Tennessee Family Group Sheet for the William WALKER Family

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Submitted by: Margaret Robe Summitt
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Husband: William WALKER
Birthdate: 17 April 1800
Birthplace: Knox County, Tennessee
Death date: 28 December 1881
Place of death: Springfield, Lane County, Oregon
Father: Hugh WALKER (possibly)
Mother: Nancy COCHRAN (possibly)

Marriage date: 5 October 1820
Marriage place: Knox County, Tennessee

Wife: Mary Ann LOVE
Birthdate: 4 July 1803
Birthplace: Knox County, Tennessee
Death date: 6 Feb 1831
Place of death: Knox County, Tennessee
Father: John LOVE
Mother: Margaret FLEMING

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Hugh Marion WALKER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 2 January 1823
Birthplace: Knox County, Tennessee
Death date: 10 April 1900
Place of death: Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon
Marriage date: 26 October 1843
Marriage place:
Spouse's name: Mary Jane REID

Child No. 2: John Love WALKER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 16 December 1824
Birthplace: Knox County, Tennessee
Death date: 6 January 1827
Place of death: Knox County, Tennessee
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouse's name:

Child No. 3: Mathew Eagleton WALKER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 29 August 1826
Birthplace: Tennessee
Death date: 28 November 1911
Place of death: Lane County, Oregon
Marriage date: 6 January 1849
Marriage place: Greene County, Missouri
Spouse's name: Rebecca STOWELL

Child No. 4: Mary Jane WALKER
Sex: F
Birthdate: 22 June 1828
Birthplace: Knox County, Tennessee
Death date: 1 January 1885
Place of death: Oregon
Marriage date: 13 February 1845
Marriage place: Greene County, Missouri
Spouse's name: William D. RENSHAW

Child No. 5: William Thomas WALKER
Sex:
Birthdate: 23 February 1830
Birthplace: McMinn County, Tennessee
Death date: 22 October 1883
Place of death: Lane County, Oregon
Marriage date: 14 February 1855
Marriage place: Lane County, Oregon
Spouse's name: Ardelia ZUMWALT
 
 
Documentation:

!Birth: in Walker Bible in possession of Mrs. A.R.
Tiffany, 2045 Potter St., Eugene, OR. FHLC film #839732. Typed copy.

!Marriage: both marriages recorded in above source. Land Records
database, Rootsweb, Greene Co., MO: Walker, William. 22 Aug 1843. 40
acres. twp. 30, range 23, sec 4. Type: GLO. Benjamin J. Morss, Evan
Martin, Sam Dillard, John Killingsworth, and William Walker all arrived
in 1853 [in Creswell, OR area] ahead of the lost wagon train. (source:
The Blue Valley: a History of Creswell, OR. Written & ed. by George W.
Ross, Joan Campbell & Sandra Hanson Wilson; pub. Creswell Area Hist. Soc.
1993, p. 10). William Walker and wife Polly Shield [sic] are listed claim
no. 471, Oregon Donation Land Claims (Genealogical Forum of Portland:
Genealogical Material in Oregon Donation Land Claims, vol. 3, p. 32).
Filed a claim for 320 acres, 8 miles south of Springfield. See
biographical sketches in Gaston's, p. 821 and Chapman's, p. 1121. These
say he was a Whig, a Republican, and an abolitionist. Photo (reversed) of
William & Polly p. 19 of Lois Barton's Spencer Butte Pioneers: 100 Years
on the Sunny Side of the Butte 1850-1950 (Eugene: Spencer Butte Press,
1982). "by 1858 the People's Press of Eugene City was carrying ads" for
Walker's Drug Store. The People's Press was a Republican newspaper owned
by Byron J. Pengra. 8 Mar 1859 the advertisement announced that Walker
had fitted up a new store house on 9th St. one door west of Goldsmith &
Co's store. 19 Nov 1859: Wm. Walker moved his store from 9th to
Willamette St. Cecil Robe in 1979 was interviewed by Dan Sellard of the
Eugene Register-Guard, when he told the story (without as much detail as
I recall) of how Eliza Ann Walker Robe was nearly sold to Indians on the
Oregon Trail by her father. See Hermon Linn Robe's Oregon Pioneer Tales
for a verse version of this encounter.

!Death: date recorded in above source. See also 1870 & 1880 U.S. Federal
Censuses. 1870 Census, res. Eugene; 1880 Census, res. Springfield. 1870
Census gives birthplace as Tennessee. Death also recorded in obituary,
Eugene Weekly Guard, 31 Dec 1881, which gives place of burial.

