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JAMES WALKER (1791–1866), son of John Walker and Elizabeth Calef

HANNAH JACKMAN BARKER (1801–1874), daughter of John Barker and Mary Jackman

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James Walker was born in July 1791. He died on 7 December 1866, age 75 years and five months, probably in Bethel, Oxford County, Maine. [1][2] He married Hannah Barker. [3]

Hannah J. Barker, the daughter of John Barker, was born on 26 July 1801. [3] She died on 27 August 1874, probably in Bethel. [2]

James and his wife Hannah are buried in the Walker Mills (South Bethel) Cemetery in Bethel. [1][2]

James bought a mill property from John Abbott in South Bethel. The hamlet there was known as Walker's Mills. [3]

James rebuilt the mills, increasing their capacity, and established wool-carding and cloth-dressing mills. He kept a store and encouraged other industries to come to the area. Unfortunately, he lost heavily in the "land speculation" of 1837. [3]

James was a member of the Congregational Church at Bethel Hill. He served one term as the town representative to the legislature in 1848. [3]

James is probably the person in the 1830 census who lived in Bethel in a household with eight people: a male 30 to 39 [James], a female 20 to 29 [Hannah], a female five to nine [Lucretia], and a female under five [Nancy], as well as four unidentified people: a male and a female 20 to 29, and a male and a female ten to 14. In 1840 the census records that James headed a household in Bethel with one male 40 to 49 [James], One female 30 to 39 [Hannah], one male 20 to 29, one male 15 to 19, one female 15 to 19 [Lucretia], one female ten to 14 [Nancy] one male and one female five to nine [John B. and Hannah F.], and two females under five [Augusta and Emeline]. [4]

In 1850 James was a 58-year-old farmer living in Bethel with Hannah J., 48, Lucretia, 25, Nancy E., age 21, Hannah F., age 18, John B., age 16, Augusta, age 14, Emaline, age 11, Cullen F., age nine, and Alma I., age six. James and Hannah J. are said to have been born in New Hampshire; their apparent children were all born in Maine. James had real estate worth 8,000 dollars. Seven other people lived with them: four laborers, a stone cutter, a blacksmith, and one person with no occupation. James had a farm worth 1,000 dollars. It had 230 acres, 30 of which were improved. He had one horse, three milch cows, five other cattle, and one pig. He grew corn, oats, potatoes, and hay, and he made butter. [4]

In 1860, James and Hannah were living in Bethel. James was described as a mill man with real estate worth 5,000 dollars and a personal estate of 1,200 dollars. With them lived Nancy E, Hannah, John B. (a millman), Augusta, Emeline, Cullen F. (a farm laborer) and Alma I. James had a farm worth 2,000 dollars. He had 301 acres, 26 of which were improved. He had five horses, two milch cows, and one other cow. He grew rye, corn, peas, potatoes, buckwheat, and hay, and he made butter. [4]

James made his will on 1 November 1866. He left his daughters Hannah F. Walker, Augusta Walker, and Alma I. Walker 150 dollars each. He left his three other daughters, Lucretia W. Johnson, Nancey E. Burnham, and Emeline Grover, 25 dollars each. He left his son John B. Walker ten dollars and his son Cullen F. Walker one dollar. He left a good cow, his house, wagon, sleigh, and harness, some real estate in Coos County, New Hampshire, and the residue of his estate to his wife Hannah J. He made [his son-in-law] Pinckney Burnham his sole executor. Probate occurred on the third Tuesday [the 18th] of January 1887. His inventory amounted to 2,667.25 dollars. [5]

According to the census, in 1870 Cullen Walker was a 29-year-old farmer with real estate worth 3,000 and a personal estate of 405 dollars. He lived in Bethel with his wife Mary, age 31, and children Edith, age five, and James F., age one. With them lived Hannah J., age 69, Augusta F., a 34-year-old dressmaker, Hannah F., a 38-year-old milliner, and Alma I, a 26-year-old dressmaker. [4]

Hannah J. Walker of Bethel died intestate on 27 August 1874. Her estate amounted to 3,730.64 dollars and her children and only heirs were listed as: Hannah F. Walker, Augusta F. Walker, Emeline W. Grover, Nancy E. Burnham, Lucretia W. Johnson, Alma I. Walker, and John B. Walker. [5]

Children of James Walker and Hannah Jackman Barker:

i. Lucretia Walker was born on 8 July 1824 in Maine. She died on 22 August 1908. She married Sumner Reed Johnson.

