Van Buren Sparks Newman (1832 - 1904)

Born 13 Jun 1832 in German Township, Fayette County, PA

Ancestors

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Biography

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.^[1] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

Birth

Birth:

Date: 13 JUN 1832

Place: German Township, Fayette County, PA^[2]

Death

Death:

Date: 17 MAY 1904^[3]

User ID

User ID: 93DF43093CC97F4F908B645A5EC800CE5E95

Data Changed

Data Changed:

Date: 11 JAN 2009

Prior to import, this record was last changed 11 JAN 2009.

Event

Event: came with his parents

Type: Misc

Date: 1849

SDATE 1 JUL 1849

Place: Wisconsin^[4]

Event: enlisted

Type: Misc

Date: 9 AUG 1862

Place: company K, 22d Wisconsin regiment, Volunteer Infantry^[5]

Event: was discharged from military service

Type: Misc

Primary or Preferred: Y

Date: 30 JUN 1865^[6]

Event: closed out his business to settle in Albany, Wisconsin,

Type: Misc

Date: 1885

SDATE 1 JUL 1885

Place: Juda, Green County, Wisconsin^[7]

Event: hosted his father and his sister, Lena V. Newman,

Type: Misc

Date: 10 NOV 1885

Place: Albany Village, Green County, Wisconsin^[8]

Event:

Type: Living

Primary or Preferred: Y

Date: 1890

SDATE 1 JUL 1890

Place: Albany Village, Green County, Wisconsin^[9]

Event:

Type: Living

Primary or Preferred: Y

Date: 21 JUL 1894

Place: Madison, Wisconsin^[10]

Education

Education:

Date: ABT 1854

SDATE 1 JUL 1854

Place: Beaver Dam, Wisconsin^[11]

Education: "in the common schools" in the

Date: late 1830's

Place: German Township, Fayette County, PA^[12]

Occupation

Occupation: teacher

Date: BET 1865 AND 1867

SDATE 1 JUL 1865

Place: Green County, Wisconsin^[13]

Occupation: teacher

Date: aft 1854 - Sept 1860

Place: Jefferson Township, Green County, Wisconsin^[14]

Occupation: businessman engaged in the mercantile business

Date: beginning in 1867

Place: Juda, Green County, Wisconsin^[15]

Burial

Burial:

Place: Mount Vernon Cemetery, Block 1, Sylvester (1 mile north of Juda), Green County, WI^[16]

Marriage

Husband: Van Buren S[parks??] Newman

Wife: Rebecca J Patton

Child: Clayton Newman

Child: @I209@

Child: @I210@

Child: @I211@

Child: @I212@

Child: @I213@

Marriage:

Date: 20 SEP 1860^[17]

Husband: Isaac Newman

Wife: Adeline Sparks

Child: @I188@

Child: Naomi L Newman

Child: Huldah M Newman

Child: Pamelia Newman

Child: Van Buren S[parks??] Newman

Child: Hannah Newman

Child: Elizabeth A Newman

Child: Harriet N Newman

Child: Melissa M Newman

Child: Adaline Newman

Child: Melissa M Newman

Child: Vashti L Newman

Child: Emma C Newman

Marriage:

Date: 1 JAN 1825 OR 1826

SDATE 1 JAN 1825

Place: (Fayette County, Pennsylvania?)^[18][19]

Census:

Primary or Preferred: Y

Date: 23 SEP 1850

Place: Decatur, District N. 4, Green County, Wisconsin^[20]

Census:

Primary or Preferred: Y

Date: 17 JUL 1860

Place: Clarno, Green County, Wisconsin^[21]

