Notes

Named as surviving in his father's 2003 obit, but not named as surviving in his sister Janet's 2012 obit, though brother Jeff is named. 

Named for her maternal grandmother, Obedience "Bedie" (Clark) Thornton, her name is seen variously as Beeda, Bedy, Bedie, but never as Obedience. 

Named in 1880 census as Winnie B. Pitman. 

Named in 1910 as "Elmer E. Findley," and in 1920 as "James E. Findley," but on his death record as "Elmer James Findley." His FindAGrave entry names him "James Elmer Findley" [no marker image]. 

Named in Jeremiah's will. 

Named in Samuel A. Walker's granddaughter's letter as "Juliette." Named by her descendant Lee Lallier as "Juliet Franklin Walker." 

Named in the Collins Walker Bible only as "M. A. L. Walker." 

Nancy E. Gray had an daughter, Sarah, born 18 January 1856 in Morgan County. The birth record states "illegitimate." 

Nancy was a widow at the time of her death in 1936. 

Nancy's death index indicates her birth on 15 October 1865.  

Nannie appeared in the 1920 census with her husband, but in 1930 he was enumerated as a widower.

Her descendant, Stephen Walker (through son Scott), says that she died in 1927 at her daughter Clara's house.

Her apparent death certificate in 1927 is confusing, naming her as "Nannie Lane Walker" and naming her father as "-- Lane." 

Narcissa's death year is often seen as 1920, but without specific citation. She has not been located in Tennessee death certificates, which tends to support the possibility that she died prior to 1914. 

Nathan Waller household
1 male under 5
2 males of 10 and under 15
1 male of 40 and under 50
1 female under 5
2 females of 5 and under 10
1 female of 30 and under 40 [Nancy (George) Waller] 

Nathan Waller household
2 males under 10
1 male of 26 and under 45
1 female of 16 and under 26 [Nancy (George)]
1 engaged in agriculture
0 slaves
0 free persons of color 

Neal Walker's 1970 Lawton, Oklahoma, obituary gives his wife's maiden name as "Mary Crowder." Neal's mother was Phoebe Tennessee Crowder, and this was probably an error on the informant's part--probably Neal's son James K. Walker. Mary's maiden name was clearly "Mary M. Polk."  

Neal, his wife Hazel, and their grandson were killed in a car accident on their way to church for Wednesday evening services, 

Neenah R. Walker (SSDI) 

Nelly Walker household
1 male of 20 and under 30
3 females of 40 and under 50 Sarah Walker, abt 46]
0 slaves
4 total
2 cannot read or write 

Never married. Last residence, Plainview, Macoupin County, Illinois. 

Newton Lasater lived all of his life in Dade County and was buried there. While the circumstances and precise date of his death remain unknown, it is likely that his death occurred in Dade County. 

Next door to Pheby Walker (widow of Richard Merrick Walker) in 1900 Navarro Co TX census. [Didn't have time to enter it, making this note for entry later!] 

No children. 

No father is listed for Anna E. Gray in her birth record. Her mother is named as "Clarissa A. Gray." It appears that Anna Elizabeth Gray was born out of wedlock of an unidentified father. 

No female is present in the home of Elizabeth Walker in the 1820 census, when Ritha would have been about age 21. She was named as "Ritha Turner" in the 1823 deed of gifts from Elizabeth Walker to Elijah Walker. Ritha was probably married between 1815 and 1820 to an unidentified Turner male.

The most likely candidates are:

• John Turner, Jr.
  
• Samuel Turner
  
• William Turner
  
  All of the above are found in the 1820 Dickson County census, and have an apparent wife of the right age to be Ritha. [See document "Walker Ritha 1799 Family" for a complete listing of Turner households, and reasoning.]
  
  Internet sources indicate that Samuel Turner of Dickson County was enumerated in 1840 Johnson County, Arkansas.
  • Johnson County, Arkansas, Forum, GenForum (http://genforum.genealogy.com/ : accessed 1 June 2011), posting, subject "Samuel Turner TN-AR," posted by Sharon I. Cauley (sicauley@snider.net), 3 March 2000. Stating:

    "I have just received a book titled "Primal Families of Yellow Creek". It details the Turner family in TN in 1804. Samuel Turner moved his family to Johnson County AR in the mid 1830's. His son Jesse Norris Turner had a son named Samuel Howard Turner and a granddaughter named Mary Turner. I am from this line."

