Ichabod N., son of Asa B. and Eleanor Newell, was born near Waltonville, Ill., Nov. 19, 1850.

On the 23d day of June, 1878, he was united in marriage to Miss Ida Philp.

This union was blessed with three children---Walter Raleigh, James Philp and Elsie. These, with five brothers, George, Levi, Oscar, Phillip, and Douglas, besides other relatives and a host of friends, are given their cup of affliction in his death.

In the early part of the nineties, Rev. J. C. Kinison brought unto Bro. Newell the glad story of salvation, and the Gospel which is the Power of God unto the salvation of everyone that believeth found lodgement in the richness of his heart and bore fruit, and on June the 30th, 1894, he united with the Methodist Episcopal church in Williamsburg. Bro. Newell was a man of high ideals and strong convictions. He was of sterling worth to the church and community, and each coming year will only reveal to us what we have lost in his death.

He was a loving husband, a devoted father, and a friend in deed to all who had the privilege of knowing him.

On Thanksgiving day Bro. Newell came to church for the last time in the flesh, but it can be truthfully said that never did we come together to worship God, but what he was there in spirit.

Bro. Newell suffered patiently all these months with aneurism. In the still small hours of the early morn, on June 19th, 1910, the angel of death claimed the spirit of this good man, and the suffering tenement house of clay was stilled, while the spirit winged its flight to God who gave it.

On the twentieth of June, 1910, sixteen years from the time he received Bro. Newell into the church, Bro. Kinison was called to preach his funeral, after which the remains were laid to rest in Knob Prairie cemetery to await the morn of resurrection.

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Submitted by: Rosemary Atkins
Relationship: Granddaughter