Samuel Walker

1823 - 1897  (74 years)

• Name	Samuel Walker  [1, 2]
  Born	12 Oct 1823	Gum Ridge Campground, Carlyle, Clinton County, Illinois, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alt. Birth	23 Oct 1823  [3]
  Census	1840	Clinton County, Illinois, USA   [4]
  	Simeon Walker household 1 male under 5 2 male 5-10 1 male 10-15 [Levi S., abt 11] 2 males 15-20 [Samuel, abt 17] 1 male 30-40 [Simeon Walker, bat 38] 1 female 10-15 1 female 30-40 [Elizabeth (Sharp) Walker] 1 female 60-70 [possibly Rhoda (Beauchamp) Walker Sharp?] [just prior to the Simeon Walker family is found the Levi Sharp household; two house prior to the Sharp household is the H. H. Walker household]
  Died	16 Oct 1897	Carlyle, Clinton County, Illinois, USA   [1]
  Biography	1905  [1]
  	Biography of Rev. Samuel Walker, written by his brother Levi W. Walker, 1905 Autobiographical and Historical Notes As Submitted to the Historical Society of the Southern Illinois Methodist Conference Copied as written by his brother, Levi S. Walker, about 1905 1. Birth, Parentage and Nativity: Rev. Samuel Walker was born in Clinton Co., Ill Oct 12, 1823. Died Oct 16? 1897 in Carlyle, Ill ? His Father?s name was Simeon Walker 54 years a Gospel Minister. Mother?s maiden name was Elizabeth SHARP. His birth place was 4 miles south west of Carlyle, Clinton Co., Ill. near the Gum Ridge Camp Ground where he resided with his Father?s family working on the Farm and attending the schools untill he was married to Permelia C. MAXEY Sept. 11th 1844. 2. Childhood ? Home Training: From his birth he was dedicated to the Lord and knew nothing but religeous influence and training of the pureest and highest type: his Father & Mother both beeing devout and earnest Christians = Family Religeon and training being with them of Paramont interest and hence was put befor every thing else. 3. High School, Academic or Collegiate Education: His Education was such as he could get from the comon schools of the country at that time, suplimented by constant aplication and reading all through life. He was a student to the end. 4. Conversion - Church membership - Religious Life - Participation in Sunday School, League, Revival and Temperance Work: He was converted at the Old Gum Ridge Camp meetings when about 13 years of age. And united with the M. E. Church and commenced at once to conduct prayer meetings among the young people and was active in church work as class leader; steward; Exhorter and Local Preacher. He was especially efficient in revival work and maney were led to Christ by him before he commenced his more Public Minestery = His conversion was veery clear and satisfactory to himself; and his zeal was corrispondently great for the Masters caus. 5. Call to Preach - License - Probation in Conference - Ordination - Membership: His conversion was to him a call to publickly work for the Master and he commenced at once but he was not regulerly licensed by the Church to preach untill about 1854. His call to the work of the Ministry was to him as unmistakeable as his conversion was clear: he continued to work with zeale and efficency as a Local preacher and as such was appointed to the New Liberty Circuit in Sept 1856 and in Sep 1857 was admitted to the S. Ill. Conf. on Probation at Lebanon Bishop SCOTT presiding. He was Ordained Deacon at the Conf. held at Richview Ill Oct 2nd 1859 Bishop AMES Presiding and Ordaned Elder at the Conf. held at Salem Ill Oct 6? 1861 Bishop JANES Presiding. He continued his connection with the S. Ill. Conf. up to the day of Death Oct 16? 1897. 6. Appointments Served, with experience in Pasotral Work, Revival Incidents, Church or Parsonage Building, Missionary and Benevolent Contributions of Charges, Debt-Paying, Settlement of difficulties among brethren, and other matters of interest: He was appointed to New Liberty 1857 Farefield 1858 & 59 Xenia 1860 & 61 Murpeysboro 1862 & 63 Sandoval 1864 Kane 1865 & 66 Elsa 1867 & 68 Gilaspi 1869 & 70 Staunton 1871 & 72 Troy 1873 Trenton 1874 & 75 Shiloh 1876 & 77 Clement 1878 & 79 Mulbery Grove 1880 Freeburg 1881 Wisetown 1882 & 83 Clement 1884 & 85 Troy 1886 & 87 Venis 1888 Supernumerary 1889 ? 1895 Superannate 1897 Transferred to the Conference above Oct 16/97. Note: A copy of this handwritten bio was obtained from the Methodist Church Archives located in the McKendree College, Holman Library, Lebanon, Illinois, with a big thanks to Linda Isbell, Volunteer Archivist. Dorothy Falk has a copy of bio transcribed here. Submitted by: Dorothy Scott Falk
  Military	Samuel served the Union during the Civil War, in Co. B, 11th Illinois Inf., as a 2nd Lieut.  [3]
  Buried	Carlyle Cemetery, Carlyle, Clinton County, Illinois, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I4558	Full
  Last Modified	17 Dec 2011

  
  

  Father	Simeon Walker
  Mother	Elizabeth Sharp,   d. Between 1840-1846
  Family ID	F1592	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Permilia C. Maxey,   b. 13 Oct 1823, Clinton County, Illinois, USa ,   d. 23 Apr 1917, Carlyle, Clinton County, Illinois, USA  (Age 93 years)
  Married	11 Sep 1844	Jefferson County, Illinois, USA   [1, 5]
  Last Modified	12 Dec 2011
  Family ID	F1593	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S1881] "Biographies Index, Clinton County, Illinois," database of transcribed biographies, Clinton County, Illinois, GenWeb (http://clintonilgenweb.net : accessed 11 December 2011), biography of Samuel Walker (1823-1897); citing Levi S. Walker's handwritten biography of his brother Samuel Walker, 1905; original held by the Methodist Church Archies, McKendree College, Holman Library, Lebanon, Illinois. [S1891] Elizabeth Cobb Steward Eastwood and Helen Sharp Wickliffe, comp., Henry Sharp (c. 1737-1800) of Sussex County New Jersey and Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and his wife Lydia Morgan and some of their Descendants. . . . (Cleveland, Oh.: n.p., 1975); digital images, Brigham Young University, Family History Archives (http://lib.byu.edu/fhc/index.php : accessed 13 December 2011)., pp. 21-22. [S1885] "Carlyle Cemetery, Carlyle, Clinton County, Illinois," database and some digital images, FindAGrave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 9 December 2011), entry for Rev. Samuel S. Walker (1897). [S1889] 1840 U.S. census, Clinton County, Illinois, [no township stated], [no penned p. no.], p. 133 (stamped), line 29, Simeon Walker household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 December 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication M704, roll 56. [S1886] "Carlyle Cemetery, Carlyle, Clinton County, Illinois," database and some digital images, FindAGrave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 9 December 2011), entry for Permelia Carolina (Maxey) Walker (1917).