George Washington Newell

As printed in 1912

GEORGE W. NEWELL.

The subject of this sketch, who bore the illustrious name of George Washington Newell, was born April 28, 1845, near Mount Vernon, Knox county, Ohio. He was the second child born to Hugh and Sarah (Lovridge) Newell. His father-was a native of Pennsylvania, and his mother of Ohio. The father died in Ohio in 1859, at the age of forty-five years, when the boy George was only thirteen years old. The mother lived to attain her eighty-first birthday, dying in 1902 in Ohio.

Mr. Newell was one of eight children, five of whom are still living, the eldest, Anna, dying at the age of fifteen years; Mary Newell, who married Samuel Finerty, now deceased, in 1909; Margaret, who married Miller Rush; John, who married Emma J. Parker; and Clara, the youngest child, who became the wife of S. Willard. all live in Knox county, Ohio, the home of their birth; Olive, who married Aaron Bebout, lives at Gatesville, Texas, and Thomas Newell lives in Texas, near Sonora.

On the 1 2th day of October, 1875, - Newell was united in marriage to Amanda Brown, daughter of Garrett and Mary (Holland) Brown, her father being a native of Maryland and her mother a native of West Virginia. She

GEORGE W. NEWELL was one of nine children, whose names are: James U., who died in the army in 1864, enlisting in Ohio; Ann E., who married Caleb Biirdett, and lives near Poplar Springs, Maryland; Reason H., who married llarriet Bixby, and who died in Ohio; Joanna V., who married Robert White, and died in Mount Vernon, Ohio; Mary L. married Frank Brock, of Mt. Vernon; William M., who married Nancy J. Mills, lives in Union county, Iowa; Henry M., unmarried, and Frank, who married Ethel Gray.

Mrs. Neweirs father died in 1865, at the age of sixty-five years, in Ohio, where also her mother died in 1896, at the age of eighty-six. In March, 1876, soon after the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Newell, they removed from Ohio to Iowa. For about five years he rented land, not being possessed of capital U) buy. But at the end of that time he bought one hundred and forty acres in Kellogg township, near Rushville. Here he lived for nine years, when he sold it and bought the beautiful home where he lived until his death, consisting of one hundred and eighty-one and one-half acres in Palo Alto township, paying only thirty-three and one-third dollars per acre for it. The house which was there when Mr. Newell bought the place has' been moved back and an elegant, commodious house now stands in its place.

To Mr. and Mrs. Newell have been born six children, as follows: Nora I., born August 12, 1876, married to William Starrett, and to this couple have been born three children, William L., George L. and Daniel C. They live in Kellogg township on a farm; Clifton D., the second child, was born December 31, 1877, married Christina Paulson, and lives in Kellogg township on a farm and have one little daughter, Dorothy Ruth; Clayton E., born October 10, 1879, living in Palo Alto township, married Ina Eaton, and they have four children, Iva B., Thelma, Ralph and Rowena A., now living in Gettysburg, South Dakota; George M. Newell, born January 29, 1882, lives in California; Bessie H., born August 31, 1883, married Peter Jensma, lives in Newton township on a farm, and they have three children, Ethel, Celia Bessie and Wilhelmina; Bertha E., born April 30, 1885, lives at home with her mother.

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As printed in Past and present of Jasper County, Iowa (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.