Wallings and Newsom(e)s in Oregon

Apparently, Mary Walling - daughter of Bethair Trask Walling and Jeptha Walling has been a mystery as to her marriage for quite some time now.

I was able to find two censuses, one in 1910 and one in 1900 for Mary Walling and her husband William Everett Newsom. 

It began with a marriage in the Multnomah County Marriage Archives found here http://www.gfo.org/m1875/m1875_14.htm as being married in 1882 and recorded in the 1882 records for volume 4 page 271.  

1882 was congruent with Mary's age as being married at age 20, however the name listed was only as W E Newsom.   Later, I found a "Will" being listed as the spouse to Mary Walling in the Oregon death records when she died on 18 April 1937 which gave me a clue as to his first name.

Later a search for a Will Newsom and a Mary and their info in Ancestry turned up two censuses mentioned above, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon - I was able to safely conclude that this was the correct Mary Walling of the Trask descendants through the following:

It listed Mary's mother (Bethair Trask) on both censuses as being born in Massachusetts and her Father (Jeptha) in Illinois. 

According to the records I've seen, Bethair was born in Oregon - but her father was from Massachusetts - often in family history the locations of births depending on who answered the door for the censuses sometimes get confused with a more prominent family member such as the Trasks - who did start in Massachusetts and Jeptha was in fact born in Illinois.   Was it any other way I wouldn't think that was a safe conclusion to make, however, the censuses were also consistent - so this was, I felt, a safe conclusion to make in this instance.