History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 758.
[Nicholas County]  [Carlisle City and Precinct]

NELSON H. McNEW, physician, Carlisle, was born near Knoxville, Tenn.,
Sept. 11, 1840; he is of Scotch-Irish descent; his father, Isaac McNew,
having emigrated from Washington County, Va., to Tennessee, about 1820;
his mother, who maiden name was Parmelia Halffinger, was a native Virginia
lady; she died in Tennessee in 1842, her husband having died ten years
previous; the doctor is the eighth of nine children, seven of whom are
still living; when only two years of age, he lost his mother, but received
a good education, his father having married twice; the second time to Mary
Arnwine, a sister of his eldest daughter's first husband; he taught school
for several years, devoting his spare time to the study of medicine; in
1858, he entered the University of Nashville, taking a medical course;
upon being graduated by that institution in 1861, he immediately entered
the Confederate service under Captain Churchill, of the 1st Arkansas
Mounted Riflemen; he remained in private service till [sic] after the
battle of Pea Ridge, when he was promoted to the post of Assistant
Surgeon of his regiment, which position he filled till [sic] the close of
the war in 1865; in May 1864, he married Miss Jerusha Yeary, daughter of
Henry Yeary, a prominent farmer of Tennessee; she died in 1874, having
borne him four children, two of whom, Nannie Lee and Carrie, are still
living, after the war he located in Sherburn, Fleming County, where he
soon acquired the esteem and confidence of the people; he was favorably
mentioned by the people of that county for the Legislature just before
his departure in 1874; in 1876, he removed to Carlisle, where he is highly
esteemed as an able and careful physician; he is a member of the Masonic
fraternity, having held all the principal offices, and is a correspondent
of several of the most prominent newspapers of the Southwest.

McNew Halffinger Arnwine Yeary
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Fleming-KY Washington-VA TN

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