anzie NEWSOM, b. 14 Jun 1887, Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia d. Bef 1890, Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia (Age < 2 years) |
| | 4. Jarvey NEWSOM, b. 19 Apr 1888, Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia d. Abt 1927 (Age 38 years) |
| | 5. Margaret NEWSOM, b. 16 Aug 1889, Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia d. 2 Apr 1923, Floyd County, Kentucky (Age 33 years) |
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| Family ID |
F2662 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Mary Jane NEWMAN, b. 28 Feb 1874, Pike County, Kentucky d. 12 Mar 1956, Ashland, Boyd County, Kentucky (Age 82 years) |
| Marriage |
Abt 1890 |
Pike County, Kentucky |
| Children |
| + | 1. Virgie NEWSOM, b. 1890, Fed, HI Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky d. 1961, Ashland, Boyd County, Kentucky (Age 71 years) |
| + | 2. Tivis NEWSOM, b. 14 Nov 1893, Fed, HI Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky d. 11 Nov 1972, Bradenton, Florida (Age 78 years) |
| + | 3. Elizabeth "Lizzy" NEWSOM, b. 22 Mar 1895, Fed, HI Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky d. 25 Apr 1984, Wheelersburg, Ohio (Age 89 years) |
| + | 4. Juda "Judy" NEWSOM, b. 3 Sep 1898, Fed, HI Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky d. 25 Dec 1980, Trenton, Michigan (Age 82 years) |
| + | 5. William McKinley NEWSOM, b. 10 Jan 1901, Fed, HI Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky d. 29 Mar 1978, South Point, Ohio (Age 77 years) |
| + | 6. Theodore Roosevelt NEWSOM, b. 10 Oct 1903, Fed, HI Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky d. 2 Nov 1989, Miller, Ohio (Age 86 years) |
| + | 7. Charles Warren NEWSOM, b. 11 Jan 1905, Fed, HI Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky d. 26 Jan 1969, Trenton, Michigan (Age 64 years) |
| + | 8. Living |
| + | 9. Nancy NEWSOM, b. 17 Nov 1909, Fed, HI Hat, Floyd County, Kentucky d. 26 Oct 1996, Boyd County, Kentucky (Age 86 years) |
| + | 10. Living |
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| Family ID |
F2664 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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