Rev. Newton Pinckney Walker

Founder of the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind.

From https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43720834/newton-pinckney-walker

When Rev. Newton Pinckney Walker was born on November 27, 1816, in Spartanburg, South Carolina, his father, Absalom, was 36 and his mother, Susannah, was 29. He married Martha Louise Hughston on April 20, 1837, in South Carolina. They had seven children in 21 years. He died on November 13, 1861, at the age of 44, and was buried in his hometown.

Rev. Newton P. Walker was founder of the South Carolina Institution for the Deaf and Blind.

From the book: History of Spartanburg County, written by J. B. O. Landrum.

"Rev. Newton Pinckney Walker was born in Spartanburg county, S.C., November 29th, 1816. He, like other who have achieved success, was born poor, and was beset in his boyhood days by all the drawbacks inseparable from his adverse surroundings. There were struggles to be made, there were peculiar difficulties in the way of his success that he had to overcome; but the faithful love and labor in the great cause for afflicted humanity has had its reward, for to-day the Institution for the Deaf and Blind stands as a monumental record of his triumph. His wife had some deaf relatives, and becoming interested in these, he determined to make an effort to do something for the amelioration of their condition. Hence, he visited, as already stated, the then little school for the deaf, located at Cave Spring, Ga., in a log cabin, to familiarize himself with the methods of instructing the deaf, to enable him to perform a great work which was before him. But few men in so short a time have accomplished a more humane and a more Christian work."

Children of REV. NEWTON PINCKNEY WALKER and MARTHA LOUISE HUGHSTON

• Louisa Caroline (1838-1896)
• Sabra Jane (1839-1917)
• Margaret Ann (1842-)
• Dr. Newton Farmer (1845-1927)
• Albert Pinckney Hughston (1847-1928)
• Idalia Martha 'Ida' (1856-1948)
• Horace (1859-1862) _______________________________________________________________________________________

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