This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WALKER, RUSH, NIDAY, MCCAULAS, TRACY Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Cl.2ADI/948 Message Board Post: Sanders Walker, section 12, Benton Township, was born in Shelby County, Indiana, February 14, 1831. His father, Samuel Walker, was a native of Pennsylvania, and a pioneer of Shelby County, settling there when the country was infested by Indians and wild animals, and when his nearest white neighbor was five miles distant. He was a member of the Indiana militia in the early days, and barely missed being in the battle of Tippecanoe by being absent on a foraging expedition. Sanders Walker was reared a farmer, and has made excellent use of the knowledge acquired in his youth. His education was limited to that obtained in the subscription schools in the early days of Indiana, but he has by reading and observance acquired a practical knowledge that has been of more benefit than that obtained in the schools. He came to Iowa in the spring of 1845, and lived in Jefferson County ten years. In the spring of 1855 he moved to Wayne County and bought the land which is now his valuabl! e farm. This farm of 140 acres he has brought from a wild uncultivated state to that of advanced cultivation and in place of the rude buildings erected for his use at that time he now has a pleasant frame residence and large comfortable farm buildings. Mr. Walker was married in January, 1852 to Mary, daughter of James Rush. They have had five children, but four of whom, John J., George W., Libbie and Emma, are living. One son, James W., died aged twenty-eight years. He had married America Niday, and left three children-Benjamin S., John R., and George W. John, now of Bent County, Colorado, married Clara McCaulas, and has one child-Mabel M. George married Alice Tracy, of Benton Township. Biographical and Historical Record of Wayne and Appanoose Counties P-358-359 Interstate Printers Chicago 1886