| Notes |
- Her birthdate has been seen listed as 1871 and 1872. In accordane with the 1880 and 1920 Sevier County, Tennessee Census listed below.
Margaret, her parents and siblings were listed in the 1880 Federal Census of Sevier County, Tennessee. The entry is below:
John N. 39 (1841) Margaret 33 (1847) John T. 12 (1868) William W. 10 (1870) Margaret J. 8 (1872) John H. 6 (1874) Mary E. 4 (1876) Martha A. 3 (1877) Nancy M. 4/12 (1880) Margaret King 77 (1803)
Her family appears again in the 1920 Federal Census of Sevier County, Tennessee. The information is below.
Dist.# 6 Sheet 2B, #20 WALKER
John N. 78 TN widower farmer
Margaret J. 49 all can read and write
Mary E. 44
Martha A. 42
Nancy M. 39
Eliza S. 37
Hettie R. 30
Daniel G. 28
The information below pertains to all of the Walker sisters but was placed in Margarets notes becouse she seemed, at least to Ina Walker King, and probabally others to be head of the house and the eldest of the Walker sisters and it seemed most appropriatally placed here.
Ina Walker King relates this story about her memories of the Walker Sisters of Little Greenbriar:
" I remember, as a small child, growing up in Little Greenbriar, going up by the waterfall and across to see my aunts who lived about 3/4 mile from my father's house. We always said we were going "up to Aunt Marg's". I don't know why we never said "going up to to Aunt Martha's". I guess we considered Aunt Marg the Head of the Household.
At that time, they seemed to always to be busy spinning and weaving, or doing gardens, ect. except for Aunt Nancy. She was ill with asthma and was in her chair. She would make pretty paper cut-out hearts and weave them together for us children. After Aunt Nancy's death, the five sisters remained with the same life style, continuing the practice of homemaking and farming skills of their ancestors. They did their own weaving, made their own clothes and grew their own food.
The large fireplace in the kitchen was hung with the cooking pots where the meals were prepared and winter foods canned or preserved. there was a large orchard with abundant fruit. Across from the big kitchen was a long eating table with a bench for sitting along the back side. In summer, insect season, the fly fan was always used at mealtime. The fly fan was a wide sweep made of paper strips across a dowel with a handle like a broom, set in a frame so the handle would swing. A string was a attached at the end of the handle so that when the string was pulled the sweep would swing back and forth across the table to keep flies away. The attached string was long enough to reach to the porch where whoever operated the fan sat. Aunt Polly was usually the one who fanned the flies as long as she was able. (She died in 1945) It was a real treat when she would let me pull the string a few times. I was always fascinated with that particular handmade piece of machinery.
The big weaving loom seemed to cover one half of the porch which was built as an entrance to both the kitchen and living room/bedroom. The wool comforters they made of home dyed wool were elaborate creations, a prized possession for everyone.
They were opposed to the sale of the land on which their log cabin home stood. When the government began buying up property for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Walker Sisters were allowed to remain in the home with life rights to their property along with permission to cut firewood off the land they had formerly owned. The Park Rangers assumed a sort of guardianship over the sisters, or at least over the property. They made sure the road was kept open or at least passable.
The Walker Sister family vintage possessions are supposedly in storage by the Smoky Mountain Park Service to be displayed in a museum at some future date."
Hand written poems about the love for their home is on display at the McClung Collection in Knoxville.
Alice Foster Blevin's mother, Rowena Tallent Foster, also recorded her memories of these sisters in a recollection she wrote of her life in the mountains.
- Sources:
1880 Federal Census, Sevier County, Tennessee, Margaret J. 8 (1872).
1920 Federal Census, Sevier County, Tennessee, Margaret J., 49, all can read and write.
Alice Foster Blevins, Descendants of Nathaniel King, (November 27th, 2001), "Electronic."
Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 13, Ed. 1, (Release date: August 14, 1997), "CD-ROM," Tree #2435.
Dennis W. King.Ftw, (5386 S SALIDA CT, AURORA CO, USA 80015).
'In the Shadow of the Smokies', Smoky Mountain Historical Society, 1993, p 667.
King.Ged, (Date of Import: Dec 13, 2001), "Electronic," Date of Import: Dec 13, 2001.
'Smoky Mountain Clans, Volume 3', Donald B. Reagan, 1983, p 236.
'Smoky Mountain Family Album,' Gladys Trentham Russell, 1984, p 41.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, "Electronic."
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1841 - 1921 (80 years)
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