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Surnames: NEWMAN, LAUGHLIN, PARKER, SCHUTT
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Rozaine H. Newman Dead
Rozaine H. Newman, who was born at Ontario, Lima township, near seventy-seven years
ago, and who had always lived in this county, died yesterday morning, about half past
three o'clock, at his home on Grant Street.
Mr. Newman had been under medical treatment for several years, but his last sickness
began early in September, an attack of auto-intoxication, followed by asthma. He
suffered much, but at the last he was quiet, and the end was peaceful and calm.
Mr. Newman was the son of Richard L. and Mary Ann Parker Newman, early settlers in the
county. Richard L. Newman was born in Philadelphia in 1820 and Mary Ann Parker Newman was
born in 1821 in Genesee county, New York. Mr. Newman came to this county at eleven years
of age and he and Mrs. Newman were married in Lima township, where the son was born.
Rozaine H. Newman attended the common schools and finished his education in the old
LaGrange Collegiate Institute at Ontario. He was engaged in farming most of his life and
until he moved to LaGrange fourteen years ago.
Mr. Newman and Almeda Laughlin, born in Williams county, Ohio, were married in 1865 in
this county.
They were the parents of two children, Emma, the wife of Oliver Schutt, and Frank B.
Newman of Jackson, Michigan.
Both of these children, with five grandchildren and Mrs. Newman, survive their father.
Mr. Newman was long a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a Republican in
politics, and loyal to that organization, but was content to be a worker in the ranks and
never asked for party or other public honors.
Two of Mr. Newman’s grandsons, Cecil L. and Hollis B. Newman were soldiers in the
World War and the former was in France nearly two years, following several months on the
Mexican border. he accompanied the Pershing expedition to France, in 1917, as a member of
Company G in the first division. He participated in the Argonne Forest fighting and was
wounded in the left leg and right hand and was gassed. He was reported killed in action
and a memorial service was held in his honor in the Methodist Episcopal church in
LaGrange.
He received an honorable discharge in March of 1919 and returned home and is now living at
Ontario, where his grandfather was born.
Mr. Newman lived quietly looking after his own affairs and making a success of farming,
but was interested in community work and community plans. He had his own ways of doing
things, but he never intruded his opinions or plans.
He was honest, his life was clean and above reproach, he was industrious, and his
citizenship meant something worth while. There is a sense of loss in the town and county,
now that he has gone from us for a little while, and we shall miss him, but the end came
in the fullness of years and the reward is his.