Rev. John Noble Walker

HE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS FOUND IN FAMILY RECORDS, WRITTEN BY MAXINE WALKER BARKER IN 1980.

John Noble Walker---Medthodist minister, circuit rider, farmer, Civil War Soldier

John was born in Simpson County, Mississippi, on December 26, 1834. There he attended school, met and married Serena Catherine Shorter, also of Simpson County, and they had eleven children.

He served in the Civil War, enlisting at Westville, Mississippi, on April 30, 1862, in the 39th Mississippi Infantry, known as the Pearl River Guards, Company F. He was taken prisoner twice; once at Port Hudson, Louisiana, on July 9, 1863, was released, and finally surrendered with his company at Citronelle, Alabama on May 4, 1865.

He served as an itenerate Methodist minister, as a circuit rider, throughout Mississippi, and later in Texas, where he moved his family in 1878.

In 1913, when he was 78 years old, he applied for his Civil War Pension, at Lufkin, in Angelin County. The reason stated on the application for his applying for the pension was that he was "no longer able to work". He received this pension until his death, ten years later, at the age of 88.3.

Those who remember his describe him in his later years, as "a very dignified old gentleman" who always put on his black coat, no matter how hot the weather, to come to the table to eat.

During the last years of his life, he owned no home of his own, and he and Serena Catherine visited about with their children, staying sometimes in East Texas, near Lufkin, and sometimes visiting their sons, Steve or Albert George in West Texas.

It was while they were visiting Steve, near Sweetwater, Texas, that he died, in 1923.

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John Noble Walker was born 26 Dec 1834 in Simpson, Mississippi, to David Wood Walker Jr and Rebecca (Butler) Walker

John Noble Walker married Serena Catherine Shorter

John Noble Walker and Serena Catherine (Shorter) Walker are the parents of the following children:

Albert George Walker - B:2Nov1857 MS - D:20Dec1942 TX - Married: Gilliah Anne Allen

Stephen Alexander Walker - B:06Oct1859 MS - D:16Jun1956 TX - Married: 1st Allie Haley - 2nd Amanda Alice Bryant

Emily Alice Walker - B:29Jan1860MS - D:03Aug1946 TX - Married: Daniel Dungan Thompson

Mary Ann Walker - B:11Jul1864 MS - D: unk

Rebecca Walker - B:01Jun1866 MS - D:1888 MS

Rose Anna Walker - B:12Dec1869 MS - D:20Oct1965 TX - Married: William "Bill" Redrick Blake

Minerva Louise Walker - B:17Jul1871 MS - D:27Mar1945 TX - Married: William Riley Hugh Dowden

David Wood Walker - B:18May1873 MS - D:03Dec1950 TX - Married: Anna Elizabeth Dowden

William Alfred "Doc" Walker - B:12May1875 MS - D:16Aug1952 TX - Married: Mattie Jaye Lamb

Lavina C Walker - B:16Jul1877 MS - D:08Sep1909 TX - Married: Wesley D Strickland

John Wesley Walker - B:30Apr1880 MS - D:29Jul1903 TX