Mr. Walker was married up in Newburg Township Pike County to Miss Amanda Jane Evans,August 1,1847. She was born in Indiana on the bank of the Ohio River. She came to Illinois with her parents, George and Susan (Susannah) Armstrong, when she was quite young, the family locating south of Griggsville in 1830 After improving a farm in this township Mr. Evans sold it in 1846, and with his wife and children removed to Newburg Township where they purchased the farm now owned by his son, George M. and there Mrs. Evans died when past threescore years of age. She was a Christian and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. After the death of his wife Mr Evans. lived with his children and finally died while with his daughter, Mrs. Sarah Shinn, of Griggsville Township, when he was about eighty year of age. He had always been a farmer and he was a soldier throughout the War of 1812, fighting with Gen. Harrison on his campaigns was in early life a Jackson Democrat, later became a Whig and died a Republican.

Mrs. Walker was one of a family of two sons and eight daughters, some of whom are yet living. She was well and carefully reared by her parents, was given a good education and was a teacher for some years before her marriage. She was in every respect a true, womanly woman, of fine personal character and her death at her home in this township, December 17, 1881, when past middle life, was a severe blow to her husband and children. She belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church and was devoted to its good works.

The marriage of our subject and his beloved wife was blessed to them by the birth of eleven children of whom three died young. Those remaining are Jane, wife of Alexander Morton a farmer of Superior, Neb.; Ann, who resides in Griggsville where she has a millinery establishment; George an invalid at home with his father; Mary, who lives with her father; Catherine, wife of of Parvin Butler, a farmer at Superior, Neb,;and Willard and Fannie, who at home with their father.

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Robert Jennings, wife Amanda, and son George are all buried at Bethel Cemetery