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Lena Ann Walker

Lena Ann Walker

Female 1897 - 1989  (92 years)

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  • Name Lena Ann Walker  [1] 
    Born 11 Nov 1897  Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4] 
    Gender Female 
    Census 14 Jun 1900  Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    • 1. Walker, Thomas N., head, white, male, born January 1858, 42, married 22 years, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee, farmer, can read and write, owns farm free of mortgage, farm schedule no. 145
      2. _____, Tennessee, wife, white, female, January 1858, 42, married 22 years, 10 children 7 living, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee, can read and write
      3. _____, Neal, son, white, male, March 1883, 17, single, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, farm laborer, can read and write
      4. _____, Luther, son, white, male, May 1886, 14, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, farm laborer, can read and write
      5. _____, Roy, son, white, male, September 1891, 8, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, attended school 5 months
      6. _____, Earl, son, white, male, March 1894, 6, Missouri, Tennessee, Missouri, attended school 5 months
      7. _____, Lena A., daughter, white, female, November 1897, 2, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee
    Census 28 Apr 1910  Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    • 1. Walker, Thomas N., head, white, male, born January 1858, 52, first marriage, married 32 years, Tennessee, Mississippi, Tennessee, farmer, home farm, own account, can read and write, owns farm with mortgage, farm schedule no. 84
      2. _____, Phoeba T., wife, female, white, 52, first marriage, married 32 years, 11 children 7 living, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee, can read and write
      3. _____, Earl, son, male, white, 16, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, farm laborer, home farm, can read and write, attending school
      4. _____, Lena, daughter, female, white, 12, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, can read and write, attending school
    NEWS Apr 1914  [6] 
    West Plains (Missouri) Journal:
    ""Mr. T.N. Walker and daughter Lena left Tuesday evening for California. We are sorry to lose them."

    This may have been when Tom Walker went to California and worked in San Diego for a while. Lena probably kept house for him.  
    Census 20 Jan 1920  Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    • 1. Walker, T. N., head, owns, mortgaged, male, white, 62, widowed, can read and write, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee, farmer, own account, farm schedule no. 205
      2. _____, Earl, son, male, white, 25, married, can read and write, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, farmer, own account, farm schedule no. 205
      3. _____, Grace, daughter [daughter in law], female, white, 22, married, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
      4. _____, Lenah [Lena], daughter, female, white, 22, single, can read and write, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee
      5. _____, Donald, grandson, male, white, 1 year [8] months, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
    Directory 1924  688 Ximeno Ave., Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, UA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    "Yocky, Claude lab r 688 Ximena av

    Claude was residing in Long Beach in the same home with his parents, PRIOR to his marriage to Lena the following year. His parents and brother Peter are listed at the same address just below Claude. 
    Directory 1925  1008 Ximena Ave., Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    "Yocky claude (Lena A) cementwkr r 1008 Ximeno av"

    Claude's parents George and Adella were listed at the same address. 
    Directory 1928  1314 E. 56th, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    "Yocky, Claud (Lena W) cement wkr r 1314 E 56th"

    Living with them and listed two listings later were Claude's parents, George and Adella. Also listed, but married and with other addresses, are Claude's brothers Ernest and Peter.  
    Directory 1929  1310 E. 56th, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    "Yocky, Claude (Lena W) carrier P O h 1310 E 56th"

    Claude's parents were no longer listed in the directory, but his brothers Ernest and Peter appear as a riveter and an oil worker, respectively. 
    Census 16 Apr 1930  5907 Lemon Ave., Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    • 1. Yocky, Claude, head, renting, $22.50, no radio set, not a farm, male, white, 36, married, first married age 31, can read and write, Kansas, Indiana, Missouri, cement worker, cement work, veteran
      2. _____, Lena A., wife, female, white, 32, married, first married age 27, can read and write, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee
      3. _____, Myron C., son, male, white, 8 months, California, Kansas, Missouri
    Directory 1935  60 Zane, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [13] 
    "Yocky, Claude (Lena) cement wkr h 60 Zane"

    Also listed were some of Claude's brothers, and his parents, residing with Edwin Yocky.  
    Directory 1938  60 Zane, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [14] 
    "Yocky, Claude (Lena A.) cementwkr h60 Zane"

    Also several brothers and Claude's parents were in town. 
    Census 10 Apr 1940  60 Zane St., Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [15] 
    • 1. Yocky, Claude, 60 Zane St., number 206, owns, value $2400, not a farm, head, male, white, 46, married, 1 year of high school completed, Kansas, same house (1935), worked 32 hours, laborer, cement work, income $1455
      2. _____, Lena, wife, female, white, 42, married, completed grade 8, Missouri, same house (1935), worked 10 hours, laundress, at home, income $155
      3. _____, Myron C., son, male, white, 10, attending school, completed grade 2, California, same house
      4. _____, William D., son, male, white, 8, attending school, completed grade 2, California, same house
    Newspaper Article 22 May 1974  Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [16] 
    Lena, at the age of 77, continuing to participate in community events, providing toys to the room at the police station used to hold children whose parents were being booked or questioned. 
    Narrative
    Memory of Aunt Lena, written by her nephew William D. Walker (son of her brother Earl)
    AUNT LENA

    It was the 1930?s in the Ozark Mountain region of Missouri.

