CIVIL WAR VET ISSAC NEWELL GETS MARKER - Dedication Sunday

(05/29/2004)

After many years, a Civil War marker will be dedicated Sunday at 1 p.m. at the grave site of Issac A. Newell. Pvt. Newell is buried at the Knott's Baptist Church at Orma. Bob McKracken of Florida is going to wear his union army Civil War uniform and historian Ann Newell says there will be a display of Civil War artifacts. Area residents are being welcomed to the ceremony. "We have been working on getting the marker for some time," said Ann Newell. Newell was a member of the Ohio 25th Infantry, Company G and served in the Union army from 1861-62, having fought in numerous battles in western Virginia. He has many descendants in Calhoun. Born near Woodsfield, Ohio, Newell married Sarah Davis and came to Gilmer County in 1878 where they built a log cabin at Tanner (near Shock). Newell and his wife moved to Frozen Camp in Jackson County where he found work on a sawmill. His wife died while he was working there. After her death, Issac returned to the Mouth of Bear Fork near Stumptown, where he lost all his belongings while crossing the swollen waters of Steer Creek. In 1891 he married a Braxton County woman, Rachel Lively, and they moved to the mouth of Crummies Creek above Arnoldsburg. He died in 1893.

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