Walker was the son of Abel and Mary Walker of Hopewell, Virginia. The elder Abel Walker had served on the second committee from Hopewell that visited the Redstone settlement (1780).
Sources: EAQG 4:663; Hopewell Friends History 1734-1934 (Strasburg VA: Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., 1936), pp. 320, 485-486. |
