Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Nathan Newton ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Nathan Newton
LAST NAME: Newton FIRST NAME: Nathan MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: M MILITARY: 
BORN: 1829 DIED: 17 Oct 1908 BURIED: 1908
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Laborer
BIRTH PLACE:  Noble Co., Ohio
DEATH PLACE: Seattle, King Co., Washington
NOTES: 

Name of father Lambert Newton

Maiden name of mother Martha Nicholson


1880 OR CENSUS - Nathan Newton, age 50, laborer, b. Ohio, is enumerated with wife Susan, age 43, b. Ohio, along with M. J., female, age 24, b. Myran, female, age 22, W. W., male, age 20, W. S., male, age 19, Augusta, age 16, Sarah M., age 16, Isaac G., age 12, Thos. C., age 10, all born in Oregon, and E. Grace, age 8, b. Washington Territory.

MARRIAGE: Nathan Newton was married 21 Nov 1854 to Susan Swank in Linn County by Rev. Edward Evans Parrish

Oregon Statesman 28 Nov 1854 3:4.

BIOGRAPHICAL: The family story is that the Whealdons (Alfred and Dorothea, nee Newton) traveled the Oregon Trail with the Swanks, and that Susan Swank married Dorothea's brother Newton near Salem Oregon. I've seen the Swank headstone near the Whealdon headstones in Sand Ridge Cemetery near Albany. Source - Bradford Newton
 
OBITUARY: 
INSCRIPTION: 

Newton
Nathan 1829 - 1908 

[There is also "Nathan 52 - Susan 53" at the top of the marker a covered wagon etched between the names.  Shares marker with several other Newtons and Smiths]:
 

Then shall the dust return to the 
Earth as it was and the spirit shall 
Return unto God who gave it.
SOURCES: 

LR 
LD 
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., S. Salem Pct., FA #66) 
DAR pg 79
Saucy Survey & PhotographsWDI (Washington State Archives)

Bradford Needham
CONTACTS: 
LOT: 535 SPACE: NE LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: 
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