Person:John Newlan (2)

1874 Sept. 23, Lovington, Moultrie Co., IL. Evan W. Newlan wrote his cousin Jane Love: "My younger Brother [John] and Sister [Caroline] and her man [Isaac Massey] came back from Kansas / So they are likely to be here afew days untill they can find a place . . . I saw Evan [Love] in town last Saturday and Brother John was with me"

1880 Coffey Co., KS, census, p.387C, Liberty Twp., June 8, 1880, F.A. Atherly: JOHN NEWLAN, W M 25, brother, farm laborer, IL OH OH; with 25/27, LEVI NEWLAN, W M 26, head, farmer, IL OH OH; Alice, W F 18, wife, keeping house, IN OH IN; Mary BURKHART, W F 40, servant, servant, Switzerland Swit Swit; H.E. REED, W M 29, boarder, day laborer, IL IN IN.

1880 Dec. 14, John W. Newlan md. Anna E. Steele, Coffey Co., KS, Book B, p.458 Index to Coffey Co., KS, marriage records <http://www.kscourts.org/dstcts/4comarec.htm>

1885 May 11, Burlington, Coffey Co., KS. Lydia E. Love wrote her sister Jane Love: "I am still among the Newlans 15 miles from Post office / I was at Johns when I last wrote / I was there weeks but I will half to tell you the Bad news of his death / he died may the 2 with the measles / I was with him to the last / his Father took it so hard / So did Levi / he had a good Wife / dont know yet what she will do / it is hard to Part with those wee love / I am now at uncle Joes . . . John was on a rented Place" Correspondence from the family letters and papers of Jane Love and her cousin, Lillice Jones Harper, courtesy John, Danny, and Dave Harper in 2001 and 2004, transcribed by Brenda Boyer

from transcription of Teachout Cemetery north of Gridley NEWLAN, John W., died May 2, 1885, aged 30y 6m [b. Nov. 2, 1854]

1. ↑ correspondence, 19th century
   Burlington, Coffey Co., KS, May 11, 1885, Lydia E. Love to her sister Jane Love.