Isaac Walker

Notes:

This couple had 10 children.

Isaac married Deborah Dickinson in 9 mo. 14 1803. Deborah (daughter of Gains/Gaius Dickinson and Mary Newlin) died before 1850. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Sadsbury Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
• Census: 1860, Smyra, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
• Census: 1870, Smyra, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
• Census: 1880, Sadsbury Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania

Notes:

"Isaac Walker was born in Sadsbury township, Lancaster Co., Pa., Jan. 27, 1808. He is the son of Isaac and Deborah (Dickinson) Walker, the grandson of Asahel and Anna (Moore) Walker, the great-grandson of Isaac and Sarah (Jerman) Walker, and the great-great-grandson of Lewis and Mary (Morris) Walker. The English ancestry is given in the biographical sketch of Joseph C. Walker.

"Lewis came originally from the border of Scotland, but directly from Wales. He settled first at Philadelphia, and afterward at Valley Forge, where he purchased from Penn one thousand acres of land. He erected the first stone residence (still standing, though enlarged) at Valley Forge, and gave the ground for a Friends' meeting-house and cemetery. The house was used by Gen. Washington for his quarters, and the meeting-house for a hospital in the Revolution. The tract is still owned by his descendants, all of whom have been Friends.

"In the female line Mr. Walker is descended from the Moores, the Newlins, and the Dickinsons. James Moore came from the county of Antrim, in Ireland, in 1723, and was the progenitor of the Moores in Sadsbury. His daughter Anna was the grandmother of Isaac.

"Nicholas Newlin emigrated from Ireland about 1683, and settled in Delaware County. His great-great-granddaughter, Mary Newlin, married Gains Dickinson. They were the parents of Isaac's mother.

"Gains Dickinson was the son of Joseph Dickinson, who came to America from Ireland, though he was said to be originally from England. He settled on Pequea Creek, in Salisbury township, and his sons, Gains and Joseph, inherited his estate. Deborah Dickinson, the daughter of Gains, was the mother of Isaac Walker. The celebrated Anna Dickinson, of Philadelphia, was the great-granddaughter of Gains. Isaac was reared on the homestead of his ancestors, in Sadsbury, on which his father had erected a school-house, in which he taught a school during portions of several years. In this house Isaac received the rudiments of an education which was afterwards improved at the Friends' Grammar School in old Sadsbury. In accordance with the earnest solicitation and advice of his mother he learned the trade of a tanner and currier, and in 1830 he purchased a tannery in Sadsbury, where during a number of years he carried on the manufacture of leather in connection with the mercantile business. He erected a number of new buildings, and founded the village of Smyrna, in Sadsbury. In the winter of 1839, under the administration of Governor Porter, he was appointed to the charge of the difficult Gap Division of the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, in which position he continued during five years, after which he was for three years engaged in mercantile business at Smyrna. In October, 1847, he purchased the mansion farm of his ancestors, near Gap, and during more than thirty years he was engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1872 he purchased a square of ground in Gap, including the "Penn Spring" and the "Shawnee Garden," the home of his mother's ancestor, and he has since endeavored to assist in building up the village of Gap. He now (1883) is engaged in the business of general merchandise on the place which he purchased eleven years since.

"Mr. Walker was married Nov. 2, 1831, to Eliza Ann, daughter of Abner and Mary (Kinsey) Brooke, of Sadsbury. She was of the highly respectable families of Brooke, in Montgomery, and Kinsey, in Bucks County, that were among the very early settlers in those counties. The eleven children of Isaac and Eliza Ann Walker, only six of whom are living, were born as follows:

Anna Maria, 3d of 8th month, 1832;
Mary Louisa, 2d of 6th month, 1835;
Isaac Buchanan, 7th of 2d month, 1838;
Eliza Josephine, 26th of 6th month, 1839;
Mercy Brooke, 10th of 1st month, 1842;
James Madison, 1st of 5th month, 1843;
Esther Jane, 22d of 12th month, 1845;
Sarah Francis, 13th of 7th month, 1849;
Abner Brooke and Deborah Dickinson (twins), 25th of 7th month, 1852;
Isaac Lewis, 14th of 4th month, 1854.

