Individual Details
Col. Jesse Walling
(June 17, 1794 - August 11, 1867)
1860 Rusk County, Texas census.
"Jesse Walling, son of John and Anna (Chisum) Walling, was born in Hawkins Co., TN, on 17 June 1794. The family moved to Covington Co., MS, in 1818 and about 1825 returned to Fayette Co., TN. (Jesse Walling also served a Sheriff of Covington Co., MS and was elected Colonel of the Mississippi Militia and bore the title Colonel all the rest of his life by courtesy.) Jesse Walling came to Texas in 1834 and settled at Nacogdoches, where he enlisted in the Texas Army on 6 Mar. 1836. (The original role bearing Jesse Walling's name hangs upstairs in the Old Stone Fort in Nacogdoches from which fort these soldiers were mustered into the Army as volunteers). He was a member of Capt. Hayden S. Arnold's Company at the Battle of San Jacinto and remained with the Army until 22 June 1836. (He was part of Gen. Sidney Sherman's famous Left Wing of the Army at San Jacinto, one of the group who initiated the cry "Remember the Alamo, Remember La Bahia", and in later years when Gen. Sherman was under attack from Gen. Sam Houston, Sherman asked Jesse Walling to uphold his reputation and Jesse did this publicly, declaring that Sherman was maligned and was a fine and an honorable thought of soldier. Sherman's defense and his quoting his former soldier, Jesse Walling is found in the 1857 Almanac).
"He married Ann Wheelock at Nacogdoches. (She was born 1815 in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. The daughter of Isham Chisholm or Chisum as they spelled it both ways and his wife Amelia Roberts, a sister of Elisha Roberts, the old Alcalde of San Augustine. She was a first cousin once removed of John Simpson Chisum, the famous cattle baron of Texas and New Mexica, and a niece of Elisha Roberts the Alcalde of San Augustine. She was also a first cousin of her second husband, Jesse Walling. Her first marriage was to George Woodward Wheelock, grandson of The Rev. Dr. Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire and kinsman of Col. E. L. P. Wheelock of Wheelock, Texas. She bore Mr. Wheelock one daughter who married a Barton, and after Mr. Wheelock's early death, she married Jesse Walling. As Wheelock's widow, she was granted a league and labor in Robertson's Colony in what is now Bosque County, Texas. This grant is legally known as the Wheelock Survey but came to be called Walling Bend as the Wallings settled it and lived there. When Lake Whitney was made, it took in Walling Bend and the National Government Corps of Engineers designated what had been Walling Bend, some 5,000 acres, as Walling Bend Park of Lake Whitney and it is still officially named that in honor of the Wallings. Ann Chisum Wheelock Walling died in 1897 and lies buried in Walling Cemetery, the cemetery now being a part of the Whitney City Cemetery to which the old Walling Bend graves consisting of hundreds of Wallings and their friends and relatives and slaves were moved when the lake flooded much of old Walling Bend.)
"His cotton gin built there in 1839 served a wide area. In 1842-43, he represented Nacogdoches in the House of the Seventh Congress. He lived for a time in Shelby County and at Millville in Rusk County before he settled near Whitney in Hill County. (He founded the town of Millville on his own headright and laid out the streets, and was considered "the law" in that area. He donated the land for an early Millville Church which is now a Baptist Church dating back to the 1850's and the old Millville Cemetery adjoins it and many early Wallings were buried there in the 1850's before the Wallings left for Central Texas. Millville was an important town in those days. The Wallings also owned the franchise on Walling's Ferry across the Sabine and many prominent persons entered Texas on Walling's Ferry. The town became known as that and later became Camden and is now Easton, a community of descendents of former slaves and of historic interest.)
"He died on 11 Aug. 1867, and was buried in the old Walling Bend Cemetery, about six miles from Whitney. (He died in Millville and was placed in charcoal for the long journey to Walling Bend in Bosque County as he knew the family was moving there and he wanted to be buried there. They carried the body overland and it was kept perfectly in the charcoal. Walling descendents had his grave opened when it was moved when the lake at Lake Whitney came in and Col. Jesse Walling's body was in perfect condition after nearly 100 years, as the charcoal had preserved and petrified it.)
