Individual Details

Lycurgus C. "Curg" Newman

(April 17, 1864 - May 25, 1944)

FAG 114310537 

Birth date from the 1854 Bible of Johnathan Newman. This differs from his tombstone, which gives the birth year as 1863. Donnie Inez was born in November 1862, so the birth year of Lycurgus had to be 1864.

1900 census: Clark County, Arkansas.

1910 census: Sabine Parish, Louisiana, ED 107, sheet 18; age 48; married 18 years; nine children born, only three living; worked in a sawmill.

1920 Sabine Parish, Louisiana census.

Birth listing found in papers of Aggie Hammonds show L. C. Newman born 16 April 1864. Other information from Union Parish; Louisiana marriage records; markers at Jerusalem Cemetery.

"Last rites for L. C. Newman, age 79 years, were held 10 a.m. Saturday from Many Nazarene church. Rev. W. V. Neil officiated. Massingill funeral home in charge. Surviving are: two daughters, Mrs. Bobbie Lingo of Cameron, Arkansas, Mrs. Grant Lewing of Many; son, Roy Newman of Florien; 20 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren." (THE SABINE INDEX, Many, Louisiana, Friday, June 1, 1944.)

Events

BirthApril 17, 1864Freestone County, Texas
MarriageFebruary 11, 1892Union Parish, Louisiana - Martha Ella Tubbs
DeathMay 25, 1944Many, Sabine Parish, Louisiana
BurialMay 27, 1944Jerusalem Cemetery, Sabine County, Louisiana

Families

SpouseMartha Ella Tubbs (1877 - 1911)
ChildBobbie Allie Troy Newman (1899 - 1972)
ChildArchie Roy Newman (1901 - 1981)
ChildSamantha Jewel Newman (1907 - 1995)
FatherJonathan Newman (1833 - 1869)
MotherMartha Ann McDonald (1834 - 1921)
SiblingElizabeth Jane Newman (1859 - 1880)
SiblingNewman ( - )
SiblingDonnie Inez Newman (1862 - 1947)
SiblingWilliam Elias "Bill" Neuman (1866 - 1944)
SiblingNewman ( - )
SiblingMary S. "Polly" Newman (1867 - 1880)