************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm
************************************************
 

Obituary: Rev. J. J. Walker
Rev. J. J. Walker was one of the last Franklinton Pastors with a complete
Mississippi background. He was born near Westville, Mississippi in 1853. He
married Sarah J. Brown I 1876. He was licensed to preach in 1879, and was
ordained a short time later. The first ten years of his ministry was spent
in Simpson and Covington counties. About 1889 he moved to Hebron in
Lawrence County. He served 2 years as a Missionary of the Strong River
Association. His wife died while he was serving in that capacity. He
resigned and moved to Wesson, Miss., where he married Mrs. Fannie
Pettigrew. He then moved to McComb.
Rev. Walker moved to Amite County in 1898 and lived at Glading on the
Liberty-White Railroad where he pastored churches in that area. In 1906
Rev. Walker resigned with the intention of moving west, but instead moved
to Shubuta, Miss. Rev. Walker came to Franklinton in 1915. We have no
record of where he moved to after leaving Franklinton.