Fort Worth (TX) Star-Telegram, Nov. 1928 (extracted from Hargrove-Newby research records of Ruth Hasten Walsh)
BEN NEWBY, FORMER RESIDENT HERE DIES
Confederate Veteran and School Teacher in Fort Worth
Ben B. Newby, 90, long time resident of Fort Worth died from a stroke of paralysis in Austin Saturday, according to word received by members of the family here.
Funeral services wil lbe held Sunday at 4 p.m. from Gause-Ware Funeral Home with burial in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
Newby was a Confederate Veteran and a school teacher before his retirement from active work.
Survivors are two sons, T. E. and Ed Newby of Fort Worth, and two daughters, Mrs. J. L. Dunlap and Mrs. J. A. Hatfield, both of Fort Worth. (note: this must mean daughter Ella Scott who preceased her father..)

Dallas (TX) Morning News, The, January 20, 1905, p. 7 (extracted from Hargrove-Newby research records of Ruth Hasten Walsh)
CROSSES OF HONOR
Julia Jackson Chapter Confers them on Veterans
Special to the News -
Fort Worth, Tex., Jan 19 - Julia Jackson Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy tonight conferred crosses of honor upon the following members: B. B. Newby, C. C. Blanks, H.D. tanner, J.A. Wade, J.B. Walker, A.C. Brown, Alex Conn, J.C. Miller, R. H. Wood, L.C. Clarke, James Johnson, H. M. Price, John A. Hutchinson, L. W. Bryant and T. S. Carter.
A musical and literary program was carried out during the evening and a repast was served to a large number of the Confederate Veterans present.


The following entry extracted from Hargrove-Newby research records of Ruth Hasten Walsh:
Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray 1861-1865 Compiled by Miss Mamie Yeary, McGregor, TX, published by Morningside in 1986. (reprint of 1912 edition printed in Dallas), p. 565:
B. B. NEWBY, Fort Worth, Texas.— Born Sept. 10, 1838, near Athens,Ala., and enlisted in the Confederate Army on Aug. 1st, 1861, at Athens,Ala., as private in Company A, Fortieth Tennessee. (No brigade at that time), Loring's Division. Johnston's Corps. Army of Tennessee. First
Captain was H. H. Higgins, and first Colonel was L. M. Walker. My company was made a part of the Twentieth Mississippi, on account of decimation of the ranks. Was wounded at Turner's Ferry on Chattahoochee River, six miles from Atlanta, Ga. Was surrendered with other prisoners
on Island No. 10 on April 6th, 1862, and was sent to prison at Camp Butler.
One of my messmates disguised as a Federal soldier went out foraging, but never came back. He took three other men with him. and they all got home. Was in the battles of Baker's Creek. Miss. ; Jackson and Now Hope Church. Was kept a prisoner six months, and after exchanged was furloughed home
inside the Federal lines, and reported at New Hope Church, Ga.


ADAH: Enlisted as a Private in Company A 40th Tennessee Infantry at Athens, Alabama August 1,1861. Captured at Island Number Ten April 8,1862 and imprisoned at Camp Butler in Springfield, Illinois. He was received on board the steamer "John H. Dove" near Vicksburg, Mississippi September 23,1862 for exchange. About October 1,1862 the 40th Tennessee became the 54th Alabama Infantry CSA. He signed an Oath of Allegiance to the United States in Nashville on May 9,1865 which showed his place of residence as Limestone County, Alabama.