Born: May 6, 1809, Mar­tin’s Mills (near Cross Keys), South Car­o­li­na.

Died: Sep­tem­ber 24, 1875, Spar­tan­burg, South Car­o­li­na.

Buried: Mag­no­lia Cem­e­te­ry, Spar­tan­burg, South Car­o­li­na.

Musically gift­ed, by age 18 Walker was lead­ing con­gre­ga­tion­al sing­ing at the First Bap­tist Church in Spar­tan­burg. He col­lect­ed and ar­ranged folk tunes, and with his brother-in-law, Ben­jamin Frank­lin White, par­ti­ci­pated in sing­ing schools and com­pil­ing mel­o­dies from south­ern Ap­pa­la­chia and camp meet­ings. Af­ter mov­ing to Hart­ford, Con­nec­ti­cut, Walk­er pub­lished The South­ern Har­mo­ny and Mu­sic­al Com­pan­ion in 1835, but gave no credit to White, who pub­lished The Sac­red Harp, a com­pet­ing vol­ume, in 1844. Both used the shaped note music nota­tion system.

Sources

Music

  1. Middlebury
  2. Paula
  3. Restoration
  4. Samanthra
  5. Wondrous Love

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