Karen Ann Walls Collection

Buttram Family
Seated: Anita and Wilson Dan Buttram
Standing: John Buttram, Karen Ann Walls, Sarah Buttram Miller

Biographical Note

Karen Ann Walls is a descendant of George Wesley Baker. Baker traveled with his brother, Jonathan Hamilton Baker, from their home in Virginia to Northwest Texas in 1858. Beginning with this journey, and for the rest of his life, Jonathan Hamilton Baker kept a detailed daily diary documenting frontier life.

Scope and Contents

Walls conducted genealogical research related to the Baker and Young families of Grayson County, Virginia. The collection consists of documents and correspondence related to that research.

Materials in this collection consist of the following:

• Arthur Jack Sackville-West, Jr. history, undated
• A Woman in a War Torn Town: The Journal of Jane Howison Beale, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1850-1862, eds. Kerri S. Barile and Barbara P. Willis, The Donning Company Publishers, 2011
• Baker Diary excerpts, undated
• Biographical file on Jonathan Hamilton Baker created by Frances Marion Allen, 1858-2015, undated
• Copies of records from various websites, including tax, land, census, vital, marriage, militia, and epidemic records from Grayson and Wilkes Counties, Virginia, 1782-1862, 2011-2015
• Correspondence related to research
• Digital photographs of Wesley Baker descendants, undated
• Ezekiel Young documents, undated
• Jonathan Hamilton Baker biography, 1932
• Hood County, Texas Telephone Directory page copies, 1908
• Texas Historical Marker application for Jonathan Hamilton Baker, 1982
• "This Old House So Full of Memories," by Mary G. Saltarelli, 2015
• "Three R's and the Hickory Stick on the Texas Frontier," by Ty Cashion, undated
• Young's Chapel Baptist Church and Cemetery documents, 1996