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- JOHN LOTT WALKER, M. D. One of the best known members of the medical
fraternity of Ware county, John Lott Walker. M. D., is devoted to his practice,
and well deserves the reputation he enjoys of being one of the most skillful and
faithful physicians of Waycross. A son of Elisha Walker, he was born on a farm
in Washington county, the home farm having been located ten miles south of
Tennille, and twelve miles west of Wrightsville. He comes of early colonial
stock, the immigrant ancestor of the branch of the Walker family from which he
is descended having come to America prior to the Revolution, locating very near
the northern boundary line of North Carolina.
Lott Walker, the doctor's grandfather, was born in Laurens county, Georgia,
in 1801, his father, also named Elisha Walker, having settled there on removing
from North Carolina. During the earlier part of his active career, Lott Walker
resided in Henry county, Georgia, from there removing to Johnson county, where
his wife owned a tract of land that had come to her through inheritance. He
purchased land adjoining hers and, with slave help, carried on general farming
until his death, in 1880, at the age of seventy-nine years. He married Polly
Walters, who was born in that part of Laurens county now included in Johnson
county, being a daughter of Richard Walters, a farmer, who came from Virginia to
Georgia. Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Lott Walker, three of them
being sons, Elisha, William and Moses, and five being daughters, as follows:
Gatsy, Ann, Melissa, Mary and Eliza.
Born in Henry county, Georgia, in 1832, Elisha Walker settled in Washington
county, Georgia, soon after his marriage, being there employed for a time in
general farming. Subsequently buying land in Johnson county, he farmed with the
help of slaves until the war between the states, and afterwards there continued
his labors until 1906. Removing then to Wrightsville, he has since lived there
retired from active pursuits, enjoying the fruits of his earlier years of toil.
His wife, whose maiden name was Martha Webb, was born in what is now Johnson
county, Georgia, in 1831, a daughter of Rev. John and Charlotte (Covington)
Webb, and granddaughter of Rev. Covington, her father and maternal grandfather
having both been ministers in the Methodist Episcopal denomination. Eight
children were born of their union, namely: John Lott, Ann, Minta, Tabitha,
Dolly, Nora, William, and Joseph.
Receiving his early education under private tutors, John Lott Walker first
attended medical lectures in Louisville, Kentucky, at the Kentucky School of
Medicine, and in 1879 was graduated from the Atlanta Medical College with the
degree of M. D. The following seven years Doctor Walker was engaged in the
practice of his profession at Wrightsville, Johnson county. In 1886 he removed
to Waycross, where he has been in continual practice since, being one of the
longest-established and most successful physicians in this part of the county.
During the quarter of a century or more that the doctor has lived in Waycross,
he has seen the city grow from a village of one thousand souls to a wide-awake,
prosperous community of fourteen times as many inhabitants, while the
surrounding country, which was but sparsely settled when he came here, has
increased its population in a corresponding ratio.
Doctor Walker has invested largely in city property, wisely buying in the
business section, where, on Jane street, he owns a commodious building. He has
served three years as a member of the state board of medical examiners, and is
now a member of the Waycross board of education and is a member of the state
board of health. Fraternally the doctor belongs to Blackshear lodge. Ancient
Free and Accepted Order of Masons; to Waycross Lodge, No. 27, Knights of
Pythias; and to Way-cross Lodge. No. 99, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Doctor Walker married, in 1883, Miss Laura Singleton, who was born and
educated in Milledgeville, Georgia, being a daughter of Samuel and Ann
(Christian) Singleton, who reared four sons and four daughters, as follows:
Samuel, Stewart, Charles, Robert, Bettie, Ellen, Martha, and Laura. Her father
was in the employ of the state, and was also engaged for several years in the
mercantile business at Eatonton, where his last days were spent. The doctor and
Mrs. Walker have four children, namely: John S., Robert C., Annie Laurie, and
Samuel E. The doctor and his wife are both members of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and Mrs. Walker is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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1854 - 1929 (74 years)
