CAMPBELL COUNTY, VA - HISTORY - Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches
			Family  Sketches - Walden
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                   CAMPBELL CHRONICLES and FAMILY SKETCHES

              Embracing the History of CAMPBELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA
                                  1782-1926
                                By R. H. EARLY
                              With Illustrations
                              J. P. BELL COMPANY
                           LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 1927


Walden

  The history of the Walden family is traced from John Walden, son of Lord John
Walden of Ravensworth Castle, England, who settled in Leyton, Essex county, Va.,
in 1715, moved later to his home Walden Towers in Caroline, site of which is
about nine miles from Bowling Green: the house was destroyed by fire about the
middle of the 19th century.

  Richard, son of John, Sr., married Candace Hubbard. He received several grants
of land in Pittsylvania county in 1761 and the same year was granted a tract of
565 acres lying across Staunton river in Campbell county; was commissioned
captain of militia in 1767. It is not known that he served in the Revolutionary
army, but he furnished supplies of beef and teams for use of that army.

  His will, dated 179O, mentions sons John, Charles, Richard: daughters Lucy
Hudson, Mary Whitworth, Millie Mourning, Sarah, Fanny Bobbitt and Elizabeth
Ballard. John married Sally _____ and settled in Caroline: was given a tract in
Pittsylvania. Charles, who was after his mother's death to receive the home
tract in Pittsylvania, married Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Charles F. Wall. His
daughter, Tabitha H., married John Ward, 3rd of the name and son of William and
Mildred Adams-Ward of Edge Hill, Pittsylvania county. Charles Walden served in a
number of battles during the Revolution. Richard, Jr., third son of Richard,
Sr., received from his father his 565 acre tract of land in Campbell, on the
north side of Staunton river, which had been granted by patent from George III.
Richard, Jr., was commissioned an ensign at Bedford court, served under Captain
Jacobus Early at the battle of Guilford court house and afterwards acquired the
title of captain.

  Milly, daughter of Richard Waldren, married Thomas Ward, the youngest son of
Major John Ward in 1791 and moved to Ohio.

  Polly Walden married Thomas Goggin, son of Stephen and Rachel Moorman-Goggin.

  Martha, daughter of Charles Walden, married John L. Adams.

  Richard T. Walden m.    .    .    .;

  Mary Walden married Vincent Snow; they were grandparents of Major David
Richard Snow of Campbell county.

  Steuart and Steuart, a legal firm of Baltimore, Md., were employed by the
descendants of Lord Walden in Virginia to endeavor to recover a portion of the
English estate but it was found that it had reverted to the crown and the castle
is used as a museum for antiquities.

  Charles Walden's will (1829) leaves to wife Elizabeth Walden, land at mouth of
Jasper's creek on Staunton river along Thomas Adams' line (formerly Henry Ward's
line), to the old pocket road, on to Austin's (formerly James Smith's line), to
a mountain called Tinker's and onwards to a branch called Harry Hatcher's. To
Joel L. Adams and Richard T. Walden, the lower plantation on Staunton river,
formerly belonging to Richard Walden, Sr., and Callaway, along to Anderson's
corner, thence along Austin's line on Tinker's creek to James Anderson's
(formerly James Callaway's), thence running with May's line. For benefit of
daughter, Martha Adams, the tract of land on small branch above canoe' landing
along to Polly Snow's (formerly Vincent Snow's), to the corner on Sophie Dobyns,
crossing Terrell's Mountain and McDonald's road, thence with Leftwich's lines;
daughter Tabitha H. Ward and Polly Walden, after death of his wife, to have the
tract upon which he lived. To grand-children, James, John, Ravenscroft, Louisa,
Sarah, and Mildred Anderson, $10O each in money. 133 acres on Back creek in
Campbell and Bedford, adjoining Anderson, Parsell and Quarles, to his three
daughters.


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