GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS Walker Sisters Home Historic Structures Report, Part II & Furnishing Study

1. Genealogical section, Walker family Bible, in possession of Dan Walker, Wear's Cove, Tennessee. Jan. 13, 1969. (Cited hereafter as Bible.)

2. Interview with Mr. Jim Shelton, Townsend, Tennessee. Nov. 14, 1968. (Cited hereafter as Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.)

3. Bible.

4. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Fifth Census of the United States: 1830. Population, Sevier County, Tennessee, 120.

5. Interview with Mr. Dan Walker, Wear's Cove, Tennessee, Jan. 13, 1969. (Cited hereafter as Walker, Jan. 13, 1969.) Also, Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

6. Walker, Jan. 13, 1969. Also, Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

7. Walker, Jan. 13, 1969. Also, Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968

8. Bible.

9. Bible.

10. Walker, Jan. 13, 1969. Also, Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

11. Bible.

12. Interview with Mr. Dan Walker, Wear's Cove, Tennessee, Oct. 16, 1967. (Cited hereafter as Walker, Oct. 16, 1967.)

13. Walker, Jan. 13, 1969 and Oct. 16, 1967. Also, Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

14. Walker, Jan. 13, 1969.

15. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

16. Interview with Mrs. Effie Phipps, Wear's Cove, Tennessee, Dec. 16, 1968. (Cited hereafter as Phipps, Dec. 16, 1968.)

17. Walker, Jan. 13, 1969.

18. Walker, Jan. 13, 1969. Also, Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

19. Walker, Oct. 16, 1967.

20. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

21. Walker, Oct. 16, 1967.

22. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

23. Bible.

24. Bible.

25. Bible.

26. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968. Also, Walker, Jan. 13, 1969.

27. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

28. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

29. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

30. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968. Also, Knoxville News Sentinel, Jan. 12, 1958.

31. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

32. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

33. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

34. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

35. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

36. Interview, Mr. Jim Shelton, Townsend, Tennessee, Nov. 26, 1968. (Cited hereafter as Shelton, Nov. 26, 1968.)

37. Shelton, Nov. 26, 1968.

38. Walker, Oct. 16, 1967. Also, Walker, Jan. 13, 1969.

39. Walker, Jan. 13, 1969.

40. Bible.

41. Bible.

42. Bible. Also, Shelton, Nov. 26, 1968.

43. East Tennessee Land Office Book, No. 21, p. 737, entry 991. (Taken from Abstract of Title, Walker Sisters Land, prepared by John Morrell for USNPS, copy in GSMNP Library.)

44. Sevier County, Tennessee, Surveyor's Book, No. 1, p. 518. (Taken from Abstract of Title.)

45. Sevier County, Tennessee, Deed Book G, p. 291. (Taken from Abstract of Title.) (Note - this Deed Book was burned in 1856; however, a copy of the deed was found in the possessions of the Walker Sisters.) Also, Sevier County, Tennessee, Deed Book J, p. 150. (Taken from Abstract of Title.)

46. Sevier County, Tennessee, Deed Book No. 58, p. 308. (Taken from Abstract of Title.)

47. Sevier County, Tennessee, Deed Book 24, p. 85. (Taken from Abstract of Title.)

48. Sevier County, Tennessee, Deed Book 24, p. 82. (Taken from Abstract of Title.)

49. Sevier County, Tennessee, Deed Book 48, p. 48. (Taken from Abstract of Title.)

50. Memorandum, J. G. McKenzie, Special U.S. Attorney to the Attorney General of the United States, January 22, 1941. Copy in GSMNP files.

51. Walker, Jan. 13, 1969. Also, Shelton, Nov. 26, 1968.

52. Walker, Jan. 13, 1969.

53. Walker, Oct. 16, 1967.

54. Bible.

55. Walker, Jan. 13, 1969. Also, Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

56. Sevier County, Tennessee, Deed Book No. 58, p. 308. (Taken from Abstract of Title.)

57. Sevier County, Tennessee, Deed Book No. 58, p. 308. (Taken from Abstract of Title.)

58. Walker, Jan. 13, 1969. Also, Shelton, Nov. 26, 1968.

59. Walker, Jan. 13, 1969. Also, Shelton, Nov. 26, 1968.

60. Both Shelton and Walker said the addition was not made until the family grew too large for the "big house." This could not have been before the mid-1870s.

