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Profiles from a tour of the Old Baptist Church Cemetery In Monroe, Georgia

Conducted, Written and provided courtesy Nowell Briscoe ( [email protected] )

  REV. JOSEPH PRINCE AND REV. JOHN H. WALKER

 

We now move into the area once known as “The Walker Burying Ground”.  No. 6 is the grave of Rev. Joseph Prince, one of Monroe’s early ministers who purchased a town lot in 1838.  He was headmaster and instructor of the newly created Male Academy which opened on January 4, 1835.  He was a graduate of Bowdoin College.  He died in Monroe on September 10, 1843.

        Next to Rev. Prince is grave No. 7, of Rev. John H. Walker, who served his country in the Revolutionary War, and was a Baptist Minister. He was born in Prince George County, Maryland and was the first of his family to live in Walton County. Rev. Walker lived part of his life in Lincoln County.  He was married twice; his first wife was a Miss Loflin of Lincoln County and that union produced sons Daniel and William L. Walker.  His second marriage to Elizabeth Johns gave issue to daughters Elizabeth and Martha Leverett. It was Rev. Walker’s son Daniel who married Martha Holliday and from that union came two sons, Billington Sanders Walker and Dickerson Holliday Walker.  Rev. Walker died in Lincoln County, Ga. on June 19, 1836 and was the first member of the Walker family to be buried here.