Brief Life History of Robert
When Robert Newton was born on 8 June 1792, in North Carolina, United States, his father, George Newton, was 37 and his mother, Ursula Whitehead, was 36. He married Rebecca Tennessee Barnes on 11 May 1812, in Pulaski, Giles, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Lawrence, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years. He died on 31 January 1878, in Lawrenceburg, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Five Points, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States.
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- Robt Newton in household of A M Newton, "United States Census, 1870"
- Robert Newton, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Robert Newton, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1796 · Tennessee Becomes a State
On June 1, 1796, Tennessee became the 16th state.
1799 · Gold Nuggets Found
"In 1799, in Little Meadow Creak located in Cabarrus County, North Carolina a large yellow """"rock"""" was found by Conrad Reed. A few years later it was determined that the """"rock"""" was a gold nugget."
1830 · Trail of Tears
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many places in England and Scotland so named, from Old English nīwe ‘new’ + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’, or Middle English neue ‘new’ + toun ‘settlement, town’. According to Ekwall, this is the commonest English placename. For this reason, the surname has a highly fragmented origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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