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Howard (1907), Vol. 2 biographies
b. 27 Feb. 1844, Columbiana Co., Ohio, twelfth of thirteen children of Abraham and Catherine (Wolf) Newcomer (Part 75, pp. 1017–1018). Reared in Hancock Co., Ohio (family removed c. 1847, 53-acre farm); lifelong farming; m. 20 Jan. 1870 Sarah Bauders (b. 25 Apr. 1850, Hancock Co., Ohio; the entry’s later W. F. Newcomer heading spells the maiden name Borders — P-C8); eight children, five living, named — incl. Viola, wife of Samuel Bates, a carpenter and joiner of North Liberty, and W. F. Newcomer (next entry) (Part 75). Sold the Ohio farm and came to Liberty Township, purchasing the 80-acre tract his son Charles now lives on, plus another 80 acres c. 1¼ miles east; in summer 1907 erected a cottage home there (Part 75). A Democrat; German Baptist Brethren church (Part 75). [REGISTER] Carrying fact: a late (1880s) Ohio-to-Liberty farm purchase at full family size — the Newcomer web (see also Amm, John Adam Sheneman’s wife) is Howard’s second Liberty kin-web.