214. William Walker
Greene Co Marriage Records. Samuel Lane signed the marriage security.
Scott CoMarriage Records 2-1-41. He was div, age 23 yrs, 11 mos, son
of Sege? & Nancy Walker.
"Scott Co, Va and its People, Vol II, 1814-1998," p. 281.
Greene Cocensus: 1850 (#1912, p. 267B).
Scott Co census: 1870 (Powell-Pattonsville #390), 1880 (Taylor #272, 4
ch present; incl Polly Walker, 52, sister)
Was in Greene Co after marriage to Catherine Smith until at least 1868
when he was appointed guardian of some Armstrong children. There were
some connections to the Armstrong, McCollum and Davis families. (from
Billye Snow.)
Info below from Larry Robertson's computer file:
WILLIAM SERVED AS A PRIVATE IN THE UNION ARMY IN THE CIVIL WAR.
WILLIAM WALKER WAS BORN ABT1830 IN GREENE COUNTY, TENNESSEE, THE SON
OF MAJOR LEE WALKER AND NANCY LOVELL.
AT AGE 17 OR 18, WILLIAMMARRIED NANCY GRIMES (GRAHAM) ON NOVEMBER 17
1847. BY 1850 WILLIAM AND NANCYHAD TWO CHILDREN, JAMES WALKER AND
MARY A. WALKER, AND WENT ON TO HAVE THREE MORE CHILDREN, NELLY C.
WALKER, LEE WALKER, AND JOHN WALKER - BORN 1859!
IN 1854, SOMETHING WENT WRONG WITH THE MARRIAGE OF WILLIAM WALKER AND
NANCY GRAHAM. WILIAM WALKER LEFT GREENE COUNTY ALONG WITH OTHERS IN
HIS FAMILY AND REMOVED TO SCOTT COUNTY VIRGINIA. WILLIAM HAD MANY
RELATIVES IN WESTERN SCOTTCOUNTY AN BOTH HIS MOTHER'S AND FATHER'S
SIDES OF THE FAMILY.
IN MAY 1854, HE MARRIED A SECOND TIME TO CATHERINE JANE SMITH,
DAUGHTER OF ADAM SMITH AND NANCY LOVELL, A COUSIN ON HIS MOTHER'S SIDE
OF THE FAMILY. THE MARRIAGE RECORD STATES THAT HE WAS DIVORCED.
HOWEVER, THERE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE ANY RECORDIN EITHER GREENE COUNTY,
TENNESSEE OR SCOTT COUNTY, VIRGINIA OF THIS DIVORCE.ON MAY 14, 1855,
NANCY GRAHAM WALKER ALSO REMARRIED TO PETER WINES AND HADA DAUGHTER,
MARTHA.
AFTER HIS MARRIAGE TO KATY JANE, WILLIAM WALKER RETURNEDTO GREENE
COUNTY, PERHAPS BECAUSE OF THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER, LEE WALKER ON
1858. HE WAS THE OLDEST SON OF LEE AND NANCY. UPON RETURNING, WILLIAM
ANDHIS FAMILY LIVED NEAR HIS EX-WIFE, NANCY. IN 1859, HE FATHERED A
SON BY NANCY WHILE MARRIED TO CATHERINE. IN DECEMBER OF 1859, NANCY
FILED SUIT AGAINSTWILLIAM. TH GREENEVILLE SUN TIMES HAS A RECORD,
DATED DECEMBER 5, 1859, WHERE THE CASE WAS TO BE HEARD IN CIRCUIT
COURT IN JUNE 1860. NANCY DECLARED IN HER SUIT THAT WILLIAM HAD
ABANDONED HER AND HER LITTLE CHILDREN AND WAS LIVINGWITH A LEWD WOMAN
IN ADULTERY IN SCOTT COUNTY, VIRGINIA. THE SUIT WAS DISMISSED. NANCY
LATER MARRIED JACOB DUGGER IN 1866.
ROSA MILLER SAID THAT WILLIAM WALKER AND CATHERINE JANE SMITH WERE
BURIED AT THE TAYLOR CEMETERY
BILLYESNOW
WILLIAM WALKER (AGE 51, FARMER) AND CATHERINE SMITH WALKER (50 ) ARE
LISTED IN THE 1880 SCOTT COUNTY CENSUS. ALSO FOUND IN THEIR HOUSEHOLD
A WOMANNAMED POLLY, AGE 52, LISTED AS A SISTER. WHO IS SHE?
