Meade County (KS) News, November 19, 1908, p. 1. NOTE: The item below was abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis. AN OLD SETTLER GONE TO REST Mr. R(obert) G(reen) Newby died yesterday at his home 15 miles north of Plains. He was one of the early settlers having lived here nearly a quarter of a century.Robert Green Newby, son of Elisha and Mary Newby, was born at Rockville, Parke County, Indiana, December 4th, 1830, died at his home in Gray County, Kansas, November 13th, 1908, at 1:45 PM aged 77 years, 11 months, 21 days. He was united in marriage with Martha E. Patrick December 22, 1850, near Waynesville, Ind., who survives him. To this union were born nine children, five sons and four daughters. Besides the widow, he is survived by one son, three daughters and twenty grandchildren. >From the close of the war until September 21st, 1884, he resided at Seymour, Indiana, and moved with his family to Garden City, Kansas, November 1884. In the spring of 1885 he took up his residence on his homestead in southwest Gray County, Kansas, where he resided up to the time of his death.