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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    JOHN BUTLER WALDEN, Attorney-at law, was born in Jasper County, Ga.,
September 1, 1816, and is a son of Charles and Sarah (Walker) Walden, natives of
South Carolina.

    He was reared on a farm, and at the age of twenty years, at Wetumpka, Ala.,
began the study of the law, and at Talladega was admitted to the bar. He located
first in the practice at Lebanon, De Kalb County, and was within a short time
appointed Register in Chancery, and afterward appointed Judge of the County
Court of De Kalb County. He held these offices but a few months, when he
resigned for the purpose of devoting his entire time to the practice of the law,
and soon gained rank in the profession. He was appointed Solicitor of the
Huntsville Circuit in 1862, and was shortly afterwards elected by the
Legislature to that office, and held it the close of the war. In 1864 he came to
Centre, and has here since that time given his whole attention to his profession.

    Mr. Walden was married in December, 1842, to Catharine O. Chambliss,
daughter of John and Sarah (Pierce) Chambliss, who came from Darlington
District, S. C., to Talladega County in 1841. Of the children reared by Mr.
Walden we have the following data: John is a farmer and trader in Texas; Charles
is a trader at McMinnville, Tenn.; Joseph A. studied law of his own volition;
was admitted to the bar on the day after he was twenty-one: was elected
Solicitor for Cherokee County by the popular vote, and served one term only. He
holds a high standing in his profession as an untiring, zealous advocate. Emily
married Captain Marable, of Georgia, and Minnie is unmarried, and remains with
her parents.

    The senior Mr. Walden. in about 1800, moved to Green County, Ga., and from
thence to Jasper. He was a lieutenant under General Floyd in the War of 1812. He
came into Alabama in 1819, and located in Autauga County, near old Fort Jackson.
He died in 1832. Of his seven sons John B. is the only one now living.

    His wife was one of those excellent pioneer, Christian women. She was a
member of the Baptist Church over fifty years, and many of her ancestors and
kinsmen were noted divines. She died in 1854, at the age of seventy years. Her
father, Jeremiah Walker, a Virginian by birth, and a gallant old Revolutionary
soldier, was a farmer in South Carolina. His paternal ancestors came from England.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.

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