Walker Family History

Father - Steven N Walker - Custom Home Builder - (1951 - 2010)

Born: March 2, Texas Independence Day 1951, Anchorage, Alaska (Father Stationed in Alaska during Cold War)

Death: February 11, 2010, Fort Worth, Texas

- Custom Home Builder - Fort Worth (North Texas)

- Known as an intelligent and honorable man. Owned and operated a custom home build business for 2 decades , teaching his son Josh Walker the home building business.

- Loved fishing at the lake, peaceful time on the water.

Grandfather - Lieutenant Colonel Leighton N Walker - US Air Force - (1918 - 1987)

Born: October 20, 1918, Orange, Texas

Death: February 16, 1987 Fort Worth, Texas

- Lieutenant Colonel United States Air Force

- B52 Stratofortress Pilot - One of the first 500 pilots trained on the B52 Bomber.  Commissioned to fly bomber runs from Alaska to Russian air space loaded with nuclear payloads during the Cold War.

- WW2 and Korean War

- B24 Liberator Pilot

- Texas A&M Football Running Back - Texas A&M 1939 National Champions 11-0

Great Grandfather - Samuel Routh Walker II - Builder - (1881 - 1957)

Born: January 9, 1881, Opelousas, Louisiana

Death: November 19, 1957, Baytown, Harris County, Texas

- Builder

- Loved fishing at the lake, peaceful time on the water.

2nd Great Grandfather - Samuel Routh Walker I - Farmer - (1849 - 1898)

Born: June 11, 1849, St. Joseph, Louisiana

Death: January 30, 1898, Lake Charles, Louisiana

- Farmer

- Notary Public

Great Cousin - Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Hamilton Walker in the Texas Rangers - (1817 - 1847)

Born: February 24, 1817 • Toaping Castle, Prince George's, Maryland

Death: October 9, 1847 • Huamantla, Tlaxcala, Mexico

Burial: San Antonio, Texas

- Texas Rangers Hall of Fame Waco Texas

- Walker County, Texas. The Texas Legislature renamed the county in 1863 for Texas Ranger Samuel H. Walker.

- Samuel Hamilton Walker was an American army officer. He served as a Texas Ranger captain and officer of the Republic of Texas and the United States armies. Walker served in several armed conflicts, including the American Indian Wars and the Mexican–American War

- Co-Inventor of the Walker Colt Revolver. The Walker Colt was created in the mid-1840s in a collaboration between Texas Ranger Lt. Col. Samuel Hamilton Walker (1817–1847) and American firearms inventor Samuel Colt (1814–1862), building upon the earlier Colt Paterson design. Walker wanted a handgun that was extremely powerful at close range.

- Mexican American War - Three hundred men marched on the Rio Grande town of Mier, unaware that three thousand Mexican soldiers were in the area. They were ultimately forced to surrender, and the survivors were marched to Mexico City. General Santa Anna ordered their execution but eventually mandated that only every tenth prisoner from the Mier expedition would be killed.

- Black Bean Episode The Black Bean Episode, an aftermath of the Mier Expedition, resulted from an attempted escape of the captured Texans as they were being marched from Mier to Mexico City. After an escape at Salado, Tamaulipas, on February 11, 1843, some 176 of the men were recaptured within about a week. A decree that all who participated in the break were to be executed was modified to an order to kill every tenth man. Col. Domingo Huerta was to be in charge of the decimation. The victims were chosen by lottery, each man drawing a bean from an earthen jar containing 176 beans, seventeen black beans being the tokens signifying death.. Though Walker survived, he was imprisoned and brutally beaten. After six months, he escaped. In September 1843 he returned to Texas, and he joined Hays’s Ranger company in February 1844.

- Comanche Battle at Walker Creek Texas. In 1844 Walker joined John C. Hays's company of Texas Rangers and participated in the battle of Walker's Creek near the junction of Walker's Creek and West Sister Creek northwest of present-day Sisterdale in Kendall County. During the engagement the rangers, using new Colt revolvers, successfully defeated about eighty Comanches. Hays and his men were usually outnumbered in their skirmishes with Comanche and Mexican forces but managed to hold their own thanks to their highly effective use of a more modern weapon: the revolver. Soon after Samuel Walker joined Hays’ Ranger company in 1844, they and 14 other Rangers took on some 80 Comanches in the battle of Walker’s Creek. Armed with the first practical revolver, designed by Samuel Colt, the Rangers came out on top in the fierce clash. Walker was seriously wounded, but recovered to become a celebrated Ranger captain during the Mexican War.

- Creek and Seminole Wars Florida and worked as a scout in Florida until 1841.

- Walker enlisted in the Washington City Volunteers for the Creek Indian Campaign in Alabama in 1836.

- It’s said that Walker was not a man you would much notice in everyday life. He was of average size, and quiet. But in battle he was a lion. In his Notes of the Mexican War 1846-1848, J. Jacob Oswandel observed of Walker that ‘’war was his element, the bivouac his delight, and the battlefield his playground.”

Walker lived more in his short life than your average ten men live in their long lives combined. He is the Walker, Texas Ranger, that should be most remembered.

