| After many years, a Civil War marker will be dedicated Sunday at 1 p.m. at the
grave site of Issac A. Newell. Pvt. Newell is buried at the Knott's Baptist Church
at Orma.
Bob McKracken of Florida is going to wear his union army Civil War uniform and
historian Ann Newell says there will be a display of Civil War artifacts. Area
residents are being welcomed to the ceremony.
"We have been working on getting the marker for some time," said Ann
Newell.
Newell was a member of the Ohio 25th Infantry, Company G and served in the
Union army from 1861-62, having fought in numerous battles in western Virginia.
He has many descendants in Calhoun.
Born near Woodsfield, Ohio, Newell married Sarah Davis and came to Gilmer
County in 1878 where they built a log cabin at Tanner (near Shock). Newell and
his wife moved to Frozen Camp in Jackson County where he found work on a
sawmill. His wife died while he was working there.
After her death, Issac returned to the Mouth of Bear Fork near Stumptown, where
he lost all his belongings while crossing the swollen waters of Steer Creek.
In 1891 he married a Braxton County woman, Rachel Lively, and they moved to
the mouth of Crummies Creek above Arnoldsburg. He died in 1893.
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