Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameJacob D. "Dee" NEWMAN
Birth Date17 Aug 1846
Birth PlaceBlount County, Tennessee
Death Date21 Jun 1904 Age: 57
Death PlaceBristow, Creek County, Oklahoma
OccupationUnion Soldier, TN Co. D, 2nd Cavalry, Federal Marshall,
FatherThomas Jefferson NEWMAN (1823-1865)
MotherElizabeth BRAKEBILL (1827-1884)
Spouses
1Elizabeth Caroline WHITEHEAD 45
Birth Date20 Jan 1846
Birth PlaceBlount County, Tennessee
Death Date16 Mar 1916 Age: 70
Death PlaceBristow, Creek County, Oklahoma
Family ID1129
Marr Date7 Sep 1865
Marr PlaceMaryville, Blount County, Tennessee
ChildrenWilliam Alfred (?-)
Notes for Jacob D. "Dee" NEWMAN
In 1862, when Jacob was sixteen, he enlisted in Company D, 2nd Tennessee Cavalry, East Tennessee, USA. After being wounded in the thigh, he received an honorable discharge in 1866. Jacob and his family migrated to Missouri about 1884. They came with a John Galloway and a Brakebill family. They lived in Douglas County and then in Greene County before moving on to Oklahoma when the Strip opened. Jacob was a Federal Marshall in the Oklahoma Indian Territory. His son, William Alfred Newman, succeeded him as Federal Marshall. Page 6645

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