55. John David Stokes⁴ Newell (Edward Drumgould³, Edward², John¹) was born in Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Mississippi in 1837.⁽²⁶²⁾ He died of heart failure March 5, 1899.⁽²⁶³⁾ John was buried March 5, 1899 in Vicksburg, Warren Co., Mississippi.⁽²⁶⁴⁾

John married Nannie Cole Newell July 27, 1864 in Fort Bend Co., Texas.⁽²⁶⁵⁾ Nannie was born November 2, 1844 in Tennessee.⁽²⁶⁶⁾ Nannie was the daughter of David Stokes Newell and Maria Catherine Jordan. According to conflicting evidence, she married John David Stokes Newell August 26, 1864 in Fort Bend Co., Texas.⁽²⁶⁷⁾

According to conflicting evidence, he married Nannie Cole Newell August 26, 1864 in Fort Bend Co., Texas.⁽²⁶⁸⁾ He was paroled June 4, 1865 in Nachitoches, Natchitoches Par., Louisiana.⁽²⁶⁹⁾

Goodspeed's Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana (1892) states:

"Capt. J.D.S. Newell, lawyer, St. Joseph, La., a gentleman of long experience in the legal field, and planter, and a descendant of one of the first families of north Louisiana, owes his nativity to Port Gibson, Miss., his birth occurring there in 1837, although his parental home was in Tensas Parish, La....

Capt. J.D.S. Newell is the eldest of five children born to his father's first union.... He and his cousin, E.T. Newell, left school and entered the army when fifteen years of age, remaining in active service until the final surrender, being in the trans-Mississippi department in the Tensas cavalry. Capt. J.D.S. Newell was educated in the University of Virginia, taking a three-year collegiate course, and after brining home many distinctions in civil law from the University of Louisiana, at New Orleans, and began practicing at St. Joseph, La., soon after. In 1861 he joined the Tensas cavalry, and was elected first sergeant, commenced active service at Columbus, and Bowling Green, Ky., and was in the battles of Shiloh, Boonville, and Denmark, Tenn., and of Corinth and Iuka, MIss., where he was made adjutant of Col. Isaac F. Harrison's regiment, just forming in Louisiana. As adjutant he served in many hot skirmishes before Grant's advancing column on Vicksburg. Soon after Lieut. Newell was made captain of Company F., McNeill's regiment of Louisiana Cavalry, which company he commanded in all the engagements on Red river really being very often in command of several companies. He was paroled at Natchtoches after the general surrender. Just prior to the surrender he was appointed assistant inspector-general, with the rank of major on General Drayton's staff, but the war ended before his commission was forwarded. After the war he engaged in planting and continued this for several years before he resumed the practice of law. He has met with success, and his reputation and record are first-class for integrity and trustworthiness in all matters entrusted to him. He owns a plantation and a great part of the town of Newellton, a town which he established and named in honor of his father, besides his residence and other property in St. Joseph. Captain Newell also established and owns the upper St. Joseph's landing. He inherits mechanical genius, and the bridges, roadways, dykes and canals built by him have often been received complimentary notice from both state and United States engineers. He was married in July, 1864, to Miss Nannie Newell, the beautiful and accomplished of Dr. Davis S. Newell, who was the youngest brother of the Captain's father, and also a graduate of La Grange college, Alabama.... Captain Newell is a thoroughgoing and live worker for his party and for the general welfare of the community in every way. He is genial and hospitable and a gentleman in every particular. He has an interesting and intelligent family and his surroundings are most pleasant, his wife being one of the leaders in social circles, and his sons among the foremost of the young business men of the state. The Captain and his wife have four children living. The eldest, J.D.S. Newell, Jr., is engaged in a lucrative business in Brownwood, Tex. The next in age, Cecil E. Newell, is manager for his father's business at the St. Joseph landing, and the two younger brother, Carroll Harper, and Edwart T. Newell, are at the Louisiana State Military school, at Baton Rouge."

John David Stokes Newell and Nannie Cole Newell had the following children:

115 i. Anna Kate⁵ Newell was born in Louisiana May 25, 1865.⁽²⁷⁰⁾ She died August 28, 1871.⁽²⁷¹⁾

116 ii. John David Stokes Newell Jr. was born in Louisiana November 24, 1866.⁽²⁷²⁾ He was killed by a falling tree March 14, 1894.⁽²⁷³⁾ John was buried March 15, 1894 in Vicksburg, Warren Co., Mississippi.⁽²⁷⁴⁾

117 iii. Edward Cecil Newell was born in Louisiana August 17, 1868.⁽²⁷⁵⁾

118 iv. Carroll Newell was born in Louisiana about 1874.

119 v. Edward Newell was born in Louisiana about 1876.

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