Sunday's Obituary: Allison Cook Trowbridge 1919

Knightstown Banner, August 8, 1919, pg. 1

Knightstown Banner Obituary
dated August 8, 1919

Al. Trowbridge, aged 51 years, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Charles Newby, Wednesday morning at 5:30 o'clock, of tuberculosis. Mr. Trowbridge had been ailing for sometime but had been bedfast but two weeks. He was a widower. The funeral will be held from the Newby home Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock conducted by Rev. Addison. Burial at Glencove cemetery.

Allison Trowbridge was my maternal great granduncle, son of John Calvin and Phoebe (Cook) Trowbridge. He was married to Laura Coralinn Delashmit in Rush Co., Indiana on December 6, 1893. Allison and Laura were married almost exactly 11 years and 2 months when Laura died. There were no children from this union.

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Pansy: Daughter of Strother and Flora A. (Lindamood) Newby

Strother Newby was my maternal great, great granduncle. Just recently I received two articles from the The Knightstown Banner concerning his death and I learned more about Strother from those two articles than I ever would have dreamed. (See the articles and transcriptions at this link: The Gruesome Demise of Strother E. Newby - 1915.)

Pansy Newby circa 1913

The second, very short article, held a real surprise for me. Strother had a daughter, and her name was Pansy. In 17 years of research I had not found documented evidence that Strother had any offspring, other than his son Everett by his first wife. Pansy eluded detection probably due to the fact that Strother and Pansy's mother Flora divorced and, for whatever reason, Flora's older sister Mary and her husband Truman Goldsbarry took over Pansy's upbringing. Pansy had been born in 1889 and her mother remarried in 1891. No amount of research has turned up anything on Flora or her second husband after their marriage, at least not yet.

Corporal Truman Goldsbary

Pansy lived with her aunt and uncle until they died. It is hard to tell how much interaction she may have had with her father or her Newby aunts and uncles during those years. She lost her closest family within a period of four years. Aunt Mary died in 1913, her father Strother died in 1915, and her uncle Truman died in 1917. Mary J. (Lindamood) Goldsbarry had given birth to three children but apparently they all died young. Pansy is listed living in the Goldsbarry household in 1900 and 1910 as their niece and the only child. Truman and Mary Goldsbarry are buried in the Lewisville Cemetery in Lewisville, Henry Co., Indiana where they resided all their married lives. Truman was a civil war veteran and his photo appears in my very own antiquated and quite rare copy of "Hazzard's history of Henry County, Indiana 1822 - 1906".

Oddly, Truman's youngest brother died a similar death to that of Pansy's Father. Alexander Goldsbary was crushed under the wheels of a train in 1902.

The Goldsbarrys saw to it that Pansy received a good education. She is found in the yearbooks of Spiceland Academy and Normal School as early as 1900. Pansy is later found listed many times in the 1913 "Arbutus", a yearbook of Indiana University. Pansy was quite involved in all aspects of school life. Listed under her photo in the Arbutus - Latin; Y.W.C.A. Cabinet, '12-13; Women's League Board, '13; Student Council; Strut and Fret; Student Staff; Secretary English Club; Socialist Club; Franchise League; and Class Prophet. Pansy graduated from Indiana University in 1913 with a Bachelor of Arts in Latin. The photos of Pansy are all taken from this issue of the Arbutus.

In the Indiana University Bulletin, Vol. 15, issue 5, pg. 179 - Pansy is listed as a 1913 graduate, teaching English and Latin at a high school in Pennville, Jay Co., Indiana.

In the school year 1918-1919 Pansy took over the Journalism class and supervised the publishing of "The Register", the school newspaper, at Morton High School in Richmond, Indiana. This information was found in the school memory book "The Pierian", June 1921, pg. 64.

On September 1, 1919 Pansy married Clinton A. Stevens, also a teacher, and shortly afterwards they moved to Springfield, Illinois where they both taught school. On his death record (1946), Clinton was listed as Principal of Douglas school.

Pansy is mentioned in the Indiana University Alumni Quarterly, Vol. 1, pg. 192 as a graduate and again in Vol. 7, pg. 128 as "Mrs. Clinton A. Stevens" who was teaching English at the high school in Springfield, Illinois.

