Oaks to Acorns - William Arthur Newman

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William Arthur Newman
William Arthur on the Pedigree Chart
b: 10 Jul 1875 Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, Georgia
  d: 18 Jun 1906 Abbeville, Wilcox County, Georgia
         
  Parents: Abraham William Newman and Mary Elizabeth Conner
         
  m: 24 Jul 1892 Susan Ann Scaff Abbeville, Wilcox County, Georgia
         
   
  Notes: (includes both facts and conjecture)
       
 
Personal
 I don't have much information on William Arthur. Family lore says that William had been working his fields when a sudden summer storm came up, and he took a break beneath the overhang of a shed to wait it out. His 8-year-old son, William Lonnie, was reportedly seated on the ground between his legs. He suffered no apparent injury when a lightning bolt hit the shed, killing William Arthur as he sat leaning against one of the posts.

From The Abbeville Chronicle, Thursday, June 21, 1906: "Mr. Arthur Newman, a farmer living about 3 miles from Abbeville, was struck by lightening and instantly killed Monday afternoon while stacking oats in his field. His wife was with him and was shocked, though not seriously. She and several small children survive him and they have the sympathy of the entire community."

In the 1910 census, Susie was living in the 1158th Militia District, Wilcox County: Susie, 33; Nannie, 14; Lonnie, 13; Alice, 10; Mira (sic), 7; John R., 5; Louise, 3; Margaret Gibbs, mother, 52; Willie Gibbs, Margaret's son, 15.

 
       
 
Children
 Children with Susan Ann Scaff:
  1. Nannie Newman, b. 4 Oct 1895; m. Daniel Ryals
  2. William Lonnie Newman, b. 14 Aug 1897; m. Mary Alma Inez Heath
  3. Alice Newman, b. Oct 1899; m. John McCall
  4. Susan Elmira Newman; b. 2 Mar 1902; m. Johnnie French Sutton
  5. John R. Newman, b. 1905; m. Gladys Denkins
  6. Louise Newman, b. 17 Jan 1907; m. Delmar Cumbus, Lonnie Brown, HT Coleman
 
     
 
Photos
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Alice Newman McCall with husband, John
Louise Newman Brown with husband, Lonnie
 
 
 
Records
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Sources
 Sources: Wilcox County Marriage Records; The Abbeville Chronicle; 1910 census
     
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