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Newell Cemetery
Location:
North side of
Winslow Road
between Finchford and Janesville |
| When
James Newell settled here in 1846, he set aside a cemetery
just north of his original cabin. This one-acre plot was
first used in June of 1847 for the burial of Mariett Newell,
the 27-year-old wife of James Newell, who settled there
in 1846. James and his brother, Sem, and many Newell family
members are buried on the wooded hillside north of the original
Newell homestead. Newell's monument has the following inscription:
"Do as you would be done by; live an honest life; believe
in the one and true God and go down to your grave without
the fears of an orthodox hell."
Also buried in
the Newell Cemetery is a Winnebago Indian named Thunder Woman.
She is believed to have been the wife of a chief who was sympathetic
to early white settlers. Her tribe respected Newell, and when
she died her body was taken to him for burial in his family
plot, probably in the winter of 1847. In 1968, the Red Cedar
River Society, Children of the American Revolution, erected
a plaque at the cemetery in honor of Thunder Woman, "buried
in Newell family cemetery at the request of her people and
with permission of James Newell, friend of the Indians." |
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