After his death, the original at Woolsthorpe was still known in the neighborhood as Sir Isaac’s tree. Every effort was made to preserve it as long as possible, until it finally collapsed in a windstorm

Sir Isaac Newton was born on the 25th December 1642, in the village Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. His father was a landowner-farmer. It is reported that he died a month or two before Isaac was born.