Annie W. Blackwell

Annie E. Walker Blackwell, born at Chester, South Carolina. Her father, D. I. Walker was a Senator of South Carolina. She completed her education a Scotia Seminary at the age of fourteen and then started teaching school in Charlotte, North Carolina. She married to George L. Blackwell in 1887. She was worked as clerk for her husband who was in charge of the A.M.E. Zion Publishing House in Charlotte, where she also edited the W.C.T.U Tidings. After her husband was appointed to Philadelphia, she edited the Woman's Department of the "Missionary Seer" and was an active member of Woman's Home and and Foreign Missionary Society. She was also President of the Staff Auxiliary of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital, Chairman of the Membership Committee of the Colored Women's Christian Association, a member of the Heroines of Jericho, Queen Melissa Court, No. 2; a prominent member and worker in Varick Memorial A.M. E. Z. Church and Sunday School.

Dianne Shapiro, from Who's who in Philadephia: a collection of thirty biographical sketches of Philadelphia colored people..." by Charles Frederick White, 1912 (accessed at Find a Grave Memorial website, 6/24/2023)