Jesse Walker

1770-1850 · North Carolina

Born 1770, Burke County, North Carolina

Died 1850

Father: Capt. George Walker

Children include George

Jesse Walker was born on 28 December 1770 in Burke County, North Carolina, by his memorial. The 1850 census agrees, making him 80 and born in North Carolina. His father was Capt. George Walker, who commanded a Burke County militia company through the Revolutionary War. In 1852 the captain's son William, as administrator of his estate, swore to the names of the captain's children, and Jesse Walker is among them, "who has since died & left heirs".

Jesse grew up on the South Fork of the Catawba River in Burke County, where his father lived until 1796. The captain then moved the family west to Knox County, Tennessee, and in 1807 to Bledsoe County, on the Cumberland Plateau above the Sequatchie Valley. His memorial gives his wife as Delilah, born about 1774 in North Carolina. Their son George was born in Tennessee on 3 June 1800.

In August 1832 the captain, then 87, applied in the Bledsoe County court for a Revolutionary War pension. He named as his witness "Jesse Walker Esq. one of the acting Justices of the Peace of the County of Bledsoe", who could say from personal knowledge that he had served as a captain. Jesse Walker then swore in open court that he had known George Walker "from his affiant's infancy", that he had been a militia captain in North Carolina, and that he had fought at Ramsour's Mill on the South Fork of the Catawba. A justice of the peace in Tennessee then sat on the county court as well as hearing small cases. The family had more than one Jesse by then, so the justice was this Jesse or one of his sons.

On 3 September 1850 the assistant marshal for the Eastern District of Bledsoe County wrote down Jesse Walker, 80, a mill right, born in North Carolina, at dwelling 132. A millwright built and kept up the water mills of a district: the dam and race, the wheel and the wooden gears that turned the stones. Delila, 76, also born in North Carolina, was in the house with him. In the dwelling just before his lived the Baptist preacher George Walker, 50, with his wife Anah and three children. Jesse died seventeen days after the census taker's visit, on 20 September 1850, by his memorial. He is buried in the Walker Cemetery in Bledsoe County.

Parents

Capt. George Walker 1745-1833

Children

George Walker 1800-1868

Sources

United States census 1850, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, Eastern District, page 361 (stamped 721), dwellings 131 and 132; NARA M432 film 870; FamilySearch, ark 1:1:MCD7-W8B, image 3:1:S3HT-6L9Q-R8V.

Pension application of George Walker, S3449, fn45NC, transcribed by Will Graves, revised 6 June 2010, Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Pension Statements, revwarapps.org/s3449.pdf; original in NARA M804.

United States census 1850, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, Eastern District, dwelling 132, enumerated 3 September 1850 (FamilySearch image 3:1:S3HT-6L9Q-R8V); pension application of George Walker, S3449, Bledsoe County, 1832, with the statement of William Walker, administrator, 19 March 1852, transcribed by Will Graves, Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Pension Statements (revwarapps.org/s3449.pdf); Find a Grave memorials 248010114 (Jesse Walker) and 248010172 (Delilah West Walker); Sons of the American Revolution application 37597, approved 22 January 2010

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Cite: Heirology, "Jesse Walker (1770-1850)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/jesse-walker-1770-1850-38b747.