Charles Walker III was born around 1828. He was the son of “Young” Charles and Selah Walker at Swift Creek, husband to Susan, and father of nine children. The Cobb-Lamars and their overseers referred to him as “Walker,” but he referred to himself as Charles. He, his parents, and grandparents were bequeathed to John B. in Zachariah’s 1832 will. Charles and his parents were hired out in 1841, but otherwise seem to have labored at Swift Creek until emancipation. By the summer of 1865, Charles, Susan, and their growing family had relocated to the Hurricane Plantation in Baldwin County. There, he came into conflict with the overseer J.D. Collins. In July 1865, Collins ordered Charles (“Walker”) off the plantation and reported to Howell Cobb that, “I told Walker if he came back he would not get a cent for his work not even his clothes nor shose he cam back in the face of all the orders had her given him. I drove him off the secont time after you left.” Walker appealed to the Freedmen’s Bureau for relief over non-payment of wages. The Freedmen’s Bureau agent returned Charles to the plantation and told Collins that Walker could not be dismissed until he had been paid. By 1870, Charles, Susan, and family had left Baldwin County and moved back to Bibb County. He died sometime after 1880.

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