Hi Donna, My Walker's seem to have come from S.C. directly to Chickasaw Co., MS. for a number of years. Later they immigrated to Texas, about the time it became a state. Sorry. By the way, James Gilmore & Octavia McClain Gilmore, buried in the Gilmore/Evans Cemetery (near my gg grandparents Dickinson) are kin. Octavia (Tavie) was my great grandmother Roxie's sister. La Darla In a message dated 7/14/2001 12:33:31 AM Central Daylight Time, LysseGott@aol.com writes: > La Darla... are your Walker's also from Itawamba County? My ancestors are > John and Catherine (Laird) Walker (both dying there in the 1860s + -). I > was in Itawamba last week and took pictures of their graves at the Gilmore > Chapel Cemetary. I'm curious about the Walker Bridge that goes over the > leavee there... Anyone know why it's named that? Any history on it? > > My other ancestors there are the Beck, Long, and Lowery familes. > > thanks... Donna >