Individual Details
John Isaac Newcomer Senior
(23 Mar 1879 - 27 Dec 1941)
John Newcomer served as Justice of the Peace, 1918-1920, and as Mount Morris Township Clerk, 1928-1930. He had a farm northeast of Milledgeville, Illinois from 1937 to 1941.
Events
| Birth | 23 Mar 1879 | Mount Morris, Ogle, IL |  | ||
| Marriage | 25 Sep 1922 | Wheatland, Clinton, IA - Esther May Burns |  | ||
| Death | 27 Dec 1941 | Polo, Ogle, IL | | ||
| Burial | Fairmount Cemetery, Polo, Ogle, IL | |
Families
| Spouse | Esther May Burns (1896 - 1986) |
| Child | John Isaac Newcomer Junior (1924 - 2011) |
| Child | Melchor Burns "Burns" Newcomer (1926 - 2005) |
| Father | Melchor Snively Newcomer (1842 - 1920) |
| Mother | Mary Elizabeth "Eliza" HAMMER (1843 - 1920) |
| Sibling | Ida May Newcomer (1866 - 1900) |
| Sibling | Mary Elva Newcomer (1867 - 1951) |
| Sibling | Martha Newcomer (1869 - 1893) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth "Bessie" Newcomer (1871 - 1925) |
| Sibling | Alice Newcomer (1873 - 1895) |
| Sibling | Anna Eliza Newcomer (1877 - 1891) |
| Sibling | Ruth Newcomer (1884 - 1962) |
| Sibling | Grace Newcomer (1885 - 1932) |
Notes
Marriage
John Newcomer and Esther Burns may have wed on the 22nd.Death
John Newcomer, Sr. died in the evening at a bowling alley in Polo, Illinois. He was bowling with a neighbor, Ed Vock, when he suffered a heart attack and died. Esther Newcomer, his wife, was working as a nurse at the Dixon State Hospital that evening. Burns Newcomer, his youngest son, was home at the farm several miles north of Hitt. It was a Saturday night and the farmers and city folks were in town for shopping and movies. It had been snowing and there were three of four inches of snow on the streets. Someone called the movies at Dixon, Illinois, and an announcement was made over the speakers for John Newcomer, Jr., the oldest son, to come to the box office, where he was informed of his father's heart attack.Etholine Clingenpeel, latter to become Burns Newcomer's wife, happened to be bowling in another alley at the time John Newcomer, Sr. died.
Endnotes
1. Kable, Harry, Mount Morris: Past and Present. Revised Edition (Mount Morris, IL: Kable Brothers Company, 1938), page 387.
2. Cramer, Roger. Peoria, Arizona. Web site: www.members.aol.com/rogercubs/index.html.