Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 802-803 [Fulton]

     JOHN HILARY NEWBERRY.  Fulton county is one of the best
agricultural counties of the great commonwealth of Kentucky, and is
such not solely because of fertile soil, but because its farmers are
enterprising and representatives of the noble, honest and
independent pursuit they follow.  Among the most successful farmers
of this county is the subject of this personal memoir, John Hilary
Newberry.
     Mr. Newberry is a native son of Fulton county.  He was born
here on the 10th day of November, 1861, and is a son of James and
Susan D. (Plummer) Newberry.  His father was born August 20, 1836,
and his mother's birthday was June 30, 1834.  They were married in
1860, and to them only two children were born--two sons, namely:
John H., and Thomas C., born October 14, 1863.  The mother died in
1865, and two years later the father died.  So their children were
left orphans when they were mere children.  Both have grown to
useful manhood and become well respected citizens.
     John H. Newberry has spent his entire life as a resident of
Fulton county.  He gained a limited education, but in the fields he
was taught to till the soil and on the farm in his youth he labored,
and there learned the most valuable of lessons, that of industry and
perseverance.  To farming he has devoted his time and efforts, and
has achieved success.  He owns a fine farm of over one hundred
acres, and has it well improved and stocked.  While he produces
wheat, corn and other farm products, tobacco is his best paying
crop, and he is numbered among the most successful tobacco growers
of his county.
      In 1884 Mr. Newberry married Miss Sarah Finch, a daughter of
John Finch, who was one of the pioneers and highly respected
citizens of Fulton county.  He died in 1881, at the age of seventy-two,
and in 1890 his wife died at the age of seventy-four years. 
Besides Mrs. Newberry they were the parents of the following named
children: John Finch, who was a farmer of Fulton county, and died in
1903, aged sixty-seven years; Mary E., wife of James Shikle, a
farmer of Fulton county, died in 1873, aged thirty-six years; Thomas
J., a farmer residing in Texas; George, died in 1887, aged thirty-three
years, was a farmer of Fulton county; and Paulina Ellen, who
married John P. Feimster, a farmer of North Carolina, and died in
1898, at the age of forty years.
     Mr. and Mrs. Newberry have the following children, namely:
Tidie, Mary E., Nicie, George Ivy, Virginia Pearl, John Thomas and
Birdie Ellen.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Newberry are members of the
Christian church, and their home is well known for the generous
hospitality shown to those who visit there.

Newberry Plummer Finch Shikle Feimster
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TX NC

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