Of these. Isaac Buchanan, Mercy Brooke, Abner Brooke, and Deborah Dickinson died in infancy. Eliza Josephine married Isaac Diller, of Sadsbury, and died 7th month, 1873, leaving three children,--Anna Louisa, Isaac Walker, and Daniel Coleman Diller. . . . Mr. Walker has always been an active, energetic man, both mentally and physically. It is related of him that he once walked from Philadelphia to his tannery in Sadsbury, fifty-two miles, in eleven hours and fifty-five minutes. He is still hale and active, though at the age of seventy-five, and attends in person to his business."

Census:
aged 41, born in Pennsylvania; farmer; real estate 4,000

Census:
aged 52, born in Pennsylvania; farmer; real estate 11,300; pers. estate 2,800

Census:
aged 62, born n Pennsylvania; farmer; real estate 15,000, pers. estate 1,700

Census:
aged 70, born in Pennsylvania as with both parents

Isaac married Eliza Ann Brooke on 2 Nov 1831. Eliza (daughter of Abner Brooke and Mercy Kinsey) was born about 1813 in Pennsylvania; died in 1895 in Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sarah C. Chambers. Sarah and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Sadsbury Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
• Census: 1860, Smyra, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
• Census: 1870, Smyra, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
• Census: 1880, Sadsbury Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania

Notes:

Census:
aged 15, born in Pennsylvania

Census:
aged 25, born in Pennsylvania; school teacher

Census:
aged 36, born in Pennsylvania; living with her parents

Census:
aged 46, born in Pennsylvania; living with her parents

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Sadsbury Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
• Census: 1880, Robertson Co., Texas

Notes:

She led a life much different than her siblings. She left home between the 1850 and 1860 censuses. According to a History of Lancaster County:

"Mary Louisa took an active part on the side of the Southern Confederacy in the late civil war. She crossed the lines in 1860, and was at once appointed chief matron of the Howard Hospital, at Richmond. To procure medical supplies she volunteered to run the blockade, and did so from Wilmington, N. C., though chased by a man-of-war. She visited the West Indies, Halifax, Québec, and Montréal. At the latter place she was detained till the St. Lawrence was frozen over, and she was compelled to transport her supplies on sleds through Lower Canada and New Brunswick, a distance of five hundred miles, to Halifax. Thence she sailed, in January, 1865, and ran the blockade at Galveston, Texas. Though closely pursued by gunboats, she took her cargo one hundred and ninety miles up the Brazos River to Port Sullivan, in Milam County. The war had then closed, and she engaged in teaching a classical school at Port Sullivan. In 1866 she was married to Col. John Coleman Roberts, of Texas, a wealthy young Kentuckian, who had been an officer in the Confederate service, and had made her acquaintance in Richmond. They have one son, Edward Walker Roberts."

Census:
aged 15, born in Pennsylvania

Census:
aged 44, born in Pennsylvania as with both parents

Mary married John Coleman Roberts in 1866. John was born on 2 Oct 1831 in Halifax Co., Virginia; died on 17 Feb 1908 in Robertson Co., Texas; was buried in Bremond Cemetery, Bremond, Robertson Co., Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Sadsbury Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania

Notes:

Census:
aged 11, born in Pennsylvania

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: attorney
• Census: 1850, Sadsbury Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
• Census: 1860, Smyra, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
• Census: 1910, Sadsbury Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania

Notes:

He is the subject of an extensive biographical sketch in S308; I post it here, from pa-roots.org, because it was so hard to find on the site:

"James Madison Walker is a practicing attorney at the Lancaster County bar. He married Eliza Ann Fawkes, of Sadsbury, and they have four sons: Wade Hampton, William Edmund, James Marshall, and Joseph Lewis. Esther Jane married Isaac Diller Worst. Their children are Jacob Rutter, Mary Pauline, George Walker, Newton Kelso, Anna Virginia, Marie Antoinette, and Esther Cora."

