Sophia aka Fay Newell
In May 1870 M. H. Scales married Sophia Nowlin in Marshall Co., KY.Marriage record shows her as widow. Family knewher maiden name to have been Newell and that she had been born in Mississippi. She was known as Fay by family and bore three children to this marriage, Mary b.1872 in Missouri, Nina b. 1874 in Arkansas, John b. abt 1876 in I.T. (Oklahoma). She was step-mother to two young daughters of M. H., Lelaand Ida, whose mother had died about 1878 in KY. Lela gave one of her daughters the middle name of Newell as Fay was the only mother she remembered.By 1880, the family was in Montague Co., TX and census shows Lela age 15 keeping house and Fay is not there so must have died sometime after the birth of her son, John in 1876 and before 1880. In this 1880 census there is an adopted son listed in home of M. H. Scales as Axtel,age 11, born in Mississippi, possibly a son of Sophia Newell Nowlin?
Do any Newell researchers have any information on this Sophia/Fay?