Person:George Newton (53)

GEORGE NEWTON (1840 - BET 1900 & 1910) By Myron L. Newton, Jr.

George served in the Revolutionary War as Patriot, by furnishing material aid. He was a soldier from the Willingtom District, and took part in the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge on Feb 27, 1776. this was the first southern engagement in the American Revolutionary War.

George and his wife Mary Robinson Newton moved from New Hanover Co NC to Screven Co. GA arround 1800. Some time later, after the death of his father, George Sr, His mother Nancy Ann Moore moved from NC to Screven Co GA. to join George and his family.

George Jr. bought property near Rocky Ford, Screven Co GA, and at the death of his mother in 1827, estabilished the Newton Family Cemetery on his property. Some of the family are burried there with stone markers. Nancy Ann Moore Newton has a wonderful pine marker which still stood in the 1990's. All the soft wood was eaten away and only the resin remains, leaving an unusual effect.

The cemetery is on the road to Sylvania from Rocky Ford, still on the Newton farm. It is located almost in the yard of Duger & Zada Newton.

The George Newton farm was recognized by the Farm Bureau as being in the same family for over a hundred years, and featured in an article in the Sylvania Newspaper.

A comemmoritive marker has been erected in the Wells Chapel Cemetery in Duplin Co., North Carolina. the inscription reads as follows.

George Newton CONTINENTAL LINE REVOLUTIONARY WAR 1742---1786 BATTLE OF ELIZABETHTOWN CHAPTER SECOND PLAGUE GEORGE NEWTON CONTINENTAL LINE REV. WAR 1742—1786