"Aged Pioneer Has Departed--This World and Crossed Over Into the Great Beyond--John Newsom Finally Yields to Paralysis After Five Years Suffering--Was Surveyor of Marion County for Eighteen
Years--a Mason"--John NEWSOM, one of the oldest, best known and highly respected citizens of Salem, passed away at his home, on the corner of Saginaw and Bush streets, at 12:30 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, after an illness extending over five years, very suddenly, of paralysis, aged 74 years.
Deceased was one of the oldest of Oregon pioneers, and was quite prominent in Marion county politics, being a lifelong and assidious expounder of Republican principles, and an upright and honest man. He
was born in Monroe county, Virginia, in the years 1828, and crossed the plains to Oregon in 1852 and settled. He was a surveyor by profession and for several years engaged in that business in Washington Territory. He went to California and engaged in mining and prospecting for a few years, when he returned to Oregon and Marion county, in 1864, and located permanently.
In 1865 he was married to Miss Olive GREENWOOD, who survives him, and this marriage was blessed by only two children, both of whom are living, namely: Mrs. May BUCKNER, of Jefferson, a daughter, and A. NEWSOM, of this city, a son. Three brothers and one sister also survive him: Sam NEWSOM, of Prineville; V. U. NEWSOM, of Roseburg, and Robert NEWSOM of Frankfort, Kentucky, and Mrs. Mary
GREENWOOD, of Salem, a sister.
He was a very active and consciencious political worker, always indentified in the Republican ranks, and for eighteen successive years served very creditably as county surveyor of Marion county. For the past fifteen years he has not enjoyed good health, but, about five years ago he suffered a stroke of paralysis, which left him palsied, and he has linered along thus up to the hour of his death, which came very suddenly and without the slightest warning.
For a number of years past he has been an honored member of Silverton Lodge, A. F. & A. M. No. 45, and the funeral services will be conducted under the auspices of this lodge, at the McCorkle cemetery, on Howell Prairie, at 11 o'clock a.m., Wednesday morning where the interment will be made." Oregon Statesman, Oct. 14, 1902, 4:3.
Years--a Mason"--John NEWSOM, one of the oldest, best known and highly respected citizens of Salem, passed away at his home, on the corner of Saginaw and Bush streets, at 12:30 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, after an illness extending over five years, very suddenly, of paralysis, aged 74 years.
Deceased was one of the oldest of Oregon pioneers, and was quite prominent in Marion county politics, being a lifelong and assidious expounder of Republican principles, and an upright and honest man. He
was born in Monroe county, Virginia, in the years 1828, and crossed the plains to Oregon in 1852 and settled. He was a surveyor by profession and for several years engaged in that business in Washington Territory. He went to California and engaged in mining and prospecting for a few years, when he returned to Oregon and Marion county, in 1864, and located permanently.
In 1865 he was married to Miss Olive GREENWOOD, who survives him, and this marriage was blessed by only two children, both of whom are living, namely: Mrs. May BUCKNER, of Jefferson, a daughter, and A. NEWSOM, of this city, a son. Three brothers and one sister also survive him: Sam NEWSOM, of Prineville; V. U. NEWSOM, of Roseburg, and Robert NEWSOM of Frankfort, Kentucky, and Mrs. Mary
GREENWOOD, of Salem, a sister.
He was a very active and consciencious political worker, always indentified in the Republican ranks, and for eighteen successive years served very creditably as county surveyor of Marion county. For the past fifteen years he has not enjoyed good health, but, about five years ago he suffered a stroke of paralysis, which left him palsied, and he has linered along thus up to the hour of his death, which came very suddenly and without the slightest warning.
For a number of years past he has been an honored member of Silverton Lodge, A. F. & A. M. No. 45, and the funeral services will be conducted under the auspices of this lodge, at the McCorkle cemetery, on Howell Prairie, at 11 o'clock a.m., Wednesday morning where the interment will be made." Oregon Statesman, Oct. 14, 1902, 4:3.
