Photos from the issue dated June 17, 2011
Photos from the editorial files of The Newtown Bee.
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The headstone of Samuel H. Pearce, a son of Bee founder and Confederate soldier John T. Pearce, remains standing in Center Cemetery, Bethel. Mr Pearce’s great-great-great-nephew, Mike Anderson, has deduced that one of the nearby unmarked plots is that of the man who started The Newtown Bee, and is hoping to see a military headstone erected in the coming months to mark the grave.
