Wade & Webb Family History

Sarah Walker1783–1854

Virginia · Garrett Cemetery · Autauga

Born in Virginia in 1783, Sarah Walker married Charles Sparks Walden in Georgia in 1803, and the tree names nine children born to them in Georgia and Alabama. Widowed in 1833, she died in 1854, and a Find a Grave entry places her grave in the Garrett Cemetery at Turkey Town.

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Documents (2)
  4. Places
  5. Timeline
  6. Open questions
  7. Searches made
  8. Notes

Birth

  1. 5 Jun 1783 Virginia 1

Marriages

  1. 8 Aug 1803 Charles Sparks Walden, at Greene, Oconee, Georgia 2

Death and burial

  1. 1854 Burial: Garrett Cemetery, Turkey Town, Cherokee, Alabama
  2. 1 Jul 1854 Death: Autauga, Alabama 8

Family

Parents
Not recorded
Spouse, 8 Aug 1803
Charles Sparks Walden 1772–1833
Children
Nancy Walden 1805–1870
Elizabeth Walden 1818–?
John Butler Walden 1816–1896
Thomas W Walden 1805–?
Sarah Walden 1820–?
Westley D Walden 1819–1863
George S Walden 1814–?

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Sarah Walker
  2. Westley D Walden, son
  3. William Walker Walden, son
  4. Lila Walden, daughter
  5. Hilda Webb, daughter
  6. William Albert Webb Wade, son

3rd great-grandmother of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Sarah Walker was born in Virginia on 5 June 1783, according to the FamilySearch tree, which gives no source for the date or place and records no parents for her.1 On 8 August 1803 she married Charles Sparks Walden in Georgia.2 The tree gives the place as "Greene, Oconee, Georgia", which names two Georgia counties together, and no record of the marriage is attached.2 Her husband had been born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, in 1772, the tree says, so both were Virginians by birth.3

The tree names nine children.4 Thomas W. and Nancy are both given the year 1805, Thomas's birth placed in Greene County, Georgia; George S. followed in 1814, John Butler on 1 September 1816 in Jasper County, Georgia, and Elizabeth in 1818, all in Georgia; Westley D. was born on 1 August 1819 in Autauga County, Alabama, and Sarah about 1820 in Alabama; Martha Lynn and Charles S. have no dates.4 Inference The birthplaces suggest that the family moved from Georgia into Alabama about 1818 or 1819, but almost all of them rest on the tree without sources.4 The children's own records show how far the family spread: Nancy married in Perry County, Mississippi, in 1827, Martha Lynn married Elias Dubose in 1832, Thomas was in Milam County, Texas, by 1850, and George, John Butler and Westley made their homes in Alabama.5

Her husband died in Autauga County on 8 November 1833.6 An Alabama estate file for Charles Walden is dated 1834; an estate file holds the papers of a probate court's settlement of a dead person's property, the court process by which debts were paid and the rest passed to the heirs.6 The file has not been read for this biography, and whether it names Sarah as his widow is not known.6 No census entry for Sarah after his death is attached to her profile.7

She died on 1 July 1854 in Autauga County, according to the tree.8 The tree places her burial in the Garrett Cemetery at Turkey Town, Cherokee County, Alabama, where the Find a Grave index, an index to the volunteer-built memorial website, has an entry for "Sarah Walker Walden".8 Her husband's burial is placed in the same cemetery, and so is that of her son John Butler Walden, who lived at Centre, Cherokee County, and died there in 1896.9 Inference A death in Autauga County, in central Alabama, and a burial in Cherokee County, in the north-east of the state, sit awkwardly together; either her place of death is wrong or the Garrett Cemetery entries for her and her husband are memorials raised later near their son's home, and neither fact rests on a record of the time.10

Documents

  1. 1888 Northern Alabama: John Butler Walden, son of Charles and Sarah (Walker) Walden Northern Alabama, Historical and Biographical (Birmingham, Alabama: Smith & De Land, 1888) · book
  2. 18 May 2006 Find a Grave memorial: Sarah Walker Walden Find a Grave · memorial

Places

  1. 1803Greene
  2. 1854Garrett Cemetery
  3. 1854Autauga

Timeline

  1. 5 Jun 1783BirthVirginia
  2. 8 Aug 1803Marriage, Charles Sparks WaldenGreene, Oconee, Georgia
  3. 1854BurialGarrett Cemetery, Turkey Town, Cherokee, Alabama
  4. 1 Jul 1854DeathAutauga, Alabama

Open questions

Her father (raised 2026-11-09)

Her son John B. Walden's sketch (Northern Alabama, 1888) names her father as Jeremiah Walker, "a Virginian by birth, and a gallant old Revolutionary soldier," a farmer in South Carolina, and says she was a native of South Carolina (the tree says Virginia), a Baptist for over fifty years, and died in 1854 aged seventy. Look for Jeremiah Walker's Revolutionary pension or bounty-land file and his South Carolina will.

Searches made

  1. 2026-11-09Find a Grave search: Sarah Walker, b. 1783 ±3, d. 1854 ±3: 5 results; Sarah Walden, b. 1783 ±3, d. 1854 ±3: 1 resultsbest: [Sarah Walker Walden (5 Jun 1783 – 1 Jul 1854), Garrett Cemetery, Centre, Cherokee County, Alabama](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14322665/sarah-walden); score 13 (high, before review)
  2. 2026-11-09Find a Grave memorial recorded[memorial 14322665](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14322665), high confidence: [record](../documents/findagrave/14322665-sarah-walker-walden.md); 2 headstone photo(s)
  3. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Sarah Walker", Alabama6838 pages; first: [The Pace Family, n.d., p. ](https://archive.org/details/the-pace-family?q=%22Sarah%20Walker%22); [Walker military records of the Revolution, Indian wars, War of 1812, Civil War, 1958, p. ](https://archive.org/details/walkermilitaryre00walk?q=%22Sarah%20Walker%22); [Meet the Tisdales : descendants of John Tisdale of Taunton, Mass., 1634-1980, 1981, p. ](https://archive.org/details/meettisdalesdesc00tisd?q=%22Sarah%20Walker%22)
  4. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Walker", inside memorialrecordof00tayl57 pages; first: [Memorial record of Alabama. A concise account of the state's political, military, professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people, 1893, p. 519](https://archive.org/details/memorialrecordof00tayl/page/n519/mode/1up?q=Walker); [Memorial record of Alabama. A concise account of the state's political, military, professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people, 1893, p. 680](https://archive.org/details/memorialrecordof00tayl/page/n680/mode/1up?q=Walker); [Memorial record of Alabama. A concise account of the state's political, military, professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people, 1893, p. 805](https://archive.org/details/memorialrecordof00tayl/page/n805/mode/1up?q=Walker); 4 with the given name (Sarah)
  5. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Walker", inside historyofalabama01owen138 pages; first: [History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, 1921, p. 69](https://archive.org/details/historyofalabama01owen/page/n69/mode/1up?q=Walker); [History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, 1921, p. 70](https://archive.org/details/historyofalabama01owen/page/n70/mode/1up?q=Walker); [History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, 1921, p. 84](https://archive.org/details/historyofalabama01owen/page/n84/mode/1up?q=Walker); 0 with the given name (Sarah)
  6. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Walker", inside alabamaherhistor00brew163 pages; first: [Alabama, her history, resources, war record, and public men : from 1540 to 1872, 1872, p. 49](https://archive.org/details/alabamaherhistor00brew/page/n49/mode/1up?q=Walker); [Alabama, her history, resources, war record, and public men : from 1540 to 1872, 1872, p. 69](https://archive.org/details/alabamaherhistor00brew/page/n69/mode/1up?q=Walker); [Alabama, her history, resources, war record, and public men : from 1540 to 1872, 1872, p. 72](https://archive.org/details/alabamaherhistor00brew/page/n72/mode/1up?q=Walker); 0 with the given name (Sarah)
  7. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Walker", inside minutesofsixtyse00cherno matches; 0 with the given name (Sarah)
  8. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Sarah Walker", Alabama (6,838 pages)Not her: the Pace family (a Sarah Walker who married a Pace and settled in Greene County), a Taunton, Mass., settler of the 1600s, modern names.
  9. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Walden" inside *Northern Alabama* (1888), pp. 132–133 (her husband's search)Match (high): "His wife was one of those excellent pioneer Christian women. She was a member of the Baptist Church over fifty years … She died in 1854, at the age of seventy years. Her father, Jeremiah Walker, a Virginian by birth, and a gallant old Revolutionary soldier, was a farmer in South Carolina." Death 1854 aged 70 agrees with the tree (born 1783, died 1854); her father Jeremiah Walker is new; "natives of South Carolina" conflicts with the tree's Virginia birth. [Northern Alabama record](../documents/1888-northern-alabama-john-butler-walden.md).
  10. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Walker" inside Brewer 1872 (163), Owen vol. 1 (138), *Memorial Record* (57), Cherokee Baptist minutes (none)Not her: other Walkers (Judge B. A. Walker of Crenshaw, J. H. Walker of Bullock); too common to read further.
  11. 2026-11-09Internet Archive hits assessed: 5 searchesOne match (Northern Alabama; record written).
  12. 2026-11-09DPLA: "Sarah Walker"57 pages; first: [Records related to Sarah Walker (National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual Reference), n.d., p. ](http://catalog.archives.gov/id/199817426); [David and Sarah Walker Davis (Illinois Wesleyan University), Unknown, p. ](http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/iwu_bnhist/id/99); [Portrait of Sarah Walker, Student (National Anthropological Archives), n.d., p. ](http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID=NAA.PhotoLot.81-12_ref1318&repo=DPLA)
  13. 2026-11-09DPLA assessment: "Sarah Walker" (57 items, the first 10 read)Not her: a War Department file of the 1860s, an 1844 Hinds County, Mississippi, bill of sale and a Hamilton County, Ohio, deed of manumission for a woman called Sally [Sarah] Walker, and later Texas, Illinois, Idaho, California and Smithsonian items. She was born in 1783 and died in Autauga County, Alabama, in 1854. The other 47 items were not fetched; a name-only search this common cannot be assessed (the search is not repeated).
  14. 2026-11-09DPLA hits assessed: 1 searchNo match.

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L83Y-7R8: birth 5 Jun 1783, Virginia, no source attached, no parents recorded back to the text
  2. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L83Y-7R8: marriage 8 Aug 1803, Greene, Oconee, Georgia, no source attached back to the text
  3. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile K2FG-GXD (their page): birth 1772, Spotsylvania, Virginia back to the text
  4. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L83Y-7R8: nine children: Thomas W. (1805, Greene, Georgia), Nancy (1805, Georgia), George S. (1814, Georgia), John Butler (1 Sep 1816, Jasper, Georgia), Elizabeth (1818, Georgia), Westley D. (1 Aug 1819, Autauga, Alabama), Sarah (about 1820, Alabama), Martha Lynn and Charles S. undated back to the text
  5. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KH4K-KPV (their page): marriage 1827, Perry, Mississippi "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", FamilySearch, Martha Waldin in entry for Elias Dubose, 19 April 1832. Record: Martha Waldin in entry for Elias Dubose, 19 April 1832 "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Thomas W Waldin, 1850. Record: Thomas W Waldin, 1850 census FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L71H-GWH (their page): residence 1850, Milam, Texas "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch, George S. Walden, 1880. Record: George S. Walden, 1880 census "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch, J. B. Walden, 1880. Record: J. B. Walden, 1880 census "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, W D Walden, 1860. Record: W D Walden, 1860 census back to the text
  6. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile K2FG-GXD (their page): death 8 Nov 1833, Autauga, Alabama "Alabama, Estate Files, 1830-1976", FamilySearch, Charles Walden, 1834. Record: Charles Walden, Alabama, Estate Files, 1830-1976, 1834 back to the text
  7. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L83Y-7R8: one source attached, the Find a Grave index entry back to the text
  8. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L83Y-7R8: death 1 Jul 1854, Autauga, Alabama; burial 1854, Garrett Cemetery, Turkey Town, Cherokee, Alabama "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Sarah Walker Walden. Record: Sarah Walker Walden, Find a Grave Index, burial back to the text
  9. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile K2FG-GXD (their page): burial 1833, Garrett Cemetery, Centre, Cherokee, Alabama "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Charles Sparks Walden. Record: Charles Sparks Walden, Find a Grave Index FamilySearch Family Tree, profile K85G-FCW (their page): death 18 Feb 1896, Centre, Cherokee; burial Garrett Cemetery, Turkey Town, Cherokee "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Judge John Butler Walden. Record: Judge John Butler Walden, Find a Grave Index back to the text
  10. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L83Y-7R8: death Autauga, burial Cherokee FamilySearch Family Tree, profile K2FG-GXD (their page): death Autauga, 1833; burial Garrett Cemetery, Cherokee FamilySearch Family Tree, profile K85G-FCW (their page): residences 1870 Centre and 1880 Cherokee back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to Sarah Walker (1)
  1. Sarah Walker Walden, "Find a Grave Index"