Deaconess Kate Newell

Sister Kate Newell was a mystery to our family for quite sometime. She was buried in our Weed family plot in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York, but she wasn't a Weed. Sister Kate was actually the first buried in the plot. So we knew she meant some significance to the family but we didn't know why.
She was born about 1843 according to the age she died ( 80 yrs old ). She died February 21, 1914 at the Hotel Chelsea. Sister Kate was buried 2 days later.
Sister Kate made up the first graduating class of the New York Training School for Deaconesses. In a New York paper was the only obituary that I had found:
"Deaconess Kate Newell of the staff of the Grace Episcopal Church died yesterday at the Hotel Chelsea. She was 80 years old and had been in ill health for some time. She was a Deaconess at the church for 20 years."
Then just yesterday I was looking through some New York historical newspaper archives and found this:
"Deaconess Kate Newell, affectionately known on the East side as Sister Kate, who for 20 years was connected to the Grace Church, died yesterday in the apartments of her sister, Mrs. Samuel R. Weed, at the Hotel Chelsea. She retired from active work for Grace Church a year ago."
We had always thought Newell was her last name. It turns out it was her middle name. Her surname was Jones. We now know who she is!
I have found several other articles on her work for the church and how much a part of it she was:

In the parish year book of the Grace Church, New York:


1897
Treasurer was Deaconess Newell
Mrs Brownings advent as House-mother not only gives delight to us all who loves the Mission House also sets Deaconess Newell free to visit her district, which could not but suffer in the year she took temporary charge of the Mission.Things are now as they should be, and cheerful as was the House under Sister Kate's oversight, her time is needed for district visiting.