Samuel H. Walker Texas Ranger Hall OF Fame

Samuel Walker: The Real ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ | Texas Standard

Walker, Samuel Hamilton - Texas State Historical Association

Samuel Hamilton Walker - Wikipedia

Black Bean Episode

Walker's Creek, Battle of

Kirk Campbell at the Battle of Walker’s Creek | mgoblog

Samuel Walker, Samuel Colt, and the Six-Shooters That Won the Wst

Battle of Huamantla - Wikipedia

8 Famous Texas Rangers | HISTORY

Great Cousin - Asa Walker - Defender of the Alamo - (1813 - 1836)

Born: 1813 • Tennessee

Death: 6 March 1836 • Battle of the Alamo, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas

Walker, Asa

Age: 23

Rank: Garrison Member

From: Tennessee

- Asa Walker, Alamo defender, was born in Tennessee in 1813. He moved to Texas in November of 1835 at the expense of his friend, William Washington Gant, settling at Nacogdoches. On November 28, 1835, he wrote a letter at Washington-on-the-Brazos to Gant, explaining why he had stolen his gun and overcoat, stating, ". . . the hurry of the moment and my want of means to do better are all the excuses I have." Walker took part in the siege of Bexar. He was either wounded in the battle or fell sick afterward. Col. James C. Neill's return of his men lists Walker as "in hospital." Walker served in the Alamo garrison as a member of Capt. Robert Whiteqv's infantry company, the Bexar Guards. Walker died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836. He was a cousin of fellow Alamo defender Jacob Walker.

Walker, Asa | The Alamo

Walker, Asa

List of Alamo defenders - Wikipedia

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Alamo

Great Cousin - Jacob Walker - Defender of the Alamo - (1799 - 1836)

Born: May 1799 • Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee

Death: 6 March 1836 • Battle of the Alamo, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas

Walker, Jacob

Age: 36

Rank: Garrison Member

From: Tennessee

- Jacob Walker, said to have been last defender to die in the Alamo.

- Jacob Walker, Alamo defender, was born in Rockridge County, Tennessee, in May 1799. In 1827 he married Sara Ann Vauchere, and they had four children. Walker was a resident of Nacogdoches. He took part in the siege of Bexar and afterwards remained in Bexar as a member of Capt. William R. Carey's artillery company. Susanna W. Dickinson recalled that, during the siege of the Alamo, Walker often spoke to her about his children. She also recalled that during the battle, Walker rushed into her room pursued by Mexican soldiers who shot and bayonetted him to death as she looked on. Walker was the cousin of fellow Alamo defender Asa Walker and brother of the famous mountain man Joseph R. Walker.

Walker, Jacob | The Alamo

Walker, Jacob

List of Alamo defenders - Wikipedia

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Alamo

3rd Great Grandfather - William Watson Walker - Attorney at Law - (1792 - 1831)

Born: September 15, 1792 Rutherford, North Carolina

Death: June 25, 1831 Natchez, Adams, Mississippi

- Attorney at Law

- William Watson Walker was the son of Congressman Felix and Isabella Henry Walker. Felix Walker and his father accompanied Daniel Boone to unsettled parts of Kentucky. Cherokees attacked the group, killing several members of the party and severely wounding Felix Walker. In his account, Walker recounted Daniel Boone's solicitous attention to his condition, nursing him until he was well enough for Boone to take him to the Watauga Settlement. [Source: George W. Ranck, Boonesborough Its Founding, Pioneer Struggles, Indian Experiences, Transylvania Days and Revolutionary Annals (Louisville, Kentucky: J.P.Morton and Co., 1901), Appendix G. Written about 1824 and originally published in DeBow's Review, February 1854.]

Walker's paternal grandparents were Colonel John and Elizabeth Watson Walker. (Find A Grave Memorials # 97066085 and # 97066112, respectively.) His maternal grandparents were William and Isabella McKeown Henry. (Find A Grave Memorials #11858469 and #152774172.)

William Watson Walker (1792-1831) - Find a Grave Memorial

Great Cousin - James Francis Walker Jr - Fought in the Battle of San Jacinto 1836 - (1793-1873)

Born: October 10, 1793 • Orange, Virginia

Death: March 24, 1873 • Waco, McLennan Co., Texas

- James Walker, Jr. (1793-1873), was born in Madison County, Kentucky, on October 20, 1793. He married Abler Collett on April 25, 1816, in Wayne County, Kentucky, and they had five children. She died in 1831. He moved his family to New Year Creek in Washington County, Texas, in 1835. Walker later received 640 acres for service to the Republic of Texas from March 1 to May 30, 1836, and 1,280 acres for being in the battle of San Jacinto as a private in Col. Sidney Sherman's command. Walker died on March 24, 1873, and is buried at the Cobbs-Walker family cemetery in McLennan County. - Historical Marker: Built First Brick home rural part of County.

Daughters of the Republic of Texas Page 282

James Walker Jr., a farmer, came to Texas with his five children on April 1, 1835, after the death of his wife. James Jr. was born in Wayne County, KY, on Oct 20, 1793, son of James Walker Sr. and Catherine Miller. He married Abrilla Collett on March 25, 1816 in Wayne County, KY, daughter of Samuel Collett and Elizabeth Whitaker.

