2. Charles James² Walker (¹) (#88) was born ABT 1795.⁽⁶⁹⁴⁾ Charles died October 1878 at 83 years of age.⁽⁶⁹⁵⁾

He married Harriet Wright in Nelson County, Kentucky, United States, November 24, 1818.⁽⁶⁹⁶⁾ (Harriet Wright is #89.) Harriet was born ABT 1795.⁽⁶⁹⁷⁾ Harriet was the daughter of Joseph Wright and Mumford. Harriet died 1853 at 58 years of age.⁽⁶⁹⁸⁾

Charles James Walker and Harriet Wright had the following children:

3 i. Mary Jane³ Walker (#78) was born in Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky, United States September 22, 1822.⁽⁶⁹⁹⁾ Mary died June 22, 1891 in Switz City, Greene County, Indiana, United States, at 68 years of age.⁽⁷⁰⁰⁾ She married Daniel Gregg Dixon April 17, 1839.⁽⁷⁰¹⁾ (Daniel Gregg Dixon is #77.) Daniel was born February 20, 1816.⁽⁷⁰²⁾ Daniel was the son of Samuel J. Dixon and Sarah Gregg. Daniel died January 29, 1874 at 57 years of age.⁽⁷⁰³⁾ (See Daniel Gregg Dixon for the continuation of this line.) "On the day of her parents' departure for Texas, MARY JANE WALKER was married to DANIEL G. DIXON, at the age of sixteen" "The WALKERs in Texas became slave holders and held with the Southern view of the political issue of the day. Two brothers, CHARLES and JAMES, enlisted in Texas, were captured and landed in the Indianapolis prison stockade. DANIEL DIXON secured their parole and brought them home. JAMES the youngest brother who MARY had never seen, was reconstructed, enlisted in Northern Army. He died in 1865, somewhere in Kentucky on his way to the front. His body was shipped to Indianapolis, teamed to Greene County, where he lies beside his sister MARY JANE in the Dixon Cemetery." "There is an unverified record of MARY JANE and DANIEL G. DIXON residing in Vigo County, Indiana but their first permanent home appears to have been at Point Commerce, a defunct village on the heights across the Eel River from Worthington. The next permanent home record we have is the Old Dixon Homestead west of the extinct Dixon Station." "MARY JANE was a modern patriarch, ruling her family to her last active days. During an illness she required the presence of Mother, ANNA DIXON HUNT, and the Pennsylvania Railroad called out a section crew with a hand pump car and issued orders for them to run from Switz City to Dixon Station and return after midnight carrying my Mother; I also was a passenger. This was done perhaps to mollify her for killing a cow, which the railroad would not pay for, claiming the cow trespassed. The family skeleton has whispered that she at one time greased the rails of the Dixon Hill in retaliation. Grandmother was a country Doctor of her time and was widely consulted. She physiced the adult generation of Fairplay Township, then brought their offspring into this world and repeated on them. It is of record she was the first licensed woman doctor in Indiana."<2> Physician Licence Record #1 MARY J. DIXON September 17, 1885 (page 23) <9> ".....my first recollection of my Grandmother started in about 1880. She occupied a small house, one of two on the land; the other was occupied for awhile by your Grandparents, (CHARLES and MARY E. DIXON). DAN DIXON was born there. She also owned some vacant lots on the west side of the railroad, some small residences and a store building. In this building she had a small general stock of goods, was Post Mistress and practiced medicine in her own home. She had NELSON GASKINS, who had married KATE AMODINE, as a helper. WALKER GASKINS was born there, as well as myself." "Part of the ground occupied by Grandmother was tilled and part was an unfenced pasture used by her own cows and hogs, also her neighbor's stock too, few fenced in their stock. Her hogs strayed farther often but her good calling was equal to any distance up to two miles. She had a strong carrying voice and I believe would have taken a prize in a modern hog calling contest." "All this has disappeared from the scene now; even the hill on which the railroad's rails were said have been greased by her, have been graded out of existence."<3> "Old Mrs. DIXON who in her way was a superior nurse, knew all the roots and herbs possessing medical properties which grew in the woods and the prairies and always kept a store on hand. She presided at the entry into this world of most the children born in the Township."<5> Sources: <2> Letter of Nathan Dixon Hunt to Spencer Dixon, dated 30 Jan 1945 <3> Letter of Nathan Dixon Hunt to Spencer Dixon, dated 12 Feb 1945 <4> Letter of Nathan Dixon Hunt to Wick Miller, dated 07 Mar 1945 <5> "History of Greene and Sullivan Counties, Indiana" -- 1884 <9> Greene County Records, Bloomfield, IN Courthouse

4 ii. Elizabeth Sweet Walker (#264) was born June 16, 1824.⁽⁷⁰⁴⁾ Elizabeth died AFT 1866. She married William Pleasant Thorp July 21, 1841. (William Pleasant Thorp is #313.) William died AFT 1865. (See William Pleasant Thorp for the continuation of this line.)

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