"Aged Pioneer Has Departed--This World and Crossed Over Into the Great Beyond--John Newsom Finally Yields to Paralysis After Five Years Suffering--Was Surveyor of Marion County for Eighteen
Years--a Mason"--John NEWSOM, one of the oldest, best known and highly respected citizens of Salem, passed away at his home, on the corner of Saginaw and Bush streets, at 12:30 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, after an illness extending over five years, very suddenly, of paralysis, aged 74 years.
Deceased was one of the oldest of Oregon pioneers, and was quite prominent in Marion county politics, being a lifelong and assidious expounder of Republican principles, and an upright and honest man. He
was born in Monroe county, Virginia, in the years 1828, and crossed the plains to Oregon in 1852 and settled. He was a surveyor by profession and for several years engaged in that business in Washington Territory. He went to California and engaged in mining and prospecting for a few years, when he returned to Oregon and Marion county, in 1864, and located permanently.
In 1865 he was married to Miss Olive GREENWOOD, who survives him, and this marriage was blessed by only two children, both of whom are living, namely: Mrs. May BUCKNER, of Jefferson, a daughter, and A. NEWSOM, of this city, a son. Three brothers and one sister also survive him: Sam NEWSOM, of Prineville; V. U. NEWSOM, of Roseburg, and Robert NEWSOM of Frankfort, Kentucky, and Mrs. Mary
GREENWOOD, of Salem, a sister.
He was a very active and consciencious political worker, always indentified in the Republican ranks, and for eighteen successive years served very creditably as county surveyor of Marion county. For the past fifteen years he has not enjoyed good health, but, about five years ago he suffered a stroke of paralysis, which left him palsied, and he has linered along thus up to the hour of his death, which came very suddenly and without the slightest warning.
For a number of years past he has been an honored member of Silverton Lodge, A. F. & A. M. No. 45, and the funeral services will be conducted under the auspices of this lodge, at the McCorkle cemetery, on Howell Prairie, at 11 o'clock a.m., Wednesday morning where the interment will be made." Oregon Statesman, Oct. 14, 1902, 4:3.
Years--a Mason"--John NEWSOM, one of the oldest, best known and highly respected citizens of Salem, passed away at his home, on the corner of Saginaw and Bush streets, at 12:30 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, after an illness extending over five years, very suddenly, of paralysis, aged 74 years.
Deceased was one of the oldest of Oregon pioneers, and was quite prominent in Marion county politics, being a lifelong and assidious expounder of Republican principles, and an upright and honest man. He
was born in Monroe county, Virginia, in the years 1828, and crossed the plains to Oregon in 1852 and settled. He was a surveyor by profession and for several years engaged in that business in Washington Territory. He went to California and engaged in mining and prospecting for a few years, when he returned to Oregon and Marion county, in 1864, and located permanently.
In 1865 he was married to Miss Olive GREENWOOD, who survives him, and this marriage was blessed by only two children, both of whom are living, namely: Mrs. May BUCKNER, of Jefferson, a daughter, and A. NEWSOM, of this city, a son. Three brothers and one sister also survive him: Sam NEWSOM, of Prineville; V. U. NEWSOM, of Roseburg, and Robert NEWSOM of Frankfort, Kentucky, and Mrs. Mary
GREENWOOD, of Salem, a sister.
He was a very active and consciencious political worker, always indentified in the Republican ranks, and for eighteen successive years served very creditably as county surveyor of Marion county. For the past fifteen years he has not enjoyed good health, but, about five years ago he suffered a stroke of paralysis, which left him palsied, and he has linered along thus up to the hour of his death, which came very suddenly and without the slightest warning.
For a number of years past he has been an honored member of Silverton Lodge, A. F. & A. M. No. 45, and the funeral services will be conducted under the auspices of this lodge, at the McCorkle cemetery, on Howell Prairie, at 11 o'clock a.m., Wednesday morning where the interment will be made." Oregon Statesman, Oct. 14, 1902, 4:3.
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