ii. Nancy Eliza Walker was born on 15 November 1828. [3] She died on 3 May 1879, probably in Bethel. [1][2] She married as this third wife Pinckney Burnham on 7 April 1864. [3] Pinckney was the son of Perley Putnam and Mary A. (Adams) Burnham. [3] Pinckney, of Gilead, Maine, the grandson of Captain Samuel Adams and a descendant of Robert Adams of Newbury, was born on 10 April 1814 and died on 1 December 1893. [6] He married first Lydia, the daughter of Jesse Cross, on 10 September 1839. [3] She died on 9 July 1841, age 27. [1][2] He married second Betsey, the daughter of Joel Austen of Canton, on 22 February 1845. [3] She died on 15 November 1862, age 43. [1][2]

Pinckney and Nancy had one child, James W, who died in infancy. [3]

Pinckney was a carriage manufacturer. [3] He represented Bethel twice in the state legislature. [3]

Pinckney and his three wives are buried in the Woodland Cemetery in Bethel. [1][2]

iii. Hannah Fisk Walker was born on 12 April 1832. [3] Hannah W. Sanderson died on 6 July 1910 in Los Angeles. [7] She is buried in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, Los Angeles, California. [2] She married George Sanderson on 8 May 1884 in Zumbrota, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [8] George was born on 15 April 1819 in Lunenburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [2] He died on 16 February 1904 in Zumbrota. [2] He married first Abby Richardson. [2] She died on 28 September 1880 in Zumbrota. [2]

According to the census, in 1860 Hannah F. Walker, age 27 and born in Maine, was living in Milwaukee with Sumner R. Johnson and Lucretia W. Johnson. In 1880 Hannah F. Walker, 48 and born in Maine, was living in Zumbrota with her sister Alma I, 36, and her niece Charlena E., 16. Hannah was a milliner, Alma was a dressmaker, and Charlena was at school. In 1900 Hannah, born in April 1832, was living in Zumbrota with George Sanderson, born in April 1832, and A.I. Walker, born in July 1843. In 1910 Hannah W. Sanderson was living in Los Angeles with her sisters Augusta W. Seeley and Alma Walker, and her niece Nellie M. Shortridge. [4]

iv. John Barker Walker was born on 17 April 1834. [3] John B. Walker, age 45, husband of Mary and born in Bethel, died of "chronic gastrointestinal catarrh" in August 1878 in Milwaukee and was buried in the Frost Hill Cemetery there. [9] James B. Walker, the son of James and Hannah F. Walker, born in Maine and a merchant of Milwaukee, married Mary E. [Jones] Bowers, the daughter of William M. and Angelina Jones, on 27 October 1863 in Milwaukee. [10]

John B. Walker enlisted on 24 June 1861 as the first lieutenant of company I of the Fifth Maine Infantry. He was promoted to captain of the same company on 10 September 1862. Disabled with chronic diarrhea, Captain John B. Walker was mustered out on 18 January 1863. [11][12]

The Fifth Maine, organized at Portland on 24 June 1861, left for Washington, D.C. and participated in the Battle of Bull Run on 21 July. On 27 June 1862 it fought at Gaines Mill, on 14 September it fought at Crampton's Pass and on 12 to 15 December it participated in the Battle of Fredericksburg.

John's only child and heir, Emily C. Shedd, petitioned the government for a bounty for John's Civil War service. This was denied on 12 June 1897 on the grounds that bounties were only paid to enlisted men and John had never served as an enlisted man. [12]

v. Augusta Walker was born on 24 May 1836. [3] She died in August 1913, probably in Los Angeles County and is buried in the Inglewood Park Cemetery. [2] She married Walker Sherwood Seeley as his third wife between 1871 and 1880. Walker was born on 27 August 1821 and he died on 10 December 1885. [2] He married first Mary Averill. [2] She died on 25 December 1858, age 37. [2] He married second Delia Hart. [2] She died on 12 October 1871. [2] Walker and his first two wives are buried in the Old North Cemetery in Litchfield, Connecticut.

According to the census, in 1880 Augusta was living with Walker Seeley in Litchfield. In 1900 August Seeley was boarding with the Stevens family in San Jose, Los Angeles County, California. [4]

vi. Emeline Walker was born on 21 December 1838. [3] She died on 19 June 1925, age 86, in Lost Angeles. [7] She married Newton Grover [3] on 23 November 1864 in Bethel. [13] Newton, the son of Leonard Grover, was born about 1836. [13] He died before 1900.

