Fannin, James Walker, 1804?-1836

found: Brown, G. Hesitant martyr in the Texas Revolution, 2000:CIP t.p. (James Walker Fannin) galley 1, etc. (during his short lifetime, he used several names; name at time of death, James Walker Fannin, Jr.; in early days of 1805--some historians claim 1804, born in Georgia; the son of Major Isham S. Fannin; the family name had originally been Fanning and Isham's father dropped the "g"; after Isham's death in 1817, James went back to the family that had adopted him--the family of his true mother who was named Walker; he was named James Fannin Walker, but in his lifetime he would change his name--occasionally even re-adding the "g" to Fannin; but, in the end, he adopted the given name of his paternal grandfather)