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Sarah A. Walker

Sarah A. Walker

Female 1862 - 1881  (19 years)

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  • Name Sarah A. Walker  [1, 2
    Born 24 May 1862  Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    • The family lived in Dickson County in 1860, but Sarah was born in 1862, after her father had been surrendered at the Battle of Fort Donelson and sent to Camp Douglas in Chicago. The family may have moved over into Hickman County to be closer to Esther Elizabeth Thornton's family in her husband's absence. The family was enumerated in 1870 in Hickman County.

      In any case, Sarah was probably born in either Dickson or Humphreys County.
    Gender Female 
    Census 13 Jun 1870  Pine Wood (post office), 6th Civil District, Hickman County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    • 1. Walker, H. R., 42, male, white, work on farm, real estate value $250, personal $800, Tennessee
      2. _____, Elizabeth, 32, female, white, keeping house, Tennessee
      3. _____, Docia, 15, female, white, work in cotton mill, Tennessee
      4. _____, William, 14, male, white, work on farm, Tennessee, [can read, implied], cannot write
      5. _____, Thos. N., 12, male, white, work in cotton mill, Tennessee, cannot write
      6. _____, Mary C., 10, female, white, work in cotton mill, Tennessee, cannot write
      7. _____, Sarah A., 8, female, white, Tennessee
      8. _____, Beeda E., 4, female, white, Tennessee
      9, _____, Coantha L., white, female, white, Tennessee
      10. _____, Martha J., white, female, 5 months, Tennessee, born in January
      11. Thornton, Beeda, 54, female, white, Tennessee
    Census 24 Jun 1880  Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • 1. Smith, W. Daniel [Daniel W.], white, male, 23, married during census year, farming, Missouri, Tennessee, Missouri
      2. _____. A. Sarah [Sarah A.], white, female, 18, married during census year, cannot read or write, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee
    Died 24 Jul 1881  Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Sally lived only a year or two after her marriage. 1880 census shows them childless; I would speculate that she might have died in childbirth?
    Buried Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    • The Jess Roberts place is listed in the Howell Co cemetery book as "Unknown Cemetery." Directions in cemetery book: Located in a pasture with fence all around the plot. Goldsberry Twp Sec 7, twp. 27, r. 7.
    Person ID I3475  Full | ProgenitorWalker
    Last Modified 19 Oct 2012 

    Father Helton Rutherford Walker,   b. 21 Oct 1828, Dickson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Aug 1901, Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years) 
    Mother Esther Elizabeth Thornton,   b. 1 Oct 1837, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Apr 1908, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Married 26 Jan 1854  Hickman County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6
    Family ID F1072  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Daniel Webster Smith,   b. Aug 1856, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 21 Aug 1879  Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8, 9
    Last Modified 4 Jul 2014 
    Family ID F1176  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    Sarah A. Walker (1862-1881)
    Sarah A. Walker (1862-1881)
    Cemetery marker, "Jess Roberts farm," listed as "unmarked cemetery" in Howell County Cemetery book and also found on FindAGrave. Inscription:
    Sarah A.,
    dau of HR
    & Ester E Walker
    May 24 1862
    July 24 1881
    Gone But
    Not
    Forgotten

    Documents
    Sarah A. Walker, marriage to Daniel Webster Smith, 1879, Howell Co MO
    Sarah A. Walker, marriage to Daniel Webster Smith, 1879, Howell Co MO
    Howell County, Missouri, Marriage Book C:53, D. W. Smith-S. A. Walker, 1879, certificate and return; Recorder

