This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WALKER/WHEELER/HAWKINS/ALLENS/SCOTTS/BUCKNERS/MUCKLEROYS/WAGGONERS/WASHINGTON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ABB.2ACE/3249.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: In case you did not read one of the messages... Cousin Barney Parker of Brenham, Washington Co., Texas succumbed to cancer, son of one of the Sheriffs of Washington County. It is very beautiful and you start off in your RV at Independence and go down an incredible road to Washington-on-the-Brazos where they built a little memory hall to the Signing of the Declaration of Independence for Texas back in 1834 or something! They have celebrations and reenactments each year on Texas Independence Day around March 3rd!! Well! Cousin Burney Parker gave his info on the George Walker's, lst Walke to set foot from WV (Frederick County, VA back then) into Kentucky and have the very first white settlement! His second wife, Francis gave the beautiful work of a lifetime of research on the family to BAYLOR UNIVERSITY!