Ida Elizabeth Walker b. 27 Nov 1880 Howell County, Missouri, USA d. 15 Jul 1966 Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA: Our Family History

1880 - 1966 (85 years)

Name	Ida Elizabeth Walker [1]
Born	27 Nov 1880	Howell County, Missouri, USA [1, 2]
Gender	Female
Census	15 Apr 1910	Agency township, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, USA [3]
	1. Smith, Ewell, head, male, white, 26, first marriage, married 4 years, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri, carpenter, house, can read and write, owns home with mortgage 2. _____, Walker, Ida E., wife, female, white, 29, first marriage, married 4 years, 1 child 1 living, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, can read and write 3. _____, Neal, son, male, white, 2, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri 4. _____, Corbet, brother, male, white, 17, single, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, carpenter, house, can read and write 5. Walker, Luther, brother in law, male, white, 23, single, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, carpenter, house, can read and write 6. Walker, Roy H., brother in law, male, white, 18, single, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, teacher, school, can read and write
Census	13 Jan 1920	Chalybeate township, Stone County, Arkansas, USA [4]
	1. Johnson, Wm F., head, owns free of mortgage, male, white, 50, married, can read and write, Kentucky, Kentucky, Kentucky, laborer, timber 2. _____, Ida E., wife, female, white, 38, married, can read and write, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee 3. _____, Neil J., son, male, white, 11, attending school, can read and write, Missouri, Kentucky, Missouri 4. _____, Paul W., son, male, white, 9, attending school, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Missouri 5. _____, Ruth E., daughter, female, white, 6, attending school, Missouri, Kentucky, Missouri [In this enumeration, Neil, Paul and Ruth appear to be the children of "Frank" Johnson, but they were actually the children of Ewell Smith, Ida's previous husband.]
Census	11 Apr 1930	Stella township, Alfafa County, Oklahoma, USA [5]
	1. Johnson, Frank, head, renting, farm, male, white, 60, married, first married age 3, can read and write, Kentucky, Kentucky, Kentucky, farmer, [line] stock farm, farm schedule no. 88 2. _____, Ida, wife, female, white, 49, married, first married age 24, can read and write, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee 3. _____, Willis, son, male, white, 9, attending school, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri 4. Smith, Paul, step-son, male, white, 19,, single, attending school, can read and write, Oklahoma, Missouri, Missouri 5. _____, Ruth, step-daughter, female, white, 15, attending school, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri 6. Perrin Malcomb, lodger, male, white, 17, attending school, can read and write, Oklahoma, USA, USA, farm laborer, stock farm
Census	4 Apr 1940	Chapel township, Howell County, Missouri, USA [6]
	1. Johnson, William Franklin, head, owns home, value $700, farm, male, white, 70, married, completed grade 6, Kentucky, same house (1935), farmer, farm, own account, earned $0, other income 2. _____, Ida E., wife, female, white, 59, married, completed grade 8, Missouri, same house (1935) 3. Johnson, William Franklin, son, male, white, 19, single, completed grade 8, Arkansas, in 1935 lived in rural Stone County, Arkansas, farmer, farm [Data supplied by Frank.]
Died	15 Jul 1966	Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA [1, 2, 7]
	Social Security Death Index gives her date of death as 15 December 1966, as does FindAGrave (though stone gives year only) But Missouri death cert states clearly that her death was on 15 July 1966.
Buried	Walker Chapel Cemetery, Howell County, Missouri, USA [1, 8]
Person ID	I3401	Full \| ProgenitorWalker
Last Modified	19 Mar 2021

Father	Thomas Newell "Tom" Walker, b. 29 Jan 1858, Dickson County, Tennessee, USA , d. 5 Sep 1942, Howell County, Missouri, USA (Age 84 years)
Mother	Phoebe Tennessee "Tennie" Crowder, b. 11 Jan 1858, Giles County, Tennessee, USA , d. 7 Apr 1913, Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, USA (Age 55 years)
Married	30 Dec 1877	T. C. Bolerjack's home, Chapel township, Howell County, Missouri, USA [9, 10, 11, 12]
	Aunt Della's story of Tom and Tennie's marriage: "Phoebe Tennessee Crowder and Thomas Newell Walker were married Dec 31 of 1877 near Mt. View Missouri. They were married at their home by Grandpa Walker (he lived on a farm two miles west of them). They got on horseback and went to Jimmy Durnell's and Bud Hope and Mary Durnell were married the same day. They were a witness at this wedding."
Family ID	F1036	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 Ewell Smith, b. 2 Oct 1884, Missouri, USA , d. 27 Oct 1962, Clovis, Curry County, New Mexico (Age 78 years)

