GREENE COUNTY, TN - BIOGRAPHIES - John Walker Family
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Contributor's Note:  This work is posted in memory of my father Ray Foster and 
my mother Mary Rowena Tallent Foster, daughter of Lucy Ellen Walker Tallent.  
All of this research was done by Ina Alice Walker King, my Great-Aunt, and 
presented to the family as a privately published book. 

John WALKER, SR.

John WALKER, married to Mary ANDERSON, was a soldier of the Revolutionary War 
born in the early 1700's. On September 20, 1789 he received two land grants, 
for a total of 275 acres on Meadow Creek in Greene County, Tennessee. Both 
grants recorded. He lived and died there. His will dated 18 February 1796 was 
probated later that year. He mentions his wife, Mary ANDERSON WALKER and sons, 
John, Thomas, Anderson and Daniel WALKER. Also son-in-law Michal BLEW. The 
widow, Mary, lived seven years longer. Her estate was settled on 28 January 
1803.

Children:

1.  John WALKER, Jr. married Rebecca MAGILL 22 May 1788 in Greene County, TN 
2.  Daniel WALKER born about 1761 and died 31 March 1834 at age 73. He married 
Martha KILGORE, daughter of Charles KILGORE, a Revolutionary War soldier at 
King's Mountain, on 6 May 1788. Daniel WALKER, in the War of 1812, was Lt. of 
Militia. He was also a soldier of the Revolution, serving in Capt. TURNER's 
company from Casswell and Calhoun Counties, NC under the command of Col. 
McDOWELL.
3.  Anderson WALKER lived at the old home place on Meadow Creek in Greene 
County TN after his father's death and cared for his mother until her death in 
1803.
4.  Mrs. Michal BLEW 
5.  Thomas WALKER, Sr. married 6 Oct. 1787 in Greene County TN to Elizabeth 
MAGILL, born in VA, daughter of William and Jean MAGILL. Thomas WALKER a 
wounded veteran of the Revolutionary War was the first of our ancestors to 
move to Blount County TN along with his family in the early 1800's.

Family Record of Thomas WALKER and Elizabeth MAGILL WALKER

1.  William WALKER married Elizabeth (Betsy) CULBERTSON
2.  James Magill WALKER married Phoebe TAYLOR.
3.  Rebecca WALKER was born 10 Aug. 1802 and died 5 Dec. 1887. She married 
Elijah HATCHER in Blount Co TN on 6 August 1819.
4.  Joseph (Joe) WALKER married Sarah GUINN.
5.  Margaret (Peggy) WALKER married Eli TIPTON on 16 Sept. 1814 in Blount Co TN.
6.  Jane WALKER married John GUINN on 8 April 1812 in Blount Co. TN.
7.  Sally WALKER married James TIPTON
8.  Susan WALKER married Robert MAGILL
9.  Tom WALKER died young.

Thomas WALKER (Devlin' Tom), got his nickname because he was always teasing 
people. Tom Walker and wife, Eliza Jane MYERS , owned several acres of land 
along the foot of Cove Mountain in Wear's Valley, Sevier County, TN. With a 
homesite in the vicinity of what is now known as Cove Mont, he raised a family 
there and as each of his sons married, he would build them a house nearby on 
his land. After his wife, Eliza, died, he married Eva Rosanna MAPLES KING 
(widow of Lewis KING) on 3 April 1879 (five days after Eliza died). They had 
no children. Thomas and Eliza WALKER are both buried in Mattox cemetery, 
Sevier County, TN.