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Elisha and Amanda Newman
Elisha, son of Jonathan and Eliza Dymond Newman and Amanda daughter of Leslie and Almira Badgero Alden. They had a daughter Lillian who married Orin Hibbard, parents of Dallas and twins Lorena and Leslie. Lamar and Hollis Hibbard are children of Dallas and Leslie. |
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Levi and Mary Tower Newman
(left) Tower/Newman Log Cabin that was located on Braden Road |
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Home of Levi and Mary Tower Newman. They had 7 children;
Perl, Jim, Orlando, Eva, twins Alta and Elna, and Delia. Their mother
was an aunt to Ellen May Tower the Spanish American War nurse who died
of typhoid fever in Puerto Rico. The cabin was built by an uncle,
Theodore Tower in the 1860’s. He had given 100 days of work for the five
acres of land the house stands on and then built the cabin from timber
as he cleared the land. Levi had a cider mill on this location run by a
gas engine. Mary Tower Newman came from a family of 14 children. |
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