Burse K. Walker, and correction to last post

Funny coincidence: just a few days after the last post, Wilburn Walker comes up from Florida to visit my grandmother.  If I didn't live three hours away, I really would have liked to meet him, and compare notes on the Walker family.  Through my mom over the phone, I was able to tell him where Laura Walker (James Morgan's wife) was buried.

The first mistake I made was saying that Wilburn was Burse K. Walker's grandson. I learned that Wilburn was actual Burse's son.  Wilburn also told my mom that his parents Burse and Rosie were buried in Calhoun Community Cemetery, just a hop and a skip away from my parents' home.

If only I had known. Next time I go home, I will have to go and look for their headstones.

James Morgan Walker

JAMES MORGAN WALKER (or Morgan Walker), my 2nd-great grandfather, was born 5 Aug 1860 in Catoosa Co., Georgia, and died sometime after 1930 in Walker Co., Georgia (despite his headstone reading "1929," which several folks have told me is wrong). He is buried in Chattooga Baptist Church Cemetery in Walker Co., Georgia, near several of his relatives. I visited his grave awhile back upon learning that his newer headstone was in the wrong spot. At the time I was unable to locate his old headstone. Now that I know where his older stone is located, I will someday plan a return trip.

James' parents were Oliver Perry Walker (1821-1865), a Confederate soldier who died a P.O.W., and Martha M. Suttle (1824-1896). Both his parents were from Rutherford County, N.C.

My link to Nancy Shelton

Just a quick follow-up to my last post...   This is how I am descended from Nancy Shelton by generation.

+ Nancy Shelton (1795 - ????)
++ Manuel Shelton (4 JUL 1822 - 10 MAR 1908)
+++ William Goodin Shelton (14 JAN 1860 - 14 DEC 1947)
++++ Roy Rector Shelton, Sr. (20 JAN 1896 - 16 JUN 1966)
+++++ Living Person
++++++ Joshua David Shelton

Anna Shelton (NOT Childers), and Nancy Shelton - my genealogical brickwall.

This is going to be pretty lengthy, so to start off, I will sum up my thoughts in a nutshell. Anna Shelton, the daughter of Nancy Shelton (in the 1850 Meigs Co. TN census) is NOT the same Anna Shelton that married Josiah Childers. Her mother Nancy Shelton, is STILL a mystery (and it PAINS me to say that, especially after twenty years in the hunt).

I have been researching my Shelton lineage, off and on, for about fifteen years. My dad started this whole thing almost twenty years ago. But both of us have been stuck at the same brick wall the entire time, a single name that has kept us from linking to the vast line of Sheltons, going centuries back into England. This brickwall fueled my motivation for genealogy in the first place, and I am bound and determined to eventually discover the answers.

First Post

I never entertained the idea of creating a blog until just recently. Most blogs I have seen just didn't interest me, probably because they involved interests or themes that I just didn't relate to. Then it finally occurred to me to compose a blog that did relate to me.