Married 15 Jun 1905 Sepulpa, Muskogee County, Indian Territory, USA [13, 14]

First marriage

Divorced Abt 1913-1915

History handed down in the family tells us that Ewell Smith was unfaithful to Ida, and after a separation, when Ewell wanted to reconcile with Ida, her brother Neal said something like "If you go back to her after giving her that disease, I'll kill you." While this may not be strictly accurate, it is likely that it is some version of the truth.

Children

+	1. J. Neal Smith, b. 1 Apr 1908, Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA , d. 4 Feb 1981, Howell County, Missouri, USA (Age 72 years)
+	2. Paul Corbett Smith, b. 19 Jan 1911, Oklahoma, USA , d. 24 Jun 1990, Willow Springs, Howell County, Missouri, USA (Age 79 years)
+	3. Ruth E. Smith, b. 13 Jul 1913, Missouri, USA , d. 2 Apr 1996, Benton County, Arkansas, USA (Age 82 years)

Last Modified 1 Sep 2018

Family ID F1153 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Family 2 William Franklin "Frank" Johnson, b. 8 Jun 1869, Kentucky, USA , d. 18 Mar 1960, Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, USA (Age 90 years)

Married 28 Aug 1916 Howell County, Missouri, USA [4, 15, 16, 17]

Children

1. Willis Johnson, b. 5 Jul 1920, Arkansas, USA

, d. 1982 (Age 61 years)

Last Modified 29 Nov 2013

Family ID F1154 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Photos		Della and Ida Walker with cousins Alice Evelina Patty and Hettie Melissa Patty. Ida Walker (top), Della Walker (right), with cousins Alice Evelina Patty and Hettie Melissa Patty (Patty's unidentified as to which is which). Photo from the album of Jessie Keenon, granddaughter of Della Eveline (Walker) Warren Lonnem, email, 13 February 2014.
Photos		Ida Walker and second husband Frank Johnson 1950s?

Documents

Ewell Smith household, 1910 census, Muskogee, Oklahoma, including Ida, Luther, and Roy.
1910 U.S. census, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, population schedule, Agency township, enumeration district (ED) 94, sheet 18A, p. 156 (stamped, recto), dwelling 28, family 28, Ewell Smith household; digital images, _Ancestry.com_ (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 Oct 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 1263.

Notes

Lived in Oklahoma and around Mtn View MO. Maybe ARK. Lived in the old Crowder house while Roy and Blanch Walker were in MO - until Roy returned divorced. Lived in the 'old Sedgewick' place down the road from the farmhouse. [18]

