Rev. James Walker, who may have been born in Pennsylvania, came to Shelby County Alabama by 1820. He and Sarah had about 10 children most of whom were born in Georgia and later Alabama. Two children, Andrew and Diana, married a brother and sister of the Robert Gamble Family named Aaron and Jane. The Gambles were neighbors of James and Sarah. Andrew and Jane had at least four children, Mary Elizabeth who married John Scrivner, Harriett, William A. and Elizabeth. There may have been other older children.
About 1855 Andrew and Jane along with their son William and daughter Elizabeth moved to Walker County Alabama some 75 miles away. Harriett was 21 years old then and it is not known if she left Shelby County also. It was in Walker County, Alabama that their son William met and courted Sarah Lane, daughter of their neighbor Alfred G. Lane.
In the fall of 1859 amid rumors of the coming Civil War Alfred G. Lane and his second wife Emily Clark, whom he had married after his first wife Mariah Pate died in the early 1850s, loaded their simple belongings and their children in their wagon and headed for Texas. His children by his first wife, Sarah 24, Juda Priscilla 12, and Simon 9 and Alfred and Emily's new baby, Lou Frances who was only 6 to 10 months old, were all in the wagon. There may have been other older children too. Alfred G. Lane was a successful farmer, preacher and lawyer for many years in Jaspar the county seat. Alfred and Emily now settled their family in the Bend area of Lampasas County where seven more children were born.
Sarah Ann Mariah Lane told her grandchildren in later years how her suitor William Walker rode his horse beside the wagon as they left Jaspar Alabama for Texas, he begging her to stay and marry him. William eventually prevailed and Sarah turned back toward Jaspar with William where they were married. Their only child, Alfred Andrew Jackson Walker was born there in March 1862. In 1863 William joined the Confederate forces as a private in Company K 4th Regiment Alabama Cavalry. Military records show he was captured by Union Forces in 1864 while on patrol in Walker County and transferred to a Union military prison in Louisville, Kentucky. On July 27 1864 he signed by mark an Oath of Allegiance to the United States. He was then sent from the Department of the Cumberland to be later transported north of the Ohio River and released. There are no official records known to exist for William after that time. Sarah once said that his horse had returned home with an empty saddle and they knew that he was dead. I have been unable to confirm a death date or place of burial
Soon after the war ended Sarah and her baby son Alfred Jack (Jackie) Walker moved to Lampasas County, Texas to be near her father. They first settled on Antelope Creek but later Jackie and his mother Sarah bought land in San Saba County in the Pecan Grove community where they lived for the rest of their lives. Jack Walker married first Sarah Spier and after her death in 1892 he married Ada Terry. Ada died in 1901 and Jackie's mother Sarah stepped in to help her son raise the five Walker children. Sarah (Lane) Walker died in 1923 and is buried at Harmony Ridge Cemetery
Here you will find the genealogical records of these Walker families, Lanes, Gambles, and other ancestors of Alfred Jack Walker.
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Eldon Walker Pierce
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