James Jr. and Abrilla's children were: Miranda Eleanor married John M. Stephen; Elizabeth Catherine married William H. Miller; Sarah married James R. Stephen, after his death Lorenzo D. Sterling; Abrilla married Joseph V. Guyton; and William Collett married Rebecca Briscoe Cobbs.

Their journey to Texas was on the Mississippi to New Orleans, where they obtained passage on a sailing vessel bound for Galveston. This vessel wrecked in a storm; they secured passage on another vessel, and finally arrived at the home of his parents on New Year's Creek.

James and William Collett served in the Texas Army. James fought in the Battle of San Jacinto. Receiving land grants for their services, they built the first brick home in McLennan County in 1851. The home still stands in Waco, and bears a Texas Historical Marker. James died in McLennan County on Feb. 24, 1873. He never remarried and is buried in the Cobb.

- His Father, James Walker, Sr. (1756 - 1837) Below.

From the Texas State Historical Society

Also if you go to this link there are lengthy biosketches of the Walkers both Sr and JR

Daughters of Republic of Texas - - Volume 1 - Page 282

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1563112140

Old Walker Homestead - TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS

Walker, James - Texas State Historical Association

Battle of San Jacinto - Wikipedia

San Jacinto, Battle of

Washington-on-the-Brazos | Texas Historical Commission

Photo: Cobbs-Walker Cemetery Marker

James Frances Walker Jr. (1793-1873) - Find a Grave Memorial

Great Cousin - James Francis Walker Sr - Old 300 - One of the First American Colonists to Own Land in Texas - (1756-1837)

Born: 13 December 13, 1756 • Orange County, Virginia

Death: 29 May 29, 1837 • Brenham, Washington County, Texas

Buried: College Station, TX

- One of the First American Settlers of Texas:

Dateline: January 1823 "The Old 300"

Texas is officially opened to colonization by citizens of the United States.

Stephen F. Austin executed a land grant from Mexico for 300 settlers to colonize Texas. These 300 were known as “the old 300”.

James Walker Log House is a historic log house in Brenham, Texas.

It was built in 1824 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989

- Walker, James (1756–1837). James Walker, one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred colonists, was born in 1756. During the American Revolution he served in Orange County, Virginia, and Virginia Continental line units. He married Catherine Miller on September 9, 1783, and they had fourteen children, including Susanna, who later married Phillip Singleton. They lived in Virginia and Kentucky before moving to Texas in 1824. Walker received a Spanish land grant of one league in what is now Washington County on July 21, 1824. The 1826 census lists him as a farmer and stock raiser over fifty years of age, with a wife over fifty, three children, and four slaves. Walker suffered loses in property and health during the Runaway Scrape and died in 1837 in Washington County.

- The "Old Three Hundred" were 297 grantees who purchased 307 parcels of land from Stephen Fuller Austin in Mexican Texas. Each grantee was head of a household, or, in some cases, a partnership of unmarried men. Austin was an American approved in 1822 by Mexico as an empresario for this effort, after the nation had gained independence from Spain. By 1825 the colony had a population of 1,790.

The colony encompassed an area that ran from the Gulf of Mexico on the south, to near present-day Jones Creek in Brazoria County, Brenham in Washington County, Navasota in Grimes County, and La Grange in Fayette County. It was the first authorized colony of Anglo-American settlers.

Stephen F. Austin agreed to carry out his father's plan for a colony. At the end of the summer of 1821, he and a small group of Anglo-American settlers crossed into Texas. Before he reached San Antonio to meet with the governor, the group learned that Mexico had gained its independence from Spain. Texas was now a Mexican province rather than a Spanish one. Governor Martinez assured Austin that the new Mexican government would honor the colonization contract.[3]

Austin returned to Louisiana to recruit settlers. He offered land at 12 cents per acre, which was 10% of what comparable acreage sold for in the United States. The Settlers were required to satisfy four regulations:

• They had to be Catholic,
• They had to be of good moral character,
• They had to improve the land (usually by adding structures), and
• They had to cultivate the land within two years, or forfeit it.

- James Walker, one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred colonists, was born in 1756. During the American Revolution he served in Orange County, Virginia, and Virginia Continental line units. He married Catherine Miller on September 9, 1783, and they had fourteen children, including Susanna, who later married Philip Singleton. They lived in Virginia and Kentucky before moving to Texas in 1824. Walker received a Spanish land grant of one league on July 21, 1824 located on New Years and Woodward creeks in present Washington County, TX. The 1826 census lists him as a farmer and stock raiser over fifty years of age, with a wife over fifty and three children. Walker suffered loses in property and health during the Runaway Scrape and died in 1837 in Washington County. He is buried in Peach Creek Cemetery in Brazos County, Texas. There is no tombstone.

- His son, James Walker, Jr. (1793-1873) Above.

