Reformed Jew
Brother named Fritz
Related to Rebecca Newman
Emigrated to Cleveland ca. 1886 (MM-117)
1900 Ohio Soundex census: Joseph (born Apr 1860) with wife, Fannie (born Jan. 1863) children: Lillie (born Aug 1888) and Sidney (born Feb. 1890). (MM-53)
1910 Ohio census (Ancestry.com): Joseph Newman (49), married 23 yrs, living in Cleveland Ward 24, Cuyahoga Co. with wife, Fannie (46), 2 children, both living, with son, Sidney (20) and son-in-law, Irwin Harris (24), married 0 yrs and wife, Lillian A. Harris (21).
1920 Ohio Census (Ancestry.com): Joseph Newman (59 b. Austria) living in Cleveland Ward 22, Cuyahoga Co. next door to daughter; (emigrated in 1877) with wife, Fannie (57 b. OH).
Obituary in Jewish Review & Observer Vol. 62 No. 27 p. 6 Col. 3. (MM-131)
Is he the same Joseph as record #197??
This spelling of Neumann came from Sarah Weidenthal Newmann's obit
(MM155)
Fannie Weidenthal's obit spelled his surname Newman (MM160)
Cleveland Necrolgoy File: Name: Newman, Joseph
Date: May 24 1936
Source: Cemetery record;  Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #060.
Notes: Newman: Joseph, age 76, beloved husband of Fannie (nee Weidenthal), father of Mrs. Irwin Harris and the late Sidney, grandfather of Jerome and Julius Harris and Harris Le Roy. Burial from Mayfield Chapel Sunday at 3 p. m. Please omit flowers. 1860-1936. Mayfield Cemetery Cleveland Hgts., Ohio.