When SGT James Robert Newman was born on 14 May 1924, in Manhattan, Riley, Kansas, United States, his father, Gerald Edward Newman, was 31 and his mother, Sarah Clifford Hathcock, was 33. He lived in District 988, Stewart, Georgia, United States for about 10 years. He died on 23 February 1945, in Iwo Jima, Ogasawara-shichō, Tōkyō-to, Japan, at the age of 20, and was buried in Stewart, Georgia, United States.
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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