WILLIAM'S FIRST WIFE, NANCY GRIMES IS MENTIONED IN THE DEC. 5, 1859
GREENVILLE NEWSPAPER SUING WILLIAMWALKER.
CAUSE OF DEATH: Dropsey
"Scott County, VA. Death Records 1871-1896"(Kingsport, Tennessee:
Donald Lane, 1997), Page 173-174.
Source, father: "Greene Co. TN. Wills Books," Greene County,
Tennessee, Will of Major Lee Walker
817. Mary Jane Walker
Marriage info from Larry Robertson.
818. Nellie Walker
Name from Larry Robertson.
Scott Co census: 1920 (Powell #3-88, with her mother)
CATHERINE JANE SMITH ANDDISA ANN SMITH WERE SISTERS. (Larry
Robertson)
Source, birth date:
1900 Scott Co. VA. Census, Page 761. Fidelity: Photocopy. Surety
level:
Reliable. Billye Snow, P.O. Box 357, Loudon, Tennessee, 37774.
Source, birth place :
1900 Scott Co. VA. Census, Page 761. Fidelity: Photocopy. Surety
level:
Reliable. Billye Snow, P.O. Box 357, Loudon, Tennessee, 37774.
821. Nancy Ann "Nannie" Walker
Scott Co Marriage Records 2-39-68.
Scott Co census: 1920 (Taylor #2-227, wd, with James D. & Ollie
(Bishop) Wallen)
Scott Co census: 1880 (Taylor #269, no ch), 1920 (Powell #3-95)
His name was William W. Watts on the marriage record.
216. Samuel Jr Walker
He was widowed from Margaret __ & came to Scott Co and married the
widow of Fredrick Miller (from Billye Snow)
Marr 1 from Greene Co Marriage Records.
Scott Co Marriage Records 3-25-26. (Marr 2)
Info from Larry Robertson:
SAMUEL WALKER IS FOUND IN THE 1860 GREENE COUNTY CENSUS AS SAMUEL
WALKER JR. AND LIVINGBESIDE SAMUEL WALKER (SR), BUT HE IS NOT THE SON
OF OF THIS SAMUEL WALKER. THIS SAMUEL WALKER (SR.) IS HIS UNCLE. HIS
FATHER IS MAJOR LEE WALKER. THIS SAMUEL WALKER (SR.) HAS A SON SAMUEL
LIVING WITH HIM (LISTED IN THE CENSUS IN HISHOUSE HOLD) WHO WAS
MENTALY RETARDED AND NEVER MARRIED. BILLY SAYS THAT THIS IS MAJOR LEE
WALKERS SON BECAUSE OF THE WIFE AND CHILDREN LISTED IN THE FAMILY
WITH THIS SAMUEL WALKER JR.
SAMUEL WALKER HAD A LONG WHITE BEARD AND HENRY'SKIDS WERE AFRAID OF
HIM BECAUSE OF IT.
1860 Greene Co. TN. Census, Page 349.
1880 Greene Co. TN. Census, Page 248.
SAMUEL WALKER IS FOUND IN THE 1860 GREENE COUNTY CENSUS AS SAMUEL
WALKER JR. AND LIVING BESIDE SAMUEL WALKER (SR), BUT HE IS NOT THE SON
OF OF THIS SAMUEL WALKER. THIS SAMUEL WALKER (SR.) IS HISUNCLE. HIS
FATHER IS MAJOR LEE WALKER. THIS SAMUEL WALKER (SR.) HAS A SON SAMUEL
LIVING WITH HIM (LISTED IN THE CENSUS IN HIS HOUSE HOLD) WHO WAS
MENTALY RETARDED AND NEVER MARRIED. BILLY SAYS THAT THIS IS MAJOR LEE
WALKERS SON BECAUSE OF THE WIFE AND CHILDREN LISTED IN THE FAMILY
WITH THIS SAMUEL WALKER JR.
SAMUEL WALKER HAD A LONG WHITE BEARD AND HENRY'S KIDS WERE AFRAID OF
HIM BECAUSE OF IT.
