Tandy Walker, Virginia

Dear Aunt Ludie,
I descend from Tandy Walker @ 1760 who went to Alabama and Texas. Tandy 2nd
married Mary Mayes now spelled Mays. Do you have any information on linking
to Scotland? I also have found a Dr.Tandy Walker in Alabama that I believe
comes in with my family also. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.

WL

Dear WL,

Tandy Walker was a great grand son of John Walker of Wigton, Scotland who
married in Scotland, 7 January 1702. He married Katherine Rutherford
daughter of Reverend John Rutherford living on the Tweed. This John Walker
sailed from Strangford Lough, Ireland, in May 1726, landed in Maryland
August the second in 1726. and settled in Chester Co. PA., where he died
1734. His wife Katherine followed in death 1738. The majority of his eleven
children settled in Rockbridge Co. Virginia and adjoining counties.
Walker’s Creek in Rockbridge County takes its name from them.

John Walker, the immigration ancestor of the family, had a son named John
and the third generation John of the American family married Nancy Tandy.
Some genealogies show this son as Alexander Walker probably because “Tandy”
was mistaken for Sandy, which was a nickname of Alexander. The Virginia
census of 1782 and 1790 lists Tandy Walker is the head of a household with
a family of nine whites and seven others in Mecklenburg Co. On or about
1771 Tandy Walker’s brother the Indians of the Greenbriar District of
Virginia stole William Walker.

Tandy Walker’s third child was Tandy 2ND was in St. Stephens, Alabama in
1803. His wife Mary Mayes of Virginia was a Methodist of the Tombigbee
circuit and their daughter Sarah Newstep was born at St. Stephens and
baptized there in 1815. (Cf. West’s History of Methodism in Alabama). Tandy
was an Indian trader and scout and served under General Claiborne. In 1814
Tandy was ordered to scout ahead of the Mississippi Volunteers in the Creek
Indian country, he was ambushed and wounded and on this account he was
awarded a pension in 1838. He died in 1843 and was buried on the edge of
what is known as Walkers Prairie, near Newbern, Alabama.

Please also note there is another Colonel Tandy Walker of the C.S.A. who
led a regiment of Choctaw out of Scullyville in the Civil War so far there
is no link to the Walkers in Virginia.----

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