"Genealogical Notes: Col. Jesse Walling was a son of John Walling, Sr. and his wife, Anna Chisum. John Walling, Sr. was born in Montgomery County, Virginia, the son of James Walling, who was a son of Capt. Elisha Walling, (the famous "long hunter" of Virginia and Tennessee), who was a son of Thomas Walling (the latter being an early colonist of the Colony of Rhode Island and an early settler of Providence. This Thomas Walling married Mary Abbott, daughter of Daniel Abbott, close friend and neighbor of Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island. Daniel Abbott came in 1630 in Gov. Winthrop's fleet to Massachusetts and was in Cambridge, MA in 1634, one of the earliest settlers in Cambridge. Thomas Walling and Mary Abbott had a grandaughter, Elizabeth Walling, who married Roger Williams, II, grandson of Roger Williams, the founder of the Colony of Rhode Islend.)
"Col. Jesse Walling was married twice. He was first married to Sarah Parker in White County, Tennessee in 1818. Their children: John Chisholm Walling (was at Harrisburg during the Battle of San Jacinto and is listed on the Plaque of the Rear Guard in the San Jacinto Museum of History at the San Jacinto Monument near Houston); Preston M. Walling; Martha Ann Walling; Nancy Walling; and Synthia Walling. His second marriage was to his cousin Ann Chisum, the widow of George Woodward Wheelock. Their children: Isham Chisum Walling (great grandfather of the Rev. Albert C. Walling, II, founder of the San Jacinto Descendents; Lewis Cass Walling; Andrew Jackson Walling; Amelia Ann Walling; Jesse T. Walling; and Sam C. Walling.
"Isham Chisum Walling, son of Col. Jesse Walling and his second wife, Ann Chisum Wheelock Walling, was born in May 1842, and died at Walling Bend, Bosque County in 1916. He was married to Mary Griffin. Their children: Albert Sidney Walling and Mollie Walling. Albert Sidney Walling was born 6 Jan. 1866 and died Sep. 1939. He was married to Georgia Ann Biffle, born at Walling Bend, Bosque County, 23 Oct. 1873 and died Oct. 1968. Their children: Albert Clinton Walling and Jacob Biffle Walling. Albert Clinton Walling married Frances Newman: no issue. Jacob Biffle Walling married Nora Maurine Stone, 4 Jan. 1920, Their children: Maurine Elizabeth Walling and The Rev. Albert Clinton Walling, II. The Rev. Albert Clinton Walling, II, born 24 Sep. 1925, married Carroll Langlois Wicher in Austin on 26 Dec. 1964. Their children: Maurine Carroll Walling, born 16 Oct. 1965 and Elizabeth Hancock Walling, born 8 Aug. 1967." (STIRPES, The Texas State Genealogical Quarterly, Vol. XVII, No. 1, March, 1972, pp. 28-31, written by The Reverand Albert Clinton Walling, II.)
(NOTE: The parenthetical parts of the above are "The Notes" of The Rev. Albert Clinton Walling, II, great, great grandson of Col. Jesse Walling and Ann Chisum Wheelock Walling. They are based not only on family tradition coming directly to the Rev. Mr. Walling from his grandfather, Albert Sidney Walling (grandson of Col. and Mrs. Walling), but they represent much family research on the Walling and Chisum families done in libraries over th4e nation from New York, Washington, and Boston to San Francisco and all over the State of Texas. The Rev. Mr. Walling is also in possession of Ann Chisum Wheelock Walling's Family Bible with all the family dates entered. Also included in the article is a copy of the original daguerreotype photograph in the possession of The Rev. Albert Clinton Walling, II, It is a picture of Col. Jesse Walling and his second wife and cousin, Ann Chisum Wheelock. The picture dates to about the 1850's, probably taken when Col. Jesse Walling represented Rusk County in the Seventh Legislature in Austin. He had previously represented Rusk County in the Second Legislature of the State of Texas in 1846, and prior to that he had represented Nacogdoches in the Seventh Congress of the Republic of Texas in 1842. He was a prominent land and slave owner in early Texas, invested in early day railroads in Rusk County and also invested in the steamboat business. He gave the land for the old Millville Academy in Millville, Texas and was its first Board President. He laid out Millville on his headright near Henderson, later he founded the community of Walling Bend in Bosque County near the present Lake Whitney. Buried there.)