Source, birth date :
1860 Greene Co. TN. Census, Page 349.Fidelity: Extract. Surety level:
Reliable.
Source, birth place :
1880 Greene Co. TN. Census, Page 248. Fidelity: Extract. Surety level:
Reliable.
Info from Larry Robertson:
ETHEL ELIZABETH EDWARDS WAS KNOWN AS GRANDMA WALKERTO HENRY & ROSA'S
KIDS, BUT SHE APPEARS IN THE 1910 CENSUS AS LIZZIE.
FREDRIC AND ELIZABETH EDWARDS WERE MARRIED AT HIRAM MILLERS HOUSE BY
A J CARTER, MINISTER OF C.C. . WITNESSES WERE STEPHEN MILLER AND
THOMAS
BISHOP.
AFTER FREDRIC MILLER DIED ELIZABETH EDWARDS REMARRIED TO SAMUEL
WALKER, SON OF MAJOR LEE WALKER ON GRANDMA ROSA LEE WALKER'S SIDE. SO
SAMUEL WALKER WAS A BROTHER TO WILLIAM WALKER. CHARLIE AND RAY MILLER
WERE STILL LIVING WITH LIZZIE AND SAMUEL IN 1910. SAMUEL WALKER WORE
A
LONG WHITE BEARD AND ALL OF HENRY AND ROSE'S KIDS WOULD RUN IN FEAR
FROM
HIM BECAUSE OF THE BEARD. SAMUEL WAS BORNIN 1834, SO HE WAS MUCH
OLDER. AFTER SAMUEL WALKER DIED LIZZIE, GRANDMA WALKER MARRIED MALEM
BISHOP. WHEN LIZZIE AND MALEM WERE "COURTIN", THEY WOULD COMEAND
HELP
HENRY MAKE MOLASSES. HENRY AND ROSA'S KIDS WOULD GIGGLE AND SNIGGER
BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT IT WAS SO FUNNY THAT THESE TWO OLD PEOPLE WERE
"COURTIN".
HENRY RHOTON IS A HALF BROTHER TO ETHEL ELIZABETH EDWARDS. ELIZABETH
EDWARDS WAS REMARRIED TO A ISAIAH RHOTON AFTER FREDRICK MILLER DIED.
ELIZABEATHEDWARDS'S FULL SISTER WAS "AUNT SAL", STEPHEN MILLER'S
WIFE,
SALLIE EDWARDS.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS DELIVERED ALL OF HENRY MILLER AND ROSIE WALKER'S
CHILDREN.SHE OFTEN DELIVERED CHILDREN AND WOULD TAKE A PIG OR WHAT
EVER THE FAMILY COULD AFFORD FOR IT. PEOPLE WOULD COME TO GET HER IN
A
BUGGY AND SHE WOULD FOLLOW THEM HOME ON HORSE BACK TO DELIEVER THE
BABY.
SHE WAS A MID-WIFE. PEOPLE CALLED THESE WOMEN AN "OLD GRANNY WOMAN".
LIZZIE ALSO RAN THE THE MILL TOGRIND CORN FOR THE COMMUNITY. THE
MILL
WAS A FIVE STORY BUILDING THAT SAT JUST TO THE WEST OF WHERE THE TWO
CREEKS MERGED, JUST OUT FROM ADA ROBERTS HOUSE. LIZZIE RAN THE MILL
AND
CHARLIE RAN THE STORE. THERE WERE TWO MILL RACES THAT FED THE
OVERSHOT
MILL WHEEL. ONE OF THE RACES WAS FED FROM THE CREEKTHAT CAME DOWN
FROM
THE CAVE AND THE OTHER ,OF COARSE, WAS FED BY THE CREEKTHAT CAME DOWN
FROM THE "PURCHASE" SIDE. EMERY C. MILLER (LITTLE HIRAM MILLER'S
SON)
RAN THE STORE IN THE MILL AFTER ELIZABETH EDWARDS AND CHARLIE MOVED
TO
CLINCHPORT TO RUN A STORE. HENRY RHOTON ALSO RAN THE STORE IN THE
MILL
FOR A TIME.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS IS BURIED ON THE HILL IN CLINCHPORT. SHE IS IN THE
SAME GRAVEYARD AS FLOYD, HER SON. FLOYD'S GRAVE IS MARKED, BUT NOT
GRANDMA WALKER'S.
