Notes

Cemetery marker:

Martha A. WALKER
born 27 April 1849
died 25 May 1876
"wife of C.M. Walker" 

Cemetery stone gives date of death as 14 January 1874, and states that Martha was 42 years, 10 months and 7 days old, calculating to a birthdate of 7 November 1832. 

Census indicates the earlier date, but the Ancestry tree indicates the later date. 

Census stated his birth in "Holstein," but Holstein was the Duchy of Holstein, in Germany at the period of his birth. 

Cerebral hemorrhage, hypertension, heart disease. 

Cerebral hemorrhage. 

Charles Bowen names her "Cyrena." 

Charles Laing was entered as "deceased" on the birth registration of his son Charles Laing, who was born 15 January 1806. Calculating to a conception date of about March, Charles (the elder) must have died between March 1805 and January 1806. 

Charlotte Armstrong
Birth Place: Dundas, Ontario
Residence: Walsingham Township
Father Name: Cornelius Armstrong
Mother Name: Irena Armstrong
Spouse Name: Thomas Gilmore
Spouse's Age: 22
Spouse Birth Year: abt 1841
Spouse Birth Place: Scarborough Township
Spouse Residence: Walsingham Township
Spouse Father Name: Tomas Gilmore
Spouse Mother Name: Maria Gilmore
Marriage Date: 21 Sep 1863
Marriage County or District: Norfolk 

Chronic myocarditas; contributing factor arteriosclerosis. 

Citation: Richard Tatom (Benton County), donation lands, final certificate no. 4667, Oregon City, Oregon, Land Office; Oregon and Washington Donation Land Files, 1851-1903, Records of the Bureau of Land Management, Record Group 49, NARA, Wash., D.C., microfilm publication M815, roll 51. 

Citation: Texas Department of Health, death certificate no. 17264 (1960), Electa V. Fox, Harris County; ?Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,? digital image, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : downloaded 16 April 2014); FHL film no. 2,116,166; citing vols. 29-36, certificates 014200-017600, March, Bexar-Harris counties, State Register Office, Austin. [Specific url: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-25169-92428-51?cc=1983324] 

Clarence Allen Venable was married to Sarah Edds. Sarah died in 1936 and was buried in Crawford County, Kansas. Clarence lived until 1969, dying in Barton County, Missouri. He was buried with his wife Sarah.

It is quite possible that May E. (Smith) Hoop left her husband in California or Oregon and went back to Missouri, where she divorced him and married the widowed Clarence Venable. No record of the marriage has been found. 

Claude Walker appears, age 13, in Helton Rutherford Walker's 1900 Howell County, Missouri, census enumeration, where he is designated as "grandson." The surname "Walker" and his age point to the William E. "Bud" Walker as his father. (Bud had died in 1893 and his wife had remarried.)

No other documents naming Claud have yet been discovered. He has not been located in the 1910 census.

Information on Bud's children was obtained by Wilda (Phipps) Beasley from Ben Dryman, a child of Cynthia (Cox) Walker's second marriage. (See letter and citation.) Ben named Claud as one of the children of Bud and Cynthia and stated that he had gone to Deadwood, North Dakota (should be "South Dakota") where he died in the mines. He also indicated that Claud had never married. 

Clearly, Mary Jane's divorce from John Jamison was not final when George "Hunt" was born. He may have been the child of her next husband, John J. Hunt. The newspaper notice of affidavit for divorce mentions her "nonresidence" as early as March 1881, so she may have moved to Illinois with Hunt to have his child. 

Cleveland Walker, born 1832 Illinois, living in San Joaquin Co?

• 1888 Stockton directory, "Walker, Cleveland, carpenter, res 230 S. California
  
• 1880 Chico, Butte Co CA census, b abt 1832 in Illinois, carpenter, parents born Alabama, wife Elizabeth J born abt 1835 Ohio
  
• 1870, Butte Co CA census, b abt 1832 Illinois, carpenter, wife Elizabeth J., real estate valued at $1800
  
• 1860 may be the Cleveland Walker in the Oregon Penintentiary, born abt 1834 Ohio, mechanic, serving time for "?assisting in escape of a convict?
  
• Can't locate him in the 1850 census
  
• Appears in 1910 San Joaquin Co census, in the home of cobbler James P. Whitney, born about 1833, Illinois, parents born in Alabama, married, second marriage, length about 22 years--so married in about 1888 (Elizabeth J. must have died?)
  

This could be coincidence, or it could be a good lead.


 

CMSR gives death date as 4 August, while the Sons of American Rev app gives it as 5 August. 

Collins Walker Bible gives Forest's birth as 5 December 1883--not 1882. 

Collins was an infant in 1870, and did not appear in the 1880 family census. The 1936 obituary brother Stephen Elias Adams listed his surviving siblings and Collins was not among them. It is likely that he died in infancy or childhood.

