A History of Kentucky Baptists From 1769 to 1885, Including More Than 
800 Biographical Sketches, J. H. Spencer, Manuscript Revised and 
Corrected by Mrs. Burilla B. Spencer, In Two Volumes.  Printed For the 
Author.  1886.  Republished By Church History Research & Archives 1976 
Lafayette, Tennessee. Vol. 2, p 96 [Garrard County]

JOHN H. NEWTON was born in Garrard county, Ky., March 9, 1827. He was 
raised up by a pious Methodist mother.  But being converted under the 
ministry of Nelson Alspaugh, he united with the Baptist church, at 
Scaffold Cane, in Rockcastle county, in 1858.  He was ordained to the 
ministry, in 1859.  He spent much of his time, preaching in the 
mountains, often laboring in connection with that noble man of God, N. 
B. Johnson.  He was never married, and being of a very cheerful 
temperament, some of brethren thought he indulged too much in levity.  
But the Lord used him to good account. He was killed by the explosion of 
a stem boiler, April 14, 1878.

Newton Alspaugh Johnson
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Rockcastle-KY

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