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CHILDREN BY WILLIAM BARR AND LYDIA E. DANIEL

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1.  William DeLacey Barr

2. Ada M. Barr

3.  James Barr

4.  Cornelia A. Barr

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Lydia E. Daniel Married 2nd:  

Rev. Junius Eastham Newman

1819–1895

BIRTH 16 OCT 1819 • Point Pleasant Mason, West Virginia. USA

DEATH 13 MAY 1895 • Robinson, Mason, West Virginia, USA

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Reverend Junius Eastham Newman

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Junius E. Newman arrived in the port of Rio de Janeiro on August 5, 1867. 3 He was a member of the Alabama Conference, who being dissatisfied with conditions in the south after the Civil War, left along with other southerners to make a new home in Brazil. He did not go to Brazil as a missionary, but rather, in 1865, Bishop William May Wightman released Newman from duties in Mississippi and Alabama and appointed him to work without financial support "in Central America or Brazil."

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Newman went to Brazil without his family, arriving with only one hundred dollars in his pocket. At first, he settled in Niteroi, near Rio de Janeiro. Apparently, he had wished to begin Methodist church services in his house, and perhaps to open a school, but was not able to do so. 4 After about six months, Newman's family joined him in Brazil, and approximately one year after his family's arrival, Newman relocated to Saltinho (1869), near Limeira in what was the Province of Sao Paulo. This was in an area where many other displaced southerners were settling, near the modern Brazilian city of Americana. There, Newman began to preach to the colonists twice a month, and by October 1869, he had written to the Mobile Conference, deploring his own inability to speak Portuguese well enough to preach in the language and urging the appointment of young missionaries who might become fluent enough in Portuguese to preach to the Brazilians. 

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By 1871 Newman was devoting much of his time to his ministry among the southern emigrants. In a letter written April 28, 1871, Newman claimed that "I am now so situated that I can leave home to preach almost as much as I did when I was 'in the regular work. "'6 In that same letter, he requested to "be recognized as a missionary in Brazil," without "compensation as such ... [from] the Conference." And on the third Sunday of August 1871, he organized among the southern colonists the first Methodist church in Brazil.

At first, Newman's church included nine members, but gradually increased to "29 or 30."7 Soon, Newman had set up a circuit of five preaching stations and was preaching among the colonists full time. Newman continued to appeal to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South to send young ministers to help preach to the Brazilians. He also continued to request recognition of his own work among the southerners in Brazil, until, in May 1875, the Board of Missions "recognized the Rev. J. E. Newman, of Saltinho, District of Limeira, Province of San Paulo, as our missionary at that point. "

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Newman remained active in his ministry to the colonists until his retirement in 1887 and his return to the United States in 1889. To our knowledge, Newman never fulfilled his ambition of preaching in Portuguese.

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Source:  http://archives.gcah.org/bitstream/handle/10516/6054/MH-1995-April-Dawsey.pdf?sequence=1

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CHILDREN:

5.  Louis D. Newman

6.  Junius Taylor Newman

7.  Kathryn S. Newman

Children of William Barr and Lydia Daniel