NEWMAN, Abner N. (1836-1892)

NEWMAN, FRADY, NOTE, WINTERS

Posted By: Kathy Weaver (email)
Date: 1/17/2019 at 12:32:12

Malvern Leader
Malvern, Mills County, Iowa
September 29, 1892

OBITUARY

Abner Nelson Newman was born in Miami Township, Logan County, Ohio, Sept. 22, 1836, and died at his home near Hawthorne, Sept. 21, 1892, being 55 years, 11 months and 29 days old. His death resulted from heart disease, which first made its appearance in June. He has always followed the occupation of farmer.

At the age of 20 years he became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has been a faithful Christian ever since. He united with the church which stood on his father’s farm near his boyhood home, where he was loved and respected by his friends and neighbors. At the age of 21 years he emigrated to Page County, Iowa, where he was united in marriage to Malinda Frady by Rev. Thomas Wallace, of Clarinda, their union being blessed with five children, two sons and three daughters, all of whom survive him. Mr. Newman was also a faithful soldier to his country. In the fall of 1862 he enlisted in the 23d Iowa Infantry, serving his country for 3 years. He received an honorable discharge at Davenport in August, 1865, having served in eight regular battles, among which were Milliken’s Bend, Black River Bridge and Siege of Vicksburg. At the close of the war he joined his family in Davis County, Iowa, where he remained 2 years and in 1867 he and his family came to Mills County.

Mr. Newman and his wife were among those who formed a pioneer class of the M.E.Church in the vicinity of Malvern.

In the spring of 1890 he moved with his family to Hawthorne, the place of his death. He was a man of excellent health, needing the services of a physician but once until his last sickness, during which he suffered greatly, yet bore it with great patience and fortitude, being perfectly resigned and willing to go, as those are who die in the Lord. A man of true worth, genial and warm-hearted, with a kindly word and courteous act to all. As neighbor and friend, kind father and husband, but few were his equal.

The funeral services were held at the M.E. Church on last Thursday at 9:45, Rev. G.M. Hughes officiating and the remains were conducted by the Masonic fraternity of Silver Urn Lodge, of which he was a member, and buried with Masonic honors.

The members of the family were all present save two, a son-in-law, Mr. Joseph Note, who was visiting his mother in Philadelphia, and a daughter, Mrs. Winters, of Long Island, Kans., who had been with her father for some weeks, but returned home shortly before his death.