Dr. Emma G. Allen, a longtime resident of Newport, has put together a wonderful publication, "Irma's Newport Journal",
based on the late Erma Moncrief's 40 year collection of facts and inhabitants titled "Ledger Book of Newport". Irma's original consisted of 2 hard covered record books each with 296 lined handwritten pages which are now in possession of Erma's niece Mary Johnston.

Included are some of Sheppard Joslin's "Back Home Days" reunion notes, old newspaper clippings, town photographs of
Newport homes, its residents, school student and teacher names, church listings, area maps, births, deaths, marriages, baptisms, boat registrations, home builting contractors, and much more dating from the early/mid 1800s up until around 1950.

Dr. Allen's publication (May 2006) has been widely distributed to those with "roots" in Newport, and I believe there is a copy in the Cumberland Coounty Historical Society's Lumis Library and the Salem Historical Society's collection.

I have both Dr. Allen's publication and about 100 poorly zeroxed pages from Erma's original 2 books. In this
"Ledger..." there is no index nor table of contents; it is (dis)organized much like Shepard's Folders...terribley
hard to dig thru.

Joan Kelley
researching Kelley, MOORE, PETERSON, BRADFORD and related families of Cumberland Co.