Show V r V V bi l ri 1 Vj ft f V V V V VI 1 c I r. r j 1 I II L I V I V V V WALKER FAMILY V N Name me I Derived From an Saxon Anglo-Saxon Root Root Root-De De F Forestier an V Old Form of This Patronymic Pilgrim Patronymic Pilgrim Father a Scottish His Wife Possibly of Royal Blood Romantic Blood Romantic Story V of a Forefather Walkers Forefather Walkers Always First in War Were War Were on onI I V Washington's Staff The Staff The Valley Forge Built by One of the Blazons Arms Burkes Burke's Heraldry Family Famil I V V f Hj- Hj I Eleanor bo bri news W to the Walkers to toI V It t may n I VV hc hear appears In annals An- An nals 0 of th tho past a as lol Fores lI tier r That riat Is IsI Is it I th j branch V of the family seated A at some SOniC Manor 11 centuries D ago O OVe Ve wore were re called Forestier but thy they changed It to Walker rh They ere ore erea t unassuming folk perhaps and a quiet i to the hit t thou thought ht it easier HIler to live lI up ur pretentious one tor ter name than the more V V or Forester or Jl jle le Foret Fore Fore- t tIer I er V pr L seems was a name signifying signifying signi signi- one ont who walks 0 over 1 or Inspects a certain e of the thc royal of the tho family says forests brio historian Surely Hureh then Own he mn may be rightly called Forester If U entitled to a a. pr or n. n 4 tho the name namo you take your our one choice nam name nam- costs o t no more mor than the other V A theory however which knocks knock this Is al allowably ni- ni I if Ir f the iho expression o 9 flat flot VV old obi An Saxon Anglo lo I 10 a I Js that hM Jho the tho old word wa ivas from rom which h ker ili i e 5 Ae- Ae de V V V rived The surname Walker alker has appeared at I In Us ItS history as Le Lc LeWal tr Il different times limes Wal iker Valre Wa a Icker and Valker Wall Wall- Walkern alkern ker ker- kerAn An Art old town in Northumberland V Is If called Walker old oW records we Searching through V find that thit an archbishop o of Canterbury Canterbury was Hubert in lh Iho twelfth century Walker In 1519 the thc will of ot William V all gives fletcher Walker Va of Bury Bur to fore his pp t l to 10 be newly newl maryed yet Tm Tru I In of Jennie Drans The Tho original Helen Lothian wa was Heart heart- of Mud dud Iud V T In tn 1791 and over Walker r who dlo died a V Scott erected Walter alter whose grave gravo o Ia Sir V monument with the tho In Inscription a when of or poverty R Respect tle grave brave V co combined lri d' d with lovo love of truth anti and dear dearV deara affection rr cllon a V during durin the rel reign n V advocate The Queen Walter Walker I Ir of nr Charles II 11 w was s Sir Amon tho the Scottish chiefs chief's support support- r Among were Isaac CI CIther Charles PT er t They V V and nd Nathan l Walker Valker brothers V V to fly from home a price L I forced was heads headE FranJe fe heln being put pdt on oa their afterwards America first refuge refute their ther and Maryland larland In landed where Isaac which white oak log house nn the tho called V George Georgc county count t he lie build In Prince V tl the family stronghold V Ing he rec re- re I f In Scotland In Ij 1751 the of land from fron t I n a large patent latent c land which Baltimore or of V. V still own owned h by lc V to he lit ts tI original Iced deed l being a treat treat- o h. h familY Reunions of or th heirloom castle V have le h teen en held n at t found Cound Nathan athan Walker Valker and V V CI d their and homes In KentuckY Kentuck V V. V nw lI living n In the West and V Ulli I. I OJ South the record roe rec to the according ng l wife Stuart of or po Elizabeth ord was g n Isaac nc had three sons V blood od They daughter and one Charles h and md Nathan athan V Kate whose arrival al ante- ante father who made malIc a ahome ahome V dates Was ns In InI lie Ho was home nl at Philip where King fight I 1 that gallant I defeated and hIs posterIty m may y V V was affiliation with Society c cl Col Col- Colf V claim f ars back ack Pennsylvania Walkers mark Pennsylvania Pennsyl rhe The and came from Wales to who Interesting he ho has hasa what Is much more V romantic story The voyage across V V V a n j lasted thirteen n months months- Atlantic the Mio of lucK ill to toMm tOV V nothing V but hut there thero was It thirteen number fateful him Mm In the for forth forthe V vis and love lovo combined luck good V was WS anti and waned that wed waxed th the m many ny moons acQuainted acV ac- ac Lave opportunity to become him gave girl on ou the prettiest V with the V the prettiest boat bont Of ot cour course sho she was will willI Walkers the best for V est cst and th th-e th I have havo nothing less loss Morris Mary Wary was hey her name Mary English girl The hc Ila- Ila V and she was an V their me meeting house houlle 4 marriage e Lewis Walker r bachelor nn and Mary Morris spinster r married 2nd nil V triO rno nd 1 l and fort three forty three witnesses w have bave nil all left their signatures in tory vory- V ln log lt d degrees grees of penmanship good bad badh V and indifferent h Tho Time Walkers alt all did valiant service C 1 the thu wars of their country pa pa V being being- a a. strong characteristic Lieutenant Colonel John of oC North Carolina Caro ro V lina hina nn was waif aide 1 to lo Washington In the tue thel Revolution Benjamin of or the New