Notes

FindAGrave gives birthdate as 15 July 1874. 

FindAGrave indicates that Jerry died in Camp Switch, Gregg County, Texas, though he was buried in Choctaw County, Oklahoma. However, the FamilySearch Texas deaths index and images does not have an entry for his death. 

FindAGrave lists her as "Wanda W. Walker," supporting Jordan Lee Dupree's information that her name was Wanda Lou White. 

FindAGrave offers a death date of 9 October 1969, rather than 15 October. 

FindAGrave offers a photo of the double grave of Wilford Thomas and his apparent sister Mary. Only a year of birth and death is offered by the stone, 1918-1920. Source for actual dates is unknown. Place of death is assumed to be Lincoln County because the family was enumerated there in January of that year. 

FindAGrave offers a photo of the headstone, which gives years for birth and death of each, but not specific dates. It also gives Marie's maiden name as "Jackson" rather than Schreiber.

The GenWeb database indicates that its data has been augmented from local sources, and though it does not offer a photo, it does offer specific dates for birth and death of each, as well as the maiden name "Schreiber" for Marie.

The Arapahoe County marriage license makes it clear that Marie's maiden name was Schreiber. Ralph's date of birth passed down by family members agrees with the date of birth on both databases, and it seems overwhelmingly likely that this is the right couple. 

FindAGrave offers death date of 20 March 1991, not 20 February. 

FindAGrave offers only the year of birth and death. 

Florence was located only because her brother Charles's biography names her in about 1920 as "Florence Mullen" and states that she lived in California. Florence and her husband Christopher Mullins are found in the 1910 and 1920 census for Monterey, Monterey County, California, and in the 1930 census for Berkeley, Alameda County, California. They were married about 1904 (1910 census data). Christopher was a hotel steward (probably a maitre d'hotel). They had one known child, daughter, Florence, born about 1906.  

For birth date, see VeromiM/i> report, image in file. For birthplace, see the obituaries of her brothers. 

For birthplace, his parents were married in Williamson Co and enumerated there in 1920. There is no reason to believe that Bill was not born there. 

For date and place, Bonnie Compton. For date only, SSDI. 

For date and place, Bonnie Compton. For month and year, SSDI. 

For date of birth, family Bible record. For place of birth, various census cites Canada, while George's sister insisted that Thomas was the first child born in Canada, that George and his older siblings were all born in Ireland. 

For date, 1900 census, for place, FindAGrave. 

For date, both cemetery stone and Josephine H. Jones numbered genealogy. For place of death, only the latter.  

For date, SSDI. For place, 1930 and 1940 census. 

For day and month, FindAGrave. For year and place, death certificate. 

For place, WWI draft reg. 

For specific date, Bonnie Compton. For year only, FindAGrave. For month and year, SSDI. 

For year, FindAGrave, image of gravestone. For specific date, family file "LDS Historical." 

For year, see 1880 census. For place, her death certificate. 

Forest Ernest Walker's FindAGrave entry includes a transcribed obituary (no citation to the obit) naming among other children his daughter "Mrs. Marvin Pratt." Mrs. Pratt is known to the author as Esther Pratt, an earlier Walker researcher, presently living in Nashville (2012). 

Found on the same page of the 1850 Washington Co IL census with Levi S. Walker and William H. Walker 

Four children: Charles, Donna, Maggie, and infant (1904). 

Frances is listed as a widow in the 1920 census, in the home of her married son Randall Clark. However, the Illinois death index (FamilySearch) gives his date of death as 11 September 1926, in Dorchester, Macoupin County, and correctly names his parents as Randall Clark and Lucy Gray.

Further research is necessary to resolve this conflict.  

Frances remained unmarried in 1880 (enumerated with her family as a single 18-year-old). Her 1900 census states that she has borne 7 children, all living. The eldest of the seven in the household, Writhea, was born in July 1883. It is likely that they were married the previous year.

The marriage does not appear in the Illinois Marriage Index. 

Francis Barbara Walker appears in the 1860 census as four months old, so she must have been born in April 1860, not 1861. 

Francis June Davis's death certificate names her father as "Anderson Davis" and her mother as "[Lusitty?] Hay."

Could he be James Anderson Davis, known as Anderson? 

Frank's death certificate states that he was born in "Birgeville, Kentucky." No town of that name has been located--though there is a "Bridgeville," in Bracken County. 

Fred's entry on the FindAGrave website cites an obituary apparently printed "back home' in Oklahoma. Newspaper and date of publication not stated:

"Fred Stokes Dies In California
Word was received by P. H. Stokes of Stillwater that his brother, Fred Stokes, a Payne County resident for many years, died on Saturday, December 10, 1960, in El Monte, California. He was born in Howell County, Missouri, and married Ruth Fletcher of Glencoe. There are three children: Donald, Darlene, and Betty." 

