Joannah (Elliott) Walker

--b. June 6, 1791 Jeffrson Co. TN
--d. abt 1860 Blount Co., Tennessee
--m. James B. WALKER
--April 14, 1816 Blount Co., TN
----b. abt 1793 Tennessee
----d. 1850/60 probably Blount Co. TN

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My Websites for Joannah

• Job(e) Legacy - Gedcom on Rootsweb World Connect

  	JOB(E) LEGACY Descendants of Andrew Job Jr

• 1830 Blount Co., TN

  Page 306- Eastern Division:
  
  JAMES B. WALKER =212001-0200001= 9 White
  
  (Neighbors: John Panther & Pleasant Taylor)
  

• 1840 Blount Co., TN

• 1850 Blount Co., TN, 8th Civil District, #730-730
  --enumerated Oct 27, 1850

  WALKER         Jas. B.       56   M          Tenn
  WALKER         Joanna        56   F          Tenn
  WALKER         Elizabeth     21   F          Tenn
  WALKER         Josiah A.     16   M          Tenn
  

• 1860 Blount Co., TN

  Hiram           38  M W       Farmer          500     675     Tn
  Mariam          34  F W                                       Tn 
  Betsey          33  F W                                       Tn 
  Joanna          69  F W                                       Tn
  James A.        12  M W                                       Tn
  John UNGE?      11  M W                                       Tn
  

1. William Walker

   --b. January 20, 1817 Blount Co., TN
   --d. after 1840
   
   

2. Anderson Walker

   --b. August 18, 1818 Blount Co., TN
   --m. Mrs. Jane OGLE
   --January 9, 1845 Blount Co., TN
   ----b. 1806
   ----d. 1850/60 Blount Co., TN
   
   

3. Amerine Walker

   --b. January 29, 1820 Blount Co., TN
   
   

4. Hiram Walker

   --b. January 25, 1821 Blount Co., TN
   --d. March 20, 1897 Blount Co., TN
   ----buried Williamson Cemetery, Blount Co, TN
   
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   --m/1 Mary Ann McTEER
   --January 7, 1847 Blount Co., TN
   ----b. September 1818 Tennessee
   ----d. 1870/1880 Blount Co., TN
   ------buried Williamson Cemetery, Blount Co, TN
   ------d/o James McTeer and Jeanette McTeer
   --------gd/o Robert McTeer and Agnes Ann MARTIN
   ----------gt gd/o James McTeer and Margaret ANDERSON
   ----------gt gd/o William Martin and Margaret -
   

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   --m/2 Nancy Jane McGHEE
   --1870/1880 probably Blount Co., TN
   ----b. 1830 Tennessee
   ----d. after 1880 Blount Co., TN
   

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   --m/3 Laura 'Loy' 'Loye' MELSON
   --abt 1891 Blount Co., TN
   ----b. October 5, 1873 Tennessee
   ----d. April 18, 1947 Blount Co., TN
   ----Laura m/2 Gus STEELE
   ------d/o Mary Catherine BREWER and -
   --------gd/o Nicholas Brewer and Elizabeth Ann DUNN
   ----------gt gd/o James Brewer and Betsy TURNBULL
   ----------gt gd/o Levi Dunn and Elizabeth HURST
   ------------2nd gt gd/o Daniel Dunn and Rhoda -
   ------------2nd gt gd/o John Hurst and Lydia Ann SMITH
   

   Laura 'Loy' Melson Walker Steele
   Courtesy of Brenda Reagan

   Per Research of Brenda Reagan (June 2009)

   When she married him, she was a teenager, and he was in his 70's. There is an interesting story I heard from an oldtimer, now deceased.

   Loy (a nickname) was not really a Melson, as her mother Catherine Brewer, had her before she married Andrew "Andy" Melson. After the marriage, they called her "Loy Melson." Her mother and step-father rented a house from Hiram Walker. He would come to visit in the later evening and get invited to eat with the family. He talked to the parents and looked at "Loy." When time came to pay rent, they went to his house to pay, but he told them they did not owe as he'd just visit and eat with them occasionally. The occasions became more frequently. (His first and second wife and only son had all died.) Finally, he showed up one evening with a ring. He ask her parents for her hand in marriage, and they called her in to tell her. She wanted to think about this. The oldtimer said she did not much want to marry him, but her parents gave her a talk about, "we are poor folk, and he owns lots of land. He is old and has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel."

   She married him, and he lived about 8 years. They had two children, my grandfather, Hiram Elmer Walker (b. 8 Oct 1892) and Grace Walker Shipley (b. 1889)

   

5. Nancy Walker

   --b. December 8, 1823 Blount Co., TN
   
   

6. Mary Walker

   --b. November 18, 1825 Blount Co., TN
   
   

7. Elizabeth 'Betsy' Walker

   --b. March 11, 1828 Blount Co., TN
   
   

8. Katy Walker

   --b. May 21, 1829 Blount Co., TN
   
   

9. Josiah A. Walker

   --b. January 15, 1833 Blount Co., TN
   

If you have any old photos for any descendants of this family, please send to me at

Ann (Jobe) Brown

• Katharine Reynolds (1968-1973)

• Bill Jobe (1969-1975)

• Randy Jobe (1998-2009)

• Brenda Reagan (2009)

• "The Leath (Leeth/Leith) Family History, Volume 1, by Leslie R. Waltman and Andrew L. Leath - Andy Leath

• Richard Elliott Schier (2008-2009)