Person:Mary Newton (94)

The following from the Book "The Newton Genealogy" Pub 1910

Mary', b. Oct. 9, 1845; unm.; resides with her sister in the homestead of their father. These sisters are worthy daughters of their father; energetic, good mental capacity, enterprising, public spirited, progressive. At the Centennial Celebration in Newfane, I find the name of Mi.ss Fanny Newton on the committee of arrangements. "Cousin Mary is quite a literary woman. Just now is, and for some time has been correspondent to the Brattleboro, Vermont, Phenix. They live in the house their father built when the present Newfane was Fayetteville. Newfane was on the top of the hill—three miles straight up. There is little left of the old, busy, little village on the hill except the little marble stones with numbers on them, and where the Courthouse stood is a larger marble on which is the key to the numbers. One stone marks the site of Luke Knowlton's house (he was brother-in-law of Col. Ephraim Holland, who married Eunice Newton°) ; another the site of the church; and so on. I am proud to say that it was the nice thought of Cousin Mary Newton to mark these sites, as most of the buildings were taken bodily down the hill to the valley of Fayetteville and the others were entirely destroyed." |K. H. N.]