Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6401, William Walker, N.C. S.C.
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(3-1776)
Service
NC
SC
Walker, William
Sarah
Number W6401
Contents
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6285
Georgia
Sarah Walker, deed
widow of William 
NC Walker
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private of Arty and Infy
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 91-- Dollars 66--
cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. and end April 1st 1850.
Certificate of Pension issued the 
21st day of August 1854
and sent to 
James G Austin
Present

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 216  Vol 3.
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Nancy Walker
Daughter of William
Walker and Sarah Walker 
his wife was born
July 9th 1790
Rebekah Walker was
born March 30th 1792
Susannah Walker was 
Born September the 
5th 1794,
Abby Walker was 
born December the 8th 1797
[Abby Walker was born December the 8th 1797 was stuck out with a single line]
Abi Walker was born December 28th 1797
Martha Walker was
born December 16 [unclear if 6 or 8] 1800
1800
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Elizabeth Walker, daughter of William Walker and Sarah Walker-his wife-was born August 3rd [year ineligible].

Rachel Walker, daughter of William Walker and Sarah Walker-his wife-was born March 4th, 1782.

Mary Walker, daughter of William Walker and Sarah Walker-his wife-was born November 19th, 178[last number not shown].

Sarah Walker, daughter of William Walker and Sarah Walker-his wife-was born July 3rd, 1786.

Jemima Walker, daughter of William Walker and Sarah Walker-his wife-was born April 24th 1788.
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Washington, D.C
December 27, 1852

James E. Heath, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,

Herein please find certain papers in support of the Revolutionary claim of the heirs of William Walker deceased, also of his widow Sarah under the Act of 7th July 1838. Georgia Suspended Roll of Revolutionary Pension Claims. It is trusted that upon reexamination of the claims that the enclosed evidence together with that on fill will prove satisfactory to the admission of said claim. 

Respectfully Yours,
James G. Austin
Attorney, Present
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State of Georgia
County of Oglethorpe 

I, John A. Fambrough, of the County of Clarke and State of Georgia. being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is sixty six years of age, thar he is the duly appointed Administrator of the Estate of Sarah Walker deceased widow of William Walker also deceased, that same time in the year 1845 the said Sarah made an application to the Pension Office and filed her papers in support of her claim to a pension as widow of her late husband the said William, and that for some cause her application was suspended and she died in the first day of April 1851 without having received her pension and that as her Administrator and in behalf of the only surviving children herein after mentioned he makes this Deposition and Declaration in order to obtain the amount of Pension due the said Sarah under the Act of July 7th 1838 up to the time of her death aforesaid that at the time of the death of the said Sarah she left seven children only her and her said late husband surviving and whose names and places of residence is as follows: viz: Rachael Dunston residing in Troup County, Georgia, Jemmima Scott residing in Newton County, Georgia, Margaret Megahee residing in Walton County, Georgia, Sarah Allen residing in Jasper County, Georgia, Martha Durham residing in Clark County, Georgia, Abi Fambrough residing in the County and State last aforesaid, and Nancy Sorrel residing in Madison County, State of Mississippi all of them are above the age of twenty one years, and he respectfully refer to the papers on file, as we the annexed depositions in support of this application that the said Sarah Walker
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and her late husband during their lifetime were highly respectable people. And especially, Mrs. Sarah Walker up to the time of her death enjoyed the confidence of her neighbors and numerous acquaintances. And that her Statements made by her in her application for a pension is established to the highest credit.

James G. Austin of the city of Washington D.C. is hereby authorized as my Attorney for me and in my name as such Administrator to take all proper and honorable steps to obtain the allowance of pension as aforesaid and to receive any certificate of pension which may be issued on this application.

Subscribed and sworn this 13th day of December 1852 before me by the above named John A. Fambrough who is personally known to me and further that the said John A. Fambrough is a credible person and his statements are entitled to credit.

Franklin C. Campbell (Justice of the Peace)
John A. Fambrough (Administrator of Sarah Walker, deceased)
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7 July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.

State of Georgia
Oglethorpe County

On this 8th day of May 1845 personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for said County and State the same being a Court of record Mrs. Sally Walker a resident of the County and State aforesaid aged Eighty years past who being first duly sworn and according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress of the 7 July 1838 instilled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows that she is the widow of William Walker who was a Private Soldier and served in the War of the Revolution in the United States Artillery two years or upwards the Troop and Ridgement in which he served not known that she knows nothing of her own knowledge of the said William Walker's services as aforesaid and knows of no person now living who can testify of their own knowledge other than Matthew Varner whose affidavit she has in possession but that she has frequently heard her said husband William Walker say in his lifetime that he resided in Anson County, State of North Carolina and enlisted in the service of the United States for the Term of year about the commencement of the War of the Revolution and entered the services at Salisbury State of North Carolina as a private and marched from thence to Charleston State of South Carolina where he was forted or stationed to guard the City until his Term of Service expired and he was legally and honourably discharged in the year 1778 which discharge she had in her possession several years after her
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said husbands death and handed the said discharge to her neighbor John A. Fambrough who agreed to investigate and obtain the Bounty land due her said husband for Revolutionary services which said discharge she has never seen and she handed it to the said Fambrough that she is not certain that her said husband was in the Artillery Service but believes so from the fact of his being engaged in attending to the cannon that he frequently related to her that standing so near in priming and setting the math to the cannon that its report created a deafness which lasted him to his death.

