The Guymon Herald
April 27, 1922
Asa Monroe Newport
GONE TO HIS REWARDAsa Monroe Newport, one of Guymon's first residents, died at the home of his daughter. Mrs. Myrtle Hunt, Thursday, April 20, 1922, aged 81 years, 8 months and 4 days.
Mr. Newport was born August 16, 1840, in Pulaski (now Webster) County, Missouri and was the youngest son of Calvin and Margaret Newport. His father, a Baptist minister, died when he was six weeks old and in a little over a year his mother married Nathaniel Wollard, also a Baptist minister. To these two unions were born ten children all having preceded the deceased to the other world.
The early part of Mr. Newport's life was spent on a farm in Dallas County, Missouri. He enlisted in the Confederate army in1861, and served faithfully, enduring all the hardships common to the soldiers until the close of the war
He was married to Hester E. Ballengee October 2, 178. To this union was born seven children, two daughters having died in infancy. He is survived by his wife and five children, J. T. Newport of Fairland, Oklahoma, Mrs. C. S. Baxter and Mrs. Myrtle Hunt of Guymon, Oklahoma, Mrs. A. W. Jackson of Lubbock, Texas, and Mrs. J. J. Jones of Altus, Oklahoma all of whom were present in his last hours.
Mr. Newport left the farm in 1884 moving to Conway, Missouri where he lived eight years going from there to Boliver, Missouri where he resided until coming to Guymon in 1903.
A. M. Newport professed a hope in Christ early in life, and united with the Missionary Baptist Church in Dallas County, Missouri in 1871 and shortly afterwards was ordained as Deacon, which office he faithfully filled up to his death. He was a charter member of the First Baptist Church of Guymon, having assisted in the organization in December 1903. To his untiring faithfulness and persistent efforts is largely due to the success of the church.
He took special delight in taking care of the house of worship, counting it a privilege rather than a burden. He lived out in his life that splendid sentiment the Psalmist so beautifully expressed when he said, "I was glad when they said to me, let us go up unto the Houses of the Lord."
A large body of friends filled the auditorium of the Baptist Church Saturday morning at 10 o'clock to listen to an appropriate sermon delivered by the pastor. The abundance of flowers present upon this occasion bespoke the tender sympathy and high esteem in which he was held by his many friends. Interment was made in the Guymon cemetery, April 22, 1922.
The town of Guymon loses a valuable citizen in his going, and one whose exemplary life, everyone would do well to emulate.