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Person talk:Joshua Walker (2)
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Overview
 Key: Red--Loudon County; Green--Washington County; Blue--Grayson County | According to Joshua's pension application he was born in 1757 in Loudon County Virginia. By 1776 he was in Washington County, where he served in the militia during the Revolution. His pension application notes that he was at the Battle of Long Island Flats on the Holston River. Marriage records cited by some researchers show that he was married to Elizabeth Bunde in 1786 by Baptist minister Thomas Woolsey. Woolsey served at the Baptist Church in St. Clair's bottom, a few miles south of Chilhowie, Va. From this we presume that this is the area where Joshua was living at the time.[1]
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Elizabeth apparently died by 1800, as in that year Joshua remarried Amy Williams. His pension application documents this marriage as occurring in Grayson County. [2]
The child lists for Joshua by his two wives are somewhat confused. There are relatively few researchers working on this family, and the child lists provided by the different researchers are not in agreement. In particular, DOB's for different persons believed to be the children of Joshua, vary considerably, such that they could be the children of either Elizabeth or Amy. Additional work is needed to resolve these discrepancies.
Sometime after their marriage Joshua and Amy settled near Bull's Gap, in Hawkins County Tn, where they remained for the remainder of their lives. Joshua's pension records indicate that he died in 1840.
Personal Data
| Personal Data
| | Vita | Datum | Source/Basis/Comment
| | DOB: | 15 Feb 1757 | Pension Application
| | POB: | Loudoun Co., VA | Pension Application
| | DOD: | 16 Jan 1840 | Pension Application; wife Amy is listed as HOH in 1840 census Hawkins County
| | POD: | Hawkins Co., TN | Pension Application
| | Father: | John Walker, d. 1818 Hawkins Co., TN | John Walker's Will, Hawkins Co., TN 1818
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| | Spouse 1: | Elizabeth Bunde | Source:Fleet, 1961:75 (Abstracts of Washington County marriages)
| | DOM: | 25 Jan 1786 | See Ephemeral Notes
| | POM: | St. Clair’s Bottom, Smythe County, VA | POM based on the fact that the minister was Baptist Thomas Woolsey, who was associated with St. Clair's Bottom.
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| | Spouse 2: | Amy Williams | Pension Application
| | DOM: | September 17 1800 | Pension Application
| | POM: | Grayson County, VA | Pension Application, wed by Baptist minister George Keith
| | Children by Elizabeth Bunde (note:child lists shown here are very uncertain. Few researchers, many differences)
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| Name | DOB | POB | DOD | POD | Spouse | DOM | POM | Dispersion and Notes
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| Jessee Walker
| 10 Oct 1792
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| John Walker
| 24 Jul 1794
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| Nancy Walker
| 24 Jul 1796 in
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| Moody Creech.
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| Alt DOB 1806
| | Children by Amy Williams (note:child lists shown here are very uncertain. Few researchers, many differences)
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| Name | DOB | POB | DOD | POD | Spouse | DOM | POM | Dispersion and Notes
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| Mary Walker
| c1801
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| John William Berry
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| Elizabeth Walker
| 14 Sep 1802
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| Eli Davis
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| William Walker
| Jul 1805
| Hawkins County, TN
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| James H. Walker
| 6 OCT 1810
| Hawkins County, TN
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| Allen Walker
| 16 Dec 1813
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| Louise "Westy" Walker
| Nov 1815 in
| Persia, TN
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| Charles Walker
| 2 Sep 1817
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Disambiguation
*Active---Acquired and in Use; Deleted---Acquired, but deleted; Inactive---Acquired, but empty**; Empty---Never Acquired
**When someone creates a card for a person, and indicates parents, spouses, or children, space is set aside for additional cards for these persons; If those cards are never opened and edited, they remain "empty", but the space is still dedicated to the person for whom the card was set up.
Bibliography
See Walker Family in Southwest Virginia
Footnotes
- ↑ The surname "Bunde" suggests that Elizabeth was of German ethnicity; a substantial number of German families settled in this area. It would be useful to see if there were any "Bunde's" in the area.
- ↑ Grayson is immediately east of Washington County, but on the east side of the Blue Ridge. Details of how Joshua might have met Amy after the death of his first wife, would be useful. Possibly Joshua had moved across the Blue Ridge after his first marriage, settling in Grayson County.
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