Samuel R. Walker Poetry Notebook (Z/2196)

Dates: 1835-1840.

Biography:

Samuel R. Walker

Samuel R. Walker was born around 1822. He resided in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, from about 1837 to 1839. Walker attended nearby Oakland College in Claiborne County and graduated in 1840. He had moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, by 1850 and was a practicing attorney. Walker moved to Columbia, Arkansas, around 1857 and continued in the legal profession until at least 1867.
 

Michael Woods Trimble Memoir (Z/2189)

Date: 1860.

Biography:

Michael Woods Trimble

Michael Woods Trimble was born to John and Susannah Woods Trimble in January of 1788. His early years were spent near the headwaters of the French Broad River on the North Carolina-Tennessee border. The Trimbles first arrived at Bayou Pierre, Claiborne County, Mississippi, in April of 1811. They later joined their eldest son, Robert Trimble, in Jefferson County, Mississippi, and became planters.