Extracted from the Pine Bluff Commercial (Pine Bluff, AR)
Saturday, October 5, 1991

Jeff Newton

EL DORADO -- Jeff Davis Newton, 90, of Hampton, died Thursday at Warner Brown Hospital here.

Born February 16, 1901, at Calhoun County, he was a son of the late Jeptha Ira Newton and Minnie Lee Poole Newton.

He was a retired painter and decorator and a member of Campground Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Hampton. He was also a 32nd Degree Mason and a member of the Eastern Star.

Survivors include his wife, Edith Jane Wilson Newton of Hampton; three daughters, Joan Newton Ingram of Woodlands, Texas, Frances Marceline Newton Hood of Hampton and Sarah Jane Newton Morrow of Bryant; a sister, Lola Grace Newton Cotton of Hampton; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday at Campground Cumberland Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Garland Skidmore officiating. Burial will be in Campground Cemetery by Benton Funeral Home of Fordyce.