Elijah Millington Walker b. 17 Nov 1824 Dickson County, Tennessee, USA d. 18 Jul 1868 Gonzales County, Texas, USA: Our Family History

1824 - 1868 (43 years)

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Name	Elijah Millington Walker [1]
Born	17 Nov 1824	Dickson County, Tennessee, USA [1, 2, 3]
Gender	Male
Census	1830	Dickson County, Tennessee, USA [4]
	G.H. Walker 1 male under 5 [Galveston abt 1] 1 male 15 - 20 [Elijah M. abt 16] 1 male 30 to 40 [George H., abt 39] 1 female under 5 [Matilda C. abt 2] 2 females 5 to 10 [Mary Anastasia, abt 9; Hannah V., abt 6] 1 female 10 to 15 [Elizabeth Carolina, abt 14] 1 female 30 to 40 [Celina (King) Walker, abt 35]
Census	1840	Southern Division, Marshall County, Mississippi, USA [5]
	G.H. Walker 1 male under 5 [Galveston abt 1] 1 male 15 - 20 [Elijah M. abt 16] 1 male 30 to 40 [George H., abt 39] 1 female under 5 [Matilda C. abt 2] 2 females 5 to 10 [Mary Anastasia, abt 9; Hannah V., abt 6] 1 female 10 to 15 [Elizabeth Carolina, abt 14] 1 female 30 to 40 [Celina (King) Walker, abt 35]
Census	14 Jul 1860	Wall Hill township, Marshall County, Mississippi, USA [6]
	1. Walker, G. H., 59, male, planter, real estate $4800, personal $1000, Georgia, [can read and write, implied] 2. _____, Sarah H., 54, female, Tennessee [can read and write, implied] 3. _____, Elijah M., 36, male, farmer, Tennessee 4. _____, Anastasia M., 24, female, Tennessee 5. _____, Anna V., 23, female, Tennessee 6. _____, Matilda C., 22, female, Mississippi 7. _____, Galveston A., 21, male, Mississippi 8. _____, Maria L., 17, female, Mississippi, attended school this year 9. _____, Josephine S., 15, female, Mississippi, attended school this year
Census	17 Jul 1860	Town Tract of Gonzales, Gonzales (post office), Gonzales County, Texas, USA [7]
	1. Walker, E. M., 35, male, physician, real estate $2500, personal $3500, Tennessee 2. _____, Caroline, 20, female, Tennessee 3. _____, Saml R., 6, male, [Miss.?], attended school this year 4. _____, Mary H., 4, female, [ditto, above state] 5. _____, W. W., 2, male, [ditto] 6. Kaufman, M., 19, female, Baden, attended school this year
Died	18 Jul 1868	Gonzales County, Texas, USA [3, 7, 8]
	Probably in Gonzales County, Texas Family group sheet of Josephine H. Jones, descendant, lists his death as 13 July 1868, rather than 18 July. Also states that he died in Gonzales Co TX.
Census	1 Aug 1870	Precinct 5, Gonzales, Gonzales County, Texas, USA [9]
	In same dwelling:] 1. King, Wilber, 30, male, white, farmer, real estate $500, personal $850, Texas 2. _____, Josephine, 24, female, white, housekeeping, Mississippi 3. _____, [Jerry? Terry?], 4, male, Texas 4. _____, John A., 2, male, white, Texas 5. _____, Salina, 5 months, female, white, Texas [then in separate family, same dwelling:] 6. Walker, Rufus, 15, male, white, school boy, real estate $3000, personal $245, Texas, attending school 7. _____, Mary, 13, female, white, school girl, [included in real estate value], Texas, attending school 8. _____, Walter, 11, male, white, school boy, [included in real estate], Texas, attending school 9. _____, Charles, 9, male, white, school boy, Texas, attending school
Buried	Gonzales Masonic Cemetery, Gonzales, Gonzales County, Texas, USA [8]
Person ID	I3105	Full \| ProgenitorWalker
Last Modified	1 Aug 2014

Father	George H. Walker, b. 1801, Georgia, USA , d. Aft 1870 (Age 70 years)
Mother	Celina Huntington King, b. 20 May 1806, Tennessee, USA , d. 21 Sep 1873, Mississippi, USA (Age 67 years)
Married	Bef 1824	Tennessee, USA [3, 10]
	Pratt and Fondy both listed George's wife as "Polly Adams." If he was married to a Polly Adams, it was prior to this marriage, and must have ended in her early death. Could Polly Adams have been the object of the bastardy bond in 1824? Descendant Josephine H. Jones offers a marriage date of 9 September 1823, but no place of marriage.
Family ID	F50	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Carrie Thayer King, b. 2 Mar 1829, Texas, USA , d. 27 Aug 1869, Gonzales County, Texas, USA (Age 40 years)

