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From: Jeffrey Scism <>
Subject: [inmontgo] Re: PML Search Result matching ((Montgomery OR Crawfordsville) NEAR Indiana) OR (Fallon NEAR (Nevada OR NV))
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 09:23:20 -0800
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Subject: [WIGTON-WALKER] Alexander Stuart Walker and Parents


Hi to all my cousins,

I have been looking for the parents of a John Cowan Walker, who had
acquired
a land grant in Montgomery Co., VA. in 1791 on Brush Creek.

I found this tid-bit on a John Cowan Walker and a son of his, Alexander
Stuart Walker, in "The Handbook of Texas" which is on-line.

Notice that this article has Alexander Stuart Walker's parents as being
John
Cowan Walker and a Virginia Stuart.

This Alexander Stuart Walker's DOB is Aug. 18, 1826. His DOD is Aug 14,
1896. He married first a Anna Jane Wilbarger.

I think this is the very same man but either Emma White has her marriage
of
John C. Walker wrong or this "Texas Handbook" has their data wrong.

But the problem is that this man was an illustrious man with an
illustrious
career and I find it hard to believe that the "Texas Handbook" has his
parents wrong!!!

Was this John C. Walker married more than once then??? The John C.
Walker
who Emma White writes about could be the John Cowan Walker I am looking
for
if one believes the data I have found in "The Texas Handbook."

PLEASE let me know what you think on this situation!!!

WALKER, ALEXANDER STUART (1826-1896). Alexander Stuart Walker, lawyer
and
judge, the son of JOHN COWAN and VIRGINIA (STUART) WALKER, was born near
Brownsburg,
Rockbridge County, Virginia, on August 18, 1826. The family moved to
Crawfordsville,
Indiana, in 1837. Walker attended Wabash College and South Hanover
College,
Indiana,
from which he graduated in 1850. He read law and taught school in Shelby
County,
Kentucky, until 1852, when he moved to Texas and began to teach school
near
Houston.
He studied law with David G. Burnet and James Pinckney Hendersonqv and
in
January
1853 was licensed to practice law. In July 1853 he moved to Georgetown,
where
he was
appointed district clerk by Robert E. B. Baylor.qv In 1854 Walker
returned to
South
Hanover College to take his M.A. degree. He was elected attorney for the
Seventeenth
Judicial District in 1858. While serving in the Confederate Army in
1862, he
was elected
district judge; he remained in office until removed by United States
military
forces in
1865 as an "impediment to Reconstruction." In 1865 he moved to Austin,
where
he
planned the Democratic Statesman and became its first editor in chief in
1873. He
practiced law in Austin in association with various partners, including
Alexander W.
Terrell,qv until 1879, when he was appointed to the Commission of
Appeals by
Oran M.
Roberts.qv Walker was judge of the Sixteenth Judicial District from 1880
to
1884 and
associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court from March 1888 to January
1,
1889. In
June 1889 he was appointed reporter for the court. Walker was married
first
to Anna Jane
Wilbarger of Georgetown, and they had two children. After her death he
married Mrs.
Mary Maxwell Bowers. He was a Mason, a Presbyterian, and a Democrat. He
died
in
Austin on August 14, 1896, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Austin Statesman, August 16, 1896. Biographical
Encyclopedia of
Texas (New York: Southern, 1880). Harbert Davenport, History of the
Supreme
Court of
the State of Texas (Austin: Southern Law Book Publishers, 1917). Frank
W.
Johnson, A
History of Texas and Texans (5 vols., ed. E. C. Barker and E. W. Winkler
[Chicago and
New York: American Historical Society, 1914; rpt. 1916]). James D.
Lynch, The
Bench
and Bar of Texas (St. Louis, 1885).

I then went to Emma White's book and found this on, Who I think is the
identical man, according to his DOB, DOD and who he married and his
profession:

Page 621

JOHN C. Walker4 (4427) (Alexander3, John2, Alexander1)
m. Margaret Culton April 1, 1822. This family moved from Rock-
bridge County, Va., to Montgomery County, Ind., in 1831, where
John and his wife died. Archibald, the oldest son, died there also.
John C. d. Aug. 15, 1866. Margaret Walker d. Oct. 18, 1839.
Margaret Culton had two aunts, Katherine and Agnes Culton, who made
their home with her as long as they lived. They were the parents of
the following 4 children, viz:

4540. Alexander Stuart Walker; b. August 18, 1826; m. (1)
Anna Jane Wilbarger; m. (2) Katherine Pendleton
Waggener. 2 children +.

ALEXANDER STUART Walker (4540); son of John Walker and
Margaret Culton Walker; was b. near Brownsburg in Rockbridge
County, Va., on the 18th day of August, 1826, and at the time of
his

Page 622
death, August 14, 1896, he was within a few days of being seventy
years of age. His parents were of Scotch-Irish descent. When 11
years
of age he removed with his parents to Crawfordsville, Ind., where
they
died. His opportunities for education were ample, and he graduated
in
1850 at Hanover College, Indiana, from which he received the degree
of
Master of Arts. At Hanover he was a classmate of Judge X. B.
Saunders of Belton, and Judge Davis of El Paso.
He removed to Texas in 1852, settling at Manavunk, on the San
Jacinto River, not far from Houston, where he taught school. While
teaching acting under the advice of David G. Burnett, first
president of
the Republic, and J. Pickney Henderson, first governor of Texas, he
studied law, using their books. In January, 1853, he obtained his
professional license. In July of that year he removed to
Georgetown ,
Williamson County, where he began the active practice of his
profession, rapidly rose in it, and in 1858 was elected district
attorney.
At the outbreak of the war, he enlisted as a private soldier in
the
Confederate army, and while absent from home at the front he was
elected Judge of the Seventeenth Judicial District of Texas, and
returned
home to enter upon the discharge of the duties of that office.
Subsequently, in 1865, because of his well known and pronounced
political views, he was removed by the military authorities as an
impediment to reconstruction. He moved to Austin and shortly
afterwards became one of the principal projectors of the "Austin
Statesman." He was prominent in politics and conducted the
campaign
which resulted in the redemption of Texas from radical
reconstruction
rule. While in partnership with Judge Alexander W. Terrell their
services were secured as supreme court reporters, and the result of
this
labor is found in Volumes 38 to 52 inclusive, Texas Supreme Court
Reports. He was later elected and re-elected, without canvass or
solicitation, as Judge of his judicial district, and was holding
this
office,
when he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of
Texas. In 1889 he was selected as Supreme Court Reporter, which
position he filled until the date of his death which occurred at
Austin,.
Texas.

Until later, good hunting,
Jerry Penley in Kingsport, TN web saite: www.Penjaccphoto.com

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