61. Walker, Jan. 13, 1969.

62. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

63. Shelton, Nov. 26, 1968.

64. Sevier County, Tennessee, Deed Book No. 58, p. 306. Also, Sevier County, Tennessee, Deed Book No. 58, p. 308. Taken from Abstract of Title.)

65. Bill of Complaint filed in Sevier County, Tennessee, Court, Sept. 9, 1892. (Taken from Abstract of Title.)

66. Interlocutory Decree, Sevier County, Tennessee, Minute Book D, p. 58. (Taken from Abstract of Title.)

67. Sevier County, Tennessee Chancery Court Minute Book D, p. 58, (Taken from Abstract of Title.)

68. Copy of poem in GSMNP files.

69. Copy of poem in GSMNP files.

70. Shelton, Nov. 26, 1968.

71. Shelton, Nov. 26, 1968.

72. Walker, Oct. 16, 1967.

73. Walker, Oct. 16, 1967.

74. Walker, Jan. 13, 1969.

75. Shelton, Nov. 26, 1968.

76. Shelton, Nov. 26, 1968.

77. Walker, Oct. 16, 1967.

78. Shelton, Nov 14, 1968.

79. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

80. Horace Kephart, Our Southern Highlanders, (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913) p. 43.

81. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

82. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

83. Interview with Effie Phipps, Wear's Cove, Tennessee, January 13, 1969. (Cited hereafter as Phipps, Jan. 13, 1969.)

84. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

85. Walker, Jan. 13, 1969.

86. Shelton, Jan. 13, 1969.

87. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

88. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

89. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

90. Phipps, Jan. 13, 1969.

91. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

92. Shelton, Jan. 13, 1969.

93. Shelton, Jan. 13, 1969.

94. Shelton, Jan. 13, 1969.

95. Walker, Jan. 13, 1969. Also, Shelton, Jan. 13, 1969.

96. Shelton, Jan. 13, 1969.

97. Shelton, Jan. 13, 1969.

98. Shelton, Jan. 13, 1969.

99. Interview with John Morrell, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, Nov. 14, 1968. (Cited hereafter as Morrell, Nov. 14, 1968.)

100. Shelton, Jan. 13, 1969.

101. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

102. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

103. Shelton, Nov. 14, 1968.

104. Joseph S. Hall, Smoky Mountain Folks and Their Lore, (Asheville, N. W.: Gilbert Printing Co., 1960) p. 52.

105. Shelton, Jan. 13, 1969.

106. Shelton, Jan. 13, 1969. Also, Walker, Jan. 13, 1969.

107. Memorandum from Superintendent Ross Eakin, GSMNP to Director, NPS, Nov. 18, 1939. (Copy in GSMNP files.)

108. Memorandum from John Morrell to GSMNP files, August 14, 1939. (Copy in GSMNP files.)

109. Appraisals made by John R. Gilbert, March 5, 1939; and W.R. Mize and John R. Gilbert, September 19, 1939. (Appraisal sheets in GSMNP files.)

110. Memorandum from Superintendent Ross Eakin, GSMNP to Director, NPS, March 12, 1940. (Copy in GSMNP files.)

111. Memorandum from Superintendent Ross Eakin, GSMNP to Director, NPS, October 1, 1940. (Copy in GSMNP files.)

112. Memorandum from A.M. Price, Attorney, to J.C. McKenzie, U.S. Attorney, November 11, 1940. (Copy in GSMNP files.)

113. Wilma Dykeman, The French Broad, (Knoxville, The University of Tennessee Press, 1955.) 61.

114. Letter from Margaret Jane and Louisa Walker to Superintendent, GSMNP, January 19, 1953. (Copy in GSMNP files.)