Ellen Newman
1860 – 1874
Timeline
1860 – Birth
LOCK HAVEN, PENNSYLVANIA, USA
She was born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, in 1860 to Amelia Loeb Newman and Nathan Newman. She had six siblings: Ferdinand Newman, Ida Newman Grauer, Hannah Newman, Nettie Newman, Josephine Newman Loeb, and Joseph Newman.
1874 – Death
BELLEFONTE, PENNSYLVANIA, USA
She died at the home of the Fabel family in Bellefonte of heart disease.
Family Tree
Biological Parents
◦ Amelia Loeb Newman (1835-1912)*
◦ Nathan Newman (unknown-1870)*
Adoptive Parent
◦ Simon Loeb (1843-1896)
Siblings
◦ Hannah Newman
◦ Ida Newman Grauer
◦ Ferdinand Newman
◦ Josephine Newman Loeb
◦ Nettie Newman (1871-1916)
* = Buried in the Rodef Shalom Cemetery (click the name to view their biography)
Residences
1860 Census
DWELLING NUMBER 787, LOCK HAVEN, CLINTON, PENNSYLVANIA, USA, POST OFFICE: MILL HALL,
Lived with Nathan Newman (father, 36), Amelia Newman (mother, 25), Hannah Newman (sister, 2), and Isaac Loeb (62).
1870 Census
LOCK HAVEN WARD 1, CLINTON, PENNSYLVANIA, USA
Lived with Nathan Newman (father, 48), Mary Newman (mother, 36), Hannah Newman (sister, 12), Ida Newman (sister, 8), Frederick Newman (brother, 6), Josephine Newman (4, sister), Joseph Newman (brother, 1), Isaac Loeb (72), and Anthony Shay (23).
Profile
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Ellen “Ellie” Newman was born in 1860 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, to Amelia Loeb Newman (click here to view her biography) and Nathan Newman (click here to view his biography). She had six siblings: Ferdinand Newman of Braddock, Pennsylvania, Ida Newman Grauer, Hannah Newman, and Nettie Newman of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, Josephine Newman Loeb of Baltimore, Maryland, and Joseph Newman (click here to view his biography) of Milton, Pennsylvania.
According to the 1860 census, Ellen lived with her parents, siblings, and maternal grandfather, Isaac Loeb (click here to view his biography), in Mill Hall in Clinton County. Her grandfather and father both worked as butchers. In the 1870 census, she lived with her parents, siblings, maternal grandfather, and Anthony Shay, who had an unknown relationship to the family, in Lock Haven. According to her brother, Joseph’s, obituary in the Democratic Watchman, the family moved from Lock Haven to Bellefonte sometime in the 1870s. Ellen’s father, however, more than likely did not move with the family since he died in 1870.
According to Ellen’s obituary, Simon Loeb of Bellefonte, her uncle, had “…taken to raise…” her in Bellefonte. Neither her biological parents nor her siblings are mentioned in her obituary. While Ellen died in 1874, in the 1880 census, her mother, Amelia, and her siblings lived with Simon Loeb, Amelia’s brother, and his wife, Lenora Loeb, in Bellefonte.
According to her obituary in the Democratic Watchman, Ellen died at the age of 14 years, two months, and four days on June 22, 1874, of heart disease. She had been feeling unwell in the morning, but went to Mr. Fabel’s to play, where she got progressively worse and died.
She was buried in the Rodef Shalom Cemetery in Bellefonte. She was remembered as being “…a dear, winsome little creature, the pet and pride of the household, and her loss will be deeply and grievously felt.”