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Occupation: Minister

Religion: Methodist

Excerpts from Dr. John O. Willson's tribute to Rev. J. Walter Dickson at memorial service at annual session of the South Carolina conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in the county courthouse in Greenwood at 3:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon, December 11, 1898, with Bishop W. W. Duncan presiding:
"In every place and station he exhibited distinguished fidelity and ability, and rejoiced over marked and ever increasing success. Souls were saved. Christians were strengthened, charges were built up in spiritual and material interests, and the church and her Lord were loyally glorified. All the while he commanded the confidence of true men and found his way into the hearts of thousands.
Brother Dickson was a man of choice spirit and untainted character. In the home, in social and business life, in the church of God -- everywhere and always -- he was faithful."

J. Walter Dickson (while fatally ill at the home of C. F. Jones in Anderson) said to John O. Willson, "I want to say to you if the worst comes, I have examined the foundation, and it is all right."

 

Buried at Smith's Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church.

"This Church was erected to the memory of Rev. J. Walter Disdson 1849-1898." Plaque that hung in the old church . The church being erected was called Dickson Memorial United Methodist Church in Townville, South Carolina.

Anderson County a Pictorial History, Harley E. Badders 1983, page 53. See photo. (Photo not available)
The Reverend J. Walter Dickson, who was born in the York Township of Anderson County on August 19, 1849, joined the South Carolina Methodist Conference after his graduation from Wofford College in 1872. He filled pastorates for twenty-six years in Columbia, Charleston, Yorkville, and Edgefield, and was presiding elder in Greenville, Orangeburg, and Columbia. The Greenville district included Anderson County, and in the Townville Circuit he had several churches, including Smith's Chapel, Jones Chapel, Asbury, Cedar Grove, and Center Dickson Memorial Methodist Church in Townville is named in his memory. The photograph is by his father-in-law, John R. Schorb of Yorkville, who is recognized as the first commmercial photographer in the United States. The Reverend Mr. Dickson died in Anderson in 1898. Photo courtesy of Frank A. Dickson.

 

cont'd from Benjamin Franklin Dickson from A Sketch of Mattehw Dickson and His Descendants in the United States by William Alexander Dickson DAR library, Washington, D.C.

The first (James Walter) was born August 19, 1849, graduated at Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, in June 1872, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He joined the South Carolina Conference at Anderson, South Carolina, in December, 1872, and remained in the active work of the ministry for twenty eight years, serving Circuits and Stations, and as Professor of Mathematics in Columbia Female College for four years. He was a Presiding Elder, serving the districts of Greenville, Orangeburg and Columbia, and filling the full quadrennium on each. For a term of years he was a Trustee of Wofford College. Some years after his graduation that Institution conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. In June, 1875, he married Annie Maria Schorb, of Yorkville, South Carolina, the only daughter of John R. Schorb, of that place. He died at Anderson, South Carolina, July 14, 1898, of progressive pernicious anemia, and was buried at Smith Chapel, his home church, in Fork Township, Anderson County. He filled every station to which he was called to the brim with painstaking and effective work, and was a preacher of rare eloquence and power. He was the father of nine children. Franklin Franks, the eldest, born in 1876, died an infant; the next Mary Matilda married Rev. Martin Luther Banks, Jr, of the South Carolina Conference. She is a graduate of Columbia Female College, and he of Wofford College. The third child, Annie Fair, born in 1878, is an honor graduate of Columbia Female College. Arabelle Anderson, the fourth child, was also graduated at Columbia Female College. James Walter, the fifth child, was born April 8th, 1883, and has reached the senior class in Wofford College. The other children are John Gantt; born November, 1885; Franklin Alexander, born April 5, 1888, George Granberry and Eudora Elizabeth.

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