From an address by the Hon. John Hailey, librarian for the State Historical Society of Idaho, at the 1906 reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association:

"I came across the plains from Dade County, Missouri, to Oregon in 1853 in James Tatom's company. He and his father had four ox teams and about one hundred head of loose cattle. We arrived and stopped at Salem, Oregon, on the evening of October 18, 1853. Salem was a nice little village at that time, consisting of perhaps three hundred people. The country looked nice, but there did not seem to be much doing, and the show for poor emigrant boys to get work was slim. There were seven of us youngsters who had worked our passage across the plains, helping Mr. Tatom, some driving loose cattle, others driving the ox teams. As I had had some experience driven ox teams in Missouri, it fell to my lot to drive what was called the big team of five yoke of oxen to a large wagon. The other teams consisted of only two yoke each.

"We all remained at Salem the next day after our arrival, looking around for work, but failed to find any. When we passed Oregon City a few days before, we heard that some company was working quite a number of men there on a kind of breakwater or dam across the Willamette River, so three of us, John S. McBride, James Wilson and myself, concluded to go back to Oregon City and try and get work there. But before we started, Mr. Tatom said that he wanted me to stay with him a few days and help him get his stock located on good range. So it was agreed that McBride and Wilson should go on to Oregon City and try and get work, and as soon as Mr. Tatom's stock was properly located on the range, I would come. Those two boys left for Oregon City and the other four struck for different parts. Tatom and I went out to what was called the Waldo Hills, about eight miles from Salem. Here we found splendid range for stock. The grass was fine and no stock there. We returned to camp and next day, with the assistance of Mr. Tatom's younger brother Isaac, we moved the cattle and the big wagon out there, with a supply of provisions. They returned to Salem to get the family located in a house, and left me alone to look after the cattle. The cattle were well contented and I had an easy, lonesome time for ten days before he returned to relieve me." 

From an address by the Hon. John Hailey, librarian for the State Historical Society of Idaho, at the 1906 reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association:

"I came across the plains from Dade County, Missouri, to Oregon in 1853 in James Tatom's company. He and his father had four ox teams and about one hundred head of loose cattle. We arrived and stopped at Salem, Oregon, on the evening of October 18, 1853. Salem was a nice little village at that time, consisting of perhaps three hundred people. The country looked nice, but there did not seem to be much doing, and the show for poor emigrant boys to get work was slim. There were seven of us youngsters who had worked our passage across the plains, helping Mr. Tatom, some driving loose cattle, others driving the ox teams. As I had had some experience driven ox teams in Missouri, it fell to my lot to drive what was called the big team of five yoke of oxen to a large wagon. The other teams consisted of only two yoke each.

"We all remained at Salem the next day after our arrival, looking around for work, but failed to find any. When we passed Oregon City a few days before, we heard that some company was working quite a number of men there on a kind of breakwater or dam across the Willamette River, so three of us, John S. McBride, James Wilson and myself, concluded to go back to Oregon City and try and get work there. But before we started, Mr. Tatom said that he wanted me to stay with him a few days and help him get his stock located on good range. So it was agreed that McBride and Wilson should go on to Oregon City and try and get work, and as soon as Mr. Tatom's stock was properly located on the range, I would come. Those two boys left for Oregon City and the other four struck for different parts. Tatom and I went out to what was called the Waldo Hills, about eight miles from Salem. Here we found splendid range for stock. The grass was fine and no stock there. We returned to camp and next day, with the assistance of Mr. Tatom's younger brother Isaac, we moved the cattle and the big wagon out there, with a supply of provisions. They returned to Salem to get the family located in a house, and left me alone to look after the cattle. The cattle were well contented and I had an easy, lonesome time for ten days before he returned to relieve me." 

From Georgia death database:
Name: Wilma I Abbiehl
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 20 Dec 1995
Event Place: Paulding, Georgia
Registration Date: 22 Dec 1995
District/Parish/County: Paulding
Gender: Female
Age: 83
Race: W
Birth Year (Estimated): 1912
Record Type:
Certificate Number: 053853 

From his own statements in November 1888, William E. Walker's home was "comfortable to live in the year around." It was a "box house," with rooms 14 x 16 and 10 x 12, and had a stone chimney worth $65. It was furnished with two bedsteads, a cupboard, a sewing machine, a clock, table and chairs, and a cookstove. The farm, which had about about 167 fruit trees, and 25 cultivated acres where every season since 1879 he had raised corn, wheat, oats, and vegetables. Trees on the place were black jack, black hickory, post oak, and brush. The family kept 2 mules, 1 cow, 21 hogs, 4 sheep, and chickens. Part of the place, he stated, was "too rough and stony" to be cultivated. 

