INTRODUCTION
This blog has been created for the sole purpose of finding out my ancestor Sarah Walton's family. It's a place to sort through my info and have access to it as I am researching away from home. If you have stumbled across this blog because you are looking for information, or better yet, if you have information, :) please contact me at denianek@gmail.com to share.
MY CONNECTION: William Decatur Kartchner>Prudence Wilcox Kartchner>John Wilcox (m. Sarah Walton)
For more on the Willcox Family see www.thomaswillcox.blogspot.com
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
William Walton and Phebe Atkinson
James SHOEMAKER, seventh child of Isaac and Hannah, born in Upper Dublin, 10 mo. 13, 1757, was a farmer and lived all his life in Upper Dublin. He married in Horsham Meeting house, 6 mo. 1, 1781, PhebeWALTON, daughter of William and Phebe (ATKINSON) WALTON, the original certificate of the marriage engraved on parchment, as well as that of the marriage of William Walton and Phebe ATKINSON, which was solemnized at the same place, 9 mo. 26, 1741, are in the possession of the subject of this sketch. William WALTON, father of Phebe SHOEMAKER, was a resident of Moreland, and a son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (WALMSLEY) WALTON, of Byberry. William WALTON, father of Jeremiah, was one of the four Walton brothers who landed at New Castle in 1675 and subsequently located in Byberry. He was married at Byberry, 4 mo. 29, 1689, to Sarah HOWELL, and was the first minister at Byberry after the Keithian trouble and continued to preach there for many years. Phebe (ATKINSON) WALTON was a daughter of William and Phebe (TAYLER) ATKINSON, of Upper Dublin, and granddaughter of John and Susannah (HINDE) ATKINSON, of Lancashire, England, an account of whom is given elsewhere in this volume.
William and Phebe (ATKINSON) WALTON were the parents of ten children, several of whom died young. Phebe, who married James SHOEMAKER, was the second of the name and was born 11 mo. 16, 1759. The children of James and Phebe (WALTON) SHOEMAKER were as follows; William, born 3 mo. 16. 1782; Joseph, died an infant; Isaac, born 4 mo. 6, 1785; John, born 9 mo. 8, 1786; Hannah, born 2 mo. 24, 1789; Jesse, born 4 mo. 17, 1791, see forward; Jonathan, born 9 mo. 3, 1793, married in 1822 Margaret RUTTER; Rebecca, died an infant; Rachel, born 2 mo. 28, 1798; and Phebe, born 9 mo. 2, 1802.
http://www.pagenweb.org/~bucks/BIOS_DAVIS/shoemakerharry.html
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