!July Sessions, Knox Co., TN court 1811. "John Love appointed guardian by
Knox Co. to William, Jane and Polly Walker, minor orphans. John Love
entered into bond with Matthew Walker and Joseph Love his sureties in
$300 security." Guardian & Will Book, Knox Co., TN, FHLC film #1020320.
Thus William Walker's father died before July 1811. Matthew Walker was
also appointed administrator of the estate of John Walker, July session
1810; I think it likely that Matthew was John's brother and that John
Walker was William's father. A Margaret Walker bought furniture from
John Walker's estate, possibly his widow.
Research into Matthew Walker's parentage led to Janet Jones Anderson of
Otto, NC, who had it from Mrs. Clarence B. Walker of Knoxville, TN that
Matthew and John were sons of William Walker, who died in Rockbridge Co.,
VA, and that John was killed by a tornado in Knox Co., TN (no date given,
however).
William Walker resided in Knox Co., TN from 1800 to about 1831. From 1832
to 1835 he resided in McMinn Co., TN. From 1835 to 1839 he resided in
Murray Co., GA. In about 1840 he moved back to TN. In about 1844 he moved
to Greene Co., MO and started for Oregon in 1852 but turned back. In 1853
he started for Oregon again. He signed the register at the Umatilla
Agency 28 Aug 1853 and filed claim for 320 acres, 8 miles south of
Springfield, in the Camas Swale area near Creswell, D.L.C. #471. In 1857
he left the claim and went to Eugene to open a drug store. In 1860 he
sold the drug store and bought farm and river land, ranching near Eugene
(Springfield P.O.?). In 1871 he sold the Springfield property and bought
200 acres at Pleasant Hill. In 1881 he sold the Pleasant Hill property
and moved back to Springfield, where he died, 28 Dec 1881. (this info.
was compiled for my late uncle Cecil F. Robe by Margret West of Eugene,
OR.)
"History of Greene County, Missouri" (1883) R. I. Holcombe, editing
historian. Chapter 28: Cass Township-- Mount Zion Church--Presbyterian
This church was organized October 19th, 1839, at Mrs. Jane Renshaw's
(familiarly called "Grandma Renshaw"), by Rev. E. P. Noel, of Hermon
church, near Bolivar, Polk county. The original members were Elizabeth
Stowell, Stephen Dillard, Julia Ann Dillard, Jane Renshaw, Margaret A.
Appleby, Joseph K. Renshaw, Robert S. Reid, Amanda F. Reid, David
Appleby, and Catharine Appleby,—ten in all. The first ruling elders
were David Appleby, Robert S. Reid, and Stephen Dilliard. The church was
called Mt. Zion Presbyterian church. The congregation met and worshiped
in private houses at first. In the spring, or early in the summer of
1840, a brush arbor was put up a short distance south of Grandma
Renshaw's house, and under this, meetings were held. In the summer of
1861 a shed was erected at Cave Spring, and was called Cave Spring camp
ground. It was used by all denominations for camp meetings. This shed
being too small, it was extended by a brush arbor. The first camp
meetings were held the last days of July and the first days of August, in
the year 1841. These camp meetings were held annually, and attended by
people from a great distance, who came in wagons, carts, on horseback and
on foot. The first person received into the church was Margaret
McElhanon; she came in by letter November 17 1839. The first on
examination was James Appleby, on August 1st, 1841. Rev. E. P. Noel was
the pastor from the organization of the church until November 14th,1881.
He held regular monthly services. Then came Rev. G. A. M. Renshaw, a
graduate of Maysville college, East Tennessee. He died March 27th, 1857.
On the 14th of June, 1857, Rev. A. E. Taylor took charge, and served
until February 26th, 1860, when Rev. L. R. Morrison was called and served
the church until April, 1861. From January 28th, 1866, to some time in
the fall of 1869, the Rev. J. M. Brown, of Illinois, who was sent by the
Board of Home Missions, served as pastor; Rev. Enos M. Halbert took
charge on May 14th 1870, and after him came Rev. George Davis, who served
as "stated supply" in the year 1881. The present pastor is C. C. Hembree.
The ruling elders in their order from the time of its organization up to
the year 1876, were David Appleby, Stephen Dillard, David Dalzell,
Charles Hughes, Wm. E. Thompson, Nathan Thompson, Newton A. McGill,
Robert S. Reid, Alexander Stowell, Wm. Walker, David S. Dalzell, John R.
Lee, Moses C. Anderson, and Samuel Hall. The first church building, was
erected in 1845. It was built of hewed logs taken from the forest nearby.
During the war this building was used for a dwelling house, and by the
soldiers as a commissary and for quarters. The first meeting of the Osage
Presbytery, after the war, was held in this building. The present
building was erected in 1869, at a cost of about $3,500, including the
school rooms. It was dedicated August 22d, 1869, by Rev. Dr. Hill, of
Kansas City. Mt. Zion is one of the very oldest Presbyterian churches in
Missouri, and lays claim to being the first regularly organized west of
St. Louis. It is the parent of three other churches—Springfield,
Mt. Bethel, and Grand Prairie. Space forbids anything like a complete
history of this church, which would be not only interesting, but highly
instructive. [714]
Lois Barton, Spencer Butte Pioneers: 100 Years on the Sunny Side of the
Butte 1850-1950 (Eugene, OR: Spencer Butte Press, 1982) p. 19. Barton
quotes advertisements in the Eugene City People's Press for William
Walker's drugstore: an ad dated February 25, 1858, reads: "Just received
a large supply of Dr. Jaynes' family medicine direct from Philadelphia.
Also 300 almanacs gratis." Then on March 8, 1859: "The undersigned having
fitted up a new store house on 9th St. one door west of Goldsmith & Co.'s
store is now receiving and opening a general stock of medicines and
groceries" [An extensive list of items follows]. "Signed: Wm. Walker."
And again, November 19, 1859: "Wm. Walker moved his store from 9th to
Willamette St."
Will Walker in Lane County Historian Index: 15:46; 4: 32n (Mrs.).
The Brumm.com homepage on the Walkers states that William Walker was a
son of William and Prudence [Walker] Walker, the grandson of Charles and
Elenor Walker from Ireland. They seem to ignore or do not know that
William was born in 1800, whereas the will of the William who married
Prudence was proved in Knox Co. in 1798.