EV. JOHN WALKER was a member of the North Carolina and Virginia Conference, in whose bounds he labored, until his removal to Missouri. He was at the General Meeting hold at Now Providence meeting house in Orange (now Alamance) county, North Carolina, in 1830. He was a licentiate, and was assigned to the Haw River circuit. In 1834, he served on a committee with Revs. Joseph H. Bland and John T. Petty, at the Conference at New Providence, to investigate the conduct of Leonard Prather. In 1836, he was in attendance upon the General Meeting at O'Kelly's chapel.

      At the Conference at Pope's chapel in Granville county, in 1847, a petition through Rev. John Walker from churches in Missouri was read to the Conference, asking to be connected with the North Carolina and Virginia Conference. Also he was authorized to license Rev. Henry Gant who labored with him in Missouri. Elder Walker moved west in 1840, and settled in Missouri. At the Conference at Union in Orange (Alamance) county, Elder Lewis Craven was directed to open a correspondence with him and "inform him of the state of the connection in North Carolina and Virginia."

      In 1851, he preached the introductory sermon before the Missouri Christian Conference. In 1858, at the Southern Christian Convention at Cypress chapel in Nansemond county, Virginia., a letter from John Walker, D. H. McClure, and J. W. Luke, a committee of the Missouri Conference in reference to a new Hymn Book was received and read, which was referred to the "Book [151] Concern." In 1859, Elder Walker attended the North Carolina and Virginia Conference at Union, Alamance county, and was invited to a seat in the body as a delegate from the Missouri Conference. No communication further is recorded, it being interrupted by the civil war which soon followed, and other data are wanting.

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