Walter Huskey was born 25 October 1886, Cocke, Tennessee, the son of Henry Clay Huskey and Elizabeth Amanda Sarah Cooper. He married Bertha B Mayes and they had 6 children, Eugene Chapman Huskey, Benjamin E. Huskey, Dorothy Ann Huskey, Bessie O. Huskey, Margaret Beatrice Huskey and Mildred Irene Huskey.
Captain Huskey was a retired Army Officer. He died on 28 July 1943 at a hospital on Kingston Pike, Loudon County, Tennessee of Coronary occlusion. He served overseas during World War I with the 117th Infantry, 3rd Battalion, Supply Company.
Since 1923 he served as a Sergeant with the 81st Division headquarters in Knoxville and received a conditional promotion from first lieutenant to captain in the reserve officers corps in 1938.
The Knoxville Journal, July 29, 1943
Capt. Walter Huskey, 56, retired army captain, died Wednesday at his home, Martel, Tenn. He was a member of West View Baptist Church and Avery Masonic Lodge, Lenoir City.
Survivors: widow, Mrs. Bertha Mays Huskey; daughters, Mrs. John Shipley, Misses Dorothy and Mildred Huskey, Martel; Mrs. Phil Frazier, Knoxville; sons, Lt. E.C. Huseky, Fort Knox, Ky., Pfc. Benj. Huskey, Garden City, Kansas; brothers J.H. High Shoals, N.C., Louis, Bartlett, Texas; William Newport, Tenn.; T.W., Knoxville; sisters, Mrs. Rhoda McMillan, Mrs. Harrison Henry, Newport.
- Rank: Captain
- Date of birth: 25 October 1886
- Date of death: 28 July 1943
- County: Knox
- Hometown: Martel
- Service Branch: Army/Army Air Forces
- Division/Assignment: Reserve Officers Corps
- Conflict: World War II
- Burial/Memorial Location: Woodlawn Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox County, TN
- Location In Memorial: Pillar XIV, Top Panel
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