    School was out. The bus had let the children off by the mailbox and we had dawdled our way home. It was October. I had just passed my 6th birthday and was adjusting my way into the first grade. Jack in the third grade, Doyne in the 5th, Phyllis in the 7th, Mary in the 9th.

    The bus stopped, as always it did at the mailbox south of our house and we all scrambled off there at the cross-roads. One of which ran towards Walker?s Chapel to the west and the other a range line running north past our forty acre farm.

    Half a mile to walk on a warm autumn day. Half a mile with my siblings to talk and to play and finally to race round the corner and up across the yard to the house. Famished and hunting for bread.

    Quieting our clamor, mother said
    ?come in here and see what we came in the mail today.?
    It was a package all the way from California,
    It was from our Aunt Lena.

    Too big for the box, our rural mail carrier had
    driven the extra distance and delivered it to the house.

    Mother opened it there for all of us to see,
    and our excitement was hardly contained.

    It seemed to we kids in our little farm home
    that new things were never for us.
    But a package from Aunt Lena was sure to bring
    a gift or a token to each.
    A hand-me-down shirt, a package of gum, material for a blouse?.

    An October-Christmas
    The best of all days.
    A package from Aunt Lena

    A package from Aunt Lena who never forgot her brother Earl,
    her teenage bosom friend Grace, and the family
    that still lived in the little house on the Ozark farm
    with all of the constraints of life in that time and place.

    Aunt Lena, there were ten of we children and we all love you.

    Bill Walker  [17] 
    NEWS 23 Feb 1975  Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [18] 
    Newspaper article, 50th Wedding Anniversary, The Independent Press-Telegram
    "Mr. and Mrs. Claude Yocky celebrated their golden wedding anniversary Sunday with a party for family and friends at their Long Beach home.

    The couple was married Feb. 25, 1925, in West Plains, Mo., and moved to Long Beach three days later. They have two sons, Myron C. of Lakewood and William D. of Westminster. They also have 11 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren.

    Both are active in the local chapter of Beterans of World War I. Mr. Yocky retired as a cement mason in 1958. his wife, who was a nurse in Missouri before their marriage, is a member of the Houghton Park Hobby Class." 
    Died 19 Dec 1989  Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4] 
    Person ID I3431  Full | ProgenitorWalker
    Last Modified 21 Feb 2019 

    Father Thomas Newell "Tom" Walker,   b. 29 Jan 1858, Dickson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Sep 1942, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years) 
    Mother Phoebe Tennessee "Tennie" Crowder,   b. 11 Jan 1858, Giles County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Apr 1913, Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years) 
    Married 30 Dec 1877  T. C. Bolerjack's home, Chapel township, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [19, 20, 21, 22] 
    • 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 Claude Yocky,   b. 27 May 1893, Vermillion, Marshall County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Dec 1981, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years) 
    Married 26 Feb 1925  Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [23, 24, 25] 
    Children 
     1. Erma Dean Yocky,   b. About July 1927, Locust Grove, Mayes County, Oklahoma, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    +2. Myron Charles Yocky,   b. 27 Jul 1929, Los Angeles County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Aug 2018  (Age 89 years)
    +3. William Dale "Bill" Yocky,   b. 4 Jul 1931, Los Angeles County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. After February 2018  (Age 86 years)
    Last Modified 21 Feb 2019 
    Family ID F1164  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S7] Missouri, Howell - census 1900, (1900 U.S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule), Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, ED 52, Sheet 9B, Dwelling 176, Family 177, Thomas N. Walker household, jpeg image (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S2705] "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 Oct 2012), entry for Lena Ann Yocky, Los Angeles County (1989); citing State of California Department of Health Services, California Death Index, 1940-1997, Center for Health Statistics, Sacramento.

    3. [S2651] 1900 U.S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule, Goldsberry township, enumeration district (ED) 52, p. 9B (penned), p. 31 (stamped, verso), dwelling 176, household 177, Thomas N. Walker household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 Sept 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 860.