JAMES MADISON WALKER, a prominent member of the Lancaster Bar with office in the Grant Law Building, North Duke street, descends from an old English family, the head of which was Anthony Walker, of St. Andrews Wardrobbe, London. The origin of the family dates, so far as is known, back to the sixteenth century from one DeForrester, a King's forester. A descendant adopted the name of Anthony Walker, from his occupation, a walker of the royal forests. This member died May 11, 1590, leaving an estate to be divided among his heirs, one of whom was Thomas Walker, Esq., of Westminster, who held various positions and titles of honor, among them Usher of the Court of Exchange, marked Proclamator and Baron of the Court of Common Pleas. He died Oct. 12, 1613, leaving a son, Clement Walker, Esq., of Middle Temple Hydon, County Somerset, who had special livery of his father's lands; he died in 1651.
John Walker, his son, celebrated as the one to introduce the system of fallowing land and of revising wheat crops more thoroughly than formerly, was a man of great intelligence who set an example of superior farm culture greatly needed at that period. He married into the ancient family of Heneage, descendants of Sir Robert Heneage, mentioned in history as living during the reign of Henry III, in the thirteenth century. The Heneage coat of arms was conferred upon the Walker family by this marriage. The family belonged to the Established Church. Lewis Walker, a descendant, became a follower of George Fox, the Quaker, and was disowned by his relatives and deprived of government honors; or as said by some one at the time, "he laid down these honors conferred by government."
Lewis Walker left England about 1684, and coming to Pennsylvania settled at, or near, Valley Forge, Chester county, on one thousand acres of land purchased from his friend and co-laborer in the Quaker faith, William Penn.
Asahel Walker, Esq. (2), son of Asahel Walker (I), was born Feb. 7, 1788, in Sadsbury township, and being a man of energy and ability set an example of thrift derived from his English ancestors. Asahel was the grand uncle of James M. Walker. He held office in the county, and married Sarah Coates, daughter of Samuel Coates, of Chester Valley, near Coatesville, the family being of English origin. Mrs. Coates had six brothers: Warrick, Samuel, Levi, Joseph, George and Richard. Samuel and Levi were ministers of the Society of Friends; Joseph was a doctor and practiced at Downingtown, Chester county. Asahel Walker (2) died Dec. 5, 1856; and his wife, Sarah, died May 5, 1869, in her seventy-eighth year. They had children: Anna, married to William P. Cooper, 1838; Susanna, married to Moses Pownall, 1838; Susanna, widow, married to Pusey Barnard; 1860; Phebe, married to William P. Cooper, 1848; Sarah, married to D. D. Linville, 1849; Samuel, married to Sarah L. Harris, 1855; Asahel (3), not married; Joseph C., married to Lucy H. Ellmaker, 1856; Mary Alice, married to Alfred Ellmaker, 1856; Margaretta, married to Frank J. Pennock, 1859; Asahel Walker (I), Asahel (2), and Asahel (3) successively owned and occupied an ancient stone mansion house historic on account of its associations with Revolutionary times, and the notorious Doane boys.
Isaac Walker, a son of Isaac Walker (brother of Asahel Walker (2) ), was born in Sadsbury township, Pa., Jan. 27, 1808. He was the son of Isaac and Deborah (Dickinson) Walker, grandson of Asahel and Anna (Moore) Walker, the great-grandson of Isaac and Sarah (Jarman) Walker, and the great-great-grandson of Lewis and Mary (Morris) Walker. The English genealogy is given in the biographical sketch of the Walker family in the Biographical History of Lancaster county.
Lewis Walker came originally from the Scottish border, but directly from Wales. He first settled in Philadelphia, but soon after purchased one thousand acres from William Penn and moved to Valley Forge. He built the first stone house at the place, and it still stands though in altered form. He donated ground for a Quaker meeting-house and cemetery. Washington used the house for his quarters, and the church was made a hospital. The land is still owned by Walker's descendants, all of whom have been Friends.
Isaac Walker was married Nov. 2, 1831, to Eliza Ann, daughter of Abner and Mercy Kinsey Brooke, of Sadsbury. She came of highly respected people, early settlers of Montgomery and Bucks counties. Eleven children were born as follows: Anna Maria; Mary Louisa; Isaac Buchanan; Eliza Josephine; Mercy Brooke; James Madison; Esther Jane; Sarah Frances; Abner Brooke and Deborah Dickinson, twins; and Isaac Lewis.
James Madison Walker, a well known attorney descended from this family, was educated in the public schools of his home, and later at the State Normal School at Millersville. He left school just before graduation to get married, afterward teaching in Colerain, Bart, Eden, and Drumore townships. While also serving as a justice of the peace in Colerain he read law with Alexander Harris, Esq., and received much help from Hon. Judge Livingston, who gave him access to his library and directed his studies. Admitted to practice in 1879, he was later on admitted to the Supreme and Superior courts. Returning to the Gap in 1886 he has since resided there. He was a notary public for six years, and postmaster under President Cleveland's second term. He held the full term, Congressman Brosius, a personal friend from normal school days, preventing his removal. Mr. Walker was associated with the District Attorney in the celebrated Barney Short murder trial, Mr. Brosius being counsel for defence.
Mr. Walker married Eliza Fawkes, daughter of Samuel and Phoebe (Hood) Fawkes, the father being a well known farmer of Sadsbury township, and brother of Joseph, inventor of the steam plow. The following children have been born to this union: Isaac Hampton, an electrician who died in Philadelphia in 1901, in his thirtieth year; William E., farming his father's farm in Sadsbury township, a very fertile hundred acre tract, part of the thousand acre "Penn Tract;" James Marshall, electrician at Gap engaged in electric and telephone supply business: and Joseph Louis, engaged with Townsend & Co., of Smyrna, having also served four years as his father's assistant as postmaster.
Mr. Walker lives in a lovely home at the Gap, spending one or two days a week in Lancaster attending to his large law practice. His residence commands a fine view of the magnificent Gap scenery, the famed Pequea Valley, etc. He is also almost within view of the country seat of his old friend ex-Attorney General W. U. Hensel, whose sketch will be found elsewhere. Mr. Walker is a Democrat and as such has served his party in numerous conventions, etc. He is a Master Mason, being a member of the Christiana Lodge, No. 417, F. & A. M. Mr. Walker rather inclines in his religious views toward the Friends, but is not a member. He is highly esteemed bv all who know him for his integrity, kindness and liberality.

