Spouse: Rev. Elias NEWLIN
Elias and Rodema Newlin were members of the Middle River Friends and were among the earliest ministers who influenced the South River Friends at Ackworth. (Source: History Of Ackworth Friends' Meeting, by Mrs. Hugh BARRETT, is copied from History of Warren County, Iowa, by Gerard SCHULTZ and Don L. BERRY, The Record and Tribune Company, Indianola, Iowa, 1953, pages 119-151)
Rodema was the first minister at the Goshen Friends Church. (Source: “Goshen Meeting House,” history from The History of Warren County, Iowa, compiled by the Warren County Genealogical Society, Curtis Media Corp., Dallas, Texas, 1987)
The north window, "Christ's Ascension," in the Indianola Friends Church
is in memory of Rodema Newlin. (Source:
INDIANOLA FRIENDS CHURCH By Miss Katie MILLER from History of Warren
County, Iowa, by Gerard SCHULTZ and Don L. BERRY, The Record and Tribune
Company, Indianola, Iowa, 1953, pages 119-151)