Turner County, SD Biographies.....Walker, Pinckney T. 1822 - 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

PINKNEY T. WALKER, for many years one of the prominent and leading farmers of
Turner county who resided in section 22, Germantown township, is a native of
Adair county, Ky., and first saw the light April 28, 1822. His father Cyrus
Walker, was a native of Virginia and came to Kentucky when a young man. He
arrived in Illinois in 1832 and located at Macomb, now the county seat of
McDonough county, where he engaged in the practice of law. He also followed his
profession in Burlington, Iowa, and various other places in that state and was
one of the great criminal lawyers and prominent men of his day. He was the first
man to recognize Abraham Lincoln's ability and advised that young man to study
law. He and Stephen A. Douglas were great friends and at one time during their
early careers shared a room together. He was of Scotch descent and lived to be
eighty-seven years old. His father, Alexander Walker, was also a native of
Virginia and a farmer by occupation. Flora (Montgomery) Walker, the mother of
our subject, was born in Kentucky and passed her girlhood near the city of
Frankfort. She was of Irish descent and died at the age of sixty-four years. Mr.
and Mrs. Walker were the parents of six children, four sons and two daughters,
Viz.: Cynthia A., John M., Pinkney T., Alexander, Mary and Cyrus. All but Cyrus
and the subject of this sketch are now deceased.

    Pinkney T. was the third child and second son in order of birth and was ten
years old when he accompanied his parents to McDonough county, Ill., from his
native state. In the common schools of Macomb he received his early education,
and graduated from the Macomb college when he was twenty-five years of age,
having made a special study of the Latin and Greek languages. While a resident
of Illinois he was united in wedlock in 1854 to Miss Sarah Wagner, who died in
1856, and subsequently in 1858 he married Miss Maria Beaty. by whom he had four
children, viz.: Mary, deceased; William; Alice, now the wife of A. B. King, of
Newton, Iowa; and Sarah, wife of A. Chadderdon, who resides in McDonough county,
Ill. May 24, 1865, Mrs. Walker died and the same year our subject went to what
was called Young America, Warren Co., Ill., where he engaged in the grocery
business. He stayed there until the spring of 1866 when he sold out and removed
to Monroe, Jasper Co., Iowa, and established another grocery store which he
conducted till the spring of 1868, when he disposed of that also.

    Mr. Walker was married to Clarissa M. Alexander, September 26, 1867. She is
a native of Parke county, Ind., and was born January 11, 1839. Her early life
was passed in her native county, and when eleven years of age she accompanied
her parents to Oskaloosa, Iowa. In 1878 Mr. Walker and his wife came to Turner
county, Dak. Ter., and homesteaded 160 acres, upon which they lived for many
years. Mr. Walker originally filed on two quarter sections. His first place of
abode was a sod house 11x15 feet, in which he and his family lived for almost
six years. He now has a good residence, well-improved grounds and a fine orchard
of one hundred trees which he planted himself, but since the death of his
faithful wife—December 3, 1896—he has taken up his residence with his son,
William C., in Parker township. Mr. Walker is a strong Republican in politics
and a prominent member of the Presbyterian church, in which he was a deacon for
many years. He is a devout Christian and regular attendant at church.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF 
Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties,
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and
Representative Citizens, with a Review of their Life Work; their Identity with
the Growth and Development of these Counties; Reminiscences of Personal History
and Pioneer Life; and other Interesting and Valuable Matter which should be
Preserved in History.

ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO.
GEO. A. OGLE & CO.
Publishers, Engravers and Book Manufacturers.
1897.


Biography is the only true history.—EMERSON.

A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
generations.—MACAULAY.


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