John N. Walker

b 03 Mar 1841, , Blount, Tennessee
d 13 Apr 1921, , Sevier, Tennessee
bur Wear's Cove, Sevier, Tennessee
	William Walker, Captain
	\|
Thomas Walker
\|b 04 Mar 1820	\|
\|d 07 Aug 1893	Elizabeth Culbertson
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John N. Walker
\|Margaret Jane King
\|m 29 Mar 1866
\|, Sevier, Tennessee	\|
Eliza Jane Myers
b 25 Dec 1822	\|
d 20 Mar 1879

Children

1	<	James Thomas Walker
2		William Wiley Walker
3		Margaret Jane Walker
4	<	John Henry Walker
5		Mary Elizabeth 'Polly' Walker
6		Martha Ann Walker
7		Nancy Malinda Walker
8		Louisa Susan Walker
9	<	Sarah Caroline Walker
10		Hettie Rebecca Walker
11		Giles Daniel Walker

Notes

Parents of the Smoky Mountain's well-known Walker Sisters. Their homeplace is being preserved by the National Park Service in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

John was known as 'Hairy John', and ' Beaver John' Walker.

Sevier County, Tn Sevier County, Tn 1870 Census 1880 Census

John N. 29 (1841) John N. 39 (1841) Margaret J. 23 (1847) Margaret 33 (1847) James T. 3 (1867) John T. 12 (1868) William W. 1 (1869) William W. 10 (1870) Margaret J. 8 (1872) John H. 6 (1874) Mary E. 4 (1876) Martha A. 3 (1877) Nancy M. 4/12 (1880) Margaret King 77 (1803)

John Walker served in the Civil War as a Union soldier, Company E. 1st Light Artillery Battalion, Tennessee.

Buried in Mattox Cemetery.

Source: 'Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3', Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 232, 235. 'Smoky Mountain Family Album,' Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 209. 'In the Shadow of the Smokies', Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1993, p 667. Dee Lansford GEDCOM, 24 September 1995.

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