Sources

1. ↑ Newman-4254 was created by P.a. Grove through the import of HuldaNewman.ged on Nov 15, 2015. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.
2. ↑ Source: #S78 Page: Page 876 Template: FIELD Name: Page VALUE Page 876 Quality or Certainty of Data: 2 QUAL Information: S Data: Text: V.B.S. Newman, son of Isaac and Adeline (Sparks) Newman, early settlers of Green county, was born in the town of German, Fayette Co., Penn., June 13, 1832...."
3. ↑ Source: #S77 Page: Page 34 Template: FIELD Name: Page VALUE Page 34 Quality or Certainty of Data: 2 QUAL Information: S
4. ↑ Source: #S78 Page: Page 876 Template: FIELD Name: Page VALUE Page 876 Quality or Certainty of Data: 2 QUAL Information: S
5. ↑ Source: #S78 Page: Page 876 Template: FIELD Name: Page VALUE Page 876 Quality or Certainty of Data: 2 QUAL Information: S Data: Text: "He was mustered in as orderly sergeant. They first went to Covington Heights, Ky., remaining there until February, 1863, thence to Tennessee. His regiment was captured at Spring Hill, Tenn., on the 5th of March following, and taken to Tullahoma, thence to libby prison. They were kept prisoners eight weeks, then exchanged and ordered to report at St. Louis. In May of that year, they went to Tennessee and were stationed at Murfreesboro until the spring of 1864, then joined Sherman's command at Chattanooga, and was with him on his march to the sea, thence through the Carolinas to Washington, participating in the many important battles of that memorable campaign. He was promoted 2d lieutenant in May, 1863, and soon after to 1st lieutenant. He was honorably discharged with his regiment in July, 1865."
6. ↑ Source: #S119 Template: FIELD Name: Page Quality or Certainty of Data: 3 QUAL Information: P
7. ↑ Source: #S140 Page: April 30, 1885 edition Template: FIELD Name: Page VALUE April 30, 1885 edition Quality or Certainty of Data: 2 QUAL Information: S Data: Text: V.B.S. Newman of Juda who has long been engaged in mercantile pursuits there, has decided to close out his business in that place and settle in Albany.
8. ↑ Source: #S140 Page: November 12, 1885 Issue Template: FIELD Name: Page VALUE November 12, 1885 Issue Quality or Certainty of Data: 2 QUAL Information: S Data: Text: Isaac Newman and daughter Lena V. Newman of Juda were in town Tuesday, the guests of Mr. V.B.S. Newman.
9. ↑ Source: #S119 Template: FIELD Name: Page Quality or Certainty of Data: 3 QUAL Information: P
10. ↑ Source: #S449 Page: Page 1 Template: FIELD Name: Page VALUE Page 1 Quality or Certainty of Data: 3 QUAL Information: P
11. ↑ Source: #S78 Page: Page 876 Template: FIELD Name: Page VALUE Page 876 Quality or Certainty of Data: 2 QUAL Information: S
12. ↑ Source: #S78 Page: 876 Template: FIELD Name: Page VALUE 876 Quality or Certainty of Data: 2 QUAL Information: S
13. ↑ Source: #S78 Page: Page 876 Template: FIELD Name: Page VALUE Page 876 Quality or Certainty of Data: 2 QUAL Information: S
14. ↑ Source: #S78 Page: Page 876 Template: FIELD Name: Page VALUE Page 876 Quality or Certainty of Data: 2 QUAL Information: S
15. ↑ Source: #S78 Page: Page 876 Template: FIELD Name: Page VALUE Page 876 Quality or Certainty of Data: 2 QUAL Information: S
16. ↑ Source: #S77 Page: Page 34 Template: FIELD Name: Page VALUE Page 34 Quality or Certainty of Data: 2 QUAL Information: S
17. ↑ Source: #S78 Page: Page 876 Template: FIELD Name: Page VALUE Page 876 Quality or Certainty of Data: 2 QUAL Information: S
18. ↑ Source: #S428 Template: FIELD Name: Page Quality or Certainty of Data: 2 QUAL Information: S Note: Obituary gives date of marriage as January 1, 1825.
19. ↑ Source: #S78 Page: Page 880 Template: FIELD Name: Page VALUE Page 880 Note: Entry gives date of marriage of January 1, 1826.
20. ↑ Source: #S41 Page: Dweling #55, Family #57 Template: FIELD Name: Page VALUE Dweling #55, Family #57 Quality or Certainty of Data: 3 QUAL Information: P Note: Isaac's real estate is listed as being worth 0.
21. ↑ Source: #S71 Page: Dwelling #1092, Family #130 Template: FIELD Name: Page VALUE Dwelling #1092, Family #130 Quality or Certainty of Data: 3 QUAL Information: P Note: Note that Isaac G. Rider and Frank P. Rider are living in Isaac Newman's household at the time of the census. They are the sons of Christopher Rider (deceased) and Huldah Newman Rider (who will marry Michael D. Reeves in 1861). CONT CONT At the time of this census, Isaac Newman's worth is listed as ,000 in real estate and 0 in personal property.

