Death Announcement: "Charles Newby Is Dead"

CHARLES LEE NEWBY 1868 - 1937

My maternal great grandfather 

Son of John Alby and Mary Louisa Grunden Newby 

Husband of Ida May Trowbridge

Courier Times - Knightstown, Henry Co., Indiana

Saturday, May 8, 1937 (page 1, column 8)

Charles Newby Is Dead

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Dunreith Man Dies From Apoplexy at Son's Home.

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(By Special Correspondent.)

     DUNREITH, Ind., May 8, -- Charles Newby, 73, well-known retired farmer who formerly lived north of here, died Friday afternoon at the home of a son, Maurice Newby, in Lowell, Ind., according to word received by friends.

     Mr. Newby's death was sudden, it was understood, although he had been in poor health for some time. A stroke of apoplexy was given as the cause of death.

     In addition to the son, survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Lawrence Runyan of east of Dunreith, and Mrs. Charles Boyer of Knightstown. The body probably will be returned here for funeral services and burial but arrangements were not complete.

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Wordless Wednesday: Lowell Grade School Basketball Team 1936-1937

Boys Basketball Team - 1936-1937 School Year

Lowell Grade School, Lowell, Lake Co., Indiana

My maternal granduncle, Morris Henry Newby standing upper row on left

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Wordless Wednesday: Fresh Hope From A Victory Garden

Proof that Victory hopes are well-grounded!

Pictured: my mother Janet E. Runyan, age 18 (1942)

Lewisville, Henry Co., Indiana

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Tombstone Tuesday: John Calvin Trowbridge 1843 - 1909

John Calvin Trowbridge, 
my maternal great, great grandfather. 

Son of Isaac and Tabitha Morgan Trowbridge, 
husband of Phoebe Cook.

February 7, 1843 - May 1, 1909

buried Raysville Cemetery
Wayne Township, Henry Co., Indiana

For lineage and photo of John C. Trowbridge see my blog: Trowbridge: Our Distant Connection To Kings And Emperors

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Somewhere In Wyoming: One Room School House 1921

~Morris Henry "Bud" Newby and students~

My maternal grandmother's brother Bud Newby, age 22.  He grew up in Knightstown, Henry Co., Indiana and was educated at Ball State Teacher's College at Indianapolis. He made the journey all the way to Wyoming for his very first teaching assignment. He only taught here one year but I'd sure like to know exactly where this was. 

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Knightstown Small Pox Epidemic Of 1902

Mary Fern & Phoebe Gertrude Newby

"In the summer of 1902, Knightstown, Indiana had an outbreak of smallpox. It was considered severe enough by the board of health, and the county commissioners, that the entire town and vicinity was quarantined. No one was allowed to enter or the leave the town for any reason. Despite the drastic measures, the disease continued to spread. Where twenty-six cases had been reported in June, fourteen more were added to the toll the first week in July. People panicked as they saw the silent killer stalk their friends and neighbors. Everyone wondered, "Who will be next?" By mid-July the Knightstown toll had shot to 81 cases. During the epidemic Knightstown was like a city of the dead. All business in Knightstown was paralyzed, weeds, corn and other vegetation grew up all over town, hitching racks in the town square were overgrown with weeds as tall as six feet. Hardly any business was transacted for nearly two and one-half months. By early August the epidemic seemed to fade. One by one the quarantines were lifted and normal life resumed."

[Excerpted from the New Castle Democrat, 18 July 1902]


My grandmother, Mary Fern Newby [above left] contracted small pox and was one of the survivors of this epidemic as was her great uncle, Senator Leonidas Perry Newby. My mother always told me my grandmother was scarred from the smallpox but I guess I never noticed. Her sister, Phoebe Gertrude didn't get the disease. Little Phoebe died in 1901 of "acute largyngitis" before the epidemic reached Indiana. She was six years old. 





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