Biography of Oscie Walker, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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Oscie Walker is one of the most substantial men in St. Francis County as a
merchant, planter, and ginner of Round Pond. With only a limited grade school
education, Mr. Walker has achieved much in being a prosperous merchant and
planter. He was born on Dec. 15, 1878, in Russell County, Alabama, son of the
late James Philip and Georgia Ann (Richardson) Walker of Georgia. He received
his education in Goodwin after his family moved there in 1881. In 1898, he
received his first experience in retailing with J. T. Dyal & Co. in Goodwin. In
1903, as bookkeeper for C. M. Wilkinson General Merchandise Store in Palestine.
For eight years from 1911, he operated the W. L. Boone Co. store in Palestine.
In 1921 he moved to Round Pond where he and his former brother, the late George
P. Walker founded the Walker Bros. General Merchandise Store. He retired about
ten years ago, but still has an interest in the Famers Gin Company. He is the
oldest member of the Planters Bank & Trust Co. which he helped found in 1910. On
June 26, 1933, he married Tessa Dial, daughter of the late Thomas D. and Emma
(Rhodes) Dial of Leola, Ark.


SOURCE:
HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning

Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher
-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas