Text of this historical biography from "A History of Louisa County" (Iowa). Please note that Francis S. Walker was born in Tennessee, Catherine Pearsey in Virginia, not the other way around. This was apparently written in about 1907-1909, when Louvinia Church Walker was in New Mexico with the family of Charles Francis Walker: C. P. WalkerOne of Louisa County's agriculturists who donned the blue and went to the front in those perilous days of the [18]'60s is C. P. Walker, who was born in Wayne County, Indiana, on the 13th of April, 1843. He is the son of Francis S. and Catherine Pearsey Walker, natives of Virginia and Tennessee respectively [sic - Tennessee and Virginia], both of whom have passed away. They were parents of eight children, in order of birth as follows: Vashti, the widow of John Edgar, of Henry County; Leander, deceased; Louvinia, of New Mexico; Rebecca, deceased; William P. of Missouri; C. P., our subject; Clarinda Ann, the wife of William Edgar, Henry County; and Maggie, the wife of Jesse Vaughn, of Sioux City. C. P. Walker came to Iowa with his family in 1856, locating in Henry County, where he worked as a farm hand for one year, and then went to Des Moines County where he remained for five years [note: working as a farm hand]. At the expiration of that period he returned to Henry County where he continued to reside until the 22nd of November, 1862, when he enlisted in the Union army, going to the front with the Thirty-fourth Infantry. He was sent from Helena, Arkansas to Chicago with Rebel prisoners, and from the latter city he went to Vicksburg, where he joined General Sherman, participating in the siege of that southern stronghold. On the 15th of August 1865, he was mustered out at Houston, Texas, and was paid off on the 22nd of September, 1865, at Davenport, Iowa. Mr. Walker was at Fort Morgan when Farragut ran the blockade and captured the Confederate ironclad, Tennessee. After receiving his discharge he returned to Henry County, Iowa, where he farmed an eighty acre tract which he rented three years. At the end of that time he was married and subsequently, went to Nebraska, where he resided for a year. Returning to Iowa in 1869, he rented one hundred and twenty acres for fourteen years and then went to Texas for a year. In 1884 he came to Louisa County, where he purchased three hundred acres of land, but he has since disposed of all but fifty-seven acres, upon which he continues to reside. He has placed all improvements upon his property and is engaged in general farming and stock-raising. On the 4th of July, 1868, Mr. Walker was united in marriage to Miss Ruth E. Fox, and by this union there were born eight children as follows: Samuel N., a resident of Louisa county; Everna, the wife of E. C. Frizzell, of Clark[e] county; Albert, deceased; Thomas, at home; Leander, also of Louisa county [note: Charles Leander, "Uncle Lee"]; Flossie, who married John Russell, of this county; James G., at home and John, deceased. The wife and mother passed away in December, 1890 [sic: December 29, 1889] and for his second wife Mr. Walker married Mrs. Sarah A. (Houseman) Edgar, the widow of Thomas Edgar. They were wed on 6th of July, 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Walker affiliate with the Christian church, and he is also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. His first vote was cast for Abraham Lincoln on a steamer on the Mississippi River, and his political allegiance has ever since been given to the Republican Party. He has never participated in public affairs, not being an aspirant for office, but when his services are needed in the support of any just cause he is ever found to be as willing and loyal as his allegiance was in the [18]60's. |
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