Samuel Cadwalder Walker Sr. was born in Pennsylvania and accompanied his parents on their removal to Frederick County, Virginia and there spent his life until Virginia became West Virginia in 1861. He secured his education in schools of Virginia where he studied theological lines and was ordained as a minister of the Baptist Church. His father was born in Maryland and his mother in Pennsylvania. Samuel was a millwright by trade and engaged in the mercantile business as a hotel keeper, i.e. where he owned and operated the North Western Hotel on Pike St. (later known as the Walker House) in Clarksburg, until his death 11 Aug 1883. He was buried in the IOOF Cemetery, South Chestnut St. Clarksburg where his wife (Elizabeth Streit Wilson) is also buried.
He married Elizabeth Streit Wilson, daughter of Henry Wilson and Elizabeth Streit, and granddaughter of the Rev. Christian and Susanna (Barr) Streit. Rev. Christian Streit was born in New Jersey, January 1749, and was graduated from the college of Philadelphia in 1768. He studied theology under the proprietorship of the famous Lutheran minister. Rev. Peter Muhlenberg, of Philadelphia, and when the latter, in December, 1775, organized the Eighth Virginia Regiment, Christian Streit was commissioned its chaplain. He continued to serve as chaplain in the Continental army, until taken prisoner by the British at the surrender of Charleston, South Carolina, July, 1777.
Mr. and Mrs. Walker had eight children: Streit; Elizabeth; Samuel Cadwallader Jr. served as a Sargent in the Union army, and is at present a government inspector at San Francisco, California, and has his permanent home in Barbour County. West Virginia; Henry Streit, of whom further; Allie, killed in battle while serving as a captain under General Early in the confederate army; Charles; Mary Elizabeth (1851 - 1855); Evelina Streit, married William Newton Smith, a prosperous and prominent farmer in Green County, Virginia.
Hotel Keeper or the Walker House on Pike Street in Clarksburg, West Virgina.
Buried in the IOOF Cemetery, South Chestnut St, Clarksburg, Clark District West Virginia
He married Elizabeth Streit Wilson, daughter of Henry Wilson and Elizabeth Streit, and granddaughter of the Rev. Christian and Susanna (Barr) Streit. Rev. Christian Streit was born in New Jersey, January 1749, and was graduated from the college of Philadelphia in 1768. He studied theology under the proprietorship of the famous Lutheran minister. Rev. Peter Muhlenberg, of Philadelphia, and when the latter, in December, 1775, organized the Eighth Virginia Regiment, Christian Streit was commissioned its chaplain. He continued to serve as chaplain in the Continental army, until taken prisoner by the British at the surrender of Charleston, South Carolina, July, 1777.
Mr. and Mrs. Walker had eight children: Streit; Elizabeth; Samuel Cadwallader Jr. served as a Sargent in the Union army, and is at present a government inspector at San Francisco, California, and has his permanent home in Barbour County. West Virginia; Henry Streit, of whom further; Allie, killed in battle while serving as a captain under General Early in the confederate army; Charles; Mary Elizabeth (1851 - 1855); Evelina Streit, married William Newton Smith, a prosperous and prominent farmer in Green County, Virginia.
Hotel Keeper or the Walker House on Pike Street in Clarksburg, West Virgina.
Buried in the IOOF Cemetery, South Chestnut St, Clarksburg, Clark District West Virginia
Samuel Cadwalder Walker Sr. was born in Pennsylvania and accompanied his parents on their removal to Frederick County, Virginia and there spent his life until Virginia became West Virginia in 1861. He secured his education in schools of Virginia where he studied theological lines and was ordained as a minister of the Baptist Church. His father was born in Maryland and his mother in Pennsylvania. Samuel was a millwright by trade and engaged in the mercantile business as a hotel keeper, i.e. where he owned and operated the North Western Hotel on Pike St. (later known as the Walker House) in Clarksburg, until his death 11 Aug 1883. He was buried in the IOOF Cemetery, South Chestnut St. Clarksburg where his wife (Elizabeth Streit Wilson) is also buried.
He married Elizabeth Streit Wilson, daughter of Henry Wilson and Elizabeth Streit, and granddaughter of the Rev. Christian and Susanna (Barr) Streit. Rev. Christian Streit was born in New Jersey, January 1749, and was graduated from the college of Philadelphia in 1768. He studied theology under the proprietorship of the famous Lutheran minister. Rev. Peter Muhlenberg, of Philadelphia, and when the latter, in December, 1775, organized the Eighth Virginia Regiment, Christian Streit was commissioned its chaplain. He continued to serve as chaplain in the Continental army, until taken prisoner by the British at the surrender of Charleston, South Carolina, July, 1777.
Mr. and Mrs. Walker had eight children: Streit; Elizabeth; Samuel Cadwallader Jr. served as a Sargent in the Union army, and is at present a government inspector at San Francisco, California, and has his permanent home in Barbour County. West Virginia; Henry Streit, of whom further; Allie, killed in battle while serving as a captain under General Early in the confederate army; Charles; Mary Elizabeth (1851 - 1855); Evelina Streit, married William Newton Smith, a prosperous and prominent farmer in Green County, Virginia.
Hotel Keeper or the Walker House on Pike Street in Clarksburg, West Virgina.
Buried in the IOOF Cemetery, South Chestnut St, Clarksburg, Clark District West Virginia
He married Elizabeth Streit Wilson, daughter of Henry Wilson and Elizabeth Streit, and granddaughter of the Rev. Christian and Susanna (Barr) Streit. Rev. Christian Streit was born in New Jersey, January 1749, and was graduated from the college of Philadelphia in 1768. He studied theology under the proprietorship of the famous Lutheran minister. Rev. Peter Muhlenberg, of Philadelphia, and when the latter, in December, 1775, organized the Eighth Virginia Regiment, Christian Streit was commissioned its chaplain. He continued to serve as chaplain in the Continental army, until taken prisoner by the British at the surrender of Charleston, South Carolina, July, 1777.
Mr. and Mrs. Walker had eight children: Streit; Elizabeth; Samuel Cadwallader Jr. served as a Sargent in the Union army, and is at present a government inspector at San Francisco, California, and has his permanent home in Barbour County. West Virginia; Henry Streit, of whom further; Allie, killed in battle while serving as a captain under General Early in the confederate army; Charles; Mary Elizabeth (1851 - 1855); Evelina Streit, married William Newton Smith, a prosperous and prominent farmer in Green County, Virginia.
Hotel Keeper or the Walker House on Pike Street in Clarksburg, West Virgina.
Buried in the IOOF Cemetery, South Chestnut St, Clarksburg, Clark District West Virginia
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