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1881 HISTORY OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Inter-State Publishing Company
Chicago, Illinois, 1881






Page 1020

ENOCH WALKER was born in Lowden, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, July 17, 1820. When twelve years of age moved with his parents on a farm in Wayne, (now Ashland county) Ohio, where he married Miss Elizabeth M. Wilson, June 22, 1847. She was born in Ashland county, Ohio, and was a daughter of Charles Wilson and Mary Anderson. In 1849 Mr. Walker moved on a farm in Indiana, where he remained ten months, when he came to Illinois and settled in Salisbury township, Sangamon county, the fall of 1850. Six months after he went to Gardner township and lived two years, when he bought and moved on the farm where he now lives, in section twenty-eight, Salisbury township. His wife, Elizabeth M. Walker died April, 1853. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and the mother of three children, viz: Mrs. Mary E. Mock, Mrs. Sarah J. Campbell and Miss Harriet Walker. Mr. Walker was again married November 30, 1853, to Miss Jane Hall. She was born in Ohio and was a daughter of Margaret Rawlston. Mrs. Walker was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and died July 13, 1854. Mr. Walker was married to his present wife, Miss Caroline P. Craig, December 4, 1854. She was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and was a daughter of William Craig. His wife, Lillian S. Skinner, was born in Pennsylvania. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church and has had six children - four living, viz: Lillian, John W., Annie E., and Enoch W. Walker. The father of Mr. Enoch Walker, John Walker, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a farmer, and by trade a tanner. He settled in Gardner township, Sangamon county, Illinois, in 1849. He died September 21, 1859; he was a member of the Presbyterian Church. His wife, Elizabeth Skinner, was born in Pennsylvania; she was also a member of the Presbyterian Church and mother of ten children - eight living - six boys and two girls. Mr. Enoch Walker has a farm of one hundred and two acres in Salisbury township, under good cultivation.


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