History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., 
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p. 
624.

WILLIAM F. NEWSOM, Knottsville Precinct, three miles west of 
Knottsville, was born in Upper Town Precinct, this county, Aug. 4, 1825. 
 His father, William Newsom (deceased), was a soldier in the war of 
1812, and fought the Indians under General Hopkins and Colonel Joe 
Barnett.  He emigrated to this county from South Carolina in 1809, and 
located three miles above Yellow Banks (Owensboro), and raised a crop 
the same year, keeping bachelor's hall will James M. Rogers.  He married 
Miss Rewey Shown in 1811.  Her father, Peter Shown, was a Pennsylvania 
Dutchman by birth.  He came from Fredericktown, Md., to Owensboro, or 
Yellow Banks, in 1804, and stopped at the only house there for a day or 
two, where he met with the red men of the forest.  It was the house of 
William Smithers.  He then proceeded to what is now Ohio County and 
located.  He was a hard worker and a comic, jovial old man.  The 
settlers had many a laugh at his expense.  Mr. Shown died in Montgomery 
County, Ind., in 1847.  Two of his sons, Peter and Edward Shown, were 
carpenters, and built some of the first frame houses that were built in 
Owensboro.  William Newsom was the father of ten children, of whom our 
subject is the seventh.  He was brought up on the farm and received a 
common-school education.  He was married Sept. 13, 1854, to Miss Susan 
E. Lambert, daughter of Elijah Lambert (deceased), a native of Nelson 
County.  Mrs. Lambert was born in Daviess County.  Eight children have 
been born to them, of whom six are living--Mollie M., William E., Thomas 
J., Josie Mc G., James F. and Harry C.  One daughter, Sallie J., died at 
the age of fourteen years.  Mr. Newsom is a member of the Christian 
church, as also are Mrs. Newsom and the two eldest children.  Mr. Newsom 
owns 124 acres of valuable land, and is engaged in farming and 
stock-raising.

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