Strother's son Everett by his first wife, Rhoda Ellen Musselman, was born in 1875. Like Pansy, it seems that Everett may also have been raised by someone other than his parents. Strother and Rhoda were divorced by 1880 and Everett was living with a Kemper family at that time.  Everett married Maude A. Crose in New Castle, Indiana in 1908 and they had two children, Raymond Virgil and Viola May. Everett moved his family to California and died there in 1941.  He was divorced from Maude at the time of his death.

Note: Truman's surname Goldsbary is spelled with two rs on his tombstone and is often spelled with an e instead of an a in other documents.

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Amanuensis Monday: Obituary of Ed Newby 1944

EDWARD J. NEWBY

April 17, 1918 - August 10, 1944

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

Ed was the youngest sibling of my maternal great grandfather, Charles Lee Newby. The following obituary was published in the Knightstown Banner on August 18, 1944 pg. 1, col. 4., Knightstown, Indiana

                                  Death Claims Well Known Resident

     Ed J. Newby, a well known life resident of this city, passed away early Friday morning at his home on South Washington street following an illness of several weeks. Death was due to a heart ailment. He was the youngest son of the late John A. and Mary Grunden Newby and was born November 30, 1881. He was married to Mrs. Maud Rhodes Griffney on April 17, 1918. He was a member of the local Methodist church. Surviving besides the widow are a nephew, Morris Newby of Lowell, Ind., and a neice, Mrs. Fern Runyan, of Indianapolis. The funeral services were conducted from the Wilson Funeral Home, Sunday afternoon at 2:30 by Rev. Ernest A. Addison. Interment was made in Glencove cemetery.

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Amanuensis Monday: Obituary of Frank Newby

FRANK NEWBY 

December 10, 1870 - May 7, 1929

About Amanuensis Monday: John Newmark, who writes the TransylvanianDutch blog started a Monday Blog Theme called "Amanuensis Monday". John defines "amanuensis" as "a person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

Frank was the son of John Alby and Mary Louisa Grunden Newby and the brother of my maternal great grandfather, Charles Lee Newby. Frank never married. My mother vaguely remembers the funeral of a family member, a man with a long white beard, that died when she was about 5 years old. The only family member that died at that time was Frank. Mom would have been 5 years old in less than a month so it is likely Frank who's funeral she remembers.

Knightstown Banner - May 10, 1929 - pg. 1, column 1

                                     Death of Frank Newby

     Frank Newby, aged 58 years, died at the home of his brother, Ed Newby, in Raysville, Tuesday morning at 1:40 o'clock, following a short illness. Mr. Newby was afflicted with cancer of the stomach. He was the son of John and Mary Grunden Newby, and was born in Henry county. Deceased was well known about Knightstown and had many friends here. 

     Funeral services for Mr. Newby were held at Glencove Chapel, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Ernest A. Addison, pastor of the Christian Church. Burial was at Glencove cemetery, in charge of Charles F. Baxter.

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Amanuensis Monday: Obituary of John B. Cook 1926

JOHN B. COOK 1841 - 1926

About Amanuensis Monday: John Newmark, who writes the TransylvanianDutch blog started a Monday Blog Theme called "Amanuensis Monday". John defines "amanuensis" as "a person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

John B. Cook was the son of Giles and Martha (Brown) Cook and the youngest brother of my maternal third great grandmother, Phoebe Cook Trowbridge.

John was married first to Mary M. Stanley in 1867 and second to Eliza J. Cheek in 1877. He and Eliza had one son, Emory E. Cook. John had a son Charles L. Cook by his first wife Mary.

Obituary: Knightstown Banner 23 Jul 1926 pg 4 column 4

John Cook, aged 86 years, died at the Odd Fellows Home, Greensburg, Monday evening at 6 o'clock. He formerly lived at Ogden. Mr. Cook and his wife went to the Home seven years ago, and she died two years ago. In Mr. Cook's father's family there were six children, of whom the deceased was the youngest and last to pass away. One son, Charles Cook, of Whittier, Calif., survives. Funeral services for Mr. Cook were held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 in the chapel at the Home, with burial in the Home cemetery beside his wife.

John was buried in an unmarked grave in the  IOOF Section of South Park Cemetery in Greensburg, Decatur Co., Indiana.

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Surname Saturday: GRUNDEN [Part 2]

MARY LOUISA GRUNDEN NEWBY

My maternal great, great grandmother

Daughter of Joseph and Martha Dungan Grunden, granddaughter of Samuel and Margaret Anderson Grunden

Years ago when I would google "Grunden", 95% or more of the hits would turn up sites written in German. There might only be a dozen to two dozen hits in all. Now, the Internet world has leaped huge, gigantic leaps and there is no end to the hits on this surname. On Facebook alone there are over 300 Grundens listed. And if you put in the alternative spelling of Grundon, you get well over 100 more listings.