    
    
  • "Elisha Turner," Dickson-Online (http://dickson-online.com : accessed 1 June 2011). Stating:

    "Elisha Turner was born in North Carolina in 1794. He is believed to be the son of John Turner and his wife Elizabeth Dillard. Elisha Turner is enumerated in Dickson County in the 1820 Census living in the Yellow Creek area. During the War of 1812 he served as a corporal under the command of M. Molton, in the regiment of Col. Searcy.
    He married Susan May. . . Sept. 1811. She may have been the daughter of Sterling May. They were the parents of 10 children. Elisha Turner died 3rd of September 1831 at Henderson County, Tennessee. After his death his widow moved to Johnson Co., Arkansas. ( She lived next to Samuel Turner in the 1840 Census).
    
    The 1840 Johnson County enumeration of Samuel Turner is difficult to read, but it does reflect a female between 40-50 which could be Retha. Additionally, there were females 30-40 and 50-60. 

No George Hiller has been found in Washington about 1880. Possibly the name is somehow in error--Hillyard, Hillier, Hillard, etc. 

No marriage record has been located in the online Missouri marriages database (Ancestry.com). The marriage date cited here is from the Hartley Cemetery listing on the Cedar County GenWeb site. The cemetery listing offers genealogical details beyond the marker data, but is not source-cited. The 1880 enumeration confirms that the couple was married by that date. 

No Missouri death certificate has been located for Mary M. (Hartley) Montgomery. 1947 may be the wrong year, as other details in this record conflict. For instance her husband's birth year, given in the cemetery index as 1868 was given on his death certificate as 1858. Additionally the day of his death was stated as 25 December on the death cert and 26 December in the cemetery listing (same year). 

No record has yet been found for George Tatom after his 1910 census enumeration in Gilliam County.  

No record of Elijah's first marriage has been located. Although Dickson County marriage records begin in 1817, a tornado on 30 May 1830 decimated the county seat of Charlotte, severely damaging the courthouse, and resulting in record loss.

• Elijah's first child,"J. M." (John M.), was born on 18 September 1824
  
• Elijah is probably one of the two males found in the 1820 census household of Elizabeth Walker
  
• In January 1824 Elijah Walker and wife, the "former Matilda King" appointed William Shelby as their representative in legal actions in Sullivan County, where Matilda's father died about 1814.
  

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The marriage probably occurred about 1823 in Dickson County.

No record of Henry K. Hartley's marriage to Sarah Paynter has been found. Nonetheless, it is clear when all the evidence is taken into consideration that his wife was indeed Sarah Jane Paynter,

• Sarah's surname is generally accepted as "Paynter" among Hartley researchers
  
• There is a record for the marriage of William C. Hartley (younger brother of Henry K. Hartley) to Eliza Ann Paynter in Cedar County in 1861
  
• Christian Paynter was enumerated in 1860 Cedar County with daughters "Sarah J." and "Eliza A."
  
• Henry K. and Sarah J. Hartley were enumerated in 1880 Ada County, Idaho, with daughter "Annie B.," age 7 (bo about 1873)
  
• The Idaho death certificate of Anna Bell Taylor (born in 1873) in Washington County, Idaho, in 1912, names her parents as "H. K. Hartley" and "Sarah Paynter"
• The biography of son Charles P. Hartley in Hawley's History of Idaho states that his parents were Henry K. Hartley and Sarah Jane Paynter.

 

Not much has been found on James Elmer Findley.

This obit was published on 4 March 2012 in the Spokane (Washington) Spokesman for Peggy Ann Smalls, an apparent daughter:

"SMALL, Peggy Ann (Age 63)
Of Spokane, Washington, died in the early morning hours on Saturday, February 25th at her home. She was preceded in death by her mother and brother, Joy Lyn Marrs and James Elmer Findley, Jr. Survivors include her father, James E. Findley, Sr.; two sisters: Sharon L. Howard and Susan J. Loomis; and her children: Kimberly A. Seilhamer and Charles T. Butler Jr. A memorial service for our beloved will be held on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 from 6pm to 9pm at the Cascade Senior Living Park Community Center located at 2311 W. 16th Avenue, Spokane, WA 99224. If unable to attend, pink flowers sent the day before or the day of would be greatly appreciated. Peggy loved pink flowers."

Peggy's age of 63 calculates to a birth year of 1949. Was she a twin, see below?

Also, SSDI for James E. Findley, died 18 Feb 2012, Spokane. Presumably the brother mentioned. Born 23 May 1949.

These may be the wrong family because the senior James E. Findley, born 1904, could not be living today. 

Note in Aunt Della's materials indicates that Jacob went to Texas. 

Note on the transcription website:

"From medieval times it was required that notification of intention to marriage be given on three consecutive Sundays in church (called publishing the banns). But, as an alternative, members of the Church of Ireland could take out a Marriage Licence Bond. The parties lodged an amount of money with the Diocese to indemnify the Church against there being an obstacle to the marriage. This marriage by licence provided privacy, and was faster than the time taken to read the banns. It was considered more prestigious than having the banns read. The bonds themselves were destroyed in the Fires of 1922, but the indexes remain in the National Archives of Ireland. After 1845 marriages were registered by the State, and are available to researchers. This diocese is in Co. Mayo and Co. Sligo." 

Note: Since/if Jeremiah was born in what what later called Butte County and since his father's headrights were assigned West of the Chowan River in what was known as the "Bertie District," I am assuming that his property was this far west? 

Notes on parents:

Named in Walker Family (Ancestry) as J. A. England, born abt 1850 Dickson Co and wife Frances Winstead. Marriage date given as 1868. No sources.

Named in "Hay Family and Beyond" (Ancestry) as James Monroe Walker, born abt 1840 Robertson TN, and wife Elizabeth J. Warren, b abt 1836 Robertson Co TN. In 1880 this family is found in Fannin Co TX with a daughter age 11, "N. R. England." The family is found in 1870 Robertson Co TN with daughter age 1, "Nancy R." Both James Monroe Walker and Elizabeth J. Warren died in Texas. If this is the right Nanny, how did she meet Calvin and when did she travel back to Dickson County?

Further complicating the issue, Nannie's death cert names her as "Nannie Lane Walker" and for parents offers on the father's surname, as "Lane." Informant was duaghter Dimple (Walker) Hooper.

Additionally, Stephen Walker (descendant of Calvin through Samuel S and Billy) states that his father always said that Nannie's surname was "Weaver." 

Nothing further is known of Henry Walker.  

Nothing further is known of Mary (Walker) Spence, her husband, or her three known children. A search of the Macoupin County probate index on FamilySearch.org, Probate Index A, 1835-1880 does not reveal a record for the death of John Spence. John and Mary (Walker) Spence have not been located in the 1880 census, either in or out of Illinois. No Illinois marriage has been located for a "Mrs. Mary Spence," nor for a Mary Spence that seems likely by place or time (Illinois Online Record Index only). Searches in the 1880 census for John F. Walker born about 1859 and Charles W. Walker born abt 1862 have also been unsuccessful. A search of the Illinois death index on FamilySearch.org has failed to locate the death of anyone by the name of Spence with parents John and Mary. 

Nothing further is known of Solomon Hartley.

Age 20 at his death, he was the right age for the Civil War. While a Solomon Hartley does have a militia record, it appears to be his uncle Solomon Hartley, as he was discharged due to injury in 1863, a year after this Solomon's headstone records his death. 

Nothing is known of Josephine (Walker) Farrar after the 1885 Wyandotte County, Kansas, census.

The 1900 census of her husband Adolphus in Parke County, Indiana, indicates that he married for a second time about 1891 to "Mary."

Josephine Walker may have died between 1885-1891 or (less likely) they may have divorced. 

Obit indicates that her parents were "Mrs. G. R. O'Quinn" and "the late Roscoe Ellison." It does not indicate that the parents were married, but I am making that assumption for the moment and assigning Vera a surname of Ellison. 

Obit states that at the time of her death, Vera was a resident of Tallsheek (Saint Tammany County), Louisiana, but does not indicate where death occurred. 

Obit states that she was a "native of Beulahville, Ark., but had resided in Fayetteville most of her life." GNIS does not find a Beulahville in Arkansas, nor does a Google search.

Her marriage to George W. Hartley in 1915 states her age at that time as 33. 

Obituary clipping (digital) provided by Wesley Saunders, reference librarian, Rapides Parish Library. No publication data. 

Obtain obituary, which appears in the 7 April 1939 newspaper, p. 10, col. 2. Does "SteveR" indicate which paper? 

Oddly, Dora's FindAGrave entry is under the name Dora J. Blythe. The marker was not photographed, so it is not clear if that name is on the marker. However, Dora was born the daughter of Joshua T. Crowder, who died when she was just 4 years old. Her mother subsequently married Aron/Aaron Blythe. Dora married first a Moran and then a Foster. She appears in Kansas City directories as Dora Foster and her death certificate is in that name. 

Odies O. Walker's 1971 obituary names his surviving children as daughters Virginia and Vivian and son Odies A., but does not name William. 

Of Walkers found in 1830 Madison and Macoupin, those who had a son age 10-15

Samuel A. Walker, Madison, son 10-15
Patton Walker, Macoupin, son 10-15, 2 sons 15-20
William Walker, Macoupin, son 10-15, son 15-20

 

Often seen in census as "Martha E.," she is named as "Mat" or Matt" twice in census, as well as in her cemetery record. The Alabama death index (extracted and transcribed from death certificate) gives her full name as "Martha Elvira Walker." 

Ola Belle's death certificate informant was Marvin Henderson, her son, implying marriage to a Henderson.