Married 22 Jul 1852 Grenada County, Mississippi, USA [3]

Children

	1. Samuel Rufus Walker, b. 25 Dec 1853, Texas, USA , d. 28 Jul 1928 (Age 74 years)
	2. Mary "Mollie" H. Walker, b. 7 Jul 1856, Texas, USA , d. 25 Apr 1958, Byhalia, Marshall County, Mississippi, USA (Age 101 years)
	3. Walter Williams Walker, b. 19 May 1858, Texas, USA , d. 28 Jun 1950, Baptist Hospital, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA (Age 92 years)
+	4. James Charles Wilson Walker, b. 8 Jan 1861, Gonzales County, Texas, USA , d. 30 Jan 1946, Byhalia, Marshall County, Mississippi, USA (Age 85 years)
	5. John Helton Walker, b. 22 Feb 1864, d. 16 Aug 1865 (Age 1 years)
	6. Millington Bismarc Walker, b. 28 Oct 1867, Gonzales County, Texas, USA , d. 28 Jul 1869, Gonzales County, Texas, USA (Age 1 years)

Last Modified 1 Aug 2014

Family ID F1837 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Documents

Death certificate, Walter W. Walker, 1950, Shelby County, Tennessee
Tennessee State Board of Health, death certificate no. 50-14240, Walter Walker (1950), Shelby County; "Tennessee, Death Records, 1908-1958," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 10 June 2014); Tennessee, Death Records 1908-1958, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.

Sources

[S99] Esther Pratt (6408 Worchester Drive; Nashville, Tennessee) to Sandra Johnston (Oklahoma), letter, 13 May 1997, regarding the Elijah Walker family of Dickson County, Tennessee. Privately held by Ms. Johnston. The author has lost contact with Ms. Johnston and no longer knows her whereabouts.
[S1183] Walker, Elijah M., Dr. (edited diaries), Lynette Boney Wrenn, editor, (Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 2004.).
[S4381] Josephine H. Jones (P.O. Box 95, Byhalia, MS 38611), "Descendants of Celina Huntington King I," family group sheet; copies in possession of Janis Walker Gilmore (Pawleys Island, SC). No source citations, no date. Mrs. Jones is a descendant of George H. Walker and wife Celina Huntington King through their son Elijah Huntington Walker, his son James Charles Wilson Walker, and his daughter Josephine Kaufman (Walker) Stanback.
[S1411] 1830 U.S. census, Marshall County, Mississippi, [no township stated], p. 315 (penned, recto), p. 314 (stamped, verso), line 7, George H. Walker household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 15 Sep 2009); citing NARA microfilm publication M19, roll 174.
[S1416] 1840 U.S. census, Marshall County, Mississippi, Southern Division, p. 1 (penned), line 8, G. H. Walker household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 15 Sep 2009); citing NARA microfilm publication M704, roll 218. .
[S1406] 1850 U.S. census, Marshall County, Mississippi, population schedule, Southern Division, Marshall County, Mississippi, Page 228 (stamped), Dwelling 279, Family 279, Geo. H. Walker household, jpeg image. digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 22 May 2008); citing NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 377. .
[S3127] 1860 U.S. census, Gonzales County, Texas, population schedule, Gonzales (town tract), Gonzales (post office), p. 116 (penned, recto), p. 129 (stamped, recto), dwelling 822, family 769, E. M. Walker household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 February 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1295.
[S3154] "Gonzales City Cemetery, Gonzales, Gonzales County, Texas," digital image,FindAGrave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 10 February 2013), entry for E. M. Walker, memorial no. 54445321, posted by "OldHouseNut" 11 May 2004, contact (KEberle@CharlestonLaw.edu). Double cemetery marker for "E. M. Walker" and "Carrie T. King, consort" including birth and death dates. .
[S3128] 1870 U. S. census, Gonzales County, Texas, population schedule, Precinct 5, Belmont (post office), p. 4 (penned), p. 500 (stamped verso), dwelling 24, family 26, Wilber King dwelling for Rufus Walker household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 February 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 442.1587 .
[S1183] Walker, Elijah M., Dr. (edited diaries), Lynette Boney Wrenn, editor, (Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 2004.).
"According to an old record kept by my father, I was born on the 17th day of November Ano Domini 1824, of parentage low and humble. my [sic] father was a farmer of the State of Tennessee where he married my mother, the daughter of Samuel King. "