Reference:Joel Walker Record

Emma Siggins White references the Joel Walker Record as the primary source for the early ancestry of the Walker family presented in "Descendants of John Walker of Wigton Scotland..." (White 1902:1)

According ot White:


 * "Joel Walker, of Ohio...kept a record of the Walker family, and from this Andrew Walker of McDonough Co, Ill, made a copy in 1856. This record covered a period of one hundred and fifty years, and furnished the foundation for the present work.  The Joel Walker record states that "in the Walker ancestry the name extend back only three generations, when it looses itself in the Rutherford family then farther back than we have any authentic information of the Rutherfords in the line of ancestry are the Alleines."

While White provides considerable primary source information relating to the family, in the form of letters, wills, and extracts from various public records, she does not explain specifically what information came from the Joel Walker Record. According to White, Joel was the son of Samuel Walker and Jane Patterson, who settled near Natural Bridge in modern Rockbridge County. His line of descent is shown below: