In the 1830 census for Pulaski County, Georgia, John's household includes the above, along with another male aged 20-30. This is possibly a nephew or some other visiting relative, but could conceivably be a son who was out on his own by the time the earlier census was taken. Living next door to John Newman's family is George Cherry, along with his first wife and their family. George would eventually marry Canzada Shiver, who would in turn eventually marry Arthur Newman.
In 1840, John's household still includes wife Nancy, daughter Sarah, sons Edward and Arthur, and a third son in the same 20-30 year age range. The older male from 1830 is no longer there. Pulaski Marriage Records show a Charlie Newman marrying Queen E. Mock on 7 Jan 1841 and since there were no other Newmans in Pulaski in 1840, it seems likely this Charlie is the third son. I was unable to find Charlie and/or Queen in the next two censuses, even when I expanded my search beyond Georgia, so I have no additional information on Charlie that would help resolve the question.
Edward Jr., age 14, who shows up in 1850 living with John, Nancy, Edward and Sarah, wasn't included in the 1840 census when he would have been 4 years old. I've seen nothing on him other than this census record, and have found no marriage record for the elder Edward or reference to a wife; if the junior is Edward's son, where was he in 1840? It's conjecture, but conceivable, that the 20-30 year old male in the 1830 Newman household was the eldest of John's sons and father to Edward, Jr. It wasn't an uncommon convention for the times to name a son after a brother and include the "junior" tag, but more research obviously will be needed to clear up the mystery.
There is a Jesse Newman, head of household in Pulaski in 1860, who is the right age to be Edward Jr., but nothing else that connects them in any way. According to later excerpts from the local paper, Jesse C. Newman's wife was Sarah Lamb, daughter of Reuben and Elizabeth Lamb of Twiggs County. They did not marry in Pulaski, and there's not a single given name among their children (e.g., Alonzo, Cicero, Turner, Oscar, Lee) that would seem to tie them to the John Newman clan. The 1860 census was the first record of Jesse in Pulaski as far as I can tell.
Both John and Nancy died between 1850 and 1860. The date of John's death is unknown. Nancy died in Jan 1860 of ulcers at the age of 82 (b. ca 1778) according to the Mortality Index, which listed her occupation as seamstress.
- Unknown female, b. 1800-1810 (not on later censuses)
- Unknown male, b. 1800-1810 (not confirmed)
- Charles Newman, b. 1810-1815 (not confirmed); m. Queen E. Mock
- Edward Newman, b. ca 1814; d. 1879
- Arthur Newman, b. 10 June 1816; m. Canzada Shiver, Martha Sanders
- Sarah Newman, b. ca 1820; d. after 1888
In 1860, Edward and sister Sarah were living together; he seems to be prospering at farming, and Sarah is listed as a seamstress. In 1870, he was living alone and working as a miller; Sarah was "keeping house" in Arthur's household. Edward died in 1879 of digestive disease, having reportedly been a resident of Pulaski County for 40 years (50 would probably be more accurate).
Census records are notoriously untrustworthy when it comes to ages and such, but I surmised Sarah must have been just a baby in the 1820 census to be categorized as between 5-10 in the census ten years later. Given the fact that the 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 censuses reported Sarah as, respectively, 31, 41, 40(!) and 62 (rough decade, eh?), I'd say that my guess is as good as theirs.
Arthur left sister Sarah a life estate in one of his properties when he died in 1888. It's not known when Sarah died, but she is not enumerated in the 1900 census (the 1890 census was lost to fire).
