Henry Walker, a son of Edward
and Mahala (Tussey) Walker, was born 21 April 1818
probably at his
parents' home on Mulberry Creek although possibly
on Bays Mountain. He died on 11 October 1871 at Walker's
Ford on the Union County side. He is buried in a
marked grave in Gose Cemetery in the Bear Creek area
of Claiborne County.
He first married Lucinda Doherty. Although her tombstone,
one shared with Henry, indicates that she was born in
1826, the tombstone apparently was made many years after
her death, and she was born about 1823 at the latest
and possibly earlier. Evidence of Lucinda's parentage
is circumstantial but increasingly strong that she was
the daughter of Jane Overton and a much older man, William
Doherty, who lived just down the road from the Walkers
at the intersection of Little Sycamore and Mulberry
Gap Roads. After William Doherty died, Jane Overton
married Henry's uncle, Samuel, who would have raised
Lucinda.
Photo taken 5/30/2003
by Tim Walker.
Henry, a Methodist circuit rider and known Union sympathizer,
and Lucinda married 21 July 1839 in Claiborne County,
probably at Mulberry. They moved to the Bear Creek area
and what was then the Claiborne County side of Walker's
Ford in 1858 and moved to Union County a few years later.
They had 8 children before Lucinda died in 1866 probably
at Walker's Ford in Union County. She, too, is buried
in Gose Cemetery.
Henry then married Martha Jane Hatfield, who was born
1 September 1840 in Claiborne County in the Mulberry
area; they were married sometime between 1866 and 1869
probably in Hancock County. Martha had other connections
to the family: she was the daughter of Adam Yeary Hatfield
and Mary Fulkerson Davis, and Mary's sister Martha had
married Henry Walker's brother Jacob. Martha and Henry
only had one child before Henry died, and then Martha
married William Newton Click and had several more children.
Even her second marriage was related in that William
was the brother of Andrew J. Click who married the oldest
daughter, Elizabeth (Lizzie), of Jacob Shuff and Martha
(Davis) Walker.
Henry and Martha's one child, Charley, accidentally
shot himself in 1887 while cleaning his gun. Martha
would live until 12 April 1918, when she died at Mulberry
Gap. She is buried with her second husband in the Click
Cemetery on Ramsey Road directly across from Mulberry
Gap itself.
