Robert Vale (1716-1799) became a Quaker in 1744 (renouncing his nobility heritage) and immigrated from England to York County, Pennsylvania where he married Sarah Buller in 1749. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, Florida and elsewhere.

David Walker, son of Jacob Wythe Walker and Nancy Hawkins, was born 19 Feb 1806 in Kentucky. He married Jane Lewis Washington, daughter of Rebecca Washington, in 1833 in Kentucky. They lived in Fayetteville, Arkansas where they had six children. The children and family members have lived in Arkansas, Texas, Illinois, Florida, Kentucky, and other areas in the United States.

"List of charter members," v. 1, p. 8.

A thoroughly researched and extensively documented look at race relations in Arkansas druing the forty years after the Civil War, Town and Country focuses on the gradual adjustment of black and white Arkansans to the new status of the freedman, in both society and law, after generations of practicing the racial etiquette of slavery. John Graves examines the influences of the established agrarian culture on the developing racial practices of the urban centers, where many blacks living in the towns were able to gain prominence as doctors, lawyers, successful entrepreneurs, and political leaders. Despite the tension, conflict, and disputes within and between the voice of the government and the voice of the people in an arduous journey toward compromise, Arkansas was one of the most progressive states during Reconstruction in desegregating its people. Town and Country makes a significant contribution to the history of the postwar South and its complex engagement with the race issue.

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