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Nancy Jane Walker was born 14 Dec 1844 in Winston Co, Miss.
She died 4 Dec 1933 and is buried at the Breazeale Cemetery
in Attala Co. Mississippi. She married James Pinkney Breazeale
3 Feb 1859 in Wnston Co.,Ms
James Pinkney Breazeale was born 12 Dec 1837 in Kemper Co.,MS.
He died 9 Apr 1910 in Attala Co., MS and is buried in the Breazeale
Cemetery there.
Parents:
Mother: Martha Jane McCown (1826-1880)
Father: Sampson Walker (1818-ca 1864)
I have decided to complete this page because I have been contacted
by a descendant. Her original email to me follows:
lindanabors@bellsouth.net wrote:
Dear Lannie,
I was unable to sign the guest book on your Walker web site. I descend
from Nancy Jane Walker who married James P. Breazeale. I have learned
more about my Walker family from your web site than I have learned in my
twenty years of research. Do you have any more pictures? I only saw two
of the W. A. Walker family. I'm sure there are probably more and I just
don't know how to navigate to the sites.
Your cousin,
Linda Myers Nabors
My reply:
From: Lannie Walker
Date: 2006/03/12 Sun PM 03:36:20 EST
To: lindanabors@bellsouth.net
Subject: Re: walker
Linda,
I have now fixed my guestbook and my counter so feel free to sign now.
Can you tell me how you are descended from Nancy Jane. My father and
some of his brothers used to go to Mississippi every few years to "visit
the Breazeale cousins". I never went with them however. I am having trouble
remembering just what pictures that I might have that are not already
on my site. I will keep checkin though. I once visited two of my father's
cousins in Longview Texas and spent the day videotaping them. They were
two elderly retired and widowed school teachers living together. Recently
I digitized the Video tape to my computer, made a menu and created chapters
by the subject being discusse in my visit. These ladies were alive while
Martha Jane, Nancy Jane's mother, was still living. lthough they were small.
If you have a DVD player I would be happy to make you a copy of it and mail
it to you. I believe that I made the tape around 1985. I wasn't the most
prepared or skillful interviewer but it was fairly interesting. I belive
that on that tape I also included a letter written to Vesse Walker, a
brother to Jessie Walker Kelley and Ann Walker Cullins and the son of Samuel
Organ Walker, a brother to Nancy Jane and to my grandfather Wm A. Walker.
The letter was from W.M. Breazeale and written in 1925. I think that you
would enjoy reading the letter. By the way, I am a member of the Walker
DNA group and there are currently 16 members that closely match me but we
haven't found the name of our common ancestor yet. The neat thing about it
is that if we should find him, literally thousands of these 16 Walker
family members would immediately have their "brick wall" torn down. If I
should ever get past Samuel, hundreds of his descndants would have their
ancestry lengthened due to the testing of just one persons DNA.......mine.
That would really be exciting for all of us. The thing that, if it happens,
will be the DNA of a new member who has the documentation that will gives
us that elusive father of our Samuel. If it ever happens, the only ones
that will know about it will be those who periodically check the DNA page
on my web site.
W.M. Breazeale,
in his letter to Vesse Walker, told him that he was having much
difficulty with the Breazeale family tree. Has any of Nancy Jane's progeny
made any headway in finding your Breazeale ancestor? Let me know if you would
like a copy of the Video.
Lannie
Linda's reply to my email above:
I would love a copy of the DVD.
My address is:
Linda Nabors
1160 South Beauchamp Apartmant A-26
Greenville, MS 38703
I descend from Martha, a child of Sampson and Nancy Jane Walker Breazeale.
From Martha Breazeale Kelley to daughter Zettie Kelley, who married Sam
Myers, my grandfather. I have a very poor copy of a copy of a copy and so
on...of James Pinkney Breazeale. He appears to be an old man. I was told
that it is a picture of him in his Civil War uniform. I would love to be able
to get a better copy of it. Do you know of any one who might have one? If
you don't have one, I can send you a copy of it if you want.
I sm so excited to have found your site. My computer crashed in September of
last year and I lost so many of my files. I constantly back up my Famiy Tree
files, but somehow I still lost a tremendous amount of information. It has taken
me hours and hours retyping information from your site into my files. No fun!!!!!
I am interested in the DNA project. I have just read bits and pieces. Please
tell me more.
Linda
.---------------------. .------------------------.
| James Pinkney Walker|<-+->| Nancy Jane Walker |
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| Martha Breazeale |<-+->| Kelley |
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+-------<-------+
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.-------v----------------. .-------------------.
| Zettie Kelley |<-+->| Sam Meyers |
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+-------<-------+
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.-------v----------------. .-------------------.
GP | |<-+->| |
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+-------<-------+
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.-------v----------------. .-------------------.
P | |<-+->| |
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+-------<-------+
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.-------v----------------. .-------------------.
| Linda Nabors |<-+->| |
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Children:
Son: William Marion Breazeale (b 6 Dec 1859-Neshoba Co.,MS)
Daughter: Mary E. Breazeale (b 25 Jul 1861-Catahoula Parish,La.)
Daughter: Sarah J.Breazeale (26 Apr 1864, Catahoula Parish,La.)
Daughter: Martha Lee Breazeale (Born 5 Mar 1866, Catahoula Parish,La.)
Daughter: Julia A. Breazeale (b 12 Feb 1868, Neshoba Co.,MS)
Daughter: Emma F. Breazeale (b 23 May 1871-Neshoba Co.,MS)
Daughter: Sallie A. Breazeale (b 23 May 1871-Neshoba Co.,MS)
Daughter: Malinda Jane Breazeale (b 14 Apr 1873-Neshoba Co.,MS)
Son: John Jackson Sampson Elijah Breazeale (b 13 May 1875, Neshoba Co.,MS)
Daughter: Nancy A. Breazeale (b 5 Jun 1879-Neshoba Co.,MS)
Son: Lee H. Breazeale (b 14 Jul 1882-Neshoba Co.,MS)
Son: Milton L. Breazeale (b 20 Nov 1884-Neshoba Co.,MS)
Ancestry: Pedigree Chart
Descendancy:
Siblings:
Brother: John James Walker (1841-ca 1864)
Sister: Mary Ann Walker (Mason) (1843)
Sister: William (Bill) Alexander Walker(1846)
Sister: Frances Elizabeth Walker (1848)
Brother: Samuel Organ Walker (1850)
Sister: Margaret Louisa Walker (Spivey) (1851)
Sister: Pamela Atlina Walker (1855)
Brother: Napoleon Buchanan Walker (1857)
Sister: Sarah Malisa (Sally) Walker (Odom) (1859)
Husband: James Pinkney Breazeale
Married: