U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Newlon, William Pitt (1848-1922) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Braxton County and Central West Virginia by John Davison Sutton Sutton, West Virginia, January, 1919 Pages 411-413 Dr. Wm. Pitt Newlon, son of Colonel Wm. Newlon and Eliza Pool Camden, was born in Sutton, March 7, 1848, where he grew to manhood. He attended the best local schools of the day. As a boy, he was kind and considerate, and early became a general favorite with those of his acquaintance. At the beginning of the Civil War, his father removed to his farm on O'Briens fork, where Wm. P. put in four or five years of toil on the farm which developed him physically, and prepared him so well to bear the great strain of labor and exposure to which his life work called him. As a boy on. the farm, he did not neglect his studies, and very early showed a desire for his chosen profession. After the close of the Civil war, Dr. Newlon attended the best select schools of the county and prepared himself to enter the college of Louisville, Kentucky, where he graduated in 1871. As a physician, he became noted. His practice was not confined to Braxton and adjoining counties, but he was called to treat patients as far away as Parkersburg, Washington and other cities. He was physician to the Baltimore & Ohio, Coal & Coke and the Holly River railroads, was twice offered a position in the West Virginia Hospital at Weston as Assistant Physician. Dr. Newlon in his long practice never refused to ride day or night over high mountains, through hail and storm, across swollen streams and rugged by-paths to relieve the suffering. Such was the nobility of his generous character that he never refused a man because, he was poor and unable to pay. He compounded a medicine called Cohosh, and other remedies that have found special favor, all of which are said to be valuable remedies. Dr. Newlon married Melissa Green, September 21, 1881. Their children were Mary Link who married Reginald Benner, Eliza Pool who married H. Roy Waugh, and one son Wm. P. who died young. Dr. Newlon was a literary man, and wrote some rare and beautiful poems, selections from which are hereby given: MY BOYHOOD'S HOME. I saw it in my dreams last night, My early boyhood's home — The vine-clad hills and meadows bright, Where as a child I roamed. We were all here — not one away — The hearth-stones cheery place — I heard again the mirthful sound Come from each smiling face. We were there — not one away — No troubled look — no sad refrain — Just as they were in childhood's day — And I — I was a child again. My dream is past — we're not all here — On yonder's hill beyond the vale I frequent view through curtained tear A marble shaft- that tells the tale. IN MEMORIUM. Could tears have kept thee, thou wouldst ne'er have gone, Or could they call thee back, thou wouldst be here. For since the moment death did mark thee for his own, Tears have burned my cheeks and left their traces there. Yes, I have wept, and still do weep for thee — Not that I'd have thee back, — but pent up grief Is doubly hard to bear; and struggling to be free, The heart through tears doth find relief. Perchance, the sorrow that is mine, will soon be o'er — For time will assuage grief — and it may be Time will give me fresh cause to mourn And I will grieve again, as I do now, for thee. But from my memory time cannot efface, Nor mar the last sad look of thy sweet face. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Register of Deaths, Upshur County, WV FULL-NAME: Wm. Pritt Newlon BIRTH-PLACE: W.Va. DEATH-DATE: June 4, 1922 at age 74y-2m-27d MARITAL-STATUS: Divorced OCCUPATION: Doctor CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Apoplexy INFORMANT: Baley & Poling, Undertakers ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Braxton County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/braxton/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------