Seny was the wife of “Old” Charles Walker. She and Charles were the progenitors of a large family, including numerous children and many dozens of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. John B. remarked in a letter that Charles and Seny were “the ancestors of 74 living descendants,” and they were said to have taken the Biblical “increase and multiply” clause very seriously, leading to “numerous posterity.” Seny was bequeathed to John B. in Zachariah’s 1832 will. She and Charles frequently moved back and forth between Swift Creek and the Bear’s Den in Macon. A talented cook, John B. Lamar described her skill at frying fish and reported “eat[ing]  them bones & all.” Although Charles died in the mid-1850s, Seny survived him and remained at the Swift Creek Plantation at least until the early 1860s.

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