From the Texas State Historical Society

Also if you go to this link there are lengthy biosketches of the Walkers both Sr and JR

Daughters of Republic of Texas - - Volume 1 - Page 282

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1563112140

Walker, James - Texas State Historical Association

James Walker Log House - Wikipedia

Old Three Hundred

Old Three Hundred - Wikipedia

Honoring Texas History: "The Old 300" January 1823

Washington-on-the-Brazos | Texas Historical Commission

James Francis Walker (1756-1837) - Find a Grave Memorial

8th Great Grandfather Maternal Line - Juan Curbelo - One of 16 Families to start the village of of San Antonio 1731 - (1680 - 1767)

Born: 1680 • Lanzarote, Canary Island, Espagne

Death: April 6, 1767 • La Villa de San Fernando de Bexar, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas

- One of 16 Families to start the village of of San Antonio 1731: Juan Curbelo

- Juan Curbelo (1680–1760) was a Spanish politician who served as the sixth and eighth mayor of San Antonio, Texas in 1737 and 1739. His family arrived in San Antonio from the Canary Islands in 1731 with other Canarian families to populate the region.

From the Canary Islands (territory of Spain) on the ship "Espana," Juan Curbelo and his family emigrated to the new province of Texas (in northern Mexico) and settled the Villa of San Antonio de Bexar, arriving on 9 Mar 1731.

Juan Curbelo, son of Domingo Curbelo and Maria Martin Enriquez, native of Lanzarote, fifty [fifteen] years of age, tall, broad-shouldered, full-faced, fair complexion, grey beard and hair, light brown eyes, black eyebrows, rather bald at the temples, sharp nose. His wife, Gracia, was described as being of mid height with a dark complexion, black eyes, hair and eyebrows, large face and aquiline nose.

On 20 Jul 1731, Juan was appointed Second Councilman (Regidor), his son-in-law Vicente Alvarez Travieso was appointed Sheriff and another son-in-law Jose Francisco De Arocha was appointed Secretary and Notary Public. These appointments were made by Captain Juan Antonio Perez De Almazan, as instructed by King Phillip V of Spain.

On 31 May 1736, Juan was granted land on Soledad Street for the purpose of raising corn and beans--the government to receive one-third of the crops.

- The Canary Islanders

Earliest civilian colonists of San Antonio, this nucleus of pioneers from the Canary Islands formed the first organized civil government in Texas and founded the village of San Fernando de Bexar in 1731.

Following a sea and land voyage of over a year, these weary travelers arrived at the Presidio (Fort) of San Antonio early on March 9, 1731. Totaling 56 persons, they had emigrated to Texas from the Spanish Canary Islands near Africa, by order of King Philip V.

On July 2 they began to lay out a villa (village), choosing a site on the west side of the Plaza de las Islas (present Main Plaza) for the church and a site on the east side for the Casa Real (government building). On July 19 the captain of the Presidio, Juan Antonio de Almazan, read to the islanders the decree of the Viceroy naming them and their descendants "Hijos Dalgos" – persons of nobility.

The heads of the 16 families who settled in San Antonio were:

Juan Leal Goraz, Juan Curbelo, Juan Leal, Antonio Santos, Jose Padrón, Manuel de Nis, Vicente Alvarez Travieso, Salvador Rodriguez, Jose Leal, Juan Delgado, Jose Cabrera, Juan Rodriguez Granadillo, Francisco de Arocha, Antonio Rodriguez, Lorenzo and Martin de Armas, and Felipe and Jose Antonio Perez.

- Determined, Driven, and Resilient

In August of 1730, ten Canary Islander families land in Veracruz. Determined, driven, and resilient, these ten families set out on foot, traveling more than 1100 miles over six months to settle in this foreign land. Over the first few months of their journey, the families expand from ten to sixteen, some losing their lives on the trip and others born along the way.

When the Canary Islanders finally land in what is now known as San Antonio, 56 individuals from 16 families would remain. Most of these settlers were from Lanzarote.

You’ll find a list of these 16 families here.

In the early decades of the 1700s, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, and England reached into all corners of the globe. While Spain arrived in the New World first, France and England soon followed and brought their centuries-long rivalries with them. France controlled lands in and around the Mississippi River, including the mouth at the Gulf of Mexico, and extended to the Red River to the west, where the Spanish state of la Provincia de Tejas began. But as the French and English colonies grew in size, Spanish King Philip V grew concerned that the French would creep further along the Gulf Coast into Spanish lands. In 1730, the monarch put out a call to his subjects, looking for volunteers to grow the colony in New Spain.

The Invitation

The Canary Islands are found 62 miles west of the African continent. Spain, the great sea power, colonized the islands by force, and fought the French and Dutch for control. The Spanish colony in present-day Texas had its share of missions, hoping to spread Christianity to the natives, and provide aid to early colonists on the lawless frontier. King Philip V invited Canary Island residents to emigrate to the small community in present-day San Antonio, Texas to deter French invasion. The king paid for travel expenses, and paid them more on arrival. The journey took the original 16 families across the Atlantic Ocean to Cuba, then on to Vera Cruz, Mexico, then up the Texas Coast, and on to San Antonio de Béxar, where the so-called Isleños would ultimately establish the first city government and permanent Spanish settlement.

