Bluford L. Walker

1889 - 1889  (0 years)

• Name	Bluford L. Walker  [1]
  Born	24 Feb 1889	Howell County, Missouri, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	26 Mar 1889	Howell County, Missouri, USA   [1]
  Buried	Walker Chapel Cemetery, Howell County, Missouri, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I3423	Full | ProgenitorWalker
  Last Modified	8 Feb 2009

  
  

  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   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  	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

  
  

• Sources

  [S41] Missouri, Howell - Cemetery, Walker Chapel, (County Road 2980, near Trask, Howell County, Missouri), marker for Bluford Walker (Reliability: 3). Bluford Walker, 24 Feb 1889 - 26 March 1889. [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.