(Source: Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, Pa., Beers, 1903, pp. 113-4.; Posted By: Carol Eddleman on PA-Roots.org, December 12 2001.)

Census:
aged 7, born in Pennsylvania

Census:
aged 17, born in Pennsylvania

Census:
aged 66, born in Pennsylvania as with both parents; lawyer; widowed; the census says "Salisbury Twp."--is this an error?

Died:
according to gravestone

Buried:
Sect. B.52 (b)

Family/Spouse: Lida Ann Fawkes. Lida was born on 9m 9, 1847; died on 22 Mar 1888; was buried in Sadsbury Friends Meeting, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Sadsbury Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
• Census: 1860, Smyra, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania

Notes:

Census:
aged 5, born in Pennsylvania

Census:
aged 14, born in Pennsylvania

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Sadsbury Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
• Census: 1860, Smyra, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
• Census: 1870, Smyra, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania

Notes:

She kept a journal which survives, held by descendants.

Census:
aged 1, born in Pennsylvania

Census:
aged 10, born in Pennsylvania

Census:
aged 21, born in Pennsylvania; living with her parents

Family/Spouse: Jacob Henry Hershey. Jacob and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1860, Smyra, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
• Census: 1870, Smyra, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
• Census: 1880, Sadsbury Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania

Notes:

"Isaac Lewis Walker is a graduate of Millersville Normal School. He is now conducting the homestead farm of his ancestors in Sadsbury."

Census:
aged 6, born in Pennsylvania

Census:
aged 16, born in Pennsylvania; farm laborer

Census:
aged 26, born in Pennsylvania

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, Robertson Co., Texas

Notes:

Census:
aged 7, born in Texas; father born in Virginia, mother in Pennsylvania

Buried:
Originally in the Walker-Roberts Cemetery; later moved

Family/Spouse: Daisy H.. Daisy was born on 7 Aug 1878; died on 2 Feb 1962 in Robertson Co., Texas; was buried in Bremond Cemetery, Bremond, Robertson Co., Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, Robertson Co., Texas

Notes:

Census:
aged 3, born in Texas; father born in Virginia, mother in Pennsylvania

Notes:

He is not included as one of the children in the biographies given under his parents because he had died before those biographies were written. He died only a year after his wedding. According to his gravestone, he was "a student at Christian Seminary, Drexel Institute, and Pearce's College, an Electrician with Walker S. Kepler, Phila., Married to Carrie s. Coffell Aug. 30, 1898."

Died:
Sect. B.52 (b)