Ancestors

Warren Butler Walker

Warren Butler Walker was born on 29 January 1858 at Dunlap, in Sequatchie County, Tennessee. His parents were George W. Walker and Frances Savage, called Frankie. His mother's father, Sterling King Savage, had farmed on the Cumberland Plateau in Grundy County. In 1860, when Warren was 2, the census taker found the family in the Fourth District of Sequatchie County: George and Frances, both 32, his older brother Leroy, 6, and Warren B. His father died before 1880. That June Warren, 22 and single, was working the farm as a farm laborer in the household of his widowed mother, Franky Walker, with his sisters Martha and Nancy and his brother George W. He farmed in Sequatchie County his whole life.

On 22 November 1882 he married Myra Elizabeth Williams at Cagle, in Sequatchie County. The couple had twelve children, and several died young. Their eldest, George William Cleveland Walker, was born in 1884. The others included Letha Ann, Frances Myrtle, Nancy L., Ida B., James Byrne, Samuel P., and John Eddly. A son, Butler, died at age 15. A daughter, Lora M., died before she was three, and two more children died young without names on record. In 1900 Warren B. Walker, a farmer, and his wife, written Miraah E., were living in Sequatchie County with James B., George W. C., Nancy L., Frances M., Ida B. and Lithia A.

In the spring of 1915 Warren fell ill with tuberculosis. A Dunlap doctor attended him from 12 April and last saw him alive on 15 June. Warren died at Dunlap at six in the evening on 19 June 1915, aged 57 years, 5 months and 10 days. His brother G. W. Walker of Newport, Tennessee, gave the particulars for the death certificate, naming their parents as Geo. Walker and Frankie Savage, both born in Tennessee. Willie Clemons of Dunlap was the undertaker. He was buried in the Savage Cemetery at Gage, in Sequatchie County, which the certificate calls Gage Cemetery. It was his mother's family burying ground. His stone there reads "Warren Butler Walker, born Jan. 29, 1858, died June 19, 1915", with the verse "A place is vacant in our home which never can be filled". In 2002 a marker was put up at the cemetery listing the people known to lie there, among them Franky Walker, George Walker and Warren Walker.

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Cite: Heirology, "Warren Butler Walker (1858-1915)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/warren-butler-walker-1858-1915-d8027b.