Juan Curbelo (Texan settler) - Wikipedia

Canarian Americans - Wikipedia

List of Families - CIDA

Canary Islanders

Our History - CIDA

How to Stop a French Invasion: Tejano Patriots in Frontier Texas - Yesterday's America

4th Great Grandfather - Lieutenant Colonel Felix Hampton Walker M.D. US Congressman - (1753 - 1828)

Born: July 19, 1753 Hampshire Co., Virginia, now part of West Virginia

Death: January 25, 1828 Clinton, Hinds County, Mississippi

- Lt. Colonel Walker fought in the American Revolutionary War

- US Congressman Democratic-Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1817 and 1823.

- Medical Doctor

-  Joined Daniel Boone's company, which established the settlement of Boonesborough, Kentucky, in 1775. He was named clerk of the court of Washington district of North Carolina in 1775 and held that post until 1778 (Washington district lay mostly within the boundaries of contemporary Tennessee and was organized as a county in 1777.

- He worked as a trader and land speculator in Haywood County before being elected to Congress.

- In 1816, Walker was elected to the 15th United States Congress as a Democratic-Republican. He was re-elected twice and failed in a bid for the fourth term in 1822.

Felix Walker (American politician) - Wikipedia

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Felix Walker (P-26) | NC DNCR

Battle of Kings Mountain - Wikipedia

5th Great Grandfather - Colonel John Rutherford Walker Jr. III - (1728 - 1796)

Born: January 16, 1728, Bohemia Creek, New Castle, Delaware

Death: January 25, 1796, Hampshire, Rutherford, North Carolina

- John Walker, Indian fighter and Revolutionary officer, was born in Appoquinimink Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, the son of John Walker of Derry, Ireland, who immigrated to Delaware in 1720. The elder Walker was the grandson of the Reverend Governor George Walker of Donaghmore County, Londonderry, Ireland, who successfully commanded the Siege of Derry in 1689 against the forces of King James II.

- As a young man Walker settled on the south fork of the Potomac River in Hampshire County, Va., and in 1751 married Elizabeth Watson. He served as a volunteer under Colonel George Washington in the Virginia colonial troops suffering in the disastrous defeat of the army of General Edward Braddock in 1755 near Fort Duquesne and fought the rear action during the retreat of the colonial troops. Shortly afterwards he moved to the area that became Lincoln County, N.C., on Lee Creek, about ten miles east of the present town of Lincolnton. 

- 1761 Campaign against the Cherokee Indians. He enlisted in Col. Grant's S.C. Regiment and served in the campaign against the Cherokee Indians in 1761.

- He then purchased a beautiful span on Crowder's Creek about 4 miles from Kings Mountain. In 1768 he moved to a tract of 400 acres at the mouth of the Cane Creek about 5 miles NE of Rutherfordton.

- In 1775 he and his son Felix accompanied Colonel Richard Henderson and Daniel Boone on an expedition that explored Kentucky and founded the settlement of Boonesboro.

- In 1774 he was appointed by the NC Legislature as one of the Commissioners to select a site to build a courthouse, prison and stocks for the county of Tryon. Prior to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, he was a leader in Civil Activities under the Royal Government but resigned his office in 1775.

- In 1775 he was appointed to the Provincial Congress. It is said that he wrote, masterminded and was a signer of the District and County Commission of Safety, the Tryon County Declaration of Rights and Independence from British Tyranny. At the third Provincial Congress, two regiments of Continental troops were ordered raised in NC and he was immediately selected as one of the captains of a company in the First Regiment and was commissioned Sept. 1, 1775. He held several commissions such as Col. and Commandant of the Tryon Militia.

- During the Summer of 1775, John Walker was the existing Colonel over the Tryon County Regiment of Militia.

- On 9/1/1775, John Walker was commissioned as a Captain under Col. James Moore in the 1st NC Regiment, which was considered to be "Provincial Troops" at that time.

- On 11/28/1775, this regiment was placed on the NC Continental Line. Capt. John Walker led his company at the battles of Moore's Creek Bridge (2/27/1776) and the Breach Inlet Naval Battle, SC (6/28/1776).

- On 2/12/1777, John Walker was appointed as an Aide-de-Camp to Gen. George Washington, retaining his rank as Captain.

- He was a Justice of the Peace, a court judge (the first session of the Rutherford Co. Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions was held at his home).

- He had six sons who also served in the American Revolutionary war. Felix was the oldest (there is a Historical marker honoring Felix on the highway in Maggie Valley, NC and there was John Walker Jr; James Reuben; William, Thomas and the youngest, Joseph (He also had two other sons, George and Jacob). On Dec. 22, 1777, he resigned stating that being 50 years old, that a younger man might be needed and to that he had six sons in service and a wife and two small sons at home exposed to the mercies of marauding bands of Indians. The two sons at home were George and Jacob. In 1778, Tryon was abolished by the Act of Legislative of 1778 and Rutherford and Lincoln counties took it place. This Act designated Col. John Walker as one of the four commissioners to survey the dividing line between the two counties and to assist in setting up a government in these counties. In 1778 he moved to the forks of the Green and Broad Rivers in Rutherford Co (now Polk Co) where he purchased a large tract of land and resumed his agricultural pursuits. He died there on Jan 25, 1796, in his 68th year and was laid to rest on a gentle knoll on his plantation. That valuable inheritance of land was left to his youngest son, Jacob, who remained to care for his mother. She died on Easter Sunday, April 17, 1808, at about the age of 75 and was placed beside her husband on the plantation.

