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Dr. Walker, my great4-grandfather, was a planter and a physician in Bedford Co., VA. This was copied from the book "'Our Kin': Bedford County, Virginia, Families." His Walker, Munford, Jones, Kennon, Worsham, and Batte ancestors were among the founding families of Petersburg, VA, and the surrounding counties of Dinwiddie, Chesterfield, and Henrico. His parents, Robert Munford Walker, Sr. (1771-1827) and Mary Smith Walker (1777-1811), and several Walker aunts/uncles, came from Dinwiddie to Bedford County around 1800, settling on what is said to have been an English land grant to the Walkers along present-day Route 43 AKA Virginia Byway several miles south of Bedford City. I descend from his first marriage to Elizabeth Booth of Franklin Co., VA, who was also his fourth cousin through their descent from the Colonial Virginia explorer, Thomas Batte. My earliest childhood years, from age two to age eight, were spent in Petersburg, VA, and ironically I did not know about our family's connections to that area (in particular being a cousin of Petersburg's namesake, Peter Jones II), until more than a decade after we left the area following my parents' separation in 1981.
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