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Note: SOURCE: "Gentry and Worth County History".
Chapter III, p. 86, 87. Gentry included Worth County until 1861.
The family was living in Gentry County when Charles Edward McNew was born 9 June 1880, New castle, Gentry County, Missouri. This town no longer exists.
SOURCE: "A Guide to County and Municipal Records on Microfilm. Published by the Missouri State Archives." The address for the "archives" is 600 West Main, P.O. Box 778, Jefferson City, MO 65102. Phone (573) 526- 7333; e-mail:
archref@@mail.sos.state.mo.us The web site: http://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/arch.hmtl
Nodaway County was organized February 24, 1845, from Andrew County and named for the Nodaway River. County seat: Maryville.
Nodaway is a Potawatomi Indian word meaning 'placid'. 'Jump over the river' has also been suggested as the meaning.
SOURCE: 1880 U.S. Federal Census of Nodaway County, MO: Vol. 25, ED 249,
Sheet 17, Line 28
McNew, William, head, 34, born IL
" , Martha, wife , 30, born OH " , Carlton, son, 12, born MO " , Lillie B., dau, 9, born MO " , Martha J., dau, 7, born IA " , William, son, 3, born MO " , Charles, son, 1, born MO SOURCE: Certificate of Death, State of Iowa; No. 61-06622
Date of Death: March 5, 1961
Place of Death: Porter Nursing Home, 409 E. 4th Street, Indianola, Warren County, Iowa
Date of Birth: 9 June 1880
Place of Birth: Missouri
Father: William McNew
Mother: Martha Daniels
Informant: Leota Sternquist
Cause of Death: Cardiac Decompensation
Due to: Senile Dementia
Date of Burial: March 8, 1961
Place of Burial: Grant City Cemetery, Grant City, Worth County, Missouri
Director of Funeral Home: Willard W. Peterson, Indianola, Iowa
SOURCE: SS-5 Application, dated May 17, 1937 SSN: 483-07-9958
Residence: 334 West 7th Street, Boone, Boone County, Iowa
Age: 56
Birth Date: June 9, 1880
Place of Birth: New Castle, Gentry County, Missouri
Father: William Henry McNew
Mother: Martha Jane Daniels
Works Progress A-Project- 2361, Boone County, Iowa
U.S. Employment Service Registration No. 1608-136
Signature: <C. E. McNew>
SOURCE: The Record-Herald and Indianola Tribune; Indianola, Iowa, Tuesday,
March 7, 1961, Vol. 70 No. 71 Obituary: Mrs. Sternquist's Father Died
Funeral services for Charles E. McNew, 80, who died Sunday at the Porter Nursing Home were held this afternoon at Grant City, MO., with interment in the cemetery there.
Mr. McNew was born at Grant City, but had lived at Boone most of his life where he was employed by the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company.
In failing health for the past three years, he had lived with his daughter, Mrs. Clifford Sternquist, and at the Barton Nursing Home for the past two years. He was transferred to the Porter Nursing Home about six weeks ago.
Besides his daughter, Mr. McNew is survived by two sons, Harold E. McNew of Des Moines, and Charles F. McNew of Boone; nine grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. Lora Ballou of Sheridan, MO.
Charles once went to TEXAS to visit his brother, William Henry (he changed his middle name to Franklin) who was working for the One Hundred and One Ranch. He really liked this kind of life. William had a horse named, Misty (see picture).
Charles sister, Mattie (Martha Jane, Jr.) was no longer married to William
Harman (either death or divorce) and now was married to Harry Lee Reiter who owned a bakery in Inglewood, California. On a visit to see Mattie at the bakery, she was threatened by an intruder with a shotgun and Charles stepped between the assailant and his sister to defend her. The gun went off and Charles lost the vision of one eye and his elbow was full of shot. He was no longer able to straighten his arm and shot continued to work itself out of his elbow until the day he died.
Charles was very fond of "scripture" and "poetry". Much of this was exchanged with his sister, Lora Dean McNew who later married Richard Cook Ballou through letters.
SOURCE: A book "Rhymes of the Rail" by C. J. Byane one special poem that he liked and Charles penned at the bottom, "This is the poem you heard me read & that you so fervently requested of me. May you constantly read & absorb every word of this philosophy." I might add to this that he had a very worn railroad pocket watch and inside the back cover was a picture of his wife, his first-born, Leota, which was taken with his wife's sister (probably Ethel).
The Jewels of My Watch (Written for "The Railroad Man's Magazine) While sailing away on the long mountain trail,
Up in the cab of the Overland Mail,
The hands of my watch softly steal round the dial.
From minute to minute and mile after mile.
It's just a plain watch with a big, open face,
With twenty-one jewels, and a twenty-year case,
But the jewels I prize are the jewels of my Life,
Inside the back cover----my baby and wife.
Just an old-fashioned picture, faded and torn,
Its luster has gone and the edges are worn;
Through the long, dreary years that we've been apart
I've kept that dear photograph close to my heart.
While sailing away on the long mountain trail,
Up in the cab of the Overland Mail,
As I gaze at my watch I fancy I see
The jewels of my life smiling sweetly at me.
The bright, ruby lips of my baby so fair
Are jewels that are priceless---so precious and rare;
The sweet, sacred memory of mother and wife
Are jewels that I value more precious than life.
At the hands of my watch softly steal round the dial,
Inside the back cover a baby's sweet smile
Seems to lure me to sleep, and I wake with a start
As I gaze at my watch and the jewels of my heart.
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