ETHEL ELIZABETH EDWARDS WAS KNOWN AS GRANDMA WALKER TO HENRY& ROSA'S
KIDS, BUT SHE APPEARS IN THE 1910 CENSUS AS LIZZIE.
____________
ELIZABETH'S SONS WERE ALWAYS NICE NEAT DRESSERS. THEY WERE ALMOST
ALWAYS FOUNDIN A SUIT OF CLOTHES IN ANY PICTURES THAT WERE MADE OF
THEM. LIZZIE WAS VERY INDUSTRIOUS AND KEPT THEM WELL DRESSED. SHE
WOULD
GO UP ON A MOUNTAIN ABOVE DUFFEILD AND PICK APPLES FOR A MAN FOR WITH
AN
ORCHARD, FOR PART OF THE APPLES. AFTER PICKING THE APPLES, SHE'D GET
ON
THE TRAIN AND GO TO APPALACHIA ANDSTAY TIL SHE SOLD HERS.
HELEN DISHNER
CAUSE OF DEATH: Palegra
828. Sarah J. Walker
Source, birth date :
1880 Greene Co. TN. Census. Fidelity: Extract. Surety level: Reliable.
829. John B. Walker
Source, birth date 1860 Greene Co. TN. Census.
Scott Co Marriage Records 2-91-19, marr 2, he was wd.
830. Anna Walker
Source, birth date :
1860 Greene Co. TN. Census, Page 349. Fidelity:Extract. Surety level:
Reliable.
831. Howell? Walker
Source, birth date :
1880 Greene Co. TN. Census, Page 248. Fidelity:Extract. Surety level:
Reliable.
832. George W. Walker
Source, birth date :
1880 Greene Co. TN. Census. Fidelity: Extract. Surety level: Reliable.
833. Suzanna Walker
Source, birth date :
1880 Greene Co. TN. Census. Fidelity: Extract. Surety level: Reliable.
834. Thomas Walker
Source, birth date :
1880 Greene Co. TN. Census. Fidelity: Extract. Surety level: Reliable.
835. Eliza Walker
Source, birth date :
1880 Greene Co. TN. Census. Fidelity: Extract. Surety level: Reliable.
836. Martha Walker
Source, birth date :
1880 Greene Co. TN. Census. Fidelity: Extract. Surety level: Reliable.
218. Enoch L. Walker
Enoch Walker served in the Union Army in the Civil War.
I do not know which woman any of his children belonged to! (Larry
Robertson)
Source, birth date :
1870 Greene Co. TN. Census. Fidelity: Extract. Surety level: Reliable.
840. William Walker
In the 1870 census, William's age is listed as 2 years old, but in the
1880 census it is listed as 9 years old.
220. Jane Walker
Family info from Larry Robertson.
Scott Co census: 1880 (Taylor #54, age 30)
842. Emiline Moore
She was indicated as a daughter in 1880 census.
Marriage from Billye Snow.
Family info from Larry Robertson.
Scott Co Marriage Records 2-27-6.
Scott Co census: 1870 (Powell-Pattonsville #218, incl Elizabeth J.
Babb 14, domestic servant), 1880 (Estil #1-40, Ch were James W. 10,
John W. 7, WilliamA. 5, Mary E. 2)
847. James W. Smith
Scott Co Marriage Records 3-55-10.
849. William A. Smith
Scott Co Marriage Records 3-34-25. (Source of his name)
Scott Co Marriage Records 3-34-25.
851. Dora J. Smith
Scott County, VA. Death Records. Age 11 mos, Cause not known, dau of
Lemuel H. Smith)
223. Louisa Hood
Married & moved to Va. Jim Easley has a letter from her in Lee Co, VA
to
brother B.F. In Easley School 1843-46.
He was a circuit Methodist minister in Scott & Lee Counties, VA, and
in parts of KY.
Family info from Harry Penley & group sheets by Richard Scherer.
LeeCo, Va, census: 1860 (#1032), 1880 (48th, Yocum Sta #348, with
children Nancy, John, James I, L. Patience, A. Monroe)
224. Alfred Renno Sr Hood
In Easley School 1843-46.
