Charles L. Walker

Charles Lowell Walker (1832–1904) was a Latter-day Saint hymnwriter, most noted for having written the words to the hymn "Dearest Children, God is Near You".

Walker moved to Kentucky and began to work to earn money to bring his parents to America.

In 1861, he married Abigail Middlemass, also a convert to the LDS Church and a native of Popes Harbour, Nova Scotia.

[1] In times of death or other distress, Erastus Snow, the presiding church authority in Southern Utah, would come to Walker and ask, "Charley, write a song to lift our sadness".

In 1893, Walker recorded in his journal that John Alger (brother to Joseph Smith's plural wife Fanny Alger) had reported in a sacrament meeting in St. George a childhood memory of Joseph Smith reporting his First Vision.

Walker was the Assistant City Marshall and a lieutenant in the local contingent of the Nauvoo Legion.