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Jesse Baker Walker I

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Jesse Baker Walker I

Birth
New Castle, Henry County, Kentucky, USA
Death
21 Apr 1878 (aged 55)
De Land, Piatt County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Piatt County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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Jesse Baker Walker, b. in Henry county, Ky., 1822. He was the youngest son of Isaac and Elizabeth Pritchard Walker. His parents moved to Nineveh township, Johnson county, Ind., in 1824, and entered what is now the Mrs. Henrietta Richardson farm. Jesse Baker Walker was a very tall man, standing six feet, six inches and a half in his bare feet, weighing 180 to 190 pounds. He was respected and honored by all who knew him. He was a quiet, peaceable and hard-working man. With the exception of a few years when he owned and operated a saw and grist-mill in Clinton county, Ind., his life was spent on a farm. He lived on a farm in Johnson county until 1847, when he entered a 180 acre tract in the Indian reserve or six mile prairie, in Clinton county, Ind., and built a cabin and planted a crop and moved his family to this home the following June. In 1850 he built a hewed log house, and the first school in that locality was begun in September, 1850, in the old log cabin he had built in 1847. In the spring of 1851, he brought from Indianapolis the first cook stove ever seen in that community, and people came for miles to see it and to taste the food cooked on it. He disposed of this farm and moved to McDonoughcounty, Ill., in 1854, where he purchased property in McComb. In 1858 he sold this property to a Mr. Buchanan, a cousin of ex-President Buchanan; moved to Piatt county, 111., in 1864, where he owned 240 acres. He died there in 1878. His mother having died in 1830, he and his youngest sister, Emaline, kept house for their father for a few years, when the sister died, aged sixteen years. Jesse then assumed full control of the home until he married in December, 1841. He was m. near Williamsburg (Nineveh), Johnson county, Ind., to Rebecca Satterwhite, b. 1824 in Henry county, Ky. By this union six children were born, as follows: Elizabeth, b. 1843; Daniel Mortimer, b. 1845; Isaac Durbin, b. 1847; Martha, b. and d. 1849; Anne Maria, b. 1851 ; William Irwin, b. 1854. Rebecca Satterwhite Walker, d. 1855, in McComb, Ill. By a second marriage 1858 in McDonough county, Ill., to Mrs. Lucinda Briggs Camp, b. 1818, in New Madrid county, Mo., d. 1894; there were born two children: Francis Marion and Mary Frances; both died young. No dates obtainable. -------------------------
Jesse Baker Walker, b. in Henry county, Ky., 1822. He was the youngest son of Isaac and Elizabeth Pritchard Walker. His parents moved to Nineveh township, Johnson county, Ind., in 1824, and entered what is now the Mrs. Henrietta Richardson farm. Jesse Baker Walker was a very tall man, standing six feet, six inches and a half in his bare feet, weighing 180 to 190 pounds. He was respected and honored by all who knew him. He was a quiet, peaceable and hard-working man. With the exception of a few years when he owned and operated a saw and grist-mill in Clinton county, Ind., his life was spent on a farm. He lived on a farm in Johnson county until 1847, when he entered a 180 acre tract in the Indian reserve or six mile prairie, in Clinton county, Ind., and built a cabin and planted a crop and moved his family to this home the following June. In 1850 he built a hewed log house, and the first school in that locality was begun in September, 1850, in the old log cabin he had built in 1847. In the spring of 1851, he brought from Indianapolis the first cook stove ever seen in that community, and people came for miles to see it and to taste the food cooked on it. He disposed of this farm and moved to McDonoughcounty, Ill., in 1854, where he purchased property in McComb. In 1858 he sold this property to a Mr. Buchanan, a cousin of ex-President Buchanan; moved to Piatt county, 111., in 1864, where he owned 240 acres. He died there in 1878. His mother having died in 1830, he and his youngest sister, Emaline, kept house for their father for a few years, when the sister died, aged sixteen years. Jesse then assumed full control of the home until he married in December, 1841. He was m. near Williamsburg (Nineveh), Johnson county, Ind., to Rebecca Satterwhite, b. 1824 in Henry county, Ky. By this union six children were born, as follows: Elizabeth, b. 1843; Daniel Mortimer, b. 1845; Isaac Durbin, b. 1847; Martha, b. and d. 1849; Anne Maria, b. 1851 ; William Irwin, b. 1854. Rebecca Satterwhite Walker, d. 1855, in McComb, Ill. By a second marriage 1858 in McDonough county, Ill., to Mrs. Lucinda Briggs Camp, b. 1818, in New Madrid county, Mo., d. 1894; there were born two children: Francis Marion and Mary Frances; both died young. No dates obtainable. -------------------------


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