JOHN HARRISON WALKER

John Harrison Walker was born the 25th of December 1763 in Prince George's County, Maryland. His father was Joseph Walker, his mother was Elizabeth Turner Walker.

He died 19 June 1838 and is buried in the Old Baptist Church Cemetery, also known as the Walker Cemetery, Monroe, Georgia.

He married first Sarah Davis Loflin on 28 July, 1780 in Lincoln County, Georgia.  They had two children, William Loflin Walker born 1788 in Virginia and Daniel Walker born 1794 in Lincoln County, Georgia. He married second, Elizabeth Nancy Johns on April 1, 1797 in Columbia County, Georgia.  He had one child with Elizabeth Nancy Johns Walker, Elizabeth, born 1805 in Georgia. His third marriage was to Mariah Leverett on March 15, 1814 in Lincoln County, Georgia. They had five children, Mary Ann, born 1818 Lincoln County, James Sanders born 1822 in Lincoln County, Amanda Katharine born 1827, Simeon Armstrong and Gideon Samuel all born in Georgia.

In 1776 at the age of 13, John Walker served first in Captain John Henry's Company of Colonel  Alexander's Regiment of Virginia troops and later transferred to Captain Call's Light Infantry.  He volunteered and marched to Yorktown, where he was present at the Surrender of Cornwallis.

In 1781 he moved to Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia.  While he was a student at an academy in Leesburg, he was drafted into the militia under Captain John Henry.

Paid taxes in Loudoun County, Virginia in 1781.

By 1789 he is living in Georgia, lived in Wilkes, Columbia, Lincoln, and Walton Counties.  He settled in Lincoln County where he became a planter and one of the wealthiest men in the county.  He later became a Baptist Minister.  He lived on the Little River in Lincoln County, Georgia. Served as a Representative in the Georgia Legislature from 1805 to 1806 from Lincoln County, was Justice of the Inferior court and Clerk of the Superior Court in Lincoln Count from 1809 - 1811.  In 1823 he was ordained as a minister at Upton Creek Baptist Church in Wilkes County, Georgia. 

In 1835 he moved to Monroe, Georgia, the first Walker to live there.  He was minister of the Baptist Church in Monroe.

Sources:  Various family trees on ancestry.com, Georgia Marriages to 1850

PHOTO OF GRAVE MARKER, OLD BAPTIST  CHURCH CEMETERY, MONROE, GA.