Our Connection to the Walkers
The Willis connection to the Walker family exists from the time that John Milton Willis’ daughter Mary Gordon Willis wed Lewis Meriwether Walker.
This connection’s primary significance is that both families have remained friends and maintained connections through that relationship now for coming on four generations.
Significant ancestors of note include a number of early lowland Virginia planters and soldiers who saw a great deal of action in the Civil War.
Much information on the Lewis Family, including memoirs of Fielding Lewis Walker (Lewis Meriwether’s father) and more notes on the family can be fount at this RootsWeb Link.
More Walker Family Information can be found at the Walkers of Locust Grove Site here.
The Walker family and Willis families have only been related for a few generations, but have witnessed common events and lived in near proximity in Virginia since the 1600’s.
The Walker’s first major home, Locust Grove, is set on the original 1665 tract, was first built in 1710 the 1773 home, rebuilt after a fire, is still standing. The site of the home has experienced a great deal of history over the past 350 years. The site is also the location of what may have been a fort constructed in response to Bacon’s Rebellion.