  • Notes 
    • Only a few pieces of paper and a cemetery stone document the short life of Sarah A. Walker--her father's Bible entry of her birth, two census enumerations, a marriage record, and her burial record. She was born in 1862, after the beginning of the Civil War and after her father had been incarcerated at Camp Douglas as one of the Confederates surrendered to the Union at Fort Donelson the previous February. Her father, though released in a prisoner exchanged, served the Confederacy until the end of the War, returning home in 1865, when Sarah was three years old. The next few years were years of struggle in war-torn Middle Tennessee. Enumerated at age 8 in 1870, Sarah was the only oldest of her siblings not to work in the cotton factory; with sisters ages 4, 2, and 5 months, she was undoubtedly kept busy at home by her mother and her grandmother, who lived with them. In 1872, when Sarah was 10, her father moved his family to Howell County, Missouri, where he could homestead and make a fresh start and a better life for his numerous children. Sarah married nine years later, Daniel Webster Smith her chosen husband was the brother of her older sister Mary's husband, Andrew Jackson Smith. Sarah lived a little less than two years after her marriage, very likely dying in childbirth, soon after her 19th birthday.

  • Sources 
    1. [S940] Helton Rutherford Walker Family Bible Records, Holy Bible (publication data unavailable), loose page of family data, held by Pat Simmons [address and phone number for private use] and the Bible from which they were removed privately held by her sister, Mona; the Bible was left to Rutherford's eldest daughter, Eudocia (Walker) Stokes; from Eudocia it passed to her son, William Earnest Stokes; from William Earnest to his daughter, Clarice Marie (Stokes), who left it to her daughters, Pat and Mona (continued in their possession Jan 2008).

    2. [S2561] 1870 U.S. census, Hickman County, Tennessee, population schedule, Pine Wood (post office), 6th Civil District, pp. 18-19 (penned), p. 531B-532A (stamped), dwelling 135, family 133, H. R. Walker household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 Sept 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1538. .

    3. [S2784] 1880 U. S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule, Goldsberry township, enumeration district (ED) 52, p. 30 (penned), p. 471 (stamped, verso), dwelling 248, family 248, W. Daniel Smith [Daniel W. Smith] household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 Oct 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 691; FHL film no. 1,254,691. .

    4. [S52] Missouri, Howell - Cemeteries, 1795-1987 (book, Gen Soc'y), (West Plains, Missouri : South Central Missouri Genealogical Society, 1988.), p.198, unknown cemetery (sec 7, twp 27, rg 7), entry for Sarah Walker; this small cemetery is on what is locally referred to as "the old Jess Roberts place." (Reliability: 3).
      Sarah "Sally" Walker was buried on the Jess Roberts place, as it is called, about 4 miles north of Mountain View. In the Howell County Cemetery book, it is referred to as "Unknown Cemetery", and they offer these directions: Located in a pasture with fence all around the plot. Goldsberry Twp Sec 7, twp. 27, r. 7.

      My father also knows how to find the place. (I should get a map!)

    5. [S311] Helton Rutherford Walker obituary, photo copy of undated clipping from unidentified newspaper, sent to the author by Harold Reeves (Riverton, Wyoming), about 1990. Mr. Reeves is now deceased. The State Historical Society of Missouri has searched their microfilm collection of West Plains and Mountain View (Howell County) newspapers for the obituary without success.

    6. [S99] Esther Pratt (6408 Worchester Drive; Nashville, Tennessee) to Sandra Johnston (Oklahoma), letter, 13 May 1997, regarding the Elijah Walker family of Dickson County, Tennessee. Privately held by Ms. Johnston. The author has lost contact with Ms. Johnston and no longer knows her whereabouts.

    7. [S51] Missouri, Howell - census 1880 (Ancestry), Missouri, Howell County, (http://www.ancestrry.com: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

    8. [S2783] “Missouri Marriage Records, 1805–2002,” digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 Oct 2012), Howell County, marriage book [no. not stated]: 53, for D. W. Smith-S. A. Walker (1879); citing Missouri Marriage Records, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City.

    9. [S4373] Howell County, Missouri, Marriage Book C:53, D. W. Smith-S. A. Walker, 1878, certificate and return; Recorder’s Office, West Plains.