This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Walker, Wheeler, Tillotson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kkB.2ACE/979 Message Board Post: Excerpts given to me by a cousin from "The Life and Times of the Third District Court of Texas", by author, Jack K. Selden, Jr., state that Judge Richard S. Walker who married Eliza J. Clark, daughter of Judge Amos Clark, his law partner and father-in-law was born in Barren County, Kentucky and that his aunt was Emily Walker Wheeler, wife to Judge Royal Tyler Wheeler who were living in San Augustine in 1846. He had earned his law degree from Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky in 1844. He was appointed district attorney in 1848 and fought with poor health and in 1874 was well enough to accept an appointment by Governor Richard Coke to serve on the newly created commission of appeals. The commission was overwhelmed by the Appeals to the Three Judges appointed in the newly formed Third District and was abolished after the resignation in 1890 of Judge Richard S. Walker. His speeches and addresses were recorded in the papers of the times, and he died in a sanatorium in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1901 in his 77th year survived by two sons and a daughter.