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Note: Wounded Civil War Collierville,Tn. He enlisted in the Civil War at Serepta, MS. After being wounded he was taken to a Union Hospital in Memphis, Tn to recover. Mary Stone Walker, his wife sold the farm at Randolph, MS. for confederate money and loaded everything she could in an ox cart and with her young son, Warren and another lady (not sure who at this point) left for Memphis to find her husband. At Memphis she settled the oxcart where the Memphis Fairgrounds is now located and proceeded to search for her wounded husband. In no time she found him and nursed him back to health. The couple with their young son, Warren settled first on Raines Rd. and later on Winchester Pike (now Winchester) in the Germantown area near Memphis. NOTE; A descendant, Mary Hunt Volumn, daughter of Annie Walker Hunt, daughter of John and Mary Stone Walker....... remembered her mother's words about John Walker and wrote; "John Walker went out to cut firewood. He picked up the axe and all of a sudden he fell over. Mama was just a little girl three years old but she remembers the crying and screaming cause they were all so scared. The older ones and Maw got John Walker into the house and put hot rocks to his feet and worked over him all night trying to rouse him. Mama said she remembers the fires roaring all night. The Doctor did not get there until next morning and when he looked at John Walker he said they had worked all night for nothing cause he had died when he hit the ground... a heart attack, Mama guessed. The rocks were just ordinary rocks like brick bats and you would put them in the fire and let them get warm, wrap them in cloth and use them just like we use the modern electric heating pad.........I remembered also that Mama had said Mary Stone had washed clothes for the soldiers who were hit (hid) out in the bottoms during the War. This clue led me to the Civil War History and I started reading everything I could of Civil War History..........I called Hallie Johnson and asked her could she tell me anything that Grandma Walker had ever said about where she was born or anything. Hallie is the daughter of Lizzie Walker Moore, Mama's sister who died when she was so young and left so many little orphan children. Hallie, Mary Acree, Pearl Johnson, Jimmy Moore, Herbert Moore. I cannot remember all the names. Hallie said she remembered one time when she was living with Grandma Walker that Warren and his wife had taken a trip on the train down to Pontotoc, Mississippi and stayed all night with some Walker relatives there. NOTE: On May 28, 1964 the descendant of John Walker wrote of an interview she had with Robbie Beloate. "When I asked Robbie where his mother had been born, he said he did not know. He did not know where Grandma Walker or Grandpa Walker had been born but he had always been told it was Pontotoc, MS. He had never heard tell of any Doctor in the Walker family but there could have been...he just didn't know. Mrs. Bray remembered the Walkers at Pontotoc, Egypt and Houlka, Mississippi and remembered two Drs. Walker, Dr. William Walker but didn't know if there was any relation. You know Mrs. Bray was a nurse before she married Robbie. She seems like a well educated woman and wanted to help us all she could......Robbie remembered the Jerry Perry from Pontotoc, Miss who called Grandma Walker, "Aunt Mary" and had always understood that Jerry Perry was Grandma Walker's own nephew. Mrs. Bray said there was a Stone Hardware Store in Pontotoc, Miss. when she lived down that way...she thought they were related to Grandma Walker. She said Aunt Mosela had told her that Grandma Walker had buried two fine, handmade , fancy quilts somewhere in the woods around Pontotoc, Mississippi, when the Yankees were pillaging and stealing so much. They'd already taken so much and she swore she wasn't going to let them wrap up and sleep on the ground with those fine quilts. Aunt Mosela didn't talk much about anything.......Robbie said when Grandpa Walker first came to Tennessee ,they camped out where the Fairgroundsw is today.....then they bought a place on Raines and Clark Rds. out there. They were dissatisfied with this land and one day in the store they happened to mention that everytime it rained , all their land was washing away. Mr. John Quenichet happened to be in the store at that time and told John Walker he had 80 acres of real good land he would sell him at a fair price so Grandpa Walker sold the place on Raines and Clark and bought 80 acres from Mr. John Quenichet. Mr. John Quenichet was the one who always took the Bible to the cemetery and conducted the funerals and helped the poorer people every way he could. John Walker didn't pay more than 40 or 50 cents an acre. At that time , Will Beloate would pay 35 cents a day to rent a mule...then he would go and plow for someone all day for 50 cents which made him earn 15 cents a day for his work. NOTE.....continued from above document....."Houston (Beloate) remembered that Grandma Walker had said she was pregnant with little Rachel when John Walker fell dead. She was born after her daddy died. Houston remembered well the time little William died. John Hunt came walking in at sundown (he used the same words Robbie had used.). He had ridden the train to White Station and had walked from White Station, through the bottoms - about 8 miles I calculate - to the Beloates. Uncle Will Beloate (whom they said was so mean) told Houston to go hitch up the buggy and carry some clothes to wear and for him to take John Hunt home and spent the night there and help get the children to the funeral home the following morning.....they would take care of the grave digging at that end. Houston took Papa home like his Daddy had told him.John Hunt and Annie Walker had caught the train in Memphis and had ridden to Germantown where Henry Moore met them in a buggy and took them to the Beloate home. They rode the same train that carried little William's body for his casket was in the baggage car. Mr. Quenichet had sent a wagon for the coffin. Mr. Quenichet always furnished a big wagon with seats on it for members of the families- a buggy for the immediate family of the deceased and a regular wagon for the coffin to be carried on. He always sent the buggy and the wagons without even being asked. Houston said he was going to go down to "Pop" Bishops and tell him that he remembered the time when little William had died and would ask him to make it real nice and the verse to be like Mama wanted it. He thought a lot of old Mr. Bishop and was glad we'd gone to him. CONTINUED FROM ABOVE DOCUMENT...... Visit with Houston Beloate; And I was surprised at Houston..he talked about the War like he knew Civil War History-told us so many things we didn't know before. I guess he had so many children and he studied along with them cause he didn't sound ignorant like Rena, Lucy and Robbie. He said Grandma Walker came from Pontotoc, Ms. That John Walker was in the War and was stationed here in Memphis somewhere. When she found out he was here and the War was over she and a lady friend (whose name he did not know) got their belongings together to make trip to Memphis. Grandma Walker sold the fine mare and fine saddle that belonged to John Walker and she'd preserved for him during the time he was gone. (mama had told me how Grandma used to take the cows and horse down in the woods and bottoms to keep the Yankees from seeing them.) She got paid in Confederate money which wasn't worth anything so actually , she was well informed about conditions or she wouldn't have accepted the Confederate money. As early as 1862-1863 the wealthier planters refused to accept any Confederate money and hoarded silver, gold and even foreign coins. Grandma Walker must have done the best she could, though. The lady friend had the covered wagon and it was pulled by oxen-which are very slow moving beasts and the trip from Pontotoc to Memphis took them three whole days. They would drive all day - then at night, let the animals rest and they would cook and sleep along the side of the road. The one who got scalded on the way was Grandma...not the children. Aunt Mosela was born in 1865 so I don't know how this fits into the story...either Aunt Mossies birthdate on the tombstone is wrong or something. The three older children at that time were Warren, Lizzie and John so these children must have made the trip with her from Pontotoc and Aunt Mosela born after she got to Memphis. (my note; only Warren made the trip of John Walker's children). Refugees and transients were directed to the area of the Fairgrounds to camp. After Grandmaw Walker got settled in an old house where the Fairgrounds is now, she and her woman friend got dressed and started walking toward Memphis. She had word John Walker was somewhere in Memphis and she was going to find him. They walked on into town and not knowing where to look, they saw a man standing at a gate in front of his house and they asked him could he tell them where there was a John Walker in Memphis. As God would have it, the man pointed to a house up the street and said he was there. Grandma Walker found him in the bed in this house deathly sick. She nursed him and got him well first and then they went on out East to get settled. They bought a piece of property on Raines and Clark Rd. and settled out there..later he bought the land from John Quenichet that is the present Walker property.......He said when Grandma Walker and Grandpa Walker were at the Fairgrounds site, Grandma Walker had two fine milk cows and while John Walker was convalescing, she kept them going by selling milk and butter, however, some Yankee scoundrel came one night and stole one of the cows right under their noses. This was after the war was over but the stealing and pillaging still kept on. ______________________ Another source says his death date is Dec. 28, 1880.
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