Walker, John | NCpedia

The Patriot Leaders in North Carolina - John Walker

Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: Vol. 6, T-Z - Google Books

Col. John Walker (1728-1796) leatherstockings to Colonial representative – blueridgepeople

COL John “Rutherford John” Walker Sr. (1728-1796) - Find a Grave Memorial

6th Great Grandfather - Colonel John Rutherford "Gunstocker" Walker II - (1705 - 1778)

Born: March 17, 1705 • Ulster, England then moved to Newry Down, Ireland

Death: September 23, 1778 • Walker Creek, Rockbridge, Virginia, USA

- He was born in 1705.

- Married, about 1734, Ann Houston, who may have been a sister of William who built Houston's Fort on Big Moccasin Creek in Scott County.

- John Walker, came first to Augusta County [Virginia] and later to Rockbridge, where they settled and lived on a creek named for them and which still carries the name of Walker's Creek.

- During the first stages of the conflict (border wars of 1750s) the most famous Indian fighter of the (Walker) clan was John.

- Leaving Rockbridge County, John Walker arrived on the Clinch in the year 1773, and settled on a 300 acre tract of land at the "sink" of Sinking Creek between Castlewood [Castle's Woods] and Dungannon. This tract of land he named "Broad Meadows."

- Upon arrival on the Virginia frontier, John Walker was some 68 years old and had undoubtedly followed his children in their westward wanderings. Despite his advanced age, when he arrived on the Clinch he lived to see his son and daughter-in-law slain by the Indians, and his daughter and grandson carried into captivity and who had not returned at the time of his death.

- By 1788 this John Walker was listed in the community records as a ranger, that is, a man detailed to stay more or less permanently in the woods to wait for and deal with Indian raiders.

- In addition to ranging, John Walker, along with at least two of his brothers, Samuel and James, fought at Point Pleasant, one of the most crucial pitched battles of the border wars.

- In 1778, when he was seventy-three years old, he and his second son, Samuel, went off hunting or exploring in the Clinch River valley along what is now the boundary between Virginia and Tennessee. There the two men were caught and scalped by the Cherokee.

- He died sometime between Sept 23rd and Nov. 17, 1778. His will bearing date of Sept 23rd, (no year given, but presumed) was probated Nov. 17, 1778. The known children of John and Ann Houston Walker were: Susanna, Mary, Jane, Hetty, Ann, Martha, Margaret, John, and Samuel.

(from: Pioneer Settlers of The Clinch, by Emory L. Hamilton, Clinch Valley Times, St. Paul, Virginia, Oct. 10, 1967)

7th Great Grandfather - John Alexander Walker I - Lieutenant - (1668 - 1726)

Born: 1668 • Donaghmore, Tyrone, Northern Ireland

Death: October 10, 1726 • New Castle County, Delaware, USA

- Baptised Derry Cathedral, 2 Apr 1668.

- Educ. The Royal School, Armagh. Trinity College Dublin, matriculated 1 Oct 1685.

- Present at Battle of the Boyne, 1690. Battle of the Boyne, 1690 ⚔️ When the balance of power in Europe changed forever. Commissioned Ensign, then Lieutenant, 30 Apr 1691.

- Appointed with his brother Robert to Joint Clerk of the Markets of Ireland, 12 Dec 1693.

- Appointed Collector of Customs, Cavan, Armagh and Dundalk, Co. Louth, c.1721.

m. 1689 Jane Staples, daughter of Sir Alexander Staples, 4th. Bt., of Lissan, Co. Tyrone.

https://youtu.be/6Xy9ZZebm48?si=S0cHC_WDgeA-LDFA

Battle of the Boyne - Wikipedia

Trinity College Dublin - Wikipedia

8th Great Grandfather - Dr. George Walker III Governor of LondonDerry - (1645 - 1690)

Born: 1645 • Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom

Death: 1 JUL 1690 • Battle of Boyne, Londonderry, Ireland, Buried in Donaghmore, County Tyrone, Ireland (Now Northern Ireland).

- Here is the transcription of the plaque text:

This MONUMENT was erected to perpetuate the memory of the Rev. GEORGE WALKER, who aided by the garrison and brave inhabitants of this City, most gallantly defended it through a protracted siege, viz., from the 7th Dec. 1688, O.S., to the 12th of August following, against an arbitrary and bigoted Monarch, heading an army of upwards of 20,000 men, many of whom were foreign mercenaries, and by such valiant conduct in numerous sorties, and by patiently enduring extreme privations and sufferings, successfully resisted the besiegers, and preserved for their posterity the blessings of civil and religious liberty.

This plaque commemorates George Walker's leadership and the bravery of the defenders of Derry during the Siege of 1689, which was a pivotal event in securing Protestant control in the region and maintaining civil and religious freedoms.

- This is the statue of George Walker located in Derry (Londonderry), Northern Ireland. George Walker was a prominent figure during the Siege of Derry in 1688-1689, where he played a key role in defending the city against the forces of King James II. The siege is a significant event in Irish history, particularly in the context of Protestant and Catholic tensions. The statue was historically placed on the city walls of Derry and is part of the city's rich cultural heritage.

