According to E. Leonard, in The Newton Genealogy (de Pere, Wisc., 1915)
JOHN NEWTON^ (Peter', Jonas^ Amos^ Jr., John*, John', John=,
Richard'), son of Peter and Mary Ann C. (Bixby) Newton of Framingham and
Ashland, Mass., was born at Framingham, February 22, 1825 [P. R.], and died
at the Soldiers' Home at Chelsea, Mass., December 17, 1910, aged 85 years.
He married at the age of twenty years, in Sturbridge, Mass., September 29,
1846 [Record of the Congregational church], Lucy Bailey or Baylis, also aged
twenty years, daughter of Daniel and Azubah (Stockwell) Bailey of .
She was born in , Vt., in the year 1826.
Mr. Newton lived many years in Sturbridge, where he was a farmer, also a
boot and shoemaker. An old map of that town bears his name among the list
of business men—about the year 1850.
He was a soldier of the Civil War,serving in Company K, 22d Regiment,
Massachusetts Infantry. He was a member of the Sturbridge, J. Arthur Johnson
Post, G. A. R.—at his death the oldest member.
The funeral was from the home of his son-in-law. Nelson L. Snow, Rev. John
C. Hall of the Congregational chureh officiating, the bearers being his post comrades,
Edward H. Davenport, Melvin Shepard, Alvin B. Chamberlin and Baxter
C. Bennett.
