Grady-Thomas-Banks County GaArchives Biographies.....Walker, William Albert unknown - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   WILLIAM ALBERT WALKER, M. D. For more than twenty years successfully engaged
in practice and the proprietor of a large and well equipped sanitarium at Cairo,
in Grady county. Dr. Walker has represented the highest ability and best
personal qualities of the medical profession. He is the type of physician whose
work has been quietly performed, and whose services, while without the
conspicuous qualities of men in public life, have been none the less valuable to
society and deserving of the mention which is bestowed on conscientious and
efficient work. Dr. Walker is a physician who is always apace with the
developments and discoveries of his profession, and has enjoyed a practice that
has absorbed all his time and energy.

   Representing an old family of southern Georgia, William Albert Walker was
born on a plantation four miles from Thomasville. His father was Jonathan
Walker, and his grandfather was Talton Walker. The latter, a native of North
Carolina, where he was reared and married, came to Georgia and became an early
settler in Banks county. At the time of his settlement the greater part of
Georgia was a wilderness, with the forest untouched, game of all kinds in
plentiful quantities, and the Indians still living here and claiming the region
as their hunting ground. Talton Walker and his brother Jonathan both
participated in the Cherokee Indian wars. He had a large plantation, cleared out
of the wilderness, operated it with slave labor, and remained a resident there
until his death at the age of seventy-six years. His wife also lived to a good
old age, and they reared twelve children, nine sons and three daughters, namely:
Jonathan, Thurman, Samuel, Benton, Lump kin, Polk, Byron, Augustus, Obie, Mary,
Ellen, and Margaret. All of these sons, except Obie, served in the Confederate
army. When Governor Brown, toward the close of the war, called out all the boys
and old men, the mother wrote the governor that she already had eight sons in
the army and only one at home, who was just old enough for service under that
call, and saying that she needed this son at home, and requested the governor to
release him from military duty. She quickly received a letter from Governor
Brown, granting her desire.

   Jonathan Walker, the father, was reared in Banks county, and about 1850 moved
to Thomas county, buying a farm four miles east of Thomasville. In 1862, he
entered the Confederate army and went with his command into Virginia, where he
was attached to Longstreet's corps, participating in many of the more important
battles of the Virginia campaign. He escaped capture and was wounded but once
and then not seriously. When the war was over he made his way back home as best
he could, and resumed the quiet pursuits of agriculture. He resided on his farm
until a few years before his death, when he came to Cairo, where he lived
retired until death came to him in 1902, when he was seventy-six years of age.
The maiden name of his wife was Nancy Jane Kitchen, who was born in Banks
county, and who died in 1908 at seventy-nine years. She reared seven children
whose names are Casper, Alice, Caledonia, Cornelia, Janie, Laura and William
Albert. Both parents were members of the Methodist church.

   Dr. Walker attended the rural schools of Thomas county until he was seventeen
years old, and then became a student in the high school at Cairo. Two years
later he entered the Louisville Medical College at Louisville, Kentucky, where
he was graduated M. D. in February, 1889. In the same year he took a post
graduate course at the New York Polyclinic. His ambition to keep his
accomplishments abreast of the growing knowledge in medical science has caused
him to take a post graduate course in the New York Polyclinic every two years
since he began actual practice. He opened his first office in Cairo, and has
been in the enjoyment of a large practice in this locality for nearly
twenty-four years. In 1905 he established a sanitarium at Cairo. The building at
first had only three rooms, but its popularity has grown and its equipment in
proportion, so that in 1912, the doctor erected a commodious brick building with
twelve rooms and in the best style of architecture and arrangement and
furnishings to serve its purposes.

   In 1893 Dr. Walker married Jessie Powell, who was born at Cairo, a daughter
of Rev. William and Lucretia (Brockett) Powell. Dr. and Mrs. Walker have six
children, whose names are Wyeth, Agnes, Ellen, William Wayne, Mae, and Martha.
The doctor and wife worship in the Methodist church.


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From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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