Rutherfordiana/Source Material Extracts/MS of Samuel Rutherford Houston, c1854

White 1902:150


 * Rev. Samuel Rutherford Houston, who married Margarete Walker (Jos, John, Alex.), left a record of his Walker relatives, from which much of the famiy history has been learned. The manuscript is in the possession of his son, Judge Wm. P. Houston of Lexington, Va, and was kindly loaned me by him.


 * Rev. S.R. Houston says in his MSS: TThe materal fo rthe genealogy of the desendants of Alexander (son of John Walker, the emigrant) was obtained from
 * Rev. R.C. Walker and Elder J.A. Walker, sons of Elder Thomas H. Walker, of New Providence Church;
 * Dr. Zachariah Walker, of Brownsburg, Va.
 * Major Alexander B. Stuart, of Rockbridge
 * my mother, Margaret Walker Houston, age 63 years
 * Three aged sistesrs of Col. Archibald B. Walker
 * W.L. Moore, son of James Moore of Tazewell County, VA (brother of Mary Moore of Raleigh Co Va)
 * and from a Mss left by Dr. Wm. M McPheeters, of North Carolina.


 * ...I have it from several authentic sources that Rev. Samuel Rutherford, author of Rutherfords Letters, was closely related to Rev. John Rutherford, father of Katherine, who married John Walker.


 * ...I recollect hearing my mother say that her grandfather, john Walker, who was the nephew of John Walker, the emigrant, came from Ireland to America as a sailor and married in Pennsylvania Margaret Culton, the daughter of an Ireishman named Joseph Culton....I remember to have seen my great uncle, William Walker, who married Mary Stuart. He was a gunsmith by trade, and I remember that he was lame.  His homw was on Walkers Creek, two miles above the residence of Thoms H. Walker.