"Francis Henry Clay Newcomb (better known as "Frank") was born March 16, 1828, in Colchester, Vermont. On February 21, 1860, he was married to Sarah Elizabeth Gordon. For more than fifty years they lived in the vicinity of Pulaski. In about 1890 they moved from their farm east of the village to their handsome new residence just northwest of it: when this residence was destroyed by fire in 1913, they purchased and moved to the present Frank Newcomb home on East Main Street Augusta; here Mrs. Newcomb died in 1917, but Mr. Newcomb still lives in good health, though his failing memory prevents us from securing the benefit of the great store of information and interesting anecdotes which he could otherwise relate, he being the only person now surviving who lived in Pulaski the same year that the village was first laid out."
Martha Board Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, Augusta's Story (Augusta, Illinois: Augusta Eagle, 1922), 156-7.
Martha Board Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, Augusta's Story (Augusta, Illinois: Augusta Eagle, 1922), 156-7.
"Francis Henry Clay Newcomb (better known as "Frank") was born March 16, 1828, in Colchester, Vermont. On February 21, 1860, he was married to Sarah Elizabeth Gordon. For more than fifty years they lived in the vicinity of Pulaski. In about 1890 they moved from their farm east of the village to their handsome new residence just northwest of it: when this residence was destroyed by fire in 1913, they purchased and moved to the present Frank Newcomb home on East Main Street Augusta; here Mrs. Newcomb died in 1917, but Mr. Newcomb still lives in good health, though his failing memory prevents us from securing the benefit of the great store of information and interesting anecdotes which he could otherwise relate, he being the only person now surviving who lived in Pulaski the same year that the village was first laid out."
Martha Board Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, Augusta's Story (Augusta, Illinois: Augusta Eagle, 1922), 156-7.
Martha Board Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, Augusta's Story (Augusta, Illinois: Augusta Eagle, 1922), 156-7.
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Francis H. C.
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