Joseph Patrick newton
Joseph Patrick Newton was born in Monroe County, Alabama nearly 194 years ago on December 14th, 1827 to his Father, Richard Nicholas Newton and Mother, Martha C. Burt.
Interesting events that occurred around the World during Joseph Patrick's birth year of 1827 included.
• On February 28th, 1827 the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in the United States offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
• On March 16th, 1827 Freedom's Journal the first African-American owned and published newspaper in the United States is founded in New York City by John Russwurm.
• On March 26th, 1827 German composer Ludwig van Beethoven dies in Vienna after a prolonged illness. Thousands of citizens line the streets for the funeral procession three days later.
• From May 20th until July 9th, 1827 "Zarafa", a Giraffe presented by the Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt, Mehmet Ali Pasha to King Charles X of France walks from Marseilles to Paris. It is the first Giraffe seen in Europe in over three centuries
• On July 4th, 1827 New York becomes the first state in the Union to abolish slavery.
• On September 21st, 1827 according to Joseph Smith, the Angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which Joseph translated into The Book of Mormon
• In 1827, Englishman John Walker invents the first friction match, which he names "Lucifer".
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☆☆ Joseph Patrick's Father. Richard Nicholas Newton was raised in Duplin County, North Carolina where he served in Captain Glison’s Company, North Carolina Militia, during the War of 1812. He enlisted at the Duplin Court House in July of 1812 and a six month term for which he was discharged in January of 1813 at Fort Johnson @ Brunswick County, North Carolina. Richard first arrived in Alabama around the year 1820, along with his Stepmother and Sister, initially settling in Monroe County. He married Martha Burt a native of Edgefield County, South Carolina @ Clarke County, Alabama on March 16th, 1822.
Richard and Martha Burt Newton remained in Monroe County until about 1832, during which time their first six children were born. They chose to relocate to Sumter County, Alabama in 1832 where Richard, a lifelong farmer erected a simple log cabin. The Newtons arrived by covered wagon with their children and necessary belongings. One of the neighboring families was that of Wimberk Boney with whom the Newton family established the Liberty Primitive Baptist Church in the mid-1830’s.
Tonight's honoree was the 4th of thirteen children born to his Mother and Father. Chronologically his elder siblings were Mary Catherine, John, and Lucy. His younger Brothers and Sisters included William "Billy" Andrew, Lucinda, Richard Samuel, Elizabeth, Margaret, Thomas, Issac, and Naomi Newton.
On March 3rd, 1862 Joseph Patrick enlisted with the 36th Regiment, Co. A Alabama Infantry which was organized at Mount Vernon, Alabama during the American Civil War. The unit helped build the defenses at Oven and Choctaw Bluffs and was part of the garrison of Mobile, Alabama between August of 1862 and April, 1863. They were then sent to the city of Tullahoma where they joined the Army of Tennessee. The Regiment participated in the retreat of the Army during the Tullahoma campaign and fought in the Battle of Chickamauga, in which it lost 125 men who were either killed or wounded. The 36th suffered light casualties at the Battle of Lookout Mountain but lost a significant number of men at the Battle of Missionary Ridge. The unit fought in the Battle of Rocky Face Ridge, the Battle of Resaca, the Battle of New Hope Church, and the the Battle of Atlanta which all told resulted in the loss of roughly 300 men in action. The Regiment went with the Army into Middle Tennessee during the Franklin~Nashville Campaign and lost roughly 60 men at the Battle of Nashville but were able to survive the bloody clash as an organized force following the conflict. The 36th was then sent to Mobile to garrison the highly fortified "Spanish Fort" in Baldwin County, Alabama. In the Mobile campaign, the Regiment lost 110 more men who were killed, wounded, or captured. Following the eventual evacuation of Mobile, Joseph Patrick's unit surrendered at Meridian, Mississippi in April of 1865 as the Civil War finally came to merciful end.
•• All five of Joseph Patricks Brothers joined the CSA during the American Civil War. Four were either killed in action, Richard Samuel on May 19th, 1863 at Vicksburg, Mississippi, Thomas on April 6th, 1864 in Augusta, Georgia, and Isaac Newton on April 8th, 1865, or later died from their wounds, John Newton on June 23rd, 1873. His Brother, William Andrew Newton was left permanently disabled.
This evenings honorees Mother, Martha Burt Newton passed away at the family home on July 5th, 1877 and was buried about 100 yards away in the Boney Cemetery. She was seventy three years old.
Joseph Patrick's Father, Richard Nicholas Newton would lose his life in a most unfortunate fashion just over one year later on July 27th, 1878. The family Patriarch and Veteran of the War of 1812 had lowered himself down a well in order to retrieve a water bucket which had become detached from the rope. Two of his Daughters waited above to assist him, but found that they did not have the strength to pull him up from the depths of the treacherous well once he reached the wayward bucket. It is here where his life would end by way of drowning at the age of 88. It is unclear as to which of Mr. Newtons Daughters were with him on that fateful day.
This evenings honoree, a lifelong farmer never marries nor did he have children of his own. Joseph Patrick resided with immediate family members for the entirety of his life, mostly in the State of Alabama before joining two of his Sisters, Margaret, and Martha in rural Plant City, Florida sometime after 1880. Immense sadness would visit this evenings honoree when his younger Sister, Martha with whom he lived, loses her life prematurely at the age of 47 on Tuesday, February 5th,1889.
For reasons we know not, Mr. Newton, at the age of seventy two would take his last breath in the rustic Florida countryside on Tuesday, June 12th in the year 1900.
Joseph Patrick Newton... Beloved Son, Brother, Veteran of the American Civil War.
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