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Page C. Newton

Page C. Newton died at the home of his mother in Omaha last Thursday morning, being found dead in bed when they went to wake him. He had returned from the Philippines in December broken in health and paralysis in his left side growing steadily worse. Death is believed to have been caused by the final paralysis of the nerves and muscles of the heart. The body was brought here on the 3:55 train Saturday afternoon and interment made in the Blair cemetery by the side of his father. Five of his comrades in Co. E. of the 3rd Neb., C.C. VanDeusen, Wm. Shenck, Ben Peck, Clarence Blakeney and Clint Noyes and the writer, his captain, acted as pallbearers, and lowered that flower-covered casket into that cold and narrow room that will some day become the abiding place of us all. Page was born in the state of Illinois 28 years ago on the 8th of last September and grew to manhood in this city, where his father was in the mercantile business now known as the Gutschow Cash Store. He enlisted with Co. E. and served his country for about a year in Cuba and the southland and afterwards enlisted in the regular army and saw service in the Philippines during the subjugation of those islands, being in a number or engage-ments. When his period of enlistment was over he entered the government’s employ in a civil capacity, and was deputy treasurer of one of the islands at the time of departure. Some years ago he suffered a slight paralytic stroke that left his left side weak, and finally served the summons that called him to the other and better world.

#2-1 Apr., 1908 - The Blair Democrat - Page Newton

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The remains of Page Newton were brought to Blair from Omaha last Saturday, and interred in the cemetery beside those of his father. Page was in the civil service of the government and was deputy treasurer of the Yukon Islands when taken sick and came to Omaha on a vacation.

Deceased was about 28 years old and up to this time he enlisted in the regular army after the Spanish Armerican War made his home in this city.

*Note on file drawer card---Spanish American War Co. E, 3rd. NE

Blair Cemetery lists death date as: 28 Mar 1908 Bk 55, L 34, Sp 9

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~