{"id":3344,"date":"2022-01-10T17:43:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2022-01-10T17:43:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:43:43","slug":"walker-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/walker-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Walker, James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>James Walker<\/strong>, a resident of the Fourth District, was born January 30, 1831, in<br \/>\nOrange County, N. C., and was the third son born to Empson and Martha (Kerry)<br \/>\nWalker. He came with his parents to Tennessee in 1842 and located in Haywood<br \/>\nCounty, ten miles east of Brownsville, where he remained until they died. Mr.<br \/>\nWalker&#8217;s ancestors were of Irish and English descent. He was raised on a<br \/>\nfarm, working for his father until twenty-one years of age, then assumed the<br \/>\nmanagement of it and continued until he was thirty years old, when he moved to<br \/>\nhis present farm in Lauderdale County. While in Haywood County, in 1852, he<br \/>\nwas elected to the magistrate&#8217;s office and served six years, and also served<br \/>\nin this county six years. He went into the Confederate Army in May, 1861, as<br \/>\nthird lieutenant in Company K, Sixth Tennessee Infantry; but upon the re-<br \/>\norganization of the Tennessee troops, he was in the Fourteenth Tennessee<br \/>\nCavalry, and was wounded at the battle of Shiloh, in the right arm, but was<br \/>\nonly disabled for a short time and remained in the service until the<br \/>\nsurrender. He was married in March, 1868, to Ellen Anthony, daughter of<br \/>\nWilliam A. and Eliza (Dycen) Anthony, and to them were born six children: Mark<br \/>\nR., Malinda, James Empson, Albert S. (who died in infancy), Martha eline and<br \/>\nKnox. Mr. Walker has accumulated his property since the war of his own<br \/>\nefforts and is now in comfortable circumstances, and one of the most<br \/>\nsubstantial citizens of the county. He is a member of the Presbyterian<br \/>\nChurch, is now fifty-six years old and never used any kind of intoxicating<br \/>\nliquor or used tobacco in any form; never had any legal trouble on his own<br \/>\naccount, and was never sued in his life. Mr. Walker is a Democrat and a<br \/>\nstrict prohibitionist.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Walker, a resident of the Fourth District, was born January 30, 1831, in Orange County, N. C., and was the third son born to Empson and Martha (Kerry) Walker. He came with his parents to Tennessee in 1842 and <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/walker-james\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[148],"class_list":["post-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-walker"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3355,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions\/3355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}