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Ella BOWLES

(11 Feb 1858 - 30 Jan 1950)

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Birth	11 Feb 1858	Marion, Indiana, USA
Residence	1866	Mahaska, Iowa, USA
Residence	1867	Stuart, Guthrie, Iowa, USA
Residence	1877	Jewel, Kansas, USA
Marriage	1881	Earlham, Dallas, Iowa, USA - Abner Lewis NEWLIN
Alt name	1881	Ella NEWLIN
Census	1885	Union Twp., Dallas, Iowa, USA
Census	1 Jun 1900	Union Twp, Dallas, Iowa, USA
Death	30 Jan 1950	Bear Creek, Dallas, Iowa, USA
Burial	1 Feb 1950	Bear Creek Cemetery, Dexter, Dallas, Iowa, USA
Funeral	1 Feb 1950	Friend's Meeting House, Earlham, Dallas, Iowa, USA
Obituary	9 Feb 1950	Earlham Echo, Earlham, Dallas, Iowa, USA
Reference No		2719
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Families

Spouse	Abner Lewis NEWLIN (1851 - 1939)
Child	Louanna NEWLIN (1882 - 1882)
Child	Roy Levi NEWLIN (1884 - 1980)
Child	Jay Joel NEWLIN (1886 - 1971)
Child	Edith NEWLIN (1887 - 1969)
Child	Mary E. NEWLIN (1889 - 1960)

Father	Ephraim BOWLES ( - )
Mother	Elizabeth EPPERSON ( - )

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Obituary

Ella Bowles Newlin (1950)
NEWLIN, BOWLES, EPPERSON, BRADFIELD, MOTT
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 12/23/2006 at 09:41:14
Earlham Echo - February 9, 1950
Earlham, Iowa
Ella Newlin of Dallas county, near Earlham, Iowa, died early Monday, January 30, 1950.
She was born February 11, 1858, and lacked only twelve days of being 92.
Ella Bowles was born in Marion county near Indianapolis, Indiana. Her parents, Ephraim and Elizabeth (Epperson) Bowles moved with their family to Iowa in 1866, stopping the first year in Mahaska county, Iowa, then going on to Guthrie county near the town of Stuart, Iowa. There Ella Bowles grew to womanhood. She early maifested her interest in Friends, (Quaker) Meeting and became presiding clerk of the monthly meeting at the age of 18.
She began very young to do practical nursing at the insistence of those who were ill in the community. From her mother in those pioneer days she learned hygenic standards so that she prevented the spread of contagion from the cases she nursed.
In 1873 her family moved to Jewel county, Kansas. She followed them in 1877. While there her high school education was interruped by demands for nursing. She also taught the local country school which was held in a sod house.
In 1880 she returned to Iowa and was united in marriage to Abner L. Newlin of Earlham, Iowa in 1881. She came to the Newlin farm in Dallas county near Earlham, Iowa as a bride. Here she was the loved daughter and nurse of her invalid mother-in-law, Ruth Lewis Newlin.
She was recorded a minister in the Friends Meeting in 1900 and ----ed extensively with her husband in religious work in the United States, Canada, and Europe. The infirmities of age finally limited these activities when she was 83 years of age.
Her home since 1917 was a little house beside the Friends Meeting House about three miles north of Earlham. Her husband died in 1939 after 58 years of married life. She lived in the community for 69 years, a warm friend of all who knew her.
Surviving are her four children, Roy L. Newlin and wife Edith Sara of Earlham; Jay J. Newlin and wife Ruth O., of Grimes, Iowa; Edith Newlin of Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia; and Mary E. Bradfield and husband Landis R., of Cleveland, Ohio. There are also nine grandchildren and fifteen greatgrandchildren. She was one of eleven children. Surviving are two brothers, Elihu Bowles of Prosser, Washington; Gilbert Bowles of Honolulu, T. H., and a sister, Joanna B. Mott of Earlham, Iowa.
Her six grandsons were pall bearers, Arthur G., Wilmer R., J. Edward, Paul R., Merle L. and Owen J. Newlin.
Funeral services were held Wednesday, Febraary 1, at 2:00 p.m., at the Friends' Meeting House abut three miles north of Earlham, Iowa. Interment at Bear Creek cemetery.

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