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SUBMITTED BY: Margaret Robe Summitt
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HUSBAND: William WALKER
date and place of birth: 17 Apr 1800    Knox County, Tennessee
date and place of marriage: 4 July 1803 to Mary Ann LOVE, in Knox County, Tennessee
other marriages: 26 Jan 1832 to Mary "Polly" SHIELDS, in McMinn County, Tennessee
military service: none known
date and place of death: 28 Dec 1881 in Springfield, Lane County, Oregon
father: Hugh WALKER (possibly)
mother: Nancy COCHRAN (possibly)
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WIFE: Mary Ann LOVE
date and place of birth: 4 July 1803 in Knox County, Tennessee
other marriages: none
date and place of marriage: 5 Oct 1820 in Knox County, Tennessee
date and place of death: 6 Feb 1831 in McMinn County, Tennessee
father: John LOVE
mother: Margaret FLEMING
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CHILD 1: Hugh Marion WALKER
date and place of birth: 2 Jan 1823 in Knox County, Tennessee
married: Mary Jane REID
date and place of marriage: 26 Oct 1843 probably in Greene County, Missouri
other marriages: none
date and place of death: 10 April 1900 in Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon
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CHILD 2: John Love WALKER
date and place of birth: 16 Dec 1824 in Knox County, Tennessee
married: never married
date and place of marriage:
other marriages:
date and place of death: 6 Jan 1827 in Knox County, Tennessee
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CHILD 3: Mathew Eagleton WALKER
date and place of birth: 29 Aug 1826 in Knox County, Tennessee
married: Rebecca STOWELL
date and place of marriage: 6 Jan 1849 in Greene County, Missouri
other marriages: none
date and place of death: 28 Nov 1911 in Lane County, Oregon
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CHILD 4: Mary Jane WALKER
date and place of birth: 22 Jun 1828 in Knox County, Tennessee
married: William D. RENSHAW
date and place of marriage: 13 Feb 1845 in Greene County, Missouri
other marriages:
date and place of death: 1 Jan 1885 in Oregon
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CHILD 5: William Thomas WALKER
date and place of birth: 23 Feb 1830 in McMinn County, Tennessee
married: Ardelia ZUMWALT
date and place of marriage:  14 Feb 1855 in Lane County, Oregon
other marriages:
date and place of death: 22 Oct 1883 in Lane County, Oregon
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SOURCES: Birth: in Walker Bible in possession of Mrs. A.R. Tiffany, 2045
Potter St., Eugene, OR. FHLC film #839732. Typed copy.
 
Marriage: both marriages recorded in above Bible source. Land Records database, Rootsweb,
Greene Co., MO: Walker, William. 22 Aug 1843. 40 acres. twp.30, range 23, sec 4. Type: GLO.
Benjamin J. Morss, Evan Martin, Sam Dillard, John Killingsworth, and William Walker all arrived in
1853 [in Creswell, OR area] ahead of the lost wagon train. (source: The Blue Valley: a History of
Creswell, OR. Written & ed. by George W. Ross, Joan Campbell & Sandra Hanson Wilson;
pub. Creswell Area Hist. Soc. 1993, p. 10). William Walker and wife Polly Shield [sic] are listed
claim no. 471, Oregon Donation Land Claims (Genealogical Forum of Portland: Genealogical Material
in Oregon Donation Land Claims, vol. 3, p. 32). Filed a claim for 320 acres, 8 miles south of Springfield. See
biographical sketches in Gaston's, p. 821 and Chapman's, p. 1121. These say he was a Whig, a
Republican, and an abolitionist. Photo (reversed) of William & Polly p. 19 of Lois Barton's Spencer
Butte Pioneers: 100 Years on the Sunny Side of the Butte 1850-1950 (Eugene: Spencer Butte Press,
1982). "by 1858 the People's Press of Eugene City was carrying ads" for Walker's Drug Store. The
People's Press was a Republican newspaper owned by Byron J. Pengra. 8 Mar
1859 the advertisement announced that Walker had fitted up a new store house on 9th St. one door
west of Goldsmith & Co's store. 19 Nov 1859: Wm. Walker moved his store from 9th to Willamette
St. Cecil Robe in 1979 was interviewed by Dan Sellard of the Eugene Register-Guard, when he told
the story (without as much detail as I recall) of how Eliza Ann Walker Robe was nearly sold to Indians
on the Oregon Trail by her father. See Hermon Linn Robe's Oregon Pioneer Tales for a verse version of
this encounter. Death: date recorded in above Bible source. See also 1870 & 1880 U.S. Federal Censuses.
1870 Census, res. Eugene; 1880 Census, res. Springfield. 1870
Census gives birthplace as Tennessee. Death also recorded in obituary, Eugene Weekly Guard,
31 Dec 1881, which gives place of burial.

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NOTES: July Sessions, Knox Co., TN court 1811. "John Love appointed guardian by Knox Co. to William,
Jane and Polly Walker, minor orphans. John Love entered into bond with Matthew Walker and Joseph
Love his sureties in $300 security." Guardian & Will Book, Knox Co., TN, FHLC film #1020320. Thus
William Walker's father died before July 1811. Matthew Walker was also appointed administrator of the
estate of John Walker, July session 1810; I think it likely that Matthew was John's brother and that John
Walker was William's father. A Margaret Walker bought furniture from John Walker's estate, possibly his widow.
Research into Matthew Walker's parentage led to Janet Jones Anderson of Otto, NC, who had it from
Mrs. Clarence B. Walker of Knoxville, TN that Matthew and John were sons of William Walker, who died
in Rockbridge Co., VA, and that John was killed by a tornado in Knox Co., TN (no date given, however).

