Jesse Baker Walker

GEDCOM Note

Source: History & Genealogy of the Descendants of James & Elizabeth Hughes Prichard of New Castle, KY, 1915 by Martha Coleman Johnson, pg. 79.

Jesse Baker Walker, b. in Henry county, KY., 1822. He was the youngest son of Isaac and Elizabeth Pritchard Walker. His parents moved to Nineveh township, Johnson county, IN. In 1824, and entered what is now the Mrs. Henrietta Richardson farm. Jesse Baker Walker was a very tall man standing six feet, six inches and a half in his bare feet, weighing 180 to 190 pounds. He was respected and honored by all who knew him. He was a quiet, peaceable and hard-working man. With the exception of a few years when he owned and operated a saw and gristmill in Clinton Co., IN., his life was spent on a farm. He lived on a farm in Johnson county until 1847, when he entered a 180 acre tract in the Indian reserve or six mile prairie, in Clinton county, IN., and built a cabin and planted a crop and moved his family to this home the following June. In 1850 he built a hewed log house, and the first school in that locality was begun in September 1850, in the old log cabin he had built in 1847. In the spring of 1851, he brought from Indianapolis the first cook stove ever seen in that community and people came for miles to see it and to taste the food cooked on it. He disposed of this farm and moved to McDonough county, Ill., in 1854, where he purchased property in McComb. In 1855 he sold this property to a Mr. Buchanan, a cousin of ex President Buchanan; moved to Piatt county, Ill., in 1864, where he owned 240 acres. He died there in 1878. His mother having died in 1830, he and his youngest sister, Emaline kept house for their father for a few years, when the sister died, aged sixteen years. Jesse then assumed full control of the home until he married in December, 1841. He was married in December, 1841. He was married near Williamsburg (Nineveh), Johnson county, IN., to Rebecca Satterwhite, b. 1824 in Henry county, KY. By this union six children were born as follows: Elizabeth, b. 1843; Daniel Mortimer, b. 1845; Isaac Durbin, b. 1847; Martha, b. and d. 1849; Anne Maria, b. 1851; William Irwin, b. 1854. Rebecca Satterwhite Walker, d. 1855 in McComb, Ill. By a second marriage 1858 in McDonough county, Ill., to Mrs. Lucinda Briggs Camp, b. 1818 in New Madrid county Mo., d. 1894; there were born two children: Francis Marion and Mary Frances; both died young. No dates obtainable.