Jane was the daughter of John Walker and Katherine Rutherford from Wigton, Scotland, who lived for a while in County Down, Ireland. She was part of the Walker Family group who immigrated from Ireland to North America about 1730. Jane's family settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where she married James Moore in April 1734.

A few years later, James Moore, along with some members of Jane's family, settled along what is today Walker's Creek in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Here they raised a a large family, and today their descendants number in the many hundreds, all across the United States. One of their sons was James Moore who died in the 1786 massacre at Abb's Valley, Tazewell County, Virginia, and whose daughter Mary is the frontier heroine Mary Moore, the subject of the book Captives of Abbs Valley.

Jane and James lived for many years on Middle River, Augusta County, Virginia, with their daughter Rachael McPheeters She died at the home of her daughter, Jane Moore Walker, wife of Joseph Culton Walker, near the Bent of Buffalo Creek in the Fancy Hill District, about 9 miles southwest of Lexington.

The family were devout Presbyterians. Their 10 children were: 1. Margaret (m. Absalom Looney); 2. John (m. Mary Ann Ellet); 3. Rachael (m. William McPheeters); 4. Mary (m. Samuel Paxton, also Alexander Stuart); 5. James III (m. Martha Pogue); 6. Jane (m. Joseph Culton Walker, her second cousin); 7. Elizabeth (m. Michael Coulter); 8. Joseph (m. Maragaret Coulter and also Eleanor Marquis ); 9. Alexander and 10. Samuel. (Some are not in birth order and not all their burial places are known.)

There are many genealogies and histories written about the family and their descendants, particularly The Descendants of John Walker of Wigton, Scotland, by Emma Siggins White, 1902; Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical by William Henry Foote 1850; Captives of Abb's Valley, published 1854, also a newer edition edited by Robert Bell Woodworth with Moore genealogy; History of Rockbridge County, Virginia by Oren F. Morton, 1920.

Regarding Walkerland Cemetery: "The Walker family deeded the cemetery to the New Providence Church. There are many unmarked stones. Moore, Jane Walker, 1712 - 1793, w/o James (Moore), d/o John Walker the Immigrant" - Rockbridge County, Virginia, Cemeteries: South River & Walker Creek Districts, Angela Ruley, Author, Rockbridge Area Genealogical Society, Rockbridge Baths, VA

Walkerland Cemetery is on private property.

Written by Suzanne Wesbrook Frantz, 5th great granddaughter