SAMUEL WALKER. The earliest record extant of the Walker family, to which the subject of this memoir claims relationship, is of one David Walker, a native of New Jersey, who married Elizabeth Elliott, of the same State. About the year 1772, the young couple settled near a little town called Burnt Cabins, Huntingdon Co., Penn. Ten children were born to them, viz.: Alexander, John, David, James, Martha, Sarah, Mrs. Cree, Susan, Polly and Isabelle, all now deceased. Alexander Walker, eldest son of David, was born May 10, 1773, in Huntingdon county, and passed his boyhood on the home farm. In 1795 he came to Washington county, and located in Jefferson township, on the farm now owned and occupied by his son. Here he met Miss Elizabeth Norris, who was born December 19, 1778, in this county, and October 26, 1800, they were married. They settled on the home farm mentioned, and Mr. Walker also managed a still-house, which was, at that time, as important an industry as a mill of the present day. The names and dates of birth of the children born to them are as follows: Elizabeth, February 22, 1802; John, June 8, 1803; David, September 19, 1804; James, January 1, 1807: John N., June 24, 1808; Susanna, December 22, 1809; Alexander, June 21, 1811; Mary Ann, February 7, 1814; David S., July 6, 1816; Isabelle, November 17, 1818; Drusilla, February 16, 1821 and Samuel, April 18, 1823. The father died September 8, 1854, the mother on December 17, 1855. They were Presbyterians. Mr. Walker was a Democrat. Samuel Walker was born in the house where he is now living, and was reared to agricultural pursuits, attending the common schools of the neighborhood. On September 2, 1844, he was married to Miss Elizabeth H. Jerome, born June 10, 1825, in Ohio county, W. Va., daughter of John Jerome, a pioneer of that neighborhood. After marriage they settled on the home place, and cared for his aged father. After his death, the son became the legal owner of the 200 acres of productive land which is his present home. The names and dates of birth of the children born to Samuel and Elizabeth H. (Jerome) Walker are as follows: Thomas P., July 22, 1845; Ophelia A., September 21, 1848; W. Scott, August 8, 1852; James J., September 6, 1855; Harriet Bell, April 9, 1858; and Alexander, February 16, 1862. In politics Mr. Walker was first a Whig, and afterward a Republican. He attends the Cross Creek Presbyterian Church, to which he gives a liberal support.

Text taken from page 1267 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed February 1997 by Neil and Marilyn Morton of Oswego, IL as part of the Beers Project. Published February 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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