Newdaygate Ousley was the fifth of seven children born to Sarah Flournoy Davis and Rev. Newdigate Ousley. He was a Methodist minister who served at various times in the Georgia Conference, Florida Conference (which included many south Georgia churches in the early period), and then in the South Georgia Conference, after the division of the Georgia Conference into north and south.
On 22 June 1854, Newdaygate was married to Elethia Ann McClendon in Troup Co., Georgia, and they became the parents of nine children over about a 20-year period.
Newdaygate served churches and circuits from Decatur in the north to Brunswick in the south, often returning to various churches and helping to form many rural churches. Newdaygate was minister of the church in Thomasville during the Civil War, when it was used as a hospital for wounded prisoners from Andersonville. In 1867-68, he returned to Thomasville to oversee the construction of a new church sanctuary and parsonage.
In 1882, Newdaygate received a patent issued by the US Patents Office for an invention which helped advance the cotton gin.
From 1888 to 1890, Newdaygate and William Strahan Humphreys published a newspaper, "The New South," in Quitman.
Newdaygate died in February 1895, a few days after an accident in which he fell from his horse and ruptured a kidney while crossing a stream on route from Valdosta to Nashville, where he was going to preach. He is buried in Poulan, next to his daughter Nona, who had died five years prior.
On 22 June 1854, Newdaygate was married to Elethia Ann McClendon in Troup Co., Georgia, and they became the parents of nine children over about a 20-year period.
Newdaygate served churches and circuits from Decatur in the north to Brunswick in the south, often returning to various churches and helping to form many rural churches. Newdaygate was minister of the church in Thomasville during the Civil War, when it was used as a hospital for wounded prisoners from Andersonville. In 1867-68, he returned to Thomasville to oversee the construction of a new church sanctuary and parsonage.
In 1882, Newdaygate received a patent issued by the US Patents Office for an invention which helped advance the cotton gin.
From 1888 to 1890, Newdaygate and William Strahan Humphreys published a newspaper, "The New South," in Quitman.
Newdaygate died in February 1895, a few days after an accident in which he fell from his horse and ruptured a kidney while crossing a stream on route from Valdosta to Nashville, where he was going to preach. He is buried in Poulan, next to his daughter Nona, who had died five years prior.
Newdaygate Ousley was the fifth of seven children born to Sarah Flournoy Davis and Rev. Newdigate Ousley. He was a Methodist minister who served at various times in the Georgia Conference, Florida Conference (which included many south Georgia churches in the early period), and then in the South Georgia Conference, after the division of the Georgia Conference into north and south.
On 22 June 1854, Newdaygate was married to Elethia Ann McClendon in Troup Co., Georgia, and they became the parents of nine children over about a 20-year period.
Newdaygate served churches and circuits from Decatur in the north to Brunswick in the south, often returning to various churches and helping to form many rural churches. Newdaygate was minister of the church in Thomasville during the Civil War, when it was used as a hospital for wounded prisoners from Andersonville. In 1867-68, he returned to Thomasville to oversee the construction of a new church sanctuary and parsonage.
In 1882, Newdaygate received a patent issued by the US Patents Office for an invention which helped advance the cotton gin.
From 1888 to 1890, Newdaygate and William Strahan Humphreys published a newspaper, "The New South," in Quitman.
Newdaygate died in February 1895, a few days after an accident in which he fell from his horse and ruptured a kidney while crossing a stream on route from Valdosta to Nashville, where he was going to preach. He is buried in Poulan, next to his daughter Nona, who had died five years prior.
On 22 June 1854, Newdaygate was married to Elethia Ann McClendon in Troup Co., Georgia, and they became the parents of nine children over about a 20-year period.
Newdaygate served churches and circuits from Decatur in the north to Brunswick in the south, often returning to various churches and helping to form many rural churches. Newdaygate was minister of the church in Thomasville during the Civil War, when it was used as a hospital for wounded prisoners from Andersonville. In 1867-68, he returned to Thomasville to oversee the construction of a new church sanctuary and parsonage.
In 1882, Newdaygate received a patent issued by the US Patents Office for an invention which helped advance the cotton gin.
From 1888 to 1890, Newdaygate and William Strahan Humphreys published a newspaper, "The New South," in Quitman.
Newdaygate died in February 1895, a few days after an accident in which he fell from his horse and ruptured a kidney while crossing a stream on route from Valdosta to Nashville, where he was going to preach. He is buried in Poulan, next to his daughter Nona, who had died five years prior.
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