DEATH TAKES NOTED PAIR WITHIN A WEEK ( Headlines)
Husband a descendant of Sir Isaac Newton
Green B.and Bertha
Newton
The Eldorado Daily Journal of the 19th instant, had this story
of the death of two most worthy and distinguished pioneer citizens
of this county:
With the passing of Green B. Newton yesterday afternoon at the
home of his son, Hubert Newton, on Locust Street, death today
had closed a chapter in the pioneer history of Pope county. Mrs.
Bethena Newton, his wife, preceded him in death by one week.
Mr. Newton spent 92 years of an active life upon a farm near Eddyville,
leaving there only last Sunday to make his home with his son,
Hubert. Death was caused by a fall, resulting in a dislocated
shoulder, this injury proving fatal to a man of his years.
Mrs. Newton was 90 years of age at the time of her death a week
ago yesterday. She was laid to rest last Friday afternoon in
the cemetery at Pleasant Ridge Church, near Eddyville. Funeral
services for her husband were held at the same church this afternoon
and his body laid to rest beside that of his wife. The couple
had been married 63 years.
Six children, all sons, survive this aged Pope county couple.
A seventh, Darvin, died at the age of 8. They are: Joel, of
Hot Springs, Ark., Elbert, of DeQueen, Ark., Lyman, of Pontiac,
Mich., Hubert, of Eldorado and Calvin and Cyrus, of Eddyville.
Mr. Newton was a great, great grandson of Sir Isaac Newton, famous
British mathematician and scientist of the seventeenth century,
whose experiments defining gravity, proved a great boon to the
science of physics.
Also, surviving Mr. Newton is a nephew, Dr. Blanchard S. Barger,
a prominent member of the clinical staff at the Barnes hospital
in St. Louis.
_ Clipping from Herald-Enterprise, Thursday, December 26, 1935.