Gertie Mae Walker

1898 - 1981  (83 years)

• Name	Gertie Mae Walker  [1, 2]
  Born	5 Aug 1898	Dickson County, Tennessee, USA   [1, 3, 4, 5]
  	Kostick gives the same day and month, but 1899 for year.
  Gender	Female
  Directory	1928	511 7th Ave. N., Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA   [6]
  	"[Wilkerson], Edw (Gertie) carp r511 17th av N"
  Census	8 Apr 1930	Cyril, Caddo County, Oklahoma, USA   [7]
  	1. Wilkerson, Ed J., head, renting, $15, not a farm, male, white, 36, married, first married age 30, can read and write, Tennessee, Tennessee Tennessee, carpenter, building, working, employed, was a veteran 2. _____, Girtie M., wife, female, white, 31, married, first married age [25?], can read and write, Tennessee, Tennessee Tennessee, can read and write 3. _____, Edna M., daughter, female, white, 5 10/12, not attending school, Tennessee, Tennessee Tennessee 4. _____, Mildred B., daughter, female, white, 4 2/12, Tennessee, Tennessee Tennessee 5. _____, Emma G., daughter, female, white, 1 4/12, Tennessee, Tennessee Tennessee 6. Green, Mary A., step daughter, female, white, 7, not attending school, Tennessee, Tennessee Tennessee
  Census	8 Apr 1940	300 Myrtle [Ave.?], Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA   [8]
  	1. Wilkerson, Edward, head, owns, value $1700, not a farm, male, white, 46, married, completed grade 5, Tennessee, same place [1935], not employed, seeking work, out of work 40 weeks, carpenter, self-contractor, own account, worked 12 weeks, $0 income, has other source of income 2. _____, Gertie, wife, female, white, 41, married, completed grade 6, Tennessee, same house 3. _____, Edna, daughter, female, white, 15, attending school, completed grade [12?], Tennessee, same house 4. _____, Mildred, daughter, female, white, 14, attending school, completed grade 8, Tennessee, same house 5. _____, Jean, female, white, 12, attending school, completed grade 5, Tennessee, same house
  Parents	Girtie's delayed birth certificate names her parents as "Alonzo Denson Walker" and "Martha Daley Walker."  [1]
  Residence	12 Sep 1950	1124 Stockel [Stockett], Williamson County, Tennessee, USA   [1]
  Died	27 Sep 1981	Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA   [4, 5]
  Person ID	I4207	Full | ProgenitorWalker
  Last Modified	5 Jul 2013

  
  

  Father	Alonzo Denson Walker,   b. 6 Mar 1854, Dickson County, Tennessee, USA ,   d. 18 Mar 1901, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA  (Age 47 years)
  Mother	Martha Daley Vineyard,   b. 4 May 1866, Dickson County, Tennessee, USA ,   d. 21 Mar 1920, Boston, District 2, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA  (Age 53 years)
  Married	13 Sep 1881	Dickson County, Tennessee, USA   [9]
  Family ID	F990	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Austen Green,   b. 7 Feb 1893, Tennessee, USA ,   d. 12 Apr 1922, Protestant Hospital, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA  (Age 29 years)
  Married	5 Mar 1921  [4]
  Children	1. Mary A. Green,   b. Abt 1923, Tennessee, USA ,   d. 1997  (Age ~ 74 years)
  Last Modified	5 Jul 2013
  Family ID	F1953	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	James Edward Wilkerson,   b. 6 Dec 1893, Winchester, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA ,   d. September1981, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA  (Age 87 years)
  Married	Between April 1922-1924  [6, 10, 11]
  	Girtie was married to Edward Wilkerson between her first husband's death in April 1922 and her entry in the Nashville directory in 1924. It appears likely, then, that all of the children in her 1930 census enumeration were hers
  Children	1. Edna M. Wilkerson,   b. Abt 1924, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA   2. Mildred B. Wilkerson,   b. Abt 1926, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA   3. Emma Jean Wilkerson,   b. Abt 1928, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
  Last Modified	5 Jul 2013
  Family ID	F1473	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S3571] "Tennessee, Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909," index and digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 30 June 2013), Gertie Mae Walker, certificate no. 366445, Dickson County, 5 August 1898; citing Tennessee Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville. [S3567] 1900 U.S. census, Williamson County, Tennessee, population schedule, Civil District 2, enumeration district (ED) 110, sheet 4B, p. 25 (stamped, verso), dwelling 75, family 75, Alonzo Walker household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 30 June 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 1605. [S3450] Charles Dewey Bowen, "The Descendants of Elijah Walker, Jr., and Mary (Polly) McMillan Walker of Middle Tennessee," unpublished typescript, undated. Internal evidence dates the document to after 1981 (see p. 11, listing a 1981 death). While riddled with error, the document still offers useful information and clues to the lives of Elijah Walker's descendants, particularly his younger children., 