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  1. Horace Mateer WALKER: Birth: 15 OCT 1884 in Monroe, Walton County, Georgia. Death: JUL 1972 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas

  2. Clarence Neel WALKER: Birth: 31 JAN 1887 in Monroe, Walton County, Georgia. Death: 18 FEB 1974 in Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida

  3. Eunice Link WALKER: Birth: 19 DEC 1895 in Monroe, Walton County, Georgia. Death: 23 MAY 1979 in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia

  4. William Stokes WALKER: Birth: 25 NOV 1897 in Monroe, Walton County, Georgia. Death: 25 NOV 1897 in Monroe, Walton County, Georgia


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a. Note:   N313 William Stokes Walker's mother named him for the minister through whose preaching she had been converted: William H. Stokes. The home of his maternal grandparents, the Neel plantation, was at Mount Zion, Powelton, Hancock County, Georgia. The slaves called young grandson William Stokes, "Little Preacher." He entered the University of Georgia at the age of 16. Before his death in 1949, he claimed the distinction of being the university's oldest living alumnus.
  On his twenty-third birthday, W. S. Walker went before the Foreign Missionary Board in Richmond, Virginia, and was accepted as a missionary to China, as assistant to Dr M. T. Yates, with whom he also studied and became conversant in the Chinese language. He returned to Monroe, Georgia, for his ordination to the ministry.
 While in China, W. S. Walker met Lilian Mateer in the home of Baptist missionary Lottie Moon in Tsingtao (aka Tungchow). They were married there by Lilian's brother, Presbyterian missionary Calvin Wilson Mateer.
 Rev. Walker fell ill in 1885 and was forced to return home for rest and recuperation on his father's farm.
  Rev. Walker preached the first sermon of Harmony Baptist Church, Good Hope, Georgia, established in 1886.,
b. Note:   419 Militia District; listed as "William H."
c. Note:   Town District; listed as "Stokes Walker"
d. Note:   Monroe; 419 Militia District

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