JOHN D NEWELL OBITUARY, ST LAWRENCE, NEW YORK

Copyright (c) 2001 by Lee Newell (LANewell@earthlink.net).

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John D. Newell, known to all people of this town as one of the oldest Gouverneurians died at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Phair, in Brooklyn, Wednesday, after a very brief illness.  Mr.
Newell suffered a stroke of apoplexy last Saturday, but was apparently gaining strength up to
the hour of his death.  The remains were brought to this village last evening, and interment
will be made in Riverside cemetery this afternoon.  The funeral service will be attended from
the home of Mrs. H. O. Pike, another daughter, this afternoon at 2 o'clock, and will be in
charge of Rev. A. W. Rogers, pastor of the Baptist Church.

Mr. Newell always made his home here up to a few years ago when he went to Brooklyn to reside
with his daughter Mrs. Phair.  He spent the winters in that city, and every summer lived at the
home of Mrs. Pike, in this village.  He was born in Saratoga county, July 19, 1811, and was a
son of Mr. And Mrs. John Newell.  He spent his boyhood and a portion of his young manhood in
his native county, but came to St. Lawrence county while yet a young man and took up his
residence in this town.  He was accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Olive Smith Newell, whom he
married in Saratoga county.  All the remaining years of his life were passed in Gouverneur with
the exception of the few months he was accustomed to spend during his later life, in Brooklyn.

He was one of a family of 11 children, all of whom are now dead, with the exception of a
brother, L. V. Newell, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Boynton.  Of the family of eleven children, the
youngest was fifty years old before one of the number had died. L. A. Newell, a brother, died
only a few weeks ago.  Mr. Newell is survived by one son, Dr. J. T. Newell, of Brooklyn, and by
four daughters, Mrs. H. O. Pike and Mrs. Helen Draper, of this place, and Mrs. Wm. Phair and
Mrs. A. H. VanBuren, of Brooklyn.

Mr. Newell was a kindly old gentleman whom everyone greatly esteemed.  He was an ardent lover
of nature, and his great pastime during the later years of his life wile in Gouverneur, was to
wander about the fields and woods and work in his little garden plot.  He was one of the fast
diminishing number of sturdy pioneers who made the North country what it is today.   Northern
Tridune, Gouverneur, N. Y. , Oct. 24, 1902.

John D. Newell died 10/22/1902