George M. Walker

    George M. Walker is a native of Monroe County, Virginia, was born October 5, 1830, and is a son of Goodlow and Rebecca (Henderson) Walker, both natives of Virginia; the former born 1800, the latter 1804. Goodlow Walker was a son of George Walker, also a native of Virginia, who married a Miss Adams, then moved to Tennessee, and finally to Madison County, Indiana, where he died. He was twice married and the father of ten children. Goodlow Walker moved to Hendricks County, Indiana, in 1835, and there died in 1864m the father of five children, James D., Harriet S., Clarinda J., John E., and George M.

    Our subject married, October 6, 1853, Mary T., daughter of John M. and Martha E. (Branch) Satterwhite, and born March 27, 1836. In 1851, Mr. Walker moved to Montgomery County, Indiana, and September, 1862, enlisted in Company F, Fifty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Regiment, in which he served until December, 1863, during which time his family moved to Martinsville, where our subject made a home after his discharge from the service. He is now serving most satisfactorily as Superintendent of the Poor. Mr. and Mrs. Walker have a family of seven children -James H., Susan M., Ida T., Louisa E., George, Nettie B. and William A.

Source: Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.