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Forest Ernest Walker

Forest Ernest Walker

Male 1883 - 1965  (81 years)

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  • Name Forest Ernest Walker  [2, 3, 4] 
    • Collins Walker Bible gives Forest's birth as 5 December 1883--not 1882. [1]
    Born 5 Dec 1883  Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4] 
    • 1900 census Collins Walker Bible all give 1883 as his birth year. His cemetery marker and WWI draft registration offer the same date, but the year 1882 for his birth.
    Gender Male 
    Census 2 Jan 1920  Smith Springs Rd., First District, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    • 1. Walker, Forest E., head, owns, farm, male, white, 37, married, can read and write, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee, farmer, general farm, own account, farm schedule no. 3
      2. _____, Mattie M., wife, female, white, 23, married, can read and write, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee
      3. _____, Lena M., daughter, female, white, 6, attending school, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee
      4. _____, Ike [E.], son, male, white, 4 112, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee
      5. _____, Bill, son, male, white, 2, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee
      6. _____, Nannie V., daughter, female, white, 8/12, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee
    Census 12 Apr 1930  1st Civil District, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    • 1. Walker, Forest E., head, owns, farm, male, white, 47, divorced, first married age 30, can read and write, farmer, general farm, not a veteran, farm schedule no. 58
      2. _____, Emery [T.?], son, male, white, 14, attending school, can read and write, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee, farm labor, general farm
      3. _____, Bill, son, male, white, 12, attending school, can read and write, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee, farm labor, general farm
    Census 17 May 1940  1st Civil District, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    • 1. Walker, "Forist" E. [Forest E.], head, male, house owned value $4000, white, 57, single, completed grade 8, Tennessee, same house [1935], farm, employed for pay, worked 60 hours, farm, farming, own account, worked 52 weeks, income $1,131, farm schedule no. 186
      2. _____, Emry E., son, male, white, 24, married, completed grade 8, Tennessee, same house [1935], employed for pay, worked 60 hours, farm, farming, own account, 52 weeks, income $181, farm schedule no. 187
      3. _____, Odel, daughter in law, female, white, 24, married, completed grade 6, Tennessee, rural Hickman County [1935], not employed for pay
      4. _____, Emry C., grandson, male, white, [6/12?], Tennessee
    Obituary Sep 1965  [4] 
    Transcription of obituary, no citation
    Mr. Foriest Ernest Walker, 82 years, in the Williamson County Hospital, Thursday morning, Sept. 9, 1965. He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Carey Conastar of River Rouge Mich., Mrs. lena W. Beaver of Mobile, Ala., and Mrs. Marvin Pratt of Franklin, Tenn., son William Walker of Nashville; 12 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Lena Fussell of Dickson; one brother, Collins Walker, of Franklin, Tenn. Remains are at the Franklin Memorial Chapel. Funeral services will be conducted from the hudgens Chapel Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock by Rev. John Lampley. Friends will serve as pallbearers. Internment in Hudgens Cemetery.  
    Died 9 Sep 1965  Williamson County Hospital, Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Buried Hudgins Cemetery, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Person ID I1020  Full | ProgenitorWalker
    Last Modified 9 Jul 2013 

    Father Archalas Mcmillan "Arch" Walker,   b. 16 Jun 1850, Humphreys County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Jan 1917, Dickson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years) 
    Mother Frances Jane Davis,   b. 25 Aug 1847, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Jan 1931, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Married 15 Aug 1871  Williamson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9, 10] 
    Family ID F979  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Martha Mae "Mattie" Givens,   b. 6 Sep 1896, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Sep 1966, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Married 22 Dec 1912  Williamson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Divorced 1921  Williamson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • While no divorce decree "per se" appears in this file, it is clear that the intent is divorce and payment for the divorce. Additionally, Mattie remarried in 1928.
    Children 
     1. Lena M. Walker,   b. Abt 1914, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. After 1966  (Age ~ 53 years)
    +2. Ike Emery Walker,   b. 7 Dec 1915, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Aug 1953, Bon Aqua, Hickman County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 37 years)
     3. William "Bill" Walker,   b. 9 Dec 1917, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Nov 1994, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years)
     4. Nannie V. Walker,   b. Abt 1919, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Esther Walker,   b. After 1920, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 23 Jun 2013 
    Family ID F431  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Mary Palmore 
    Married 24 Jan 1943  Centerville, Hickman County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    Divorced 10 Dec 1943  Williamson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [13] 
    Last Modified 22 Jun 2013 
    Family ID F432  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 Mary Daugherty 
    Married Y  [14] 
    Last Modified 8 Feb 2009 
    Family ID F433  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S1129] Louise Gillespie Lynch, Bible Records Williamson County, Tennessee (Nashville, Tennessee: Lynch, 1970), 35, for the Collins Walker Bible.

