How do I delete my icloud account on my iphone 5s

A long time ago I changed my email address. I was able to change the info for my apple ID and everything looked good on my iPad and Macbook (I changed the email address to the new one and was able to store info on the cloud). But for some reason my iCloud account on my iPhone 5s still uses the old email address for my apple ID (and it's just for the iCloud account, whenever I download a new song or app it asks for my new apple ID - with the new email). I have tried to delete this account and start over but I need to turn off "find my iPhone" and the only way to do that is to enter in you apple password. Because the old email does not exist anymore this is not possible and I am unable to delete my iCloud account.
I hope this makes sense to someone. I would rather fix this at home than drive to the mall and get a genius to fix it. I go to college on Wednesday so I need help now!!!!

If the old ID is an earlier version of your current ID, temporarily recreate the old ID by going to https://appleid.apple.com, click Manage my Apple ID and sign in with your current iCloud ID.  Click edit next to the primary email account, change it back to your old email address and save the change.  Then edit the name of the account to change it back to your old email address.  You can now use your current password to turn off Find My iDevice, even though it prompts you for the password for your old account ID. Then save any photo stream photos that you wish to keep to your camera roll.  When finished go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account and choose Delete from My iDevice when prompted (your iCloud data will still be in iCloud).  Next, go back to https://appleid.apple.com and change your primary email address and iCloud ID name back to the way it was.  Now you can go to Settings>iCloud and sign in with your current iCloud ID and password.

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