Mark of a forgotten child laborerRewarded by local donor
Giles Edmund Newsom, born 1900, died 1918 from Spanish flu and worked at Modena Cotton Mills. He rests in Hollywood Cemetery in Gastonia in an unmarked grave until Leon Wyant of Wyant and Son Monument Co. donated an engraved granite marker. Newsom's death helped spur child labor reform nationwide.
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Gaston County
Leon Wyant
Wyant and Son Monument Co
Gastonia
Giles Edmund Newsom
Modena
Newsom
Hollywood Cemetery
Broad Street
Sanders Cotton Manufacturing Co
Bessemer City
Lewis Hine
National Child Labor Committee
America
Gazette
Ben Goff
Chris Davis
Marking a Gastonia Grave Newsom Honored At Last
Historians Manning of Massachusetts and Alta Durden of North Augusta worked to locate facts about Giles Newsom a long buried case in Gastonia North Carolina Newsom died at 18 under unclear circumstances and received an unmarked grave Wyant a veteran monument maker donated time and material to place a simple granite marker bearing his name and years Manning says the effort changes local memory and asserts Newsom deserved recognition with a proper funeral and memorial record for decades
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Joe Manning
Massachusetts
Alta Durden
North Augusta
S.C
Newsom
Manning
Wyant
Durden
Gazette
Giles Newsom
Gastonia
QRV ambulance debut to cut Gaston County response times
Gaston County Emergency Medical Services unveils a new quick-response vehicle at an open house Sunday 2 to 4 p.m. at South Point Volunteer Fire Department Belmont. The transport unit costs 259,863 in its first year, boosts advanced life support, and will be staffed 24 hours by four new paramedic positions funded from reserve funds.
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Belmont
Gaston County Emergency Medical Services
South Point
Alexis
Cherryville
Crowders Mountain
GEMS
National Association of Counties
Michael Barrett
Twitter.com
GazetteMike
Obituaries notice for multiple North Carolina residents
Today’s obituary brief lists Lottie Maney Spivey 87 Dallas Charles R Hudson 74 Belmont Violet Dowling Nadine 89 Gastonia Michael Richard Sherrill 50 Stanley Roy Marr 90 Gastonia William Charles Scism 77 Shelby James E Galloway 86 Gastonia Frances Hartsell 86 Gastonia Robert William Bill Terrell 88 Gastonia.
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Lottie Maney Spivey
Dallas
Charles R. Hudson
Belmont
Violet Dowling Nadine
Gastonia
Michael Richard Sherrill
Stanley
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