Sources

[S41] Missouri, Howell - Cemetery, Walker Chapel, (County Road 2980, near Trask, Howell County, Missouri), marker for Ida E. Johnson (Reliability: 3).
[S4031] Social Security Administration, "Social Security Death Index," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 29 November 2013), entry for Ida E. Johnson, 15 December 1966, SS no. 489-56-5082.
[S2668] 1910 U.S. census, Muskokee County, Oklahoma, population schedule, Agency township, enumeration district (ED) 94, sheet 18A, p. 156 (stamped, recto), dwelling 28, family 28, Ewell Smith household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 Oct 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 1263.
[S2670] 1920 U.S. census, Stone County, Arkansas, population schedule, Chalybeate township, enumeration district (ED) 144, sheet 6A, p. 200, (stamped, recto), dwelling 94, family 96, Wm. F. Johnson household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 Oct 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 82.
[S2671] 1930 U.S. census, Alfafa County, Oklahoma, population schedule, Stella township, enumeration district (ED) 2-30, sheet 6A, p. 195 (stamped, recto), dwelling 94, family 97, Frank Johnson household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 Oct 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1892.
[S2672] 1940 U.S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule, Chapel township, enumeration district (ED) 46-3-6, sheet 1A, p. 27 (stamped, recto), house no. 9, William Franklin Johnson household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 Oct 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 2113.
[S6245] Missouri State Board of Health, death certificate no. 0031995 (1966), Ida Elizabeth Johnson, Texas County; "Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1963,? digital images, Missouri Digital Heritage (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives : accessed 19 March 2021); Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City.
[S4032] Pat Simmons, contributor, "Ida Elizabeth Walker Johnson," database and image of cemetery marker, Walker Chapel Cemetery (near Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri), 1970, memorial no. 25970795, FindAGrave (http://www.findagrave.com/index.html : viewed 29 November 2013).
[S309] Missouri, Howell - Mountain View Standard Newspaper, Missouri.
«b»Mrs. T.N. Walker«/b»
Phoebe Tennessee Crowder was born in Giles county, Tenn., January 11, 1858; died at her home near Mountain View, Mo., April 7, 1913, age 55 years, 2 months and 27 days.
She was married to T.N. Walker December 30, 1877. To this union were born eleven children - seven boys and four girls. Three boys and one girl died in infancy. She leaves a husband and four boys and three girls to mourn their loss.
She professed faith in Christ in the year 1878 at Walker Chapel church in Howell county, Mo., in services conducted by Rev. J. B. Rice and H.R. Walker; sanctified in the year 1901 at West Plains, Mo., in services conducted by Rev. J.M. Robinson, presiding elder of the South Missouri and Arkansas conference of the Free Methodist church.
Her children were all at her bedside except one daughter, Mrs. Della E. Warren of Oxnard, Cal.
She was a great sufferer from tuberculosis but endured with great patience, ever mindful of others through all of her sufferings as she was in health. Shel like Paul of old, has fought a good fight, kept the faith and has gone to the reward of the faithful.
Regardless of the rainfall she was followed by a large concourse of friends to Walker Chapel, where after a short service conducted by Bro. A.J. Koonce, the body was laid to rest to await the resurrection morn.
A Friend
[S2262] 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.
[S2649] Howell County, Missouri, marriage certificate, Marriage Book [1877]: 105, D. A. Thomas Walker-Tennessee Crowder, 30 December 1877; digital image, "Missouri Marriage Records, 1850-2002," Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 October 2013); citing Missouri Marriage Records, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City.
[S4370] Howell County, Missouri, Marriage Book B:155, Thomas Walker-Tennessee Crowder, 1877, certificate and return; Recorder’s Office, West Plains.
[S318] Oklahoma, Muskogee - 1910 U.S. Census, Oklahoma, Muskogee County, Agency township, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, ED 94, Sheet 18A, Dwelling 28, Family 28, Ewell Smith household, jpeg image (Reliability: 3).
The 1910 census indicates that Ida and Ewell had been married for 4 years. Since they were both from Howell County, Missouri, it is reasonable to assume that they were married there. However, Missouri marriages are now at Ancestry.com through 2002, and their marriage does not appear in the database, making it seem more possible that they were married in Oklahoma, perhaps. [However, my own marriage in Missouri in 1973 also doesn't appear, although the marriage of my cousin, in the same month, does appear. Possibly not all counties are fully databased yet.
[S5453] Muskogee County, Indian Territory (Oklahoma), Book S:317, license and return no. 610, Edward Smith [Ewell Smith]-Ida Walker, 1905; \"Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995,\" digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ : accessed 1 September 2018); FHL film no. 4532527, item 2; original records, county clerk, Muskogee.
[S248] Walker, Ida Elizabeth - e-mail from Charlie Beckham, Charlie Beckham, (Charlie Beckham [e-mail for private use] to Janis Walker Gilmore, e-mail, 1998; regarding Ida Elizabeth (Walker) Johnson).
[S4041] Howell County, Missouri, marriage license no. 172, William F. Johnson-Mrs, Ida E. Walker, 28 August 1916; "Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 29 November 2013); citing Missouri Marriage Records, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City.
[S4042] Howell County, Missouri, marriage license and return, Marriage Book [1916]: 441, William F. Johnson-Mrs. Ida E. Walker, 28 August 1916; digital image, "Missouri Marriage Records, 1850-2002," Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 28 November 2013); citing Missouri Marriage Records, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City.
[S73] Walker, William D. Walker (memories), (Informal conversations and interviews with William D. Walker (Beaverton, Oregon), by his daughter, Janis Gilmore (Pawleys Island, SC), 1984 to the present (2007); regarding the history of the Walker, Campbell, Crowder, and DeBoard families.), Interview Oct 2003. (Reliability: 3).