Addie Newton was born in Oregon on March 29, 1867, and died Dec. 9, 1876. She is buried in the Northeast section of Mount Union Cemetery in an area that appears to be the final resting place for several children from the Newton family. She is buried next to L. Evelyn Newton, a younger sister who died at age 3 in 1876.
A death notice or obituary could not be found for the 9-year-old girl. She can be found in the 1870 federal census living in the Philomath vicinity with her family. Although relationships were not identified in that particular census, it appears that she was the daughter of Isaac and Anna Newton and at the time had three older siblings — a 14-year-old sister named Keziah, a 7-year-old sister named Dora and a 5-year-old brother named Elvin. She also had a younger sister, 1-year-old Lorain.
The family lived in a rural area with her father working the land as a farmer.
No other records could be found about the child. Although it’s unknown what caused her death, Oregon suffered through several smallpox epidemics in the 19th century that continued up into the 1870s.
Death hit this Newton family hard. Isaac, the father, died in 1874 at age 42 from a tumor that developed in his kidney and stomach area.