Winnie Davis Camp No. 108 UCV Records from Membership Register   Rev. Newton Givens Elected  1893 Died May 11, 1908 at his home in Waxahachie, Tex. Enl Conf Serv Oct 1861 Pvt McRae Army; present at Elkhorn (Pea Ridge), Corinth, Miss; detailed 1862 to look after interests of soldiers' families. [Source: A History of the Central Presbyterian Church, compiled Sept. 1950)] The Reverend Newton Givens was born in Alabama, June 26, 1823, the eldest of six children of Samuel and Cynthia Milligan Givens, the former a native of South Carolina and the latter of North Carolina. The Givens family came from northern Ireland about 1740. Samuel Givens' father was a Revolutionary soldier serving under General Sumter and Samuel served in the War of 1812 from Tennessee.  In September 1853,  he married Miss Kate Frierson of College Hill, Mississippi and had two children, viz: E. L., (who was editor of the Arkansas Gazette at Little Rock and owner of the Guard,  Batesville, Ark.) and Samuel, who engaged in mercantile pursuits at Benton, La. Samuel died in 1889 at the age of ninety-five years. Rev. Newton Givens enlisted in the CSA in 1861 and became chaplain of the Fifteenth Regiment of Infantry, but resigned this position in the summer of 1862 at Tupelo, Miss. and returned to his family.  He moved to Waxahachie, Texas in 1867 and taught for a year with Professor S. D. Lowry.  He then accepted a call to the pastorate of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church which he held from 1868 to 1873.  In the latter year, he moved to Hempstead County, Ark. on account of his wife's health, but she died at Mineral Springs. Mr. Givens' second marriage was on March 15, 1877, to Mrs. Mattie A. Halloway, widow of Major G. W. Halloway, at Emmett, Ark.  There were no children by this marriage. Rev. Givens returned to Waxahachie in February, 1882 and established the Ellis County Telegraph in the interest of the Farmers' Alliance, which he published for two years.  In 1890, he was elected superintendent of schools of Ellis County, which office he held for four years.  He died May 12, 1908 and Mrs. Givens died Oct. 30, 1919.   Copyright © 2002-2016, Ellis County TXGenWeb. All Rights Reserved. This page was last modified: Thursday, 01-Jul-2021 13:18:52 MDT