The cannons and plaques nearby further commemorate the defense of the city during the siege.

Rev. George Walker (c. 1643–1690).

Educ. Trinity College Dublin, B.A. 1662 (or Glasgow University).

Appointed Rector of Lissan and Desertlyn, Co. Tyrone, 16 July 1669.

Rector, Donoughmore, Co. Tyrone 9 Sep 1674–1690.

Governor at Siege of Derry, 1689.

Awarded £5,000 by King William III but unpaid.

Honorary D.D., Oxford University, 26 Feb 1690.

Killed and buried at Battle of Boyne, 1 Jul 1690.

Reinterred by his widow at Donoughmore Church, Castlecaulfield, Co. Tyrone, 1703. Reinterred during repairs, 1838.

m. c. 1666 Isabella Barclay (c. 1644–1705). Died Dungannon, Co. Tyrone.

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Biographical Notice of George Walker, Governor of Derry during the Siege in 1688. Part I on JSTOR

9th Great Grandfather - Rev George Walker II - (1603 - 1677)

Born: September 5th 1603 • Dublin, Dublin, Ireland (Josh Walker's Birthday too)

Death: September 15th 1677 • Armagh, Co. Tyrone, Ulster, Province, Northern Ireland

- He occupied the important post of Joint-Governor within the city, as well as that of a Colonel in one of the city

regiments.

Educ. Trinity College Dublin, B.A. 1621, M.A. 1624.

Appointed Rector, Badoney, Co. Derry, 13 Jan 1630;

Cappagh, Co. Derry, 20 Sep 1636.

Fled to England 1641.

Rector, Kirk Deighton and Wighill, 1644.

Returned to Ireland 1654.

Rector, Hillsborough, Co. Down. Archdeacon of Down.

Rector, Cappagh and Badoney, Co. Derry, 1660.

Chancellor, Cathedral of Armagh 1662.

Rector of Donoughmore, Co. Tyrone, 1662–1674.

D.D., Dublin University, 1663.

Buried parish church of Kilmore, Co. Armagh.

Inscription on plain stone in the floor in front of the chancel:

GEORGE WALKER, D.D.;

CHANCELLOUR OF ARMAGH & RECTOR OF KILMORE,

WHO DYED YE 15TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER

ANNO DOM. 1677.

m. c. 1642 Ursula Stanhope (c. 1654), eldest daughter of Sir John Stanhope of Stotfold, Hooton Pagnel, Yorkshire and Melwood Park, Isle of Axholme, Lincolnshire, by Mary, daughter and co-heir of William Hawley of Stotfold, Yorkshire.

Buried Kirk Deighton, Yorkshire.

GOVERNOR WALKER

When the Province of Ulster was putting itself in a posture

to resist the schemes of Tyrconnell in the spring of 1689, Mr. Walker took some

part in planting a garrison at Dungannon, and in supplying it with provisions;

but acting on the orders of Lundy, the garrison and himself, without waiting

for the enemy to come forward, withdrew from a post that was judged untenable,

and retired to Derry. He had been stationed at the Long Causeway on the day

that King James's army crossed the Finn at Clady, and having with his

detachment kept his ground a little longer than some of the others, he found,

when he reached Derry, that Lundy had shut him out of the gates. After the

revolt in the city had disbanded Lundy and called new leaders to the front,

Walker was nominated by Governor Baker as his Assistant, with the consent of

the Council of War; and from that time

Governor Walker of Derry

Biographical Notice of George Walker, Governor of Derry during the Siege in 1688. Part I on JSTOR

St Patrick's Church of Ireland Cathedral - Armagh - Discover Northern Ireland

10th Great Grandfather - Rev. George Walker - (1566 - 1642)

Born: January 1566 • Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

Death:  July 1 1642 • Country Londonderry, Ulster Province, Ireland

- Rev. Gervase Walker, M.A. (c. 1566–1642).

Educ. Nottingham High School;

Caius College, Cambridge.

Curate, London 1592.

Rector, Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire 1594–1615.

Went to Ireland 1616–1617.

Rector, Badoney, Co. Derry 1622–1626, Cappagh, Co. Derry 1622–1636.

Buried Derry Cathedral, 1 July 1642.

m. c. 1594

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11th Great Grandfather - Sir Dr John Thomas Fairholm Walker MD of Ruddington - (1538 - 1592)

Born: August 1538 • Nottingham Unitary Authority, Nottinghamshire, England

Death: July 23 1592 • Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, England

Married: Lady Isabell (Isabella) Abell Walker - (1539-1592)

Thomas Walker (1538-1592) - Find a Grave Memorial

12th Great Grandfather - Sir John Lawrence Walker - (1502 - 1575)

Born: 1502 • Liversedge, Yorkshire, England

Death: September 26 1575 • St Ford, Fife, Scotland

Married: Lady Alexandra Ann Knuttson de Ruddington - (1513-1575)

John Walker (1) : Family tree by Troy LAING (woltar31) - Geneanet

13th Great Grandfather - Sir Knight - William Willem Walker IV - Sheriff of Kent - (1454 - 1529 )

Born: 1454 • Sharpenhoe, Central Bedfordshire, England

Death: 1529 • Liversedge, Yorkshire, England

- Sir William Walker IV was born in 1454 at Sharpenhoe, Bedfordshire England.