In 1900 the widow Emeline Grover, born in December 1838, was living with her daughter, Nellie J. Shortridge, Nellie's husband and her sister Alma Walker, born in July 1843, in Minneapolis. In 1910 she was living with her daughter Madge L. Nichols and Madge's husband and daughter in Los Angeles. In 1920 she was living with Nellie and Nellie's husband in Imperial, Imperial County, California. [4]

vii. Cullen Fordyce Walker was born on 15 February 1841. He married Mary E. Twitchell [3] about 1863. Mary was born in December 1839 in Maine. Cullen and Mary were living in 1910.

Cullen F. Walker, age 22, an unmarried farmer, was on a list of those eligible to be drafted during the Civil War. [14]

Cullen F. Walker of Bethel was taxed ten dollars as a peddler third class in 1864. [15]

Cullen is not mentioned in his mother's will.

According to the census, in 1870 Cullen Walker was a 29-year-old farmer with real estate worth 3,000 and a personal estate of 405 dollars. He lived in Bethel with his wife Mary, age 31, and children Edith, age five, and James F., age one. With them lived Hannah J., age 69, Augusta F., a 34-year-old dressmaker, Hannah F., a 38-year-old milliner, and Alma I, a 26-year-old dressmaker. [4]

In 1880 Cullen and Mary were living in Zumbrota with their three children Edith, James, and Ray, and Cullen was a farmer. In 1900 Cullen F., born in February 1841, and Mary E, born in December 1839, were living in Mellette, Spink County, South Dakota and Cullen was a farmer. They had been married for 37 years and Mary had had three children and two were living. [4] In 1907 Cullen lived in Grand Junction Colorado and his occupation was described as "poultry." [16] In 1910 Cullen F. and Mary E. were living in Allen, Mesa County, Colorado and Cullen was a fruit farmer. [4]

viii. Alma Ingalls Walker was born on 23 July 1843. [3] She died on 22 November 1919 in Los Angeles. [7] She is buried in the Inglewood Park Cemetery. [2]

Endnotes:

1. "Maine, U.S., Faylene-Hutton Cemetery Collection, 1780–1990," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61899) > Varnum–Wallace, image 2540, James Walker; Bryant–Burton, image 2486, Pinckney Burnham.

2. Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 14 September 2023), memorial pages for:

3. William B. Lapham, History of Bethel, Maine (Somerset, NH: New England History Press, 1891).

4. U.S. Federal Census Collection, searchable databases, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/usfedcen). [Names of entries, my spelling.]

5. "Maine, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1584–1999," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8994) > Oxford > Estate Files, Drawer W116, Wadsworth, Frank–Willerd, Eben M., 1864–1873, images 152–65, Entry for James Walker; Estate Files, Drawer W117, Waite, Manville–Wrisley, Loren H., 1873–1880, images 34–65, Entry for Hannah J. Walker.

6. Andrew N. Adams, A Genealogical History of Robert Adams of Newbury (Rutland, VT: Tuttle, Co., 1900), 149.

7. "California, U.S., Death Index, 1905–1939," database, (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2544), entries for Hannah W. Sanderson, Emeline Grover, and Alma I. Walker,.

8. "Minnesota, U.S., Marriages Index, 1849–1950," database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2561), Entry for Hannah T.[!] Walker.

9. "Milwaukee, WI, U.S., Deaths, 1854–1911," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61721) > 1878–1879 > 6–8, image 208, John B. Ealker.

10. "Milwaukee, WI, U.S., Marriages, 1838–1911," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61720) > 1864–1869, image 510, entry for John B. Walker.

11. "U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861–1865," database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1555), Entry for John B. Walker.

12. Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury, Decisions of the Comptroller of the Treasury, vol. 3 (Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 1897), 701–2.

13. "Maine, U.S., Marriage Records, 1713–1922," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1961), images 9–10, Emeline Walker.

14. "U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863–1865," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1666) > Maine > 2nd > 4, image 468, Cullen F. Walker.

15. "U.S., IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862–1918," > database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1264) > Maine > District 2; Monthly Lists; July 1864–Dec 1866, image 44, Cullen F. Walker.

16. "U.S., City Directories, 1822–19905," database, (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2469), entry for Cullen W. Walker.

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