The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Franklin Township, page 605
Reuben P. Walls, section 19, Franklin Township, was born in North Carolina in 1824, the second of ten children of James and Mary (Kennedy) Walls. After the death of his father in 1841, he took charge of the farm and with the assistance of his mother, who was a woman of fine executive ability, the work of improvement progressed. In 1862 he located on his present farm, where he owns 120 acres of fine land, all under cultivation. He was married Sept. 9, 1847, to Martha Harrison, a native of Knox County, Ky., born Jan. 27, 1828, daughter of Thomas Harrison, a pioneer of Hendricks County. Mr. and Mrs. Walls have had a family of eleven children, six of whom are living---Frances, Marion C., Howard W., Nancy, Lora E. and Alva J. James T. died at the age of twenty-six years, leaving a wife and two children; Mary Angeline, aged twenty-nine years; Clara E., aged twelve years; Alice, aged one year; and one daughter in infancy.