No cemetery entry has been located for him,
 

Confirming the right Alfred Herd, he acted as informant for the death certificate of his father in law, Lonnie "Rounder" Smith. 

Confusingly, although her marriage record is in November 1920, her father's 1918 obituary named a daughter "Mrs. C. M. Smith of LeGrand." I think the Mrs. C. M. Smith referenced may have been their granddaughter, Josephine, whom they may have adopted, since she was married as "Josephine F. Jones."

In her widowhood, Bertha may have met and married one of Josephine's in-laws. 

Cora's birth is recorded at FindAGrave (presumably from a marker) as 29 September 1880. However, the 1880 census recorded her as 8 months old, born the previous September.  

Cora's mother quickly remarried to Henry Bumgardner and the family is found in the Lucas County, Iowa, census, with daughter "Clara" E. Burke, age 2.

The Willoughby-Bishop tree on Ancestry.com
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/22410357/person/1231070840

Indicates that Cora's mother was married to William Burke in Claiborne Co, TN and was married the second time in Claiborne Co, also that Cora was born in Claiborne Co. 

Coronary occlusion. 

Correspondence with the grandson of Samuel Scott Walker, through his son Billy Scott: Stephen Scott Walker, Ph.D. (Florida College, 119 N. Glen Arven Ave., Temple Terrace, FL 33617, telephone 813.988.5131 x271). I contacted him because he tested into Group 2 of the Walker DNA study. 

Cotton Wood Cemetery 

Cottonwood Cemetery 

Could be Charles Edward Walker?

Unsourced notes on Ancestry.com indicate he may have married Mary L. Hutchinson, from whom he was later divorced. 

Data from Wilda Beasley fixed her death date as 26 October 1948. However, the entry on FindAGrave offers a death year of 1947. The photo of her double stone with husband Martin E. Kelley reflects a mossy growth obscuring the engraving. 

Date from Smith book. Husband's name and the fact of their marriage prior to September 1923, from her death certificate. 

Date is probably issue of license, not necessarily of marriage. 

Date issue was licensed, taken from the cover of the marriage license. License itself and return not filmed. 

Date license was issued.
 

Date not specified, newspaper dated 4 July so marriage was probably one of the first days of July. 

Date of birth from Bowen. Place of birth from Emma's 1900 census. Daughter Iva's enumeration indicates that her father was born in Pennsylvania. 

Date of birth from newspaper account. Cemetery marker gives her age as 4 months and 8 days at the time of her death.

Death date from death certificate. Cause of death: "Probably acute indigestion--was found dead in bed a few minutes after having nursed." Duration of illness: "few minutes." 

Date of birth offered by death certificate is quite different from that found in the Wilda (Phipps) Beasley materials. Though Wilda has proven quite reliable, there were two Ruby Phipps's. Could this have been the problem? 

Date of issue of marriage bond. Does not include return. 

Date of license issued in Howell County was 1 June 1906; image was of the outside of the marriage license, not of the license itself and carried no return. 

Date of license, not marriage. 

Date of license. Return not included on digital image. 

Date of original widow's pension application and date of her son's application in her name. 

Date of Paul's birth from other family members is consistently given as 11 December 1906. Census data is consistent with this, and also with a birthplace of Iowa.

The Iowa birth record group cited offers a Paul Wesley born on 11 December 1906. The database, however, gives only "Fillmore township" as the birthplace, with no county. A Google search for Fillmore County in Iowa finds one in Iowa County. Additionally, the FHL film no. cited by the record (FHL film no. 988,208) appears in the FHL online catalog as a registry of births for Iowa County, Iowa.

The record names parents "Whitfield Reeves" and "Minnie Walker." 

Daughter Annis Abigail (Walker) Hill's death certificate names her mother as "Harriet Hayden."
Daughter Ida M. (Walker) Senteny's death certificate named her mother as "Harriet Finch."
Marriage named her as "Harriet Owens," and a previous marriage named her as "Harriet Gasill" marrying Owens. 

Daughter Beulah M. (Givens) Walker, FindAGrave entry names her mother as "Willie Emma Givens." It is unclear if "Givens" was her maiden name, or the entry offered only her maiden name. 

Daughter Charlotte's 1974 Texas death certificate identifies her parents as "Henry S. Walker" and her mother as "Alice Grierson." 

Daughter Eunice's birth record is found 1 Jan 1917, Rock Co (see images, from FamilySearch); daughter Ione's birth could not be found around 1921 in the same county. Their 1920 census record has not yet been located, although Ione's 1930 census indicates she was born in Minnesota. 

Daughter Ida May (Walker) Senteney's 1946 Coles County death certificate states that her parents were "John Walker" and "Harriet Finch."