COUNTY HISTORY:
According to the following information Sarah Walker, daughter of David and Pheriby married John Moran---PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, ILLINOIS-- Chicago: Champam Bros., 1892 pages 226 and 229--Christopher Walker, one of the extensive land-owners of this county, who has a highly improved farm of four hundred and ninety acres on section 35, North East Township, claims North Carolina as the State of his nativity. He was born in 1827 and is of Irish and English descent. He is one of a family of seven sons and two daughters: Sarah W., born in North Carolina, became the wife of John Moran, and died in Kansas; J. Branson is married, and resides in North East Township; Elizabeth is the wife of Samuel Dorsett, a farmer of Kansas; Jesse wedded Mary Davis. We now take up the personal history of our subject, who acquired his education in the district schools of North East township, but his privileges were very limited. His father was a cripple, and when quite a young man Christopher was obliged to turn his attention to the farm and the support of the family. He continued to work for his father until twenty-two years of age, when he started out in life for himself.
COUNTY HISTORY:
According to the following information Sarah Walker, daughter of David and Pheriby married John Moran---PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, ILLINOIS-- Chicago: Champam Bros., 1892 pages 226 and 229--Christopher Walker, one of the extensive land-owners of this county, who has a highly improved farm of four hundred and ninety acres on section 35, North East Township, claims North Carolina as the State of his nativity. He was born in 1827 and is of Irish and English descent. He is one of a family of seven sons and two daughters: Sarah W., born in North Carolina, became the wife of John Moran, and died in Kansas; J. Branson is married, and resides in North East Township; Elizabeth is the wife of Samuel Dorsett, a farmer of Kansas; Jesse wedded Mary Davis. We now take up the personal history of our subject, who acquired his education in the district schools of North East township, but his privileges were very limited. His father was a cripple, and when quite a young man Christopher was obliged to turn his attention to the farm and the support of the family. He continued to work for his father until twenty-two years of age, when he started out in life for himself.
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