Joseph WALKER, son of Alexander Walker and Jane Hammer, was born March 14, 1771 at Rockbridge County, VA. He, with his brothers, James and David, moved from Rockbridge County, VA. to Adair County, Kentucky Sept 25, 1795 and settled on Pettits Fork. He died on March 30, 1839 in Adair County, Kentucky. He married Katherine Kelso in April 1794. Katherine died in Adair County on November 14, 1838. He made sixteen trips on horseback back to Virginia to visit relatives.
Their children were:
1. Sophia WALKER
2. John WALKER killed by a falling tree when eight years old
3. Hugh Kelso WALKER married Mary Scott
4. Mary WALKER married Alban Bradshaw
5. Jean WALKER
6. Morean WALKER married Tusha Bradshaw
7. Tunstal Quarles WALKER married (1st) Elizabeth Lile (2nd) Louisa Peebles
8. Analisa WALKER
9. Lysander WALKER married Sally Hudson Flowers