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Facts and Events
References
- BIOGRAPHY: John Walker: White resident among the Choctaws was born in 1780, the son of Tandy Walker. He was in the Indian country by 1801, being employed as a weaver at the Chickasaw agency that year. He eventually ended up in the Choctaw Nation, where he married Mary Riddle, and in 1831 was living in Moshulatubbe District. His family then consisted of nine persons, including one male over 16 and three children under 16. There was also one white in the household. On June 13, 1831, he registered to remain in the east, stating that he was a white man with an Indian wife, three children under 10, and four children over 10. He was allowed 480 acres by the 1830 treaty, which he sold by 1838. On September 21, 1836, he wrote from Demopolis, Alabama, offering to remove the remaining Choctaws to the west. He then stated that he had lived among the Choctaws many years. He was living on Blue River in the Choctaw Nation West in 1838 and died in 1850. His wife died in 1848. He was the father of Judith (married Robert M. Jones, Tandy, John (1817-1886), William (born 1819), and Louis (died 1841).
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