- He married in 1479 to Lady Joanne Norton the daughter of Sir John Norton (1428-1489) and Lady Maude Anna DeGrey (1423-1461). Lady Joanne Norton was born in 1461 at Sharpenhoe, Bedfordshire England.

- Together Sir William IV and Lady Joanne Norton Walker had five children as follows:

1) Sir George Townsand Walker (1490-1529),

2) Thomas (1490-1540),

3) Agnes (1495),

4) William V (1498-1562),

5) John (1502).

- Sir William Walker IV died in 1529 at Liversedge, Yorkshire England.

Lady Joanne Norton Walker dies in 1548 at Sharpenhoe, Bedfordshire England. Little is known about his siblings Mary and Frederick.

14th Great Grandfather - Sir Knight - William Walker III - (1424 - 1529)

Born: 1424 • Streatley, Bedfordshire, England

Death: May 22 1455 • Battle of St Albans, Hertfordshire, England

- William Walker III was born on his family's estate in 1424 in Rimpton, Bedfordshire, England. He was the son and heir of Sir William Walker II (1399-1461) and his wife Alice (Ellis) Walker (1400-1466).

- In 1450, William married Alice Guildford, b: 1428 in Halden Manor, Rolvenden, Kent, England.

- They had 3 children:

1. Mary "of Lambeth," b: 1450 in Lambeth, Surrey
2. Frederick "of Camberwell," b: 1452 in Camberwell, Surrey
3. William IV "of Sharpenhoe" b: 1454 in Sharpenhoe, Bedfordshire

Sir William Walker III died May 22, 1455, fighting as a knight for King Henry VI at the Battle of St. Albans, Hertfordshire, but was buried in his village of Sharpenhoe, Bedfordshire, England. This battle is considered as the start of England's Civil War, known as "The War of the Roses," that ended England's Plantagenet dynasty's rule.  

His wife survived his passing, retired to her natal Kent and died in 1461 in Speldhurst, Kent, England.

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15th Great Grandfather - Sir Knight William Walker II Jr - Oxford University - (1399 - 1455)

Born: 1399 • Clapham Common, Surrey, England

Death: 1455 • Streatley, Bedfordshire, England

- Married Alice Ellis (1400-1466) Redhill, Surrey, England

- They had 3 children:

1. Sir Knight William Walker III b: 1424
2. Frederick Walker
3. Mary Walker

- Who Was a Typical Oxford Student in the 14th Century?

In the 14th century, all students at Oxford, and every other medieval university, were men.

Only baptized Christians were allowed to be students at the university of Oxford during the medieval period; non-Christians were banned from attending.

Almost all of Oxford’s scholars were clerks, meaning that they held some form of position within the Christian Church, which they could use to help pay for their studies and living costs.

Those who had converted from Judaism to Christianity were allowed to attend the university. A Jewish convert was even employed to teach (Hebrew and Greek) at Oxford in 1321.

Students were supposed to be 16 before they could be allowed to study the Seven Liberal Arts at Oxford – this was a much higher age requirement than at the University of Toulouse, where students could begin at 10.

Once at Oxford, students were required to study for between 5 and 6 years and then take an examination. The examination was only required if the students wished to gain their bachelor’s degree however, and many were content merely to study and did not want to gain an official degree.

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16th Great Grandfather - Sir William Walter Walker I - (1370 - )

Born: 1370 • Clapham, Surrey, England

Death: Wiltshire, England

- Married Alice Ellis (1400-1466) Redhill, Surrey, England

- They had 3 children:

1. Sir Knight William Walker III b: 1424
2. Frederick Walker
3. Mary Walker

- Who Was a Typical Oxford Student in the 14th Century?

In the 14th century, all students at Oxford, and every other medieval university, were men.

Only baptized Christians were allowed to be students at the university of Oxford during the medieval period; non-Christians were banned from attending.

Almost all of Oxford’s scholars were clerks, meaning that they held some form of position within the Christian Church, which they could use to help pay for their studies and living costs.

Those who had converted from Judaism to Christianity were allowed to attend the university. A Jewish convert was even employed to teach (Hebrew and Greek) at Oxford in 1321.

Students were supposed to be 16 before they could be allowed to study the Seven Liberal Arts at Oxford – this was a much higher age requirement than at the University of Toulouse, where students could begin at 10.

Once at Oxford, students were required to study for between 5 and 6 years and then take an examination. The examination was only required if the students wished to gain their bachelor’s degree however, and many were content merely to study and did not want to gain an official degree.

University of Oxford - Wikipedia

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17th Great Grandfather - Simon Walter Walker - (1409 - 1325)

Born:  1325 • Membury, Devon, England

Death: 1409 • Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

18th Great Grandfather - Sir William John le Walker - (1384 - 1305)

Born:  1305 • Membury, Devon, England

Death: 1384 • Membury, Devon, England

- Married Lady Elizabeth Atwater Walker (1307-1384) Membury, Devon, England

- They had 1 child, maybe more:

1. Simon Walter Walker (1409 - 1325)