Crenshaw County AlArchives Biographies.....Walker, B. A. October 1819 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    JUDGE B. A. WALKER, probate judge of Crenshaw county, and Primitive Baptist
preacher at Rutledge, was born in Jackson county, Tenn., in October, 1819. He
was a son of John N. and Sarah (Cason) Walker, the former born in Abbeville
district, S. C., in 1792, the latter in Edgefield district, April 15, 1794. They
removed with their family, early in the present century, to Jackson county,
Tenn., where the former received a good education, and where they were married
in 1816. They continued to reside there until 1831, when they removed to
Montgomery county, Ala., and in 1836 to what is now Crenshaw county, where Mrs.
Walker died in 1861, Mr. Walker dying in 1871. Both were members of the
Christian church from 1834. Mr. Walker was a school teacher for many years, and
later a farmer. He was tax collector of Lowndes county nine years, and was
justice of the peace some years. He served with Gen. Harrison in the war of
1812, and his father served in the same war with Gen. Jackson, and was killed at
the battle of New Orleans. Mr. Walker was a whig in politics, and was quite a
worker for his party. He was opposed to secession, but afterward went with his
state. He was a public-spirited man, and spared no pains for the advancement of
the public wellfare. He was one of a large family born to Horatio Walker, who
was probably a Virginian by birth, but who removed to Jackson county, Tenn.,
early in the present century. There he spent the rest of his life. He was of
Welsh descent, and a teacher by profession. William Cason, the maternal
grandfather of the judge, was a Virginian, married Nancy Watts, and afterward
removed to South Carolina, then to Ohio, and still later to Tennessee. Both Mr.
Carson and wife died in Jackson county, Tenn., at an advanced age. Judge B. A.
Walker is the second in a family of six sons and five daughters, viz.: James M.,
died in Texas, in. 1874; B. A.; Matilda, wife of T. H. Bozeman; Larkin C., died
in 1861; Oliver H. P., died in 1876; Edna E., deceased wife of Sumter Dean;
Sallie, died in 1841; Ann, died in 1842; William H., who served nearly all
through the war in the Virginia army; F. L., served a short time at Pensacola
during the late war. B. A. Walker began life for himself at twenty years of age,
overseeing and teaching school. On December 17, 1843, he was married to Miss M.
D., daughter of James and Sarah Ferrell, the former a native of Ireland, who
came to South Carolina, thence to Alabama, where he died, in Montgomery county,
in 1838. Mrs. Walker was born in Lancaster district, S. C., and is the mother of
six children, of whom only one is living. The children were: William C., joined
the First Alabama artillery, was captured at Fort Morgan, and died in prison, at
Elmira, N. Y., March 19, 1865; Virginia Caroline, died at fourteen years of age;
John F., the only one living, is his father's chief clerk; the next two died in
infancy; Malcolm E., died, leaving a wife and one child. Judge Walker has lived
in what is now Crenshaw county ever since 1836, and followed farming until
elected to the office of probate judge, in 1874. He was justice of the peace
twenty years, until he was turned out by the republicans. He served his father
as deputy tax collector of Lowndes county, and in 1866 was the state enumerator
for that county. He has been probate judge since 1874, and has declined to be a
candidate for re-election. He has always been an active worker for the public
good, and for twenty-five years he has been a regularly ordained minister of the
Primitive Baptist church. His father had a brother who was a very celebrated
Methodist Episcopal minister, who preached in South Carolina and Georgia, and
died in the latter state.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 797-798
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI



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