York l V V family was ivas aide first to and L afterwards to Washington The Ma Massa- Massa atIl i- i roster Includes the names nameR of or Captain aln Benjamin who was 1 killed at Bunker c lull Hill Captain t ln onus Colonel Timothy mo lr IY and Valid Lieutenants Aaron Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward Richard chard SlI Silas s. s and Zach rl II fd s. s from orn Virginia w were r Lieutenant V V V David EO Thomas from Maryland Mary V land Ensign ns James JameN V j I Joseph house was head head- V TO i t V VV LV V 2 i V i V V V 4 V V for the officers of Washing Washing- Washington's tons ton's army when It H was isas at nt Valley Forge and nd to the soldiers standing guard about bout the tIme place Josephs Joseph's wife Sarah gave gl avo a a. dally daily la l supply of corn COlli mush and carried b by her hem young son semi When hell Sarah rah died 1792 according according- to a a. record ut II the l family Bible over O 1 JO people at- at tt her funeral The original owner O and builder bu of the jo Valley Valle Forge Iorge was wa Daniel alker Walker who ho with two others built hullt It about J and called it It Mount Joy 10 Forge Iorge Joy was thus thuR named b by William WilliamP P onn nn who at ono one time owned the property while a wooded hill h on the theSther ther Nl side e of or thc tho valley creek creel was railed called Mount Misery I r Penn I is said to hate ha ave given Iven these names to the mounts mount to o commemorate th the occa occasion lon when he lost ost his Wa way on Mount Miser Misery and after fter much wandering was found on Mount JO Joy This ThiN was part of the th estate tat given ghen b by Penn to his hil daughter Letitia In connection with this stor story It IB Is Interesting In- In to to note that in r ra ast a special ser l service o con commemorative m c of lie he o winter er gOinS I American arm at Valley Forge Iorg was wn held eld at nt old St Sr Peters Peter's church ph phia In The Tho chaplain of oC the tho Penns Pennsylvania Society o ot the Sons of or the Revolution Rc saId aid amon among other oilier things The tory of f that encampment is one long bug record of f sanctified patriotism Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker of time the 10 Mar Maryland land family a brave soldier of ofie tilt ie nineteenth century was captain of off of of f he Texas Rangers Hangers and I. I 13 IS buried hurled at atan San Sami an Antonio where he fell Cell In battle A story Is told which Is somewhat of or ofa a 0 tax upon ones one's credulity that credulity that In his famous amous fight in IS 10 with fifteen en men against eighty a lance Jance was run Iun un entirely through his body hOlly yet et he be lived JIved to become time thc head of or man many ahard n a hard fought battle Th The great gleat statesman of or the family James ames RObert Walker Hr of oC the Pennsyl- Pennsyl anla vanla branch was secretary of state tate luring P lk's administration and it was as at his suggestion that the Dc- Dc of the Interior was WUN I He was afterwards governor o of f I Kansas ansas Chief of filibusters as he was vas c called lJ was William Walker alker all tI the I gra gray ray ray- ed man of or destiny whose dashIng dashIng dash- dash Ing ng and romantic career In Mexico I Is well veil known One of the artl artists tM of the family was woJ Frederick born orn in England lIe le has been ranked with Th The scIentist dentist was Soars Sears Cook Walker American astronomer of or the last cen- cen ury Tho The arms illustrated belonging to the he Scottish h branch of the family Is blazoned with Burke as follows follow or a on St St. Andrews Andrew's cross argent on a a. chief azure a n garb or between two mullets of tho the second secondI I I. I c e. e of or the second color named named named-ar- ar- ar gent nt V V Crest a rock proper or or In Its natural natural na- na tural ural coloring Motto Cura El Et Ia h Industria-by Industria by perse- perse e an and II industry Walk In the way iny of God Is the motto of f one branch of or the family Is not nul a single cat nt They 11 do 10 not die dio il because e ol 01 thou their difficulty Cult in III breathing but strangely enough thc tho they nil all go CO mat mad madI within a few hours from flom the tho nervous ner I effects of oC th the tho rare atmosphere After Arter they have hn reached Leadville all cats art are noticed to become er very drowsy niu and sleep heavily lI for a II few hours The rhey then become very nervous and run rui runabout about aboul gr growling and amid spitting and withIn within with with- in 24 hours the they always alwa's die le In a series serle of or c convulsions tho the last lit nt being of terrible strength and antI always alwa's killing the cat Even new-born new kittens takei tolen to Leadville die tIle and can cn not become accustomed to lo the excess of oxygen The brains of or such cats when examined ed I by physicians with wih microscopes al always always al- al ways ns show dangerous and fatal fatai l lesions of the tho brain tissues caused causel b by the Unusual unu unusual un un- u usual ual amount of ox oxygen gen in fn the air Do Dogs on the contrary can exist t in Lead lp but df lM not nn about as In Inthe tho the usual latitudes of cites cities Lea Leafe fe Is over O feet above e aho th the level of tho the ocean |