William Walker resided in Knox Co., TN from 1800 to about 1831. From 1832 to 1835 he resided in
McMinn Co., TN. From 1835 to 1839 he resided in Murray Co., GA. In about 1840 he moved back to
TN. In about 1844 he moved to Greene Co., MO and started for Oregon in 1852 but turned back. In 1853 he
started for Oregon again. He signed the register at the Umatilla Agency 28 Aug 1853 and filed claim for 320
acres, 8 miles south of Springfield, in the Camas Swale area near Creswell, D.L.C. #471. In 1857 he left the
claim and went to Eugene to open a drug store. In 1860 he sold the drug store and bought farm and river land,
ranching near Eugene (Springfield P.O.?). In 1871 he sold the Springfield property and bought 200 acres at
Pleasant Hill. In 1881 he sold the Pleasant Hill property and moved back to Springfield, where he died, 28
Dec 1881. (this info. was compiled for my late uncle Cecil F. Robe by Margret West of Eugene, OR.)

"History of Greene County, Missouri" (1883) R. I. Holcombe, editing historian. Chapter 28: Cass Township--
Mount Zion Church--Presbyterian This church was organized October 19th, 1839, at Mrs. Jane Renshaw's
(familiarly called "Grandma Renshaw"), by Rev. E. P. Noel, of Hermon church, near
Bolivar, Polk county. The original members were Elizabeth Stowell, Stephen Dillard, Julia Ann Dillard, Jane
Renshaw, Margaret A. Appleby, Joseph K. Renshaw, Robert S. Reid, Amanda F. Reid, David Appleby, and
Catharine Appleby,—ten in all. The first ruling elders were David Appleby, Robert S. Reid, and Stephen
Dilliard. The church was called Mt. Zion Presbyterian church. The congregation met and worshiped in private
houses at first. In the spring, or early in the summer of 1840, a brush arbor was put up a short distance south of
Grandma Renshaw's house, and under this, meetings were held. In the summer of 1861 a shed was
erected at Cave Spring, and was called Cave Spring camp ground. It was used by all denominations for camp
meetings. This shed being too small, it was extended by a brush arbor. The first camp meetings were held the last
days of July and the first days of August, in the year 1841. These camp meetings were held annually,
and attended by people from a great distance, who came in wagons, carts, on horseback and on foot. The
first person received into the church was Margaret McElhanon; she came in by letter November 17 1839. The
first on examination was James Appleby, on August 1st, 1841. Rev. E. P. Noel was the pastor from the
organization of the church until November 14th,1881. He held regular monthly services. Then came Rev.
G. A. M. Renshaw, a graduate of Maysville college, East Tennessee. He died March 27th, 1857. On the 14th
of June, 1857, Rev. A. E. Taylor took charge, and served until February 26th, 1860, when Rev. L. R.
Morrison was called and served the church until April, 1861. From January 28th, 1866, to some time in the
fall of 1869, the Rev. J. M. Brown, of Illinois, who was sent by the Board of Home Missions, served as pastor;
Rev. Enos M. Halbert took charge on May 14th 1870, and after him came Rev. George Davis, who served
as "stated supply" in the year 1881. The present pastor is C. C. Hembree. The ruling elders in their order from
the time of its organization up to the year 1876, were David Appleby, Stephen Dillard, David Dalzell, Charles
Hughes, Wm. E. Thompson, Nathan Thompson, Newton A. McGill, Robert S. Reid, Alexander Stowell,
Wm. Walker, David S. Dalzell, John R. Lee, Moses C. Anderson, and Samuel Hall. The first church building,
was erected in 1845. It was built of hewed logs taken from the forest nearby. During the war this building was
used for a dwelling house, and by the soldiers as a commissary and for quarters. The first meeting of the
Osage Presbytery, after the war, was held in this building. The present building was erected in 1869, at a
cost of about $3,500, including the school rooms. It was dedicated August 22d, 1869, by Rev. Dr. Hill,
of Kansas City. Mt. Zion is one of the very oldest Presbyterian churches in Missouri, and lays claim to being the first
regularly organized west of St. Louis. It is the parent of three other churches—Springfield, Mt. Bethel, and
Grand Prairie. Space forbids anything like a complete
history of this church, which would be not only interesting, but highly instructive. [714]

Lois Barton, Spencer Butte Pioneers: 100 Years on the Sunny Side of the Butte 1850-1950 (Eugene, OR:
Spencer Butte Press, 1982) p. 19. Barton quotes advertisements in the Eugene City People's Press for William
Walker's drugstore: an ad dated February 25, 1858, reads: "Just received a large supply of Dr. Jaynes'
family medicine direct from Philadelphia. Also 300 almanacs gratis." Then on March 8, 1859: "The undersigned
having fitted up a new store house on 9th St. one door west of Goldsmith & Co.'s store is now receiving and
opening a general stock of medicines and groceries" [An extensive list of items follows]. "Signed: Wm.
Walker." And again, November 19, 1859: "Wm. Walker moved his store from 9th to Willamette St."

Will Walker in Lane County Historian Index: 15:46; 4: 32n (Mrs.).