    2. [S3529] "World WarI I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 22 June 2013), Forest Earnest Walker, serial no. 197, order no. 770, Williamson County Draft Board, Franklin, Tennessee; citing World War I Selective Service system Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918), NARA microfilm publication M1509 (4,582 rolls); FHL roll no. 1,877,749.

    3. [S3638] Stacy Givens, contributor, digital image, F. E. Walker cemetery marker, Hudgins Cemetery, Williamson County, Tennessee; Heycuz Newsgroup, Heycuz Database (http://heycuz.net/famtree/showmedia.php?mediaID=5164&cemeteryID=13 : accessed 9 July 2013). .

    4. [S3540] "Hudgins Cemetery, Fairview, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA," database and image,FindAGrave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 22 June 2013), for Foriest [Forest] Ernest Walker (1882-1965), memorial no. 87608440, created by "bbarnhill" (bobzancestors@yahoo.com), 29 March 2012. .

    5. [S3531] 1920 U.S. census, Williamson County, Tennessee, population schedule, First District (Smith Springs Road), enumeration district (ED) 141, sheet 1A (penned), p. 41 (stamped, recto), dwelling 3, family 3, Forest E. Walker household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 22 June 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 1769.

    6. [S3532] 1930 U.S. census, Williamson County, Tennessee, population schedule, 1st Civil District, enumeration district (ED) 94-1, sheets 3B-4A (penned), p. 3b-4a (stamped), dwelling 62, family 62, Forest E. Walker household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 June 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 2285.

    7. [S3536] 1940 U.S. census, Williamson County, Tennessee, population schedule, 1st Civil District, enumeration district (ED) 94-1, sheet 14A, p. 14 (stamped, recto), household no. 220, Forist [Forest] E.. Walker; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 22 June 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 3949.

    8. [S65] Virginia Dare (Walker) Sawyer to Janis Walker Gilmore, letter, 1998; regarding the Elijah Walker family of Dickson County, Tennessee.

    9. [S1129] Louise Gillespie Lynch, Bible Records Williamson County, Tennessee (Nashville, Tennessee: Lynch, 1970), 35, for the Collins Walker Bible.
      "A. M. Walker married F. J. Davis August 15th, 1871."

    10. [S3501] "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 June 2013), Williamson County, Tennessee, marriage book [1871]: 583, marriage license and return, A.. M. Walker-Francis J. Davis, 14 August 1871, married 15 August 1871; citing Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, microfilm [no. not stated], Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.

    11. [S3530] "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 27 May 2013), Williamson County, Tennessee, marriage license no. 1955, Ernest Walker-Mattie Given, 18 December 1912, marriage 22 December 1912, recorded 7 January 1913, Marriage Book 3: 185; citing Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, microfilm [no. not stated], Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.

    12. [S3533] "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 June 2013), Williamson County, Tennessee, marriage book [1943]: 231, marriage license and return, F. E. Walker-Mary E. Palmore, 24 January 1943 (license, marriage, and return); citing Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, microfilm [no. not stated], Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.

    13. [S3534] "Tennessee Divorce and Other Records, 1800-1965," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 June 2013), Mary Palmore Walker vs. F. E. Walker, Williamson County, Chancery Court case no. 9857, filed 15 October 1943 (divorce judgement 10 December 1943); citing County Records,Divorce Files, 1900-1950, Su-We, roll B-8, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville. .

    14. [S25] Walker, Della - Documents, (The collected letters and documents of Della Eveline (Walker) Warren Lonnem (now deceased); these documents passed from Della Lonnem to her daughter, Faith (Lonnem) Quick; from Faith to her niece, Jesse Keenon (granddaughter of Della Lonnem); photocopied, 1996, in the possession of Janis Walker Gilmore (Pawleys Island, SC); original documents in the possession of Jesse Keenon (Muskogee, Oklahoma), 2007.).


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