• Source: S119 Abbreviation: Special Schedule - Surviving Soldiers..., Albany Village, Green Co., WI (1890) Title: Special Schedule - Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, and Widows, etc. CONT Albany Village, Green Co., WI (1890) CONT Line 10 CONT Dwelling #40, Family #40 Subsequent Source Citation Format: Special Schedule - Surviving Soldiers..., Albany Village, Green Co., WI (1890) BIBL Special Schedule - Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, and Widows, etc. CONT Albany Village, Green Co., WI (1890) CONT Line 10 CONT Dwelling #40, Family #40. Template: TID 0 FIELD Name: Footnote VALUE Special Schedule - Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, and Widows, etc. CONT Albany Village, Green Co., WI (1890) CONT Line 10 CONT Dwelling #40, Family #40 FIELD Name: ShortFootnote VALUE Special Schedule - Surviving Soldiers..., Albany Village, Green Co., WI (1890) FIELD Name: Bibliography VALUE Special Schedule - Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, and Widows, etc. CONT Albany Village, Green Co., WI (1890) CONT Line 10 CONT Dwelling #40, Family #40.
• Source: S140 Abbreviation: Albany Vindicator, Births, Deaths, Marriages, etc. 1885 Title: Some Births, Some Deaths, Some Marriages and Some Comings and Goings 1885 CONT From the Albany Vindicator [Wisconsin] CONT Transcription found on Internet CONT http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wigreen/1885-AlbanyExtracts.pdf Subsequent Source Citation Format: Albany Vindicator, Births, Deaths, Marriages, etc. 1885 BIBL Some Births, Some Deaths, Some Marriages and Some Comings and Goings 1885 CONT From the Albany Vindicator [Wisconsin] CONT Transcription found on Internet CONT http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wigreen/1885-AlbanyExtracts.pdf. Template: TID 0 FIELD Name: Footnote VALUE Some Births, Some Deaths, Some Marriages and Some Comings and Goings 1885 CONT From the Albany Vindicator [Wisconsin] CONT Transcription found on Internet CONT http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wigreen/1885-AlbanyExtracts.pdf FIELD Name: ShortFootnote VALUE Albany Vindicator, Births, Deaths, Marriages, etc. 1885 FIELD Name: Bibliography VALUE Some Births, Some Deaths, Some Marriages and Some Comings and Goings 1885 CONT From the Albany Vindicator [Wisconsin] CONT Transcription found on Internet CONT http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wigreen/1885-AlbanyExtracts.pdf.
• Source: S449 Abbreviation: Isaac Newman Probate, Green County, WI (29 Oct 1894) Title: Isaac Newman Probate, Green County, WI (29 Oct 1894) Subsequent Source Citation Format: Isaac Newman Probate, Green County, WI (29 Oct 1894) BIBL Isaac Newman Probate, Green County, WI (29 Oct 1894). Text: County Court, Green County -- In Probate. CONT CONT TO THE HON. BROOKS DUNWIDDIE, Judge of the County Court, of the County of Green: CONT CONT The Petition of Lena V Newman respectfully shows that Isaac Newman late of village of Juda Green County Wis departed this life in the said village of Juda on the 21 day of July A.D. 1894 having previously, as your petitioner is informed and believes, duly made and executed his last will and teestament; that your petitioner is named executor therein; that said deceased was at or immediately previous to the time of his death, an inhabitant of the County of Green; and that said last will and testament relates to both real and personal estate. CONT CONT Your Petitioner further shows that the heirs and next of kin of said Isaac Newman deceased are Hulda Reeves Parkers Prairie Min, Isaac Smith Grandchild & son of Naomi L. Smith deceased, Mary J Swan Evansvill Wis, Mrs Mary Roderick Grandaughter P.O. Monroe Wis Daughter of Mrs Pamelia Mitchell deceased, Isaac Mitchell Grandson Gourrey [??] Iowa & son of Mrs Pamelia Mitchell deceased, Mrs Morris P.O. not known Granddaughter & daughter of Mrs Pamelia Mitchell deceased, Mrs Adda Gracy P.O. not known Grandaughter & daughter of Mrs Pamelia Mitchell deceased & Mrs Harriett Blackford Juda Wis Grandaughter & daughter of Mrs Pamelia Mitchell deceased, V.B.S. Newman P.O. Madison Wis, Elizabeth A Mitchell Juda Wis, Mrs Malassa [Melissa] Burns P.O. Juda Wis, Lena V Newman P.O. Juda Wis, Emma C Newman Juda Wis CONT CONT Your Petitioner further shows that the goods, chattels and credits of the said deceased, amount to about the value of Nine Hundred Dollars, and that said deceased left debts due and unpaid to an amount unknown to your petitioner. CONT CONT Your Petitioner herewith presents the said last will and testament, and asks that the same may be proved, and letters testamentary granted thereon according to law. CONT CONT Lena V. Newman [signature] CONT CONT Dated at Monroe this 29th day of October A.D. 1894 CONT STATE OF WISCONSIN CONT COUNTY OF GREEN. CONT CONT On this 29th day of October 1894 personally came before me the petitioner named in the foregoing petition, who being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he [sic] had read the foregoing petition by him [sic] subscribed and knows the contents thereof, and that the same is true of his [sic] own knowledge excepting as to matters therein stated on information and belief, and as to these matters he [sic] believes it to be true. CONT CONT B Dunwiddie [signature] County Judge. Template: TID 0 FIELD Name: Footnote VALUE Isaac Newman Probate, Green County, WI (29 Oct 1894) FIELD Name: ShortFootnote VALUE Isaac Newman Probate, Green County, WI (29 Oct 1894) FIELD Name: Bibliography VALUE Isaac Newman Probate, Green County, WI (29 Oct 1894).
• Source: S77 Abbreviation: Mount Vernon Cemetery Transcription, Block 1, Sylvester, Green County, WI Title: Mount Vernon Cemetery Transcription, Block 1, Sylvester, Green County, WI CONT From Wisconsin State Genealogical Society Newsletter, Vol. 27, No. 1 (June 1980) CONT Copied by Mrs. John M. Irvin on 25 June 1970. Subsequent Source Citation Format: Mount Vernon Cemetery Transcription, Block 1, Sylvester, Green County, WI BIBL Mount Vernon Cemetery Transcription, Block 1, Sylvester, Green County, WI CONT From Wisconsin State Genealogical Society Newsletter, Vol. 27, No. 1 (June 1980) CONT Copied by Mrs. John M. Irvin on 25 June 1970. Template: TID 0 FIELD Name: Footnote VALUE Mount Vernon Cemetery Transcription, Block 1, Sylvester, Green County, WI CONT From Wisconsin State Genealogical Society Newsletter, Vol. 27, No. 1 (June 1980) CONT Copied by Mrs. John M. Irvin on 25 June 1970. FIELD Name: ShortFootnote VALUE Mount Vernon Cemetery Transcription, Block 1, Sylvester, Green County, WI FIELD Name: Bibliography VALUE Mount Vernon Cemetery Transcription, Block 1, Sylvester, Green County, WI CONT From Wisconsin State Genealogical Society Newsletter, Vol. 27, No. 1 (June 1980) CONT Copied by Mrs. John M. Irvin on 25 June 1970.
• Source: S78 Abbreviation: History of Green County, Wisconsin (1884) Title: History of Green County, Wisconsin (1884) CONT Union Publishing Company, Springfield, Ill. CONT Photocopy from State Historical Society of Wisconsin Subsequent Source Citation Format: History of Green County, Wisconsin (1884) BIBL History of Green County, Wisconsin (1884) CONT Union Publishing Company, Springfield, Ill. CONT Photocopy from State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Template: TID 0 FIELD Name: Footnote VALUE History of Green County, Wisconsin (1884) CONT Union Publishing Company, Springfield, Ill. CONT Photocopy from State Historical Society of Wisconsin FIELD Name: ShortFootnote VALUE History of Green County, Wisconsin (1884) FIELD Name: Bibliography VALUE History of Green County, Wisconsin (1884) CONT Union Publishing Company, Springfield, Ill. CONT Photocopy from State Historical Society of Wisconsin.