1849.
AUGUSTUS WALKER died at Diarbekir, Turkey, September 13, 1866, aged 43 years. He was the son of Dean and Rebecca R (Wright) Walker, and was born in Medway, Mass., October 30, 1822.
He began his preparation for College at Leicester Academy, he had already been for some years engaged, in Charleston, S.C., and in Baltimore, in mercantile pursuits. His theological studies we're pursued for one year in Bangor, and then Andover Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1852. October of the same year, he was ordained as a missionary American Board, at East Medway, and in January, 1853, sailed for Smyrna. A few months after his arrival, he went to Diarbekir, the field in which he labored with rare devotion and great success, until his death. He returned to this country for a few months visit, in 1864, and then again resumed his labor. While thus engaged, he fell a victim to the cholera.
He was married, October 13,1852, to Miss Eliza M,, daughter of Rev. Sewall Harding, of Auburndale, Mass. She, with two sons and one daughter, survives him.
