The Presley family became connected with our Walden family while residing in TN. The Walden's were in neighboring White county and Ruth Presley became the second wife of Terry Walden, Jr., while Millenium married Terry's sister, Nancy Walden. The families remained very close. 

Upon the death of Sanders, Elizabeth married again to Edward Carlisle.Unfortunately he passed away all to young also leaving Elizabeth widowed a second time. About this time the two families decided to move on to new opportunities in Northwest Arkansas. Along with several other families from the area they made the move in about 1857. Elizabeth had the care of her young grand daughter upon the death of her parents along with one son, John, still at home.

Millenium and Nancy already were the parents of five children at the time they made the move. They went on to parent
a total of twelve children. Nancy's brother, Terry and his family, along with her parents, Terry Sr. and his wife also made
the move to Arkansas with all families settling in War Eagle, Madison county. Here they went about settling the land and
setting up their farms. Millenium became a very prosperious farmer owning at one time over 400 acres which he divided up
among his children. He later went into the merchantile business while serving as the Postmaster of Alabam, Arkansas.

Ruth and her husband, Terry Walden, Jr., became the parents of eight children. They, like her brother's family, became
constructive citizens of their new community helping to establish it. Farming was their profession. Terry's son by his
first wife, Louisa Doyle, is my husband's great-grandfather, Vance Walden. (see Walden page for more on this family)

The connection between the Walden and Presley family continued on for another generation...as the Terry and Ruth
resided beside her widowed mother and her little grand daughter, Matilda Isabelle Presley. Love blossomed between
Vance and Matilda and they were married thus fostering another connection between the two families.

This branch of the Presley family remained in the area for several decades. Thus I have quite a bit of information 
concerning their descendants. 
 
 

"M. B. Presley was born in Clay county, NC, Oct 25, 1828, his parents being Sanders and Elizabeth (Crowell) Presley, both natives of NC where they were married. They afterward made their home in middle Tennessee, where they reared their family and the father died in 1840. In 1857 the mother came to Madison county, AR, with our subject, where she died in 1888. The father was a farmer and a circuit rider in the Methodist church.

M. B. Presley passed his youth and married in Tn, there engaging in farming. He arrived in Madison county, Nov 7, 1857 and has lived here every since. He is now owner of 160 acres of land and once owned over 400 acres which he divided among his children.

From 1874 he was engaged in the mercantile business and has been Postmaster of Alabam for a number of years, the position now being filled by his son.

May 9, 1847, he was wedded, in Tennessee, to Nancy Terry Walden, a native of that state, born Dec 22, 1828. This union has been blessed with eleven children, ten now living: Mary E., Allen W., William T. (deceased), Dicy J., James B., Sarah A, Henry M, Catherine T, Wiley B, Martha A, and Francis J.

Politically Mr. Presley has always been a Democrat and during the Mexican War was first lieutenant of a company which went to Nashville, but was not mustered in. Mr. Presley is a well-known and respected citizen and has a pleasant home."