Deponents further states that the said William Walker deed on the day of January Eighteen hundred and twenty two in Oglethorpe County, Georgia and this deponent further declares that she was legally married to the said William Walker on the day of seventeen hundred and eighty eight or nine in Rowan County State of North Carolina that she knows of no persons living who could testify to the fact. That she has no documentary evidence of the fact further than her family registry which contains a true registry of her children ages in the order of their births registered in the handwriting of her said husband that she removed from North Carolina to the State of Georgia Oglethorpe County where her husband died on the day aforesaid.

That she has remained a widow ever since the period of her husband's death that she was not married prior to her husband's last service but was married from to the 1st day of January 1794 viz about the years above stated all of which will more fully appear by reference to proof.

Sally Walker ('X'/her mark)
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The foregoing Declaration Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first written before me a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for the County of Oglethorpe, State of Georgia. I further certify that Mrs. Sally Walker the Declarant is from bodily infirmity unable to attend Court and that the leaf hereunto annexed purporting Co[remaining letters not on page] be a family registry was cut out of the family Bible in the possession of the Declarant and here unto annexed by me. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand officially this the 8th day of May 1845.

('X')(Walker enterlined before signing)
James H. McWhorter 

In presence of 'X' (walker enterlined before signing)
George Nicholson 
John A. Fambrough

State of Georgia
Oglethorpe County

Be it known that om this the 8th day if May 1845 before me James H. McWhorter a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for said County and State personally appeared John A. Fambrough a resident of Clark County, State aforesaid aged fifty five year past who being first duly sworn saith on oath that he has been acquainted with William Walker and Sarah Walker the Declarant for the space for thirty years or more part and with their refuted children Elizabeth their eldest, he believes to be older than himself that the discharge of the said William Walker was handed deponent, several years since for the purpose of investigating and assertaining whether or not the land Bounty due him by the State of North Carolina for Revolutionary services could be obtained that he went to Nashville, Tennessee where ascertained that the Bounty had been regranted to the University
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of North Carolina that he deponent employed an Attorney by the name of Huntsman to commence suit for the recovery of the land that he handed the said discharge to May Meriweather who was going to Tennessee and requested him to hand the discharge with the affidavit of identity made by Matthew Varner a Revolutionary Soldier who knew the said William Walker from and before his first enlistment that he deponent never commenced his said suit but that suits were then pending as he was informed of the same nature against the said University of North Carolina which was afterwards decided in favor of the University as he was informed by his said Attorney he then declined commencing suit as decision had been made unfavorable that he has never been able to get the said discharge returned to him by his said Attorney but that from his nullition the purport of the said discharge was that the said William Walker was honourably discharged from the Continental on Regular Service of the United States at Charleston, State of South Carolina perhaps in the year 1778, too the date not collected deponent further states that the said William Walker died several years since leaving Sarah Walker the Declarant his widow and that she is still his widow.

Sworn to and subscribed on this day and year above written before me.

James H. McWhorter
John A. Fambrough ('X' his mark)

I further certify that the said John A. Fambrough is an intelligent respectable and creditable witness this 8 day of May 1845.

James H. McWhorter
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Rev. and 1812
War Section
MCS: MLB

October 20, 1930

Hon. M. C. Tarver
Member of Congress
Dalton, Georgia

My dear Mr. Tarver:

Reference is made to your letter of October 13, requesting information pertaining to William Walker, a soldier of the Revolution.

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 6401, that William Walker, while a resident of Anson County, North Carolina, enlisted and served as a private in Captain O. Roberts' South Carolina company of artillery, and was discharged January 3, 1778, having served at least eighteen months. He also served five months as a private in Captain Drury Ledbetter's North Carolina company, and was discharged April 10, 1779. 

He married in 1778 or 1779, in Rowan County, North Carolina, Sarah Lambert.

He died January 24, 1822, in Oglethorpe County, Georgia.

His widow, Sarah Walker, applied for pension May 8, 1845, at which time she was eighty years of age and a resident of Oglethorpe County, Georgia. The claim was allowed. 

Sarah Walker died April 1, 1850 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia.

The family record shows the following children of William and Sarah Walker:

Elizabeth born August 3, ----(year torn from record)
Rachel born March 14, 1782
Mary born November 19, 178-(torn from record)
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Children continued -

Sarah born July 3, 1786
Jemima born April 24, 1788
Nancy born July 9, 1790
Rebekah born March 30, 1792
Susannah born September 5, 1794
Abi born December 28, 1797
Martha born December 16, 1800.

The children who survived their mother, Sarah Walker, were as follows:

Rachel Dunstan, a resident of Troup County, Georgia
Jemima Scott. a resident of Newton County, Georgia
Margaret Megahee, a resident of Walton County, Georgia
Sarah Allen, a resident of Jasper County, Georgia
Martha Durham, a resident of Clarke County, Georgia
Abi Farnbrough, a resident of Clarke County, Georgia
Nancy Sorrell, a resident of Madison County, Mississippi

Very truly yours 

E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
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Revy. WIDOW, &c.

File No. 6401
Sarah Walker
Widow
William Walker
Pvt. Rev. War
Act: Feby 2nd, 48
Index:-Vol. M, Page 306

[Arrangement of 1870]

May 5-1903. His. to
Mr. S. Paul Cutter
Gainesville, Tex.

1930.Oct.20. hist. to Hon. M. C. Tarver