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The 1840 Tuscaloosa Co., AL census age brackets account for all the known children of James and Sarah (Boyd) Newell. However, there is one additional unknown male in the 10-15 age bracket.
In addition to James and Sarah, the 1850 Tuscaloosa Co. census included Ala Newell, age 23 NC, with his wife Nancy, age 23 AL, and two children, Martin Van Buren Newell, age 3 AL and Mary C., age 9/12 AL. I have not been able to establish their relationship to James and Sarah. Ala would have been 13 in 1840 and could match the unknown male in the 1840 James Newell household. Being born in 1827, Ala's age appears to be too close to Matthew's to be a brother, and also does not show in Robert Boyd's Bible list of grandchildren.
James and Sarah were #1395 on the 1860 Tuscaloosa Co., AL census. #1394 was Martha Newell and her children and #1396 was Reuben Newell, age 35 TN, with two children, William, age 10 AL, and John, age 8 AL. It is not known what Reuben's relationship to James was, but William's age matches the William J., age 20 living with James and Sarah in 1870. Reuben would have been 15 in 1840 and could also have been the unknown male on the 1840 census. Also on this 1860 census and living separately from James and Sarah were their sons, #1411 James G. Newell, and #1412 Thomas D. Newell. Nearby was #1415 Benjamin Newell, age 15, whose relationship I have not been able to establish.
The 1870 Tuscaloosa Co., AL census shows a number of children and grandchildren, two of whom cannot be positively sorted out, J. William, age 23, and a William J., age 20. James' son, William J. was age 6 on the 1850 census, not with him on the 1860 census, and should be 26 by the 1870 census date . There was also a William J., age 22, on the 1870 Sanford Co., AL census living near Matthew.
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