Biography of James F Newberry, Greene Co, AR

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        Date: 5 Sep 1998
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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas

page 162

James F. Newberry, a prominent and highly respected farmer of Greene County,
was born in Alabama in 1844, and is the son of John Newberry, [p.162] who came to
this State in 1854. Here he engaged in farming and was for two years justice of the
peace. At the breaking out of the Civil War he entered the Confederate service under
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, and was killed in 1862. He reared a family of six children,
five sons and one daughter. James F. Newberry was in the Confederate service during
the entire war, and was wounded in the left leg. In 1864 he returned to his farm in
Greene County, and devoted himself to its improvement. He then owned 100 acres, which
he has since increased to 425. A part of his farm is under cultivation, and he is
also interested in raising cattle and fine mules. He married Mary Morgan, who bore
him six children and died in 1880, aged thirty years. He chose as his second wife
Mrs. Charity (Dennis) Ross, and to their union have been given four children. The
nine children are: Robert E., born in 1865; Martha C., born in 1867, died in 1880;
Sarah F., born in 1870; John E., born in 1872; Isabella, born in 1874; Laura E., born
in 1881; James J., born in 1883, died in 1884; Jennie B., born in 1885, and Myrtle
G., born in 1887, died in 1889. Mr. Newberry is a stanch Democrat in politics, and he
and his wife are popular in the community in which they live.