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John A. Walker, farmer of West Fork Township, Washington Co., Ark., was born in Hawkins County, Tenn., July 23, 1853, and is a son of Thomas and Cassandra (Moore) Walker, both of whom were Tennesseeans, the father being a carpenter and farmer by occupation. When our subject was six years old the family moved to Greene County, Tenn. (the father having married a second time), and in 1869 they came to Arkansas, and in 1870 the father purchased about 300 acres of land. His first wife, who died in 1859, became the mother of three children: John A.; William Floyd, born May 31, 1856, and Elizabeth Ann, born October 15, 1858. The father in 1860 married Mrs. Cynthia (Collett) Hartman, by whom he became the father of one child, Margaret Jane, born April 16, 1861. John A. Walker received a good practical education in his native State. He was married in March, 1876, to Miss Serena Strickland, a daughter of Jacob Strickland, who was a prominent Union man during the war, and had three sons in that army, one of whom was killed. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Walker became the parents of five children, three sons, Willie C., born October 17, 1877; George F., born January 7, 1880; an infant boy that died when two days old; and two daughters, Ardia Cliow, born May 20, 1883, and Sidney E., born July 5, 1886. They have a good farm of 120 acres, with 100 acres under cultivation, on which is a comfortable and commodious frame house and substantial out-buildings. Mr. Walker is quite extensively engaged in dealing in horses and cattle, and in his political views is a firm Republican.