REV. GEORGE GARRISON WALKER.

EV. GEORGE GARRISON WALKER was born October 10. 1816, and died March 10, 1865, in the forty-ninth year of his age. He united with the North Carolina and Virginia Christian Conference in 1839, and immediately entered into the work of the ministry with industry and perseverance. At the Conference at Union chapel, Alamance (then Orange) county, in 1840, he was appointed one of the itinerants and assigned to the Surry circuit, in Virginia. The Conference met, in 1841, at Apple's chapel, in Guilford county, North Carolina. The committee on ordination made their report in which they recommended George G. Walker for ordination. The following presbytery: Elders Daniel W. Kerr, Joseph H. Bland, and Lewis Craven, conducted the ordination at 11 o'clock on the succeeding Lord's day (November 3rd), solemnly setting apart Rev. G. G. Walker to the [203] work of the ministry. He was present at the Conference at Union, in Halifax county, Virginia, in 1842. In 1845, the Conference again met at Apple's chapel, which he attended; and also the Conference at Union in Orange (Alamance) county, in 1846, and at Pope's chapel in Granville county, in 1847, and was assigned to Staunton River circuit with Rev. L. C. Madison. He was at New Providence in 1848.

      In 1853, Rev. G. G. Walker was a fraternal messenger from the North Carolina and Virginia Conference to the Eastern Virginia Conference, which met at Cypress chapel in Nansemond county, and was appointed by the committee on religious services to preach before this meeting. He preached on Sunday (November 5th), at 11 o'clock, and was followed by Rev. James Williamson, of Ohio, at 3 o'clock P. M. In 1854, at O'Kelly's chapel, he was elected a delegate to the Southern Christian Association. At the Conference at New Providence, in 1855, he served on the committee on Sunday schools, and, in accordance with the report of the committee on education, was appointed agent for the Graham Institute. For his services he was to receive $25 per month.

      Rev. G. G. Walker was a representative from the North Carolina and Virginia Conference to the Southern Christian Convention, in 1856, at Union chapel in Alamance county. He served on the committee on religious exercises, and on that appointed to consider the organization of the Convention. The same year at the Conference at Hanks' chapel, in Chatham county, he was on the committee on ordination and on the committee to draft rules for the future government of the Conference in accordance with plans adopted by the Southern Christian Convention.

      In 1857, at the Conference at Bethlehem, in Alamance county, he acted on the committee on the Graham Institute (College), the substance of which report was that [204] the Trustees be requested to sell the Institute and pay the outstanding debts against it. But things took a more favorable turn. He served also on the committee on ordination, and advocated strongly the resolution to appoint a committee to recommend a suitable course of studies to be pursued by those wishing to engage in the Christian ministry. At this Conference he was elected a delegate to the Southern Christian Convention, which met at Cypress chapel, in Nansemond county, Virginia, in 1858. At this Convention the "Christian Sun" was transferred to it by the Southern Christian Association, and Rev. G. G. Walker was on the committee to devise and report a plan for the publication of the paper. He preached to the Convention, Friday, May 7th, at noon a "practical and profound discourse."

      At the Conference at Pleasant Hill, in Chatham county, North Carolina, in 1860, he served on the committee on Sunday schools and on the committee on home missions. In 1862, at the Conference at Damascus, in Orange county, he was appointed on the committee on temperance. This was the last Conference which he attended. He was stricken with paralysis in the pulpit while preaching at New Providence church, near Graham, North Carolina, and lived about three years after that. He never sufficiently recovered to preach any more.

      Rev. G. G. Walker was twice married. He first married Miss Anderson, of Chatham county, a great-grand-daughter of Rev. O'Kelly. She died leaving one child, Rev. Wm. T. Walker. Rev. G. G. Walker was married the second time to Miss Sallie Sellars of Alamance county. He lived in Graham several years, about 1853 and 1854, and finally he moved back to Caswell county, and died near where he was born. It is said of him that "he was a warm advocate of every measure by which the interests of the Church were advanced. Our educational enterprizes claimed much of his [205] attention, and received his hearty support. In his domestic relations, he was decidedly happy. He governed his own household in the most pleasant manner. A kind and watchful parent, an attentive and devoted husband, he multiplied all the comforts and joys of home over and over again."

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