Thomas M. Newby, student 1842-1843

Thomas Mullin (variantly Mullen) Newby, brother of Joseph F. and Nathan, attended the University of North Carolina after leaving R-MC, graduating in 1846. Although there is no evidence that Thomas Newby had any military service, he was a casualty of the war. Newby was a wealthy farmer in Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, NC at the beginning of the war. By 1862, he was living with his elderly father and mother in Perquimans County, NC, where newspaper accounts indicate Yankee soldiers landed from a gunboat on November 20, 1862, entered the home and shot and killed Newby, then beat his father and plundered and robbed the home.