Twelfth Generation

11516. John Charles WALKER Sr. was born on 10 November 1893 in Walnut Grove, Campbell Co., TN. He died on 6 March 1938 at the age of 44 at Veteran's Hospital in Tuscon, Pima Co., AZ. He was buried on 8 March 1938 in Evergreen Cemetery, Tucson, Pima Co., AZ. According to Sarah Shaw, John received his high school diploma at Walnut Grove, Tennessee, in 1913, and a B.A. from Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee, in 1916. He did graduate work at the University of London from March to July of 1919, and studied at Georgetown University about 1921 for foreign service work in Argentina. He received his M.A. in educational psychology in the 1930s from the University of Arizona.

He served in the United States Army during World War I, receiving two gold chevrons. He was "over the top" three times in the trenches in France but was not wounded. However, shortly after the war while in London, he contracted tuberulosis and was later hospitalized for it at Walter Reed Hospital, a sanitarium in the Carolinas, and some in Tucson.

John Charles WALKER Sr. and Ruth Constance YEAGLE were married on 1 August 1923 in Washington, D.C.. Ruth Constance YEAGLE was born on 20 March 1901 in Chicago, Cook Co., IL.

John Charles WALKER Sr. and Ruth Constance YEAGLE had the following children:

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John Charles "Jack" WALKER Jr. was born on 21 July 1924 in Albuquerque, Bernalillo Co., NM. He died on 18 October 1977 at the age of 53 in Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., IA. According to Sarah Shaw, Jack graduated from high school in 1941 at age 16 at Tuscon High School in Arizona, winning the Bausch and Lomb science award. He went on to finish his B.A. degree from the University of Arizona in 1944 at age 19. He was awarded his Masters of Divinity in 1947 from McCormick Seminary in Chicago, Illinois, in 1947 and also won both the Hebrew and preaching prizes. He went on to Yale where he earned an M.A. in philosphy and Old Testament schoolarship in 1950, and he later received a Ph.D. in Christian ethics from the University of Southern California.

He was a Presbyterian minister in Placentia, California, a Presbyterian minister of education in Pasadena, California, a lecturer in Bible and religion at Occidental College, and chaplain and professor of religion at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; he was also active in Rotary in Cedar Rapids.