From Perrin's History of Bond and Montgomery Counties, Illinois

"The second jail was built by Richard Tatom on the public square for $321.74, payment made for same July 4, 1935, that probably being the date of receiving the building." 

From Samuel Scott Walker's grandson Stephen S. Walker:

"Passed away secondary to vascular dementia after a series of "mini-strokes" while living with Billy Scott and Wanda Walker in Woodbridge VA." 

From the letter published in 1936, ". . . married but had no children. She has been dead many years." 

Funeral notice on 13 December 1944 states that he was about 63 years old. 

G.H. Walker
1 male under 5 [Galveston abt 1]
1 male 15 - 20 [Elijah M. abt 16]
1 male 30 to 40 [George H., abt 39]
1 female under 5 [Matilda C. abt 2]
2 females 5 to 10 [Mary Anastasia, abt 9; Hannah V., abt 6]
1 female 10 to 15 [Elizabeth Carolina, abt 14]
1 female 30 to 40 [Celina (King) Walker, abt 35]  

G.H. Walker
1 male under 5 [Galveston abt 1]
1 male 15 - 20 [Elijah M. abt 16]
1 male 30 to 40 [George H., abt 39]
1 female under 5 [Matilda C. abt 2]
2 females 5 to 10 [Mary Anastasia, abt 9; Hannah V., abt 6]
1 female 10 to 15 [Elizabeth Carolina, abt 14]
1 female 30 to 40 [Celina (King) Walker, abt 35]  

Galveston's death is given as 26 June 1862, "Died in El Paso, TX hospital of pneumonia, typhoid, rubeolae -- burial location unknown -- presumed to be near Old Fort Bliss." [Source: Sons of Confederates: New Mexico]

Galveston's death is given as 11 August 1862. "Lt Col Baylor, CS Army in his 8-25-1862 report stated" 'Lt White sent out a detachment to ascertain if any were left, but found nothing but the hats, boots and several bodies of men who were recognized as men of Lt Mays' party.' It is assumed that the search party buried the men where found." 4th Regiment, Texas Cavalry (4th Mounted Volunteers)
[Source: FindAGrave]

A letter from Galveston A. Walker to his sister was dated, possibly in error, as 18 November 1864, from Camp Marshall.
 

George B. Walker was one of the parents who filed suit against Baylor after the death of his son James S. Walker when 10 of the Baylor basketball team were killed when their bus was struck by a train on 22 January 1927. 

George H. Walker and Jacob Walker were appointed administrators for her estate on this date. 

George H. Walker and Jacob Walker, administrators of the estate of Elizabeth Walker deceased sold 56 acres to William B. Dodson, drawn 1 January 1825, acknowledged Court of Pleas October Term 1825, filed 27 January 1826.

Described as:
A Certain Tract or parcel of Land situate lying and being in the County of Dickson state and County aforesaid on the head Waters of Yellow Creek Containing Forty eight Acres lying in Dickson County in the first district Beginning at [an] Oak on the south side of Yellow Creek about Ten poles south of a spring branch of Yellow Creek Turning North Crossing the Trap shoal Branch at 36 poles and in all 64 poles to a small Hickory. Thence West Crossing the Trap shoal Branch at 26 poles Thence to a Stake Corner Thence North Crossing Yellow Creek to a turkey oak Thence West to Tatoms fence Thence South along said fence a Conditional line Crossing the Creek to William Gates? fence thence a long said fence a Conditional line. Thence to a dry Hollow that Turns down by Tatoms house Thence up the hollow to Hickory Corner a boundary Corner of the south boundary Corner line. Thence to the Beginning Corner surveyed May the [10th or 16th] 1808. likewise Eight Acres beginning at a White Oak the beginning Corner of said Gates forty eight Acre Tract Runing [sic] South 23 ½ poles to a Hickory and White Oak Thence East 50 poles to a White Oak Thence north crossing the Trap Shoal branch at 222 poles and in all 25 ½ poles to an Elm and a Hickory Thence West Crossing a branch at Twenty One poles and in all fifty poles to the Beginning surveyed May the 16th 1808 

George's son James S. "Jimmy" Walker was one of Baylor's "Immortal 10"--10 Baylor basketball players that were killed when a train struck their bus in January 1927. The ten are still commemorated by incoming freshmen each year at Baylor. 

George's wife's maiden name discovered through:

• His obituary mentioned wife Theresa
  
• His obituary mentioned daughter Beverly Crawford of Stockton
  
• Veromi search for Beverly Crawford in Stockton turned up a Beverly Crawford born 7 April 1941, associated with a Theresa M. Walker, age 100
  
• California birth index found Beverly Walker born 7 April 1941 San Joaquin County, mother's maiden name Biancalana
  
• 1942 Stockton City Directory lists "Walker, Geo (Theresa)