Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Davis Newman who was born ca 1780 in Spartanburg District, South Carolina. He married Nancy Stone sometime prior to the year1820. They lived in South Carolina and were the parents of six children. Descendants lived in Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, South Carolina and elsewhere.

The Simons/Simson/Simpson/Simonson name is the same family as the Fraser and Simon-Fraser families of Sir Simon Fraser of the Clan Fraser of Lovat of Scotland. Thomas Franklin Simpson/Simson (1837-ca. 1924) who married Margaret Emerine Van Hooser in 1868, was the descendant of James Simpson who emigrated from Ulster, Ireland in 1746. One ancestor, Hannah, was the mother of President Ulysses Simpson Grant. Descendants lived in Virginia, the Carolinas,...

James Henry Whatley was born 2 June 1867 in Georgia. His parents were William Henry Whatley and Susan. He married Elizabeth Bell Saunders 5 December 1887. They had six children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Georgia and Florida.

Edmund and Elizabeth (1783-1869) Collingsworth lived in Virginia, where Edmund died and Elizabeth moved (with one of her sons) to Claiborne County, Tennessee. Descendants lived in Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky and elsewhere.

Aaron Pinson, son of Aaron Pinson, was born in about 1726 in Virginia. He married Delilah Stovall, daughter of John Stovall and Dorcas, in about 1745. They had twelve children. He died in 1801 in Granville County, North Carolina. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Tennessee,.

The Scrutchfield family appears in North Carolina in the 1770's. Some family members later moved to Tennessee. Henry Scrutchfield moved to Randolph County, Missouri from Campbell County, Tennessee in 1818. He married Marguerite (Mary) McCully. Descendants and relatives lived in Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois and elsewhere.

William Henry Terry (1828-1878) born near Snow Camp, Chatham Co., was the only son of John W. Terry and Sarah Crutchfield. He married Jemima Norwood and lived in North Carolina all of his life. They were the parents of 11 children. He fought and was wounded in the Battle of Gettysburg and died later in 1878 at his home near Snow Camp. Descendants lived primarily in North Carolina, Virginia and Illinois.

Thomas Gunn III (1738-1800) was born in Virginia and married three times. He died in Caswell County, North Carolina. Descendants lived in North Carolina, Missouri, Nevada and elsewhere.

Dr. George Brisco Calvert (1820-1887), son of Isaiah Calvert and Mary Taylor Sandifer, lived in Kentucky and married Mary Elizabeth Green and later Agnes Davenport Sevier. Descendants lived in Kentucky and elsewhere.

Michael Shoffner was born in Germany, 1721, and died in North Carolina, 1810. He married Margaretha Fogleman, daughter of George and Catherine Fogleman. Includes related families of Huffman, Anthony, Burrow, Euless, Kimsey, Jenkins, Clardy, Crutchfield, Henley, Clay, Cates, Troxler, Williams, and others.