Rock County, Nebraska; Biography, Newton Sybrant

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Biography extracted for the NEGenWeb Archives by 
Bev Hopkins, yellowhawk_51@webtv.net 

Title: Rock County, Nebraska, Centennial, 1888-1988.

Published by Centennial Book Committee - 1987
Copyright 1987 by Rock County Centennial Book Committee and Rock County 
Historical Society

 Newton Sybrant Biography

 Newton was born in Pennsylvania and came to Nebraska at the age of three
 with his parents, David and Lucretia Sybrant.
 
 Newt and some of his brothers had a country store.  In 1919, he married
 Nllie Miner, daughter of Benjamin and Emma Jane Miner, and moved to his
 mother's place, he still helped her when he could.  
 
 Newt was 13 when he and some of the older brothers and friends were
 riding horses, going to Pony Lake.  Newt's horse stepped in a hole and
 fell with him.  The boys took Newt home where he was unconscious for
 three or four weeks.  He was in bed about three months, and then could
 not use his one leg.  They thought his back was injured, but years
 later, he found because of another fall that his hip had been broken and
 the old break had never set properly.  His leg was shorter than the
 other.
 
 Newt and his family moved to a small farm in Arkansas in the fall of
 1936.  In March of 1942 Nellie had a stroke and was paralyzed on one
 side until her death in Dec. 1942.  She was buried in Kingree Chapel
 Cemetery near Locksburg, Arkansas.  Her parents are also buried there.
 newt and family moved back to Idaho in 1943 to be near Marjorie who was
 living there.  He took a job Cooking for a sheep camp on Black Pine
 Mountain.  He became very sick with Spotted Tick Fever and no one
 thought he would survive.
 
 Four children had been born to Newt and Nellie:  Erwin Russell, Marjorie
 Pauline, Dorothy Irene, and Audrey Carol.

 Newt went back to Nebraska and worked for some time.  When he returned
 to Idaho in 1944, he brought Hazel Miner, (Nellie's sister) and they
 were married in Burley, Idaho, on December 2, 1944.
 Newt died August 12, 1977 in Idaho.
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