Bio: Elder J. Andrew Walker, Webster Par., Louisiana
Source:  Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez
Date: April 2000



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===Elder J. Andrew Walker, Dubberly, La.  This worthy and honorable 
minister of the gospel was born in Houston County, Ga., in 1835, 
and was one in a family of nine children, who grew to mature years.  
They are named as follows: D. Morgan, Benjamin M. (died at the age 
of twenty-five years), J. Andrew, Lucinda (now the widow of Robert 
Woodard), Louisa, Elder Ambrose H., Joseph K., Mark N., and Annie 
(now Mrs. William T. Woodard).  The father of these children, Neil 
Walker, was born in North Carolina, in 1805, and died in 1853.  He 
was a son of John Walker, who was probably born in North Carolina 
in 1786, and who served under Jackson in the War of 1812.  John 
Walker was a remarkably strong man, and lived to be over eighty 
years of age.  The mother of our subject, Nancy (Kemp) Walker, was 
born in Washington County, Ga., and was a daughter of Benjamin Kemp.  
Elder J. Andrew Walker came with his parents to Webster Par., Louisiana., 
in 1848, and here was raised to manhood.  He is a self-educated man, 
and began his career as a minister of the gospel in 1870, continuing 
at this nearly ever since.  His marriage to Miss Thamer Pearce 
occurred in 1859.  She died on July 22, 1861.  In September of 
that year Mr. Walker enlisted in the Claiborne Grays, afterward 
known as Company D, Nineteenth Louisiana Regiment, and at the end 
of six months' service he was promoted to orderly sergeant, then 
third lieutenant, then to second, and served in that capacity until 
the cessation of hostilities.  Returning home he engaged in the lumber 
business, afterward changed to farming, from which he continues to 
derive the principal part of his support.  He was married, the second 
time, in 1865, to Miss Susan E. Pearce, who bore him two children: 
Ida (now Mrs. W. M, McBride) and Lydia (the wife of J. N. Shealy).  
Politically Mr. Walker comes of old Democratic stock.  Religiously 
he is identified with the Missionary Baptist denomination.