Julia Ann Byars Elmore Newsom
[1853 - 1924]

I recently learned from cousin Peggy Cole Moser that Julia is the daughter of J.J. & Elizabeth C. Byars of Pickens County, Alabama. They are found on the 1850 online census here [as BYERS].

Her first husband was John B. Elmore, in Pickens County, Alabama. They had at least 9 children. The widowed Julia migrated to Greene County, Arkansas about 1894, and married Obediah Sterling Newsom in 1896.

Here is a great photo of Julia, her second husband and many of her children.

I descend from their daughter Ida Lucinda Elmore. who married George Washington Brandon in Pickens County, Alabama.

Julia is buried at Finch Cemetery, near Paragould, Greene County, Arkansas. She has a lovely marble tombstone, but her death date was not cut into the stone. Peggy says she died July 4, 1924.

Other researchers include:
Peggy Cole Moser, descendant of James Jackson 'Jack' Elmore;
Barbara Sherman, descendant of Florence Katherine 'Kittie' Elmore;
Adam Davis, descendant of Gideon Rufus Elmore.

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