Newman Virginia Roots

Mecklenburg County, Virginia

Abner Newman & Dorothy Steagall

Mecklenburg County, Virginia Family History

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Enslaved Laborers in Mecklenburg

Unknown name of a boy, first with William Newman, then Abner Newman.

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Mecklenburg County Cemeteries

Five out of six of Abner Newman’s daughters died in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. At this early time, the cemeteries only have field stones, not tombstones. I have located a cemetery on the old estate of Elizabeth Newman married to Samuel McKinney. There are approximately forty five graves. It is possible, and I theorize, that Elizabeth and her parents Abner Newman and wife Dorothy Steagall were buried at this cemetery. Abner did not own land, so he would not have had land for a family cemetery.

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Surnames of people living near Newman’s in Essex and Orange, that were also neighbors in Mecklenburg: