COLONEL BENJAMIN F. WALKER

 

EARLY SETTLER DIES.

     Col. Benjamin F. Walker, a man prominent in the affairs of Cedar county in an early day, died at his home in Goshen, Arkansas, Feb, 22 of catarrhal pneumonia. Mr. Walker was born in Tennessee in 1820 and settled in Cedar county in 1848. He served six terms in the state legislature as representative and was also public administrator and surveyor. During the war he raised the first company in Cedar county for the confederate army and was elected lieutenant colonel and at the death of Col. Lawthon was promoted to the rank of colonel. In 1868 he located in Washington county, Ark. and has since been prominently identified in public affairs in that state. Gui [Guian] L. Walker of Stockton is his eldest son, there being four other children.

El Dorado Springs News, El Dorado Springs, Missouri; Thursday 8 March 1906 page 1.

 

   A few days ago G. L. Walker received the sad news of the death of his father, Col. Benj. F. Walker, near Habeton (sic), Arkansas, on Feb. 22, 1906. The deceased was born in Tennessee, Jan. 20, 1820, his age at his death being 86 years, one month and two days. Deceased came to Green County, this state in 1838 where he married and lived two years, going then to Dade county from which county he was sent to the legislature. In 1848 he located in Cedar county and was sent to the legislature from this county for three terms. He introduced the bill changing the name of this place from Fremont to Stockton. He organized the first company of Confederate soldiers from Cedar county and was elected lieutenant colonel and on the death of Col. Cawthorn became colonel. In 1868 he located in Washington county Arkansas, which he represented in the state legislature and also in the state senate. He was a member of the convention which framed the present constitution of Arkansas. He was a man of marked characteristics, a deep thinker and in private as well as public life won the confidence and respect of all. Besides serving in the law making bodies of two states he was county surveyor in both Dade and Cedar counties and also public administrator of this county. His first wife was Nancy Leeper who died in 1845. She was the mother of G. L. Walker and Sarah Deardorff. He was married in 1847 to Eliza Moore and to this union were born five boys and two girls, of these Sam and Lee and Eliza Frost are living.

   The remains were laid to rest on Feb. 24th with Masonic honors, the deceased having been a member of that order for many years. He was the first Worshipful Master of Stockton Lodge No. 283, then old Cedar lodge No. 124.

 

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