    4. [S4125] "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 23 Janury 2014), entry for Lena Ann Yocky, Los Angeles County, California, 1989; citing State of California Department of Health Services, California Death Index, 1940-1997, Center for Health Statistics, Sacramento.

    5. [S2652] 1910 U.S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule, Goldsberry township, enumeration district (ED) 79, sheet 11A, p. 105 (stamped, recto), dwelling 78, family 78, Thomas N. Walker household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 Sept 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 784.

    6. [S4128] Gerald and Charlotte Groves, Howell County, Missouri, Post Offices, Postmasters, and their Communities, vol. 4 (Willow Springs, Mo.: G. and C. Groves, 1989), 185, item for T. N. Walker and daughter Lena; citing The West Plains (Missouri) Journal, 16 April 1914.

    7. [S2653] 1920 U.S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule, Goldsberry township, enumeration district (ED) 90, sheet 18A, p. 281, (stamped, recto), dwelling 370, family 385, T. N. Walker household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 Sept 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 920.

    8. [S4139] Long Beach (California) City Directory 1924 (Long Beach, Ca.: Western Directory Co., 1924), 595, entry for Claude Yocky [no wife]; "U.S. Directories, 1821-1989," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 January 2014).

    9. [S4135] Long Beach (California) City Directory 1925 (Long Beach, Ca.: Western Directory Co., 1925), 608, entry for Claude Yocky and wife Lena A.; "U.S. Directories, 1821-1989," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 January 2014).

    10. [S4131] Long Beach (California) City Directory 1928 (Long Beach, Ca.: Western Directory Co., 1928), 710, entry for Claud [Claude] Yocky and wife Lena W. Yocky; "U.S. Directories, 1821-1989," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 January 2014).

    11. [S4132] Long Beach (California) City Directory 1929 (Long Beach, Ca.: Western Directory Co., 1929), 731, entry for Claude Yocky and wife Lena W.; "U.S. Directories, 1821-1989," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 January 2014).

    12. [S2700] 1930 U.S. census, Los Angeles County, California, population schedule, Long Beach (5907 Lemon Ave.), enumeration district (ED) 19-1152, sheet 23A, p. 176 (stamped, recto), dwelling 646, family 648, Claude Yocky household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 7 Oct 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1152.

    13. [S4133] Polk's Long Beach California City Directory 1935 (Long Beach, Ca.: R. L. Polk & Co. of California, 1935), 624, entry for Claude Yocky and wife Lena; "U.S. Directories, 1821-1989," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 January 2014).

    14. [S4134] Polk's Long Beach California City Directory 1938 (Long Beach, Ca.: R. L. Polk & Co. of California, 1938), 667, entry for Claude Yocky and wife Lena A.; "U.S. Directories, 1821-1989," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 January 2014).

    15. [S2701] 1940 U.S. census, Los Angeles County, California, population schedule, Long Beach (60 Zane St.), enumeration district (ED) 59-132, sheet 9A, p. 2165, (stamped, recto), Claude Yocky household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 Oct 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 373.

    16. [S4137] "Police playroom gets new toys," The Independent (Long Beach, Cal.), 22 May 1974, p. 19, col. 2; digital image, Newspapers.com (http://www.newspapers.com : accessed 26 January 2014).

    17. [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.).

    18. [S4138] "Claude Yockys mark 50th date at party," The Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Cal.), 23 February 1975, p. 42, col. 3; digital image, Newspapers.com (http://www.newspapers.com : accessed 26 January 2014).

    19. [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

    20. [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.

    21. [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.

    22. [S4370] Howell County, Missouri, Marriage Book B:155, Thomas Walker-Tennessee Crowder, 1877, certificate and return; Recorder’s Office, West Plains.

    23. [S326] Missouri, Howell - Extracts, West Plains Daily Quill, 1925 (book, Gen Soc'y), Janet Cochran, (West Plains, MO : South Central Missouri Genealogical Society, 1992.), Page 3 (Reliability: 3).
      "26 Feb [1925] Lena A. Walker of Mt. View wed Claude Yockey, formerly of Mt. View, but now of Long Beach, Ca. where they will make their home."

    24. [S4126] Janet Cochran, West Plains Daily Quill, 1925, Marriages, Births, Deaths, and News Articles (West Plains, Mo.: South Central Missouri Genealogical Society, 1992), 3, entry for the marriage of Claude Yockey-Lena Walker.

    25. [S4127] Howell County, Missouri, marriage license no. 32, Claud Yocky-Lena A. Walker, February 1925 [no day stated] ; "Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 23 January 2014); citing Missouri Marriage Records, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City. No attached return.


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