"Millville is a ghost town on what was once known as Chickenfeather Road nine miles northeast of Henderson in north central Rusk County. During the 1830s, when it was first settled, the area was known as Liberty Hill. In 1853 a town was laid out after Enoch Hays and Willis Calloway built a water mill there, and it was called Millville. Jesse Walling deeded four acres to establish the Millville Male and Female Academy there in 1858. The town, located in the fertile redland belt of northeastern Rusk County, was in populated territory when Hays and Calloway arrived. The mill served to consolidate a dispersed farming community. Soon the settlement became a division point for couriers of messages from Jefferson to Rusk by way of Marshall, Camden, Millville, Henderson, and New Salem. After the construction of the first telegraph line in Texas, Millville was still on the line of communication for the area, now known as the Wire Road, down which the lines of the Red River Telegraph Company traveled from Jefferson to what became Henderson. Millville was also on the stagecoach line from Marshall to San Antonio. Because it was traversed by all these lines of communication and travel it had several general stores, drugstores, hotels, and saloons. The local sheep-raising industry supported a carding factory. There was also a woodshop or furniture manufactory, a shoe shop and tanning yard, a school, and a Masonic lodge. A post office was originally established as Walling's Mills in 1847 with Thomas J. Roberts as postmaster. In 1848 its name was changed to Millville, and it continued under this name until 1873, when it was discontinued and mail was sent to Henderson. The office was reestablished in 1877, again closed for a number of years, and reopened in 1894. In 1897 the office was discontinued and mail sent to Motley. Millville declined when it was bypassed by the railroads in the 1880s. The community was also bypassed by highway construction, and eventually its businesses and school moved to nearby Oak Hill. Even the oil boom passed Millville by, although it was the first site in Rusk County where exploratory drilling was done in 1911. By 1968 only a church and a cemetery remained." (The Handbook of Texas.)
"Jesse Walling, son of John and Anna (Chisum) Walling, was born in Hawkins Co., TN, on 17 June 1794. The family moved to Covington Co., MS, in 1818 and about 1825 returned to Fayette Co., TN. (Jesse Walling also served a Sheriff of Covington Co., MS and was elected Colonel of the Mississippi Militia and bore the title Colonel all the rest of his life by courtesy.) Jesse Walling came to Texas in 1834 and settled at Nacogdoches, where he enlisted in the Texas Army on 6 Mar. 1836. (The original role bearing Jesse Walling's name hangs upstairs in the Old Stone Fort in Nacogdoches from which fort these soldiers were mustered into the Army as volunteers). He was a member of Capt. Hayden S. Arnold's Company at the Battle of San Jacinto and remained with the Army until 22 June 1836. (He was part of Gen. Sidney Sherman's famous Left Wing of the Army at San Jacinto, one of the group who initiated the cry "Remember the Alamo, Remember La Bahia", and in later years when Gen. Sherman was under attack from Gen. Sam Houston, Sherman asked Jesse Walling to uphold his reputation and Jesse did this publicly, declaring that Sherman was maligned and was a fine and an honorable thought of soldier. Sherman's defense and his quoting his former soldier, Jesse Walling is found in the 1857 Almanac).
"He married Ann Wheelock at Nacogdoches. (She was born 1815 in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. The daughter of Isham Chisholm or Chisum as they spelled it both ways and his wife Amelia Roberts, a sister of Elisha Roberts, the old Alcalde of San Augustine. She was a first cousin once removed of John Simpson Chisum, the famous cattle baron of Texas and New Mexica, and a niece of Elisha Roberts the Alcalde of San Augustine. She was also a first cousin of her second husband, Jesse Walling. Her first marriage was to George Woodward Wheelock, grandson of The Rev. Dr. Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire and kinsman of Col. E. L. P. Wheelock of Wheelock, Texas. She bore Mr. Wheelock one daughter who married a Barton, and after Mr. Wheelock's early death, she married Jesse Walling. As Wheelock's widow, she was granted a league and labor in Robertson's Colony in what is now Bosque County, Texas. This grant is legally known as the Wheelock Survey but came to be called Walling Bend as the Wallings settled it and lived there. When Lake Whitney was made, it took in Walling Bend and the National Government Corps of Engineers designated what had been Walling Bend, some 5,000 acres, as Walling Bend Park of Lake Whitney and it is still officially named that in honor of the Wallings. Ann Chisum Wheelock Walling died in 1897 and lies buried in Walling Cemetery, the cemetery now being a part of the Whitney City Cemetery to which the old Walling Bend graves consisting of hundreds of Wallings and their friends and relatives and slaves were moved when the lake flooded much of old Walling Bend.)
"His cotton gin built there in 1839 served a wide area. In 1842-43, he represented Nacogdoches in the House of the Seventh Congress. He lived for a time in Shelby County and at Millville in Rusk County before he settled near Whitney in Hill County. (He founded the town of Millville on his own headright and laid out the streets, and was considered "the law" in that area. He donated the land for an early Millville Church which is now a Baptist Church dating back to the 1850's and the old Millville Cemetery adjoins it and many early Wallings were buried there in the 1850's before the Wallings left for Central Texas. Millville was an important town in those days. The Wallings also owned the franchise on Walling's Ferry across the Sabine and many prominent persons entered Texas on Walling's Ferry. The town became known as that and later became Camden and is now Easton, a community of descendents of former slaves and of historic interest.)
