Walker County Records

Walker County was created in 1833 from Murray County. It appears that most of the first estates and will records here lost or burned. Some early settlers were G. W. Cook, H. S. Allgood, Thomas Abercrombie, A. M. Agnew, L. W. Bowles, James Bond, William B. Bird and Enoch Boss, Benjamin Hunt, Jack Puryear, Jeff Ponder, Dr. Adam Clements, Newton White, James Keown, Newton Keown, John Tate, William Hammontree, Jesse Griffin, Riley Stansell, Adam Davis, John Cavender, A. C. Word, W. M. Underwood, Needham Cannimore, Cornelius Kinsey, Roland Kinsey, John Oxford, Jacob Goodson, Matthew Keith, Andrew Womack, Joe Dodson, Constantine Wood, Hugh McClure, James Coulter, William Ramsey, Hezekiah Ellenburg, Davis Jackson, James Ransom, Reuben Haney, Johnny Crow, Andrew Cooper, Edom Moon, Jacob Arnold, Joel Cooper, Hiram Shaw, Mark Thornton, Martin Camp, Sam Burton, Henry Mitchell, John Caldwell, Spencer Marsh, Norman Pogue, William Shaw, Stephen Phillips, S. D. Dyer, Jeptha Hunter, Sam Hall, John Lumpkin, Joshua McConnell, John McWhorter, Thomas Sharpe, General Newman, Sanders McFarland, Andy Hicks, Milton Lawrence, Jason Conley, BOlden Whitlow, Isaac Garrett, Toliver Butler and others. Villanow Store, Atlanta Journal Constitution 19 April 1993