Gratiot County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Newman, Gwendell Barden ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandra Moore http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00031.html#0007687 March 4, 2011, 11:14 pm Cemetery: Oak Grove Cemetery Name: Gwendell Barden Newman Date Of Photograph: March 23, 2010 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/gratiot/photos/tombstones/oakgrove/newman162278nph.jpg Image file size: 83.6 Kb Monument and headstones are located on Hofstetter Hill BARDEN NEWMAN MONUMENT Inscription on front of monument: LURA BARDEN NEWMAN 1866 - 1918 GWENDELL BARDEN NEWMAN 1894 - 1920 FIRST LIEUTENANT US MARINE CORPS Small headstones around the monument are as follows: JOSEPHINE BARDEN WIFE OF DONALD CAMERON (no dates on stone) DELIA BARDEN (no dates on stone) LOUIS FRANK NEWMAN (no dates on stone) Note: Delia (Martin) Barden was the daughter of John and Margaret (Dickinson) Martin. Her date of birth May 1841 in Troy, Oakland Co., Michigan and date of death Feb 10, 1929 Saint Louis, Gratiot Co., Michigan. (Cemetery records) Death certificate shows that Lewis Newman's parents as unknown, male, white, married, occupation (not sure of what is written), born December 19, 1857 Alabama and died on April 15, 1912 in St. Louis, Gratiot Co., Michigan at the age of 54 years 3 months and 27 days, cause of death cerebral hemorrhage. Informant Mrs. Lura Newman of St. Louis, Michigan. Burial was on April 18, 1912 Oak Grove, St. Louis, Michigan. Lura Barden Newman was the daughter of Joseph and Delia (Martin) Barden. Josephine Bell "Josie" (Barden) Camerson was also the daughter of Joseph and Delia (Martin) Barden born December 23, 1873 in Ovid, Clinton Co., Michigan. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/gratiot/photos/tombstones/oakgrove/newman162278nph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb