• General Notes

  William Newton was born in 1838 in Kentucky to Stephen Newton and Mary Jane Crabtree.(1)   He moved to Arkansas with his family in about 1855.  He married Hannah Retta "Heneratta" Shipley in 1856 in Arkansas.  She was born the 4th of January, 1842 in Washington County, Arkansas, USA the seventh child of Benjamin Franklin Shipley, Sr. and Sarah "Sally" Burkett.(2)  
      
  Family oral tradition tells this story about their lives:
  
  "William and Hannah were married when he was eighteen and she was fifteen years old.  They weren't married long when someone burned down their house, so they lived under a bluff until they could build another one near Mulberry, Crawford County, Arkansas, USA.  Here Benjamin Franklin was born in 1857, Stephen A. was born in 1859, Lewis was born between 1860 and 1864, and Sarah Melviney was born in 1864.
  
  When the Civil War began, William enlisted in the Confederate Army.  He went home without leave and some soldiers went after him.  He tried to run away but the soldiers shot him.  They thought they had killed him, but Hannah nursed him back to health.  When he was able, he joined the Union Army.  Southern sympathizers harassed the family because William was fighting for the North.  Lewis was killed by "bushwhackers" during the War. 
  
  William was at Kansas City, Kansas when the war ended.  His father, Ben(?) Newton, was also at Kansas City.  Hannah and the children joined him there.  William died of cholera soon after the war ended and shortly after William's death Hannah gave birth to another child.  Mary Ann was born about 1869." 
  
  William died in 1868.  Hannah returned to Franklin County, Arkansas, USA with her children.  She married 2) _____ Guess/Guest after 1868.  She married 3) Pete Lewis before 1895.  She married 4) Franklin "Frank" Faubus about 1895.  He was born the 26th of January, 1831 in Tennessee and he died the 2nd of January, 1916.  She died the __ of October, 1933 in Oklahoma and is buried in Middleton Chapel Cemetery, Oktaha, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, USA.
  
  Footnotes:
  
  (1)  All information on William Newton and his descendants is from 1) The Anson Parker Family, Sharon Gragg <sgragg at muskogee dot net>, 2) Della Parker, wife of Robert Morgan Parker.
  
  (2)  Some researchers give her birth year as 1841 others 1842.  Some say she was born in Tennessee others say Washington County, Arkansas, USA.
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  1860 Census : Mulberry, Franklin Co., AR - Page #309, Dwelling # 494, Family #472. Cannot read or write. Personal Property Value $50.00
  
  Research of R. Cecil Shipley as of April 2005
  1860 United States Federal Census
  Name:    Stephen Newton
  Age in 1860:    48
  Birthplace:    Tennessee 
  Home in 1860:    Mulberry, Franklin, Arkansas
  Gender:    Female 
  Value of real estate:    View image
  Post Office:    Pleasant Hill
  Roll:    M653_41
  Page:    309
  Year:    1860
  Head of Household:    Stephen Newton
  Home in 1860 Age in 1860 Estimated Birth Year Birthplace Gender
  Enumerated 22 June 1860,
  Family 493/471,
  Stephen Newton Mulberry, Franklin, AR 48  1811 Kentucky  Male   
  Mary Newton Mulberry, Franklin, AR 42  1817 Tennessee  Female   
  Mary E Newton Mulberry, Franklin, AR 16  1843 Kentucky  Female   
  Catharine Newton Mulberry, Franklin, AR 15  1844 Kentucky  Female   
  Miles Newton Mulberry, Franklin, AR 12  1847 Kentucky  Male   
  Stephen Newton Mulberry, Franklin, AR 10  1849 Kentucky  Male   
  Mary Newton Mulberry, Franklin, AR 7  1852 Kentucky  Female   
  Laura Newton Mulberry, Franklin, AR 6  1853 Kentucky  Female   
  Isaac Newton Mulberry, Franklin, AR 3  1856 Arkansas  Male
  
  1860 United States Federal Census
  Name:    Wm Newton
  Age in 1860:    20 
  Birthplace:    Kentucky 
  Home in 1860:    Mulberry, Franklin, Arkansas
  Gender:    Male 
  Value of real estate:    View image
  Post Office:    Pleasant Hill
  Roll:    M653_41
  Page:    309
  Year:    1860
  Enumerated 22 June 1860,
  Family 494/472,
  Head of Household:    Wm Newton
  Name Home in 1860 Age in 1860 Estimated Birth Year Birthplace Gender
  Wm Newton Mulberry, Franklin, AR 20  1839 Kentucky  Male   
  Hannah Newton Mulberry, Franklin, AR 20  1839 Tennessee  Female   
  Ben Newton Mulberry, Franklin, AR 3  1856 Arkansas  Male   
  Stephen Newton Mulberry, Franklin, AR 5/12  1859 Arkansas  Male

Details of William's family with Hanna Rette Shipley