Madison-Dekalb County AlArchives Biographies.....Newman, John Walker 1846 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 September 20, 2011, 3:40 pm Source: See below Author: Smith & De Land, publishers REV. JOHN WALKER NEWMAN, Pastor in charge of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Huntsville, was born in Van Buren, DeKalb County, this State, October 23, 1846, and was educated at the common and high schools. In the spring of 1864, he entered the army as a private in the Third Confederate Regiment, and within a very few days thereafter, saw actual service near New Hope Church, Ga. He was in Wheeler's command, and participated in that General's campaigns to the end of struggle. At the close of the war he returned home and resumed his studies, and after having taught school for about two years, he was, in May, 1870, licensed to preach. He joined the Northern Alabama Conference, in November of that year, and in 1880, after having been several years in the pastorate, was made Presiding Elder. He held that office two years, and was then assigned to the First Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Birmingham. He was appointed to Huntsville, in December, 1885. Mr. Newman was married, in October, 1869, to Hannah W. Berry, a daughter of one of the old and substantial families of DeKalb County, and has had born to him four children: Carrie S., Mary S., Olin B. and Albert H. Mrs. Newman died at Gadsen, Ala., November, 1885. Mr. Newman is Treasurer of the Mission Board of his Conference; Secretary and Treasurer of the Mutual Insurance Association of the Northern Alabama Conference; is a Mason and an Odd Fellow. Moses C. and Elizabeth (Smith) Newman, parents of the subject of this sketch, were born in South Carolina, the former in 1815, and the latter in 1824. Mr. Newman was early orphaned, and virtually thrown upon the world while an infant. His mother moved from South Carolina to Lincoln County, Tenn., and from there to DeKalb County, this State. He married in the latter county, and there followed farming for some years and represented that county one term in the Legislature. For some years before the war he was merchandising, and resumed that business after the war, and followed it until 1874. He always took an active interest in politics; was in full sympathy with his State during the American conflict, and has for many years been a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He reared a family of eight children. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land 1888 PART IV. MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA, TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/madison/bios/newman120nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb