Caswell Orton "Cas" Walker

1903 - 1998  (95 years)

• Name	Caswell Orton "Cas" Walker
  Born	22 Mar 1903	, Sevier County, Tennessee
  Gender	Male
  Died	25 Sep 1998	Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee   [1]
  Buried	27 Sep 1998	Woodlawn Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
  Person ID	I38621	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	2 May 2012

  
  

  Father	Thomas Inman Walker,   b. 22 Aug 1863, Tennessee ,   d. 16 Dec 1932, Sevier County, Tennessee  (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Annie L. Murphy,   b. 22 Feb 1873, Tennessee ,   d. 9 Feb 1957  (Age 83 years)
  Family ID	F20499	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Sally Virginia "Jennie" Grantham,   b. 14 Dec 1904, Knox County, Tennessee ,   d. 24 Nov 1990, Humphreys County, Tennessee  (Age 85 years)
  Married	2 Dec 1928	Knox County, Tennessee
  Children	+ 1. Wilma June Walker,   b. 22 Jun 1930, Knox County, Tennessee ,   d. 25 Oct 1958, Knox County, Tennessee  (Age 28 years)
  Family ID	F14151	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 22 Mar 1903 - , Sevier County, Tennessee Married - 2 Dec 1928 - Knox County, Tennessee Died - 25 Sep 1998 - Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee Buried - 27 Sep 1998 - Woodlawn Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos

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• Notes

  Worked coal mines. 15 grocery stores. Methodist. Joe Payne lists birth as 21 March 1901. ---------- Reference: Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 17. Proffitt GEDCOM, Joe Payne, 14 December 1995. "Proffitt Family History", Jeff Bridgett, p 38, 39.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4] Knoxville News-Sentinel (Tennessee), 27 Sep 1998. Caswell Orton "Cas" Walker, 96, who rose from obscurity in the hills of Sevier County to become a political maverick and millionaire owner of a grocery store chain in three states, died in his sleep at 6:30 a.m. Friday at his Knoxville home. Walker ... was as colorful as he was controversial. He was known widely across East Tennessee as well as the Southeast for his stores and radio and television shows. Those shows launched some of the big names in country music, including Dolly Parton, also a native of Sevier County. Although he became wealthy from a range of businesses, Walker despised the term "millionaire" and always preferred to be called "a common man." After Cas Walker's death, Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe ordered city flags to fly at half-staff in Walker's memory.