Person Sheet

May have been a private in COMPANY E, 4TH REGIMENT
SOUTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEER CAVALRY +

Perry Blackshear Newton Jr. says "Rev Cornelius produced many children and is credited with starting Churches and schools in Marlboro County. He's in the history books. Mostly all good." He also metions "GEORGE WASHINGTON BONAPART GREENBERRY DUNN who married Vashti Newton the daughter of Rev Cornelius Newton and Dorcus Purnell."

See also:

• http://genealogytrails.com/scar/marlboro/hx_churches.htm "Many years before the war, a good framed school building was erected, principally through the efforts of Rev. Cornelius Newton, who lived about three miles southeast of the place and always took a lively interest in its educational affairs."
  
  "Cornelius Newton married the daughter of Rev. Robt. Purnell, who is elsewhere named as the pioneer local preacher of the Beauty Spot section. Cornelius Newton was born 25th December, 1797; was a son of Younger Newton and grandson of Giles Newton, Sr.,who came to this county from Henrico County, Virginia, in the latter part of the last century, and was the great progenitor of all the Newton family in this country, which has grown to great proportions and intermarried with the Adams, Gibsons, Fletchers, etc., till its relations number in the hundreds, perhaps. Cornelius Newton is the only one of the local preachers whose complete history we have been able to get.
  
  He was married, as stated, to a daughter (Dorcas) of Robt. Purnell on 31st December, 1818, and joined the church in the summer of 1820, and embraced religion in October, 1821, appointed class leader in 1822 and licensed to exhort in 1830; licensed to preach in 1834; ordained Deacon in 1838; and was recommended for Elders' Orders in 1842. He reared a large and interesting family, many of whom still survive; among them Cornelius D. Newton, Joseph Newton and Hope Hull Newton. He was a successful planter and a faithful soldier of the cross, and after "having served his own generation, by the will of God fell on sleep" in the summer of 1878."+
• James Newton refers to

  http://web.archive.org/web/20040816075350/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~markfreeman/terrell2.html 764. Rev. Cornelius7 Newton (Younger6, Elizabeth5 Terrill, James4 Terrell, William3, [Unknown]2, Robert1)
  
  
  
  Child of Rev. Cornelius Newton is:
  
  1541 i. William Wightman8 Newton.
  
  

• James Newton refers to

  http://sciway3.net/proctor/marlboro/history/adamsville.html John P. Adams married Julia Newton, sister of the Rev. Cornelius Newton, and daughter of Younger Newton, Sr.,and granddaughter of Giles Newton, Sr., who came to this county from Virginia and was the great progenitor of all the Newton family. This Rev. Cornelius Newton was a local preacher and in this cause alone he did a noble work. He married a daughter of Robert Purcell and this couple are the parents of Hon. H. H. Newton, Sr., of our town; and Mrs. D. K. McColl in his daughter.
  

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