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Ephraim Holland Newton
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Name Ephraim Holland Newton
Gender Male
Birth? 28 Aug 1821 Sandusky, Ohio, United States
Death? Matamoros, Mexico

According to E. Leonard, in The Newton Genealogy (de Pere, Wisc., 1915)

Ephraim Holland', b. Aug. 20. 1821, "He was a volunteer in the Mexican War, and while in a sentry-box at Matamoros, in Mexico, he sat down on a box containing some powder, when, for some unknown cause, it exploded, burning him so dreadfully that he lived only twenty-two hours afterward.