1860, 70, 80 Sullivan Co census (via Jim Easley)
Children from Jim Easley. He got most from 1880 Sullivan Co census and
from
recollections of Dolly Hood Crawford.
Sullivan Co Marriage Records 1-107.
Sullivan Co Marriage Records Bonds 3-433.
Sullivan Co census: 1900 (Dist 15, #197)(with new wife?)
860. Johnnie W. Hood
Lived at Wagner Okla.
Lived at Finley, Ill.
863. Samuel D. Hood
Unmarried. Lived at Washington Co, TN.
866. Alfred P. Jr Hood
Unmarried.
Lived in Ill.
Kenneth Coates said that he has heard stories that Alf and Walt went
to Texas
where they got into trouble with the law. Then they went to Ill where
they were relatively wealthy.
867. Walter L. Hood
Lived at Decatur, Ill.
Kenneth Coates said that he has heard stories that Alfand Walt went
to Texas
where they got into trouble with the law. Then they went to Ill where
they were relatively wealthy.
226. Leah "Lare" Hood
In Easley School 1846.
Per Dolly Crawford, she is bur near John Hood above Depews Chapel.
!May have married Dennis Persinger.
Sullivan Co Census: 1860 (#364, wife Lear, 1 dau present), 1870 (Dist
11, #116, wife Sarah A., 2 dau present), 1870 (Dist 11, #116, 2 ch
present (one apparently from an earlier marriage))
Sullivan Co Marriage Records 1-87 to Sarah Childress.
227. Henry Harrison Hood
Buried next to Dutton. Was in Union Army.
Sullivan Co census: 1900 (Dist 15,#24 w/o Henry)(8-7 ch).
Sullivan Co Marriage Records Records 1-82.
874. Aldridge Huston Hood
Details from Robert Hood.
875. Walter Edgar Hood
He was in the 1900 census with his mother.
Details and marriage from Robert Hood.
876. Marie F. Hood
Name from Robert Hood.
Methodist minister at Depews Chapel. Union Army in Civil War.
Children from Jim Easley.
Sullivan Co census: 1900 (Dist 13 #134)(6-4 ch)
"Sullivan Co DeathRecords," Nikazy. Reported by Jonathan Hood
(Fordtown). Gave his parents as Dutton Hood and Nancy Love.
Sullivan Co Marriage Records 1-58.
Sullivan Co census: 1920 (Dist 13, #161, wd)
229. Martha Emaline "Mattie" Hood
Children from Jim Easley. He got the info from 1880 Sullivan Co
census, and
from the recollections of Dolly Hood Crawford.
Sullivan Co Marriage Records 1-84.
Sullivan Co census: 1900 (Dist 13, #110)(9-6 ch.)
"Sullivan Co Death Records," by Nikazy. Informant was T.J. Bachman
(Kingsport)
Her parents were given as Dutton Hood and Nancy Lane.
A blacksmith.
In 1900 census, his father was born in Ala, his mother in NC.
Sullivan Co census: 1920 (Dist 13, #153, with son Arthur)
890. Ada Ethel Coats
Lived in Greene Co, TN.
231. Margaret J. Lane
Scott Co Marriage Records.
Sullivan Co Marriage Records 3-196.
Scott Co census: 1880 (Taylor #37 beside Henry Lane). Not in 1900
Scott as
Houp.
SullivanCo census: 1900 (Dist 12, #114, 8 ch)
Evelyn Taylor confirmed the second marriage. She said that Margaret
divorced George Happ when he abandoned the family. She said the went
to the store to get some thread one day, and did not come back for 7
yrs. She said the name was Happ, not Houp as on the marriage record.
William Jasper "Jake" Hammonds
Sullivan Co census: 1900 (Dist 12, #114), 1920 (Dist 11, #110, 2 ch
present (Bethel 30 (male), Rosa 24) these as Hammonds but should be
Arnold)
1900 census indicated 8 ch; 5 were in family; this could be a second
marriage for eachW.J. and Margaret.
Sullivan Co Marriage Records 3-196.
894. Nathan Hammonds
With parents in 1920 census. (as Bethel)
Wise Co, VA census: 1900 (Richmond, Gilley #359, m-17, 5-5 ch for
Nannie)
897. Barbara A. Houpt
No children. Information from Evelyn Taylor.