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Meriwether Lewis Walker (1795–1860)

Role

Walker was a debtor of Bushrod Washington.

Description

Meriwether Lewis Walker was born on 27 August 1795 in Albemarle County, Virginia. He was a grandson of Dr. Thomas Walker (17151794), a close friend of and physician to the father of Thomas Jefferson.

Citations

Richard Channing Moore Page, Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia, 2nd edition (New York: Publishers’ Printing Company, 1893), 234.

Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), 9293.

Meriwether Lewis Walker Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Richmond Times-Dispatch, 3 January 1904, page 20, column 3 (Newspapers.com).

Meriwether L. Walker in Virginia, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 17401850 (Ancestry.com).

Meriwether L. Walker in Virginia, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 18531917 (Ancestry.com).

M L Walker in 1860 United States Federal Census (Ancestry.com).

Meriwether Lewis Walker at Find a Grave.