"He died on 11 Aug. 1867, and was buried in the old Walling Bend Cemetery, about six miles from Whitney. (He died in Millville and was placed in charcoal for the long journey to Walling Bend in Bosque County as he knew the family was moving there and he wanted to be buried there. They carried the body overland and it was kept perfectly in the charcoal. Walling descendents had his grave opened when it was moved when the lake at Lake Whitney came in and Col. Jesse Walling's body was in perfect condition after nearly 100 years, as the charcoal had preserved and petrified it.)
"Genealogical Notes: Col. Jesse Walling was a son of John Walling, Sr. and his wife, Anna Chisum. John Walling, Sr. was born in Montgomery County, Virginia, the son of James Walling, who was a son of Capt. Elisha Walling, (the famous "long hunter" of Virginia and Tennessee), who was a son of Thomas Walling (the latter being an early colonist of the Colony of Rhode Island and an early settler of Providence. This Thomas Walling married Mary Abbott, daughter of Daniel Abbott, close friend and neighbor of Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island. Daniel Abbott came in 1630 in Gov. Winthrop's fleet to Massachusetts and was in Cambridge, MA in 1634, one of the earliest settlers in Cambridge. Thomas Walling and Mary Abbott had a grandaughter, Elizabeth Walling, who married Roger Williams, II, grandson of Roger Williams, the founder of the Colony of Rhode Islend.)
"Col. Jesse Walling was married twice. He was first married to Sarah Parker in White County, Tennessee in 1818. Their children: John Chisholm Walling (was at Harrisburg during the Battle of San Jacinto and is listed on the Plaque of the Rear Guard in the San Jacinto Museum of History at the San Jacinto Monument near Houston); Preston M. Walling; Martha Ann Walling; Nancy Walling; and Synthia Walling. His second marriage was to his cousin Ann Chisum, the widow of George Woodward Wheelock. Their children: Isham Chisum Walling (great grandfather of the Rev. Albert C. Walling, II, founder of the San Jacinto Descendents; Lewis Cass Walling; Andrew Jackson Walling; Amelia Ann Walling; Jesse T. Walling; and Sam C. Walling.
"Isham Chisum Walling, son of Col. Jesse Walling and his second wife, Ann Chisum Wheelock Walling, was born in May 1842, and died at Walling Bend, Bosque County in 1916. He was married to Mary Griffin. Their children: Albert Sidney Walling and Mollie Walling. Albert Sidney Walling was born 6 Jan. 1866 and died Sep. 1939. He was married to Georgia Ann Biffle, born at Walling Bend, Bosque County, 23 Oct. 1873 and died Oct. 1968. Their children: Albert Clinton Walling and Jacob Biffle Walling. Albert Clinton Walling married Frances Newman: no issue. Jacob Biffle Walling married Nora Maurine Stone, 4 Jan. 1920, Their children: Maurine Elizabeth Walling and The Rev. Albert Clinton Walling, II. The Rev. Albert Clinton Walling, II, born 24 Sep. 1925, married Carroll Langlois Wicher in Austin on 26 Dec. 1964. Their children: Maurine Carroll Walling, born 16 Oct. 1965 and Elizabeth Hancock Walling, born 8 Aug. 1967." (STIRPES, The Texas State Genealogical Quarterly, Vol. XVII, No. 1, March, 1972, pp. 28-31, written by The Reverand Albert Clinton Walling, II.)
(NOTE: The parenthetical parts of the above are "The Notes" of The Rev. Albert Clinton Walling, II, great, great grandson of Col. Jesse Walling and Ann Chisum Wheelock Walling. They are based not only on family tradition coming directly to the Rev. Mr. Walling from his grandfather, Albert Sidney Walling (grandson of Col. and Mrs. Walling), but they represent much family research on the Walling and Chisum families done in libraries over th4e nation from New York, Washington, and Boston to San Francisco and all over the State of Texas. The Rev. Mr. Walling is also in possession of Ann Chisum Wheelock Walling's Family Bible with all the family dates entered. Also included in the article is a copy of the original daguerreotype photograph in the possession of The Rev. Albert Clinton Walling, II, It is a picture of Col. Jesse Walling and his second wife and cousin, Ann Chisum Wheelock. The picture dates to about the 1850's, probably taken when Col. Jesse Walling represented Rusk County in the Seventh Legislature in Austin. He had previously represented Rusk County in the Second Legislature of the State of Texas in 1846, and prior to that he had represented Nacogdoches in the Seventh Congress of the Republic of Texas in 1842. He was a prominent land and slave owner in early Texas, invested in early day railroads in Rusk County and also invested in the steamboat business. He gave the land for the old Millville Academy in Millville, Texas and was its first Board President. He laid out Millville on his headright near Henderson, later he founded the community of Walling Bend in Bosque County near the present Lake Whitney. Buried there.)
