James Walker

Generation 5 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Beulah Grahm ← Jay Charles Grahm/William James Walker ← James Walker

Born

June 28, 1806, in Washington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

Died

January 16, 1884 · Washington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

Married

1838

Family

Father

John Walker

Child in this line

Jay Charles Grahm / William James Walker

Spouse

Hannah Townsend

Children

Nancy Walker
b. May 23, 1839, in Washington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania · d. September 10, 1913, at 7749 Baxter Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania due to chronic catarrhal gastritis
m. Robert McGinley in abt. 1853
Elisabeth Walker
b. May 10, 1841, in Pennsylvania · d. February 2, 1916, in Vandergrift, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, due to a pulmonary hemorrhage
m. ____ Long
Mary Ann Walker
b. Abt. 184334/184432 in Pennsylvania
Rachel Jane Walker
b. October 4, 1846, in Pennsylvania
Jane Walker
b. Abt. 1848 in Pennsylvania
John Townsend Walker
b. January 8/2142, 1949, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania · d. August 24, 1908, in Washington, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania due to a strangulated hernia
Martha S Walker
b. Abt. 185032/5233 in Pennsylvania
Robert A Walker
b. Abt. 185232/5433 in Pennsylvania
Samuel Hill Walker
b. July 25, 1856, in Washington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania · d. June 8, 1935, in Washington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania due to a coronary occlusion
m. Martha J. Rowe in 1880; Laura Belle Wolf in 1895
Daniel H Walker
b. Abt. 1862 in Pennsylvania
Margaret H “Maggie” Walker
b. Abt. 1864 in Pennsylvania

Siblings

Jane Walker
John Walker
Martha Walker

In brief

Born June 28, 1806, in Washington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He married 1838 and worked as farmer. He died January 16, 1884 in Washington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

Life story

A Pennsylvania Farmer

James Walker was born on June 28, 1806, in Washington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and farmed a seventy-acre property there on Pine Run for most of his life, its assessed value climbing from $2,500 in 1850 to $7,500 by 1870. He married Hannah Townsend in 1838. Around 1870 he left his own farm to purchase the 175-acre Townsend homestead, which he later passed on to his son Samuel. James died on January 16, 1884.

At a glance

Work

Farmer

Lived

Washington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

Sources (5)

1860 United States Census, Washington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, page 125-126, dwelling 928, family 870, Family of James Walker; NARA microfilm publication M653; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7667/images/4293564_00579 : accessed 8 November 2023).
1870 United States Census, Washington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, page 16, dwelling 119, family 116, Family of James Walker; NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1466; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7163/images/4276467_00707 : accessed 8 November 2023).
1850 United States Census, Washington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, page 410b, dwelling 472, family 472, Family of James Walker; NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 836; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8054/images/4205399_00278 : accessed 9 November 2023).
John W. Jordan, compiler, History of Westmoreland County Vol. III: Genealogical Memoirs (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), 578; digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/26787/images/dvm_LocHist011286-01184-0 : accessed 9 November 2023), image 2102.
Lillian (Shumaker) Lankerd, compiler, Genealogy of Three Loudon County Virginia Shoemaker Lines (Vandergrift, Pennsylvania: Lillian Lankerd, 1962), 112; digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/genealogyofthree01lank/page/2/mode/2up : accessed 13 November 2023).