When William Elvin Newman was born on 24 February 1828, in Bethune, Kershaw, South Carolina, United States, his father, John J Newman, was 48 and his mother, Nancy King, was 43. He married Anna Elizabeth Josey about 1848, in McBee, Chesterfield, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Natchitoches, Louisiana, United States in 1870 and Coushatta, Red River, Louisiana, United States in 1880. He died on 28 November 1897, in Red River, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Newman Cemetery, Red River, Louisiana, United States.
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English (southern): nickname from Middle English newe ‘new’ (i.e. newly arrived or newly appointed) + man ‘man’ (Old English nīwe + mann).
Americanized form (translation into English) of surnames meaning ‘new man, newcomer’, for example German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Neumann , Swedish Nyman , Polish Nowak , Czech or Slovak Novák, Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Novak .
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