Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Newton, George July 28, 1835
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American Beacon, August 3, 1835
Died, at the Warrenton (Fauquier) White Sulphur Springs, on Tuesday last, of a protracted indisposition, GEORGE NEWTON, Esq., of this Borough. He left this place for the Springs three or four weeks since, but the prospects of an improvement of health, which began to dawn upon him, have been blighted 
forever. Of such a man as Mr. Newton undoubtedly was, so thoroughly known as he is to the community at large, as one of its wealthiest and most intelligent citizens--we can say nothing that is not known to our readers fully as well as to ourselves. In public life few men acted with greater decision, and on 
broader and more philosophic grounds than himself. While a member of the Board of Public Works, he was eminently useful not only to his own section of the country, but to the commonwealth at large. Indeed it is not venturing too far to say that no member of the Board of Public Works since its organization, ever 
enjoyed in such an eminent degree the confidence of his associates.--When the branch bank of the United States was established in this borough, he was elected President, and held the office until a winter or two since, when he gave in his resignation. Mr. Newton had not attained the 50th year of his age at the period of his decease. We learn that his remains were committed to the earth on Wednesday last. His family reached this place from the Springs in the boat on Saturday.

Died, on Tuesday last, at the White Sulphur Springs, near Warrenton, (Fauquier County,) GEORGE NEWTON, Esq., having just passed his forty-ninth year. This sad event cannot fail to awaken a deep sympathy throughout our community. Although 
we are counselled that "it was ordained by Providence, to hinder us from tyrannizing over one another, that no individual should be of such tyrannizing over one another, that no individual should be of such importance as to cause, by his retirement or death, any chasm in the world," if not every "one among us, those at least, who had the good fortune to know intimately the subject of the present afflictive bereavement, must feel that "a 
noble spirit is eclipsed"-- that a great loss has been sustained. The uncertainty of life is forced upon us at almost every step, by the fall of those who are followed to the tomb with the bitter tears of sorrowing relative and friends; but it is not always that to the desolation and anguish in the domestic circle, is superadded a painful sense of public deprivation. 'Tis true, that the career of him whose loss we are now called upon to deplore, was marked by no brilliant displays of genius, nor would we claim for him praise for the exertions of a sickly, morbid benevolence, which however laudable its aims, but to
offer, strives to attain them by means that even for the exertions of a sickly, morbid benevolence, which however laudable its aims, but to offer, strives to attain them by means that even-handed justice will not or cannot warrant, With much of human infirmity, the virtues of our friend were felt in acts not less beneficent because of their  noiseless, unpretending character, -- Opulence not unfrequently scatters its profusion, 
from the impulses of a mawkish selfishness or sordid thirst of applause. With him, its treasures sought a broader and deeper channel--unpolluted by any vaunting or vulgar passion for display. No man, here or elsewhere was more sagacious or prompt to sagacious or prompt to perceive, or embraced with a freer or bolder spirit enterprises enterprises suggested by high consideration of public utility. And it may be safely affirmed, that no man in our community has ever made larger sacrifices 
of time and means for the general prosperity. In various responsible trusts which he had filled, during the last twenty years, he inspired universal confidence by a firmness, ability and zeal, equally honorable to himself, and advantageous to the public--Within the last few months--with scarcely strength 
for the least physical exertion--he still retained perfect command of his mind; and at length, calm as a summer's sea, "passed from day to darkness," leaving in our grateful recollections "a deathless part of one who died too soon."

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