NEWSOME CEMETERY

There are six known graves at this site. It is located 1/4 mile west of the old town site of Newsome, on the south side of Baldy Creek. This was contributed by Bill Salmon, with the help of Mike Peterson. Mike descends from the Shearer family that is buried there.

NAME	BIRTH	Place of Birth	DEATH	NOTES
Fredrick Augustus Shearer	11 April 1816	Adams Co., PA.	16 Dec. 1904	Died at Newsome, ID
Susan Elizabeth Gordon Shearer	8 Nov 1814	Frederick Co., MD	26 March 1901	Died at Newsome, ID (wife of Frederick)**
**The Shearers were married 8 Jan. 1837 in Frederick Co., MD and later moved to Winchester, VA, where they had three children --George Maxwell Shearer (b. 1841), Virginia (b. 1843), and Elizabeth (b. 1846). The family migrated to California in the 1850's, then to Idaho Territory. After 1862, they operated a ferry across the Salmon River at Elkhorn Creek, carrying miners and supplies on the trail from Florence to Warren's Camp. Frederick and Susan later lived at Slate Creek and Mt. Idaho before ending up at Newsome.
George Daniel Shissler	14 April 1832	Sunbury, Northumberland Co., PA	1898	Died at Newsome sometime in 1898.
Mrs. Wells	.	.	.	Died enroute to Elk City. No further details.
Jack Tracy	.	.	.	No further details
Ben Appleby	A prospector who was working a sluice on Newsome Creek, south of town. His body was found in his campfire in 1926. He was born in Missouri about 1860 and lived as a boy in North Greenfield, Dade Co., MO.