Horatio Walker [DNA kit 195242]

1814 -

• Name	Horatio Walker [DNA kit 195242]  [1]
  Born	Before 1814	Jackson County, Tennessee, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Court	May 1814	Jackson County, Tennessee, USA   [1]
  	The information below was found in the application for bounty land for Horatio Walker after the War 0f 1812. As far as my research is concerned there is not or never was a Harma or Harmon Walker. My copy of the will of Thomas Dendy , SR. is hard to read and I only find Martha and Patsy included. No mention is made of Harmon. Horatio is found in census reports living next to Sylvanus Walker,Esq.. Sylvanus Esq.. is thought to be his father. Horatio's brothers were Sylvanus ,JR. ; Mandsfield; Memucan; Henry Tandy and possibly others. Horatio's real name may have been Beverly Allen Walker. May term 1814 by akn Rec 8 June 1814 Hon. I C Isacks State of Tennessee At a court of pleas and quarter sessions began and held for the county of Jackson at the court house in the town of Grensboro on the first Monday of August being the sixth day of the month AD 1821 and 40 th year of American Independence before the worshipful Simon Carlise, William Locke, Frances McConnell, and William Sealand, esquire, justices of the peace and the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said county of Jackson appointed and Commissioned to hold said court. Be it remembered that the court of pleas and quarter sessions afor said " On motion and for reasons appearing to the satisfaction of the court, ordered that John Newstep Walker be and is appointed guardian of James Madison Walker and Sally Anne Walker, orphan children of Horatio Walker, Deceased. Whereupon came said John N. Walker with Baily Butler and John Royal , his securities and exicuted and acknowledged bond for the faithful performance of his guardianship conditioned as the "law directs" . And thereupon the following guardian bond was exicuted by the said John N. Walker and securities bond. State of Tennessee known by all men by these presents that Mr. John N. Walker, Baily Butler, and John Royals all of Jackson County of the State aforsaid are held and firmly bound unto James W. Smith , chairman of the County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the County of Jackson in the sum of one thousand dollars to be paid to the said James W. Smith or his succession in office, in trust, and afterwards to wit at December sessions, 1825 of the court of pleas and quarter sessions aforesaid held for the county of Jackson aforsaid the following order and examined by said court , to wit. " Be it remembered that on this day came here in open court Polly Watts of respectable character who was duly sworn and examined by the court concerning her acquaintance with Horatio Walker late of Jackson County, deceased, and his wife Martha and their children where it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said Horatio Walker and Martha were lawfully married in the District of Laurens State of South Carolina , sometimes in the year 1791 and that the said Horatio and Martha Walker had by said marriage seven children to wit, John N. Walker, Daniel D. Walker, Malcolm J. Walker Patsey Walker since intermarried with Jeremiah Elams, and Hariet Walker since intermarried to Jason Medders(Meadows) all of whom are of consent age and also James M. Walker and Sally A. Walker which two last are infants to wit under the age of sixteen years all of whom were born in lawful wedlock, and are the only legal heirs at law of the said Horatio Walker." "And it also appears to the satisfaction of the court from the examination on oath of Amos Kirkpatrick , one of the members of said court that the said Horatio Walker died in the service of the United States of a wound he received during the siege of New Orleans, all of which is ordered to be certified by the clerk of said court , it being a court of record and having the power of fine for the benefit of the of the children here after names come committed to the _?____ of the said John N. Walker to which payment will be made _?__bind _?_, and each of us, each and every of our heirs executors and administrators , jointly and singularly, firmly by these presents , sealed with our seals, and dated the sixth day of August in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty one . The condition of the above obligations is such , that whereas, the above bounded? John N. Walker is constituted and appointed guardian to James Madison Walker and Sally Anne Walker orphan children of Horatio Walker, deceased, now if the said John N. Walker shall faithfully execute his said guardianship, by securing and improving all of the estate of the said James Madison Walker and Sally Anne Walker that shall come into his possession for the benefit of the said James Madison Walker, Sally Anne Walker, until they shall arrive at full age, or be sooner there to acquired, and then render a plain and true account of his guardianship, on oath, before the justices of our said court, and deliver up, pay to or profits the said James Madison Walker and Sally Anne Walker of all such estate or estates , as they ought to be profited of, or to such other person as shall be lawfully impowered or authorize to____ the same, and the profits arising therefrom, then this obligation to be void otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtues. Signed Sealed and acknowledged in John N. Walker open court 6th day of August 1821 B. Butler Sam Smith, Clerk John Royal
  Person ID	I5132	Full
  Last Modified	3 Nov 2012

  
  

  Family	Martha
  Married	Abt 1791	Laurens County, South Carolina, USA   [1]
  Children	1. John N. Walker [DNA kit 195242]   2. Daniel D. Walker [DNA kit 195242] + 3. Malcolm J. Walker [DNA kit 195242],   b. 1795   4. Patsy Walker [DNA kit 195242]   5. Harriet Walker [DNA kit 195242]   6. James M. Walker [DNA kit 195242],   b. Between 1798-1814   7. Sally A. Walker [DNA kit 195242],   b. Between 1798-1814
  Last Modified	3 Nov 2012
  Family ID	F1792	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S2876] Dendy Surname Forum (http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DENDY : accessed 3 November 2012), "Horatio Walker," posted by Alton L. Walker (happyhobo@worldnet.att.net), 14 February 1988; including a transcription of an 1814 Jackson County, Tennessee, Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions document, appointment of guardian for the minor children of Horatio Walker, deceased. .