"Millville is a ghost town on what was once known as Chickenfeather Road nine miles northeast of Henderson in north central Rusk County. During the 1830s, when it was first settled, the area was known as Liberty Hill. In 1853 a town was laid out after Enoch Hays and Willis Calloway built a water mill there, and it was called Millville. Jesse Walling deeded four acres to establish the Millville Male and Female Academy there in 1858. The town, located in the fertile redland belt of northeastern Rusk County, was in populated territory when Hays and Calloway arrived. The mill served to consolidate a dispersed farming community. Soon the settlement became a division point for couriers of messages from Jefferson to Rusk by way of Marshall, Camden, Millville, Henderson, and New Salem. After the construction of the first telegraph line in Texas, Millville was still on the line of communication for the area, now known as the Wire Road, down which the lines of the Red River Telegraph Company traveled from Jefferson to what became Henderson. Millville was also on the stagecoach line from Marshall to San Antonio. Because it was traversed by all these lines of communication and travel it had several general stores, drugstores, hotels, and saloons. The local sheep-raising industry supported a carding factory. There was also a woodshop or furniture manufactory, a shoe shop and tanning yard, a school, and a Masonic lodge. A post office was originally established as Walling's Mills in 1847 with Thomas J. Roberts as postmaster. In 1848 its name was changed to Millville, and it continued under this name until 1873, when it was discontinued and mail was sent to Henderson. The office was reestablished in 1877, again closed for a number of years, and reopened in 1894. In 1897 the office was discontinued and mail sent to Motley. Millville declined when it was bypassed by the railroads in the 1880s. The community was also bypassed by highway construction, and eventually its businesses and school moved to nearby Oak Hill. Even the oil boom passed Millville by, although it was the first site in Rusk County where exploratory drilling was done in 1911. By 1968 only a church and a cemetery remained." (The Handbook of Texas.)
Events
| Birth | June 17, 1794 | Hawkins County, Tennessee | |||
| Marriage | 1818 | White County, Tennessee - Sarah Parker | |||
| Marriage | April 4, 1838 | Nacogdoches County, Texas - Anne Chisum | |||
| Death | August 11, 1867 | Millville, Hill County, Texas | |||
| Burial | Walling Bend Cemetery, near Whitney, Bosque County, Texas |
Families
| Spouse | Sarah Parker (1798 - 1835) |
| Child | John Chism Walling (1819 - 1863) |
| Child | Preston M. Walling (1822 - 1891) |
| Child | Martha Ann Walling (1822 - 1897) |
| Child | Nancy Ann Walling (1830 - ) |
| Child | Synthia Walling (1833 - ) |
| Spouse | Anne Chisum (1815 - 1897) |
| Child | Jesse Richards Walling (1839 - 1920) |
| Child | Isham Chisum Walling (1842 - 1916) |
| Child | Amelia Ann Walling (1844 - ) |
| Child | Andrew Jackson Walling (1846 - 1898) |
| Child | Sam C. Walling (1850 - ) |
| Child | Lewis Cass Walling (1851 - 1886) |
| Child | Rhoda Walling (1852 - ) |
| Child | Elizabeth C. "Bettie Walling (1853 - 1855) |
| Child | Emma Walling (1854 - 1855) |
| Child | Susan A. Walling (1857 - 1857) |
| Child | Jefferson "Jeffy" Walling (1859 - 1863) |
| Father | John Walling (1772 - 1841) |
| Mother | Anna Chism (1777 - 1832) |
| Sibling | James Walling (1795 - 1867) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Walling (1799 - ) |
| Sibling | John Walling Jr. (1804 - 1887) |
| Sibling | Mary Walling (1808 - ) |
| Sibling | Nancy Walling (1809 - ) |
| Sibling | Thomas Jefferson Walling (1811 - 1902) |
| Sibling | Cynthia Ann "Sentha" Walling (1816 - 1884) |
| Sibling | Alfred Gaines Walling (1818 - 1853) |