Linton History An Important Part of Project

            The Western Carolina Presbytery became involved in what is now the Wellspring Project, a few years ago. Ruling Elder James Linton, son of missionary parents, has been harboring a dream for bringing water to the needy North for some time. The Presbytery caught the vision and became involved. Behind the project  is over 100 years of missionary history.

            Jim Linton is a great-grandson of Eugene Bell, who arrived in Seoul in 1895, and began planting country and city churches in the far southwest. His daughter, Charlotte, married William Alderman Linton in 1922. He served as an educator in Korea until his retirement in 1960. Their son, Hugh McIntyre Linton, Jim’s father, was born in Kunsan, Korea in 1926.

             After service in WWII and following his seminary education at Erskine, Columbia, and Princeton, Hugh and his wife, Lois (Betty)  Flowers Linton, arrived on the Korean missionary field in Sunchon in 1954 with the old Southern Presbyterian Mission. Hugh Linton was tireless in his efforts to plant churches in South Korea, and to literally build the  structures that housed them

The Linton Home in Sunchon