SEVENTH GENERATION

86. John J MCNEW ⁽⁸⁾ was born on 25 Aug 1814 in New Salem, Switzerland Co, Indiana. He served in the military on 22 Oct 1861 in Civil War. ⁽¹⁵⁾ He died on 30 May 1903 in Greensburg, Decatur, Indiana. He has Ancestral File number 2297-31S. He was married to Mary "Polly" KERR on 15 Feb 1838 in Jennings Co., Indiana. ⁽¹¹⁾

87. Mary "Polly" KERR was born about 1811 in Pennsylvania. She died in 1857. Maiden name could have been "Carr" Children were:

i. Hugh C. MCNEW was born in 1840.
43 ii. Mary Jane MCNEW.
iii. Jeremiah "Jerry" MCNEW was born in 1842. ⁽³⁾ He died in 1928.⁽³⁾ He was buried in 1928 in South Park Cemetery, Greensburg, Decatur, Indiana. Section L. Lot 56 E1/2

iv. John Organ MCNEW was born in 1846.
v. Elizabeth "Betsy" MCNEW was born in 1848.
vi. Richard MCNEW was born in 1852.