When James Walker was born on 19 May 1829, in South Carolina, United States, his father, William Walker, was 25 and his mother, Sarah Marshall, was 36. He married Jane Kirkpatrick on 17 February 1859, in Randolph, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. He lived in Grand Cote Precinct, Perry, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Beaucoup, Washington, Illinois, United States in 1910. He died in 1911, in Illinois, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Hill Prairie Cemetery, Sparta, Randolph, Illinois, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
On August 31, 1835, in Charleston, South Carolina an angry mob takes control over the U-S mail and burns it in public.
In 1860, South Carolina quit the United States because its citizens were in favor of slavery and President Lincoln was not. The Civil War started a year later.
English (mainly North and Midlands) and Scottish: occupational name for a fuller, from Middle English walker, Old English wealcere (an agent derivative of wealcan ‘to walk, tread’), ‘one who trampled cloth in a bath of lye or kneaded it, in order to strengthen it’. This was the regular term for the occupation during the Middle Ages in western and northern England. Compare Fuller and Tucker . As a Scottish surname it has also been used as a translation of Gaelic Mac an Fhucadair ‘son of the fuller’. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
History: The name was brought to North America from northern England and Scotland independently by many different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Samuel Walker came to Lynn, MA, c. 1630; Philip Walker was in Rehoboth, MA, in or before 1643. The surname was also established in VA before 1650; a Thomas Walker, born in 1715 in King and Queen County, VA, was a physician, soldier, and explorer.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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