Mary Louisa Grunden married John Alby Newby on July 18, 1863 in Henry Co., Indiana. They had five children: Gertrude M., Charles Lee, Frank, Bertha M. and Edward. Louisa died February 3, 1893, just five months before her first grandchild was born, my grandmother Mary Fern, daughter of Charles Lee and Ida May Trowbridge Newby. Seven years after her death, John married the widow, Julia Ann Langdon Morris and Julia was the only grandmother my grandmother or her siblings ever knew. When I received John Newby's obituary and lengthy memorial from the Knightstown Banner I learned that Mary Louisa had been an invalid for 12 years before she died. I have not found an obituary for her but there was a death announcement from the New Castle Courier, February 10, 1893, page 8 column 3: "Mrs. John Newby died at her home here on Friday from dropsy. The funeral services occurred at the M.E. church on Sunday."

John and Louisa are both buried in the Glencove Cemetery in Knightstown, Henry Co., Indiana. No stone has been found for either one of them.

Glencove Cemetery - screen capture using Google Earth and Jing

Click here to see Part 1

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Knightstown Banner: John Alby Newby - 1923 Obituary And Memorial

~John Alby Newby 1842 - 1923~

John A. Newby was my mother's maternal great grandfather. He died the year before she was born. I was fortunate to obtain both of these very informative articles from the local newspaper in Knightstown, Henry Co., Indiana, The Knightstown Banner.

March 2, 1923 Page 1, Column 2

Death of John A. Newby

    Following an illness of pneumonia of only a few days, John A. Newby, aged 80 years, one of the well known men of Knightstown and an old pioneer resident of the town, died at his home in North Washington street shortly after midnight last Tuesday morning. Mr. Newby came here in the early days from Greensboro and had probably lived here in the neighborood of 50 years. He was a carpenter by trade. Mr. Newby was the youngest old man in this part of the country, as until his last sickness he had been physically able to ply his trade with other craftsmen.

    Surviving are his widow and three sons - Charles, Ed, and Frank Newby, of Knightstown. He also leaves two brothers, L. P. and L. Y. Newby, of Knightstown.

    The funeral was held yesterday (Thursday) afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Methodist church, of which the deceased was a member, conducted by Rev. Ice, the pastor. Interment was made at Glencove cemetery in charge of Undertaker C. F. Baxter.

March 9, 1923 Page 2, Column 4

IN MEMORY JOHN A. NEWBY

    John A. Newby was born near Greensboro, Indiana, March the 26th, 1842, and died at his home in North Washington street, Knightstown, Ind. Tuesday, February 27th, 1923, being twenty-seven days less than eighty-one years of age.

    He has lived nearly all of his life in this vicinity and has been well known. He was the son of Jacob and Levina Leonard Newby. Much of his early life was spent on the farm, but later he followed the carpenters trade. He has always been an industrious man, never afraid of the hardest kind of work, and a faithful workman.

    When a young man he married Mary Louisa Grunden, at the place which afterwards became Wilkinson. There were six children born to them, their first died in infancy, two daughters lived to womanhood, married and have preceded their father in death, leaving three sons living - Charles, Frank and Edward.

    His wife was an invalid for twelve years and then was taken leaving him with the three children. He held his family together until each established a home of his own, except Frank, who has remained with his father.

    Twenty-two years ago he was married to Mrs. Julia Morris, who survives him. She too, has been almost an invalid for several years. He was always thoughtful and patient, finding real pleasure in any service he could render to his own or to a friend. Many deeds of kindness can be recalled by his many neighbors showing his thoughtfulness. He was so fond of flowers and he and his wife found joy in growing them and sharing them with their friends.

    He was a member of a family of seven children, but three of whom are now living, Leonidas P., Loren Y., and Mrs. William Carroll, of Shirley. A step-son and one step-daughter, and nephews, nieces, grandchildren and one great grandchild are among the sorrowing relatives.

    For probably forty years John Newby has been a member of the Methodist church, a faithful attendant, and a respected consistent member. Not only will his family miss him but the citizenship of Knightstown will miss his coming and going and his always pleasant greeting.

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    The relatives of Mr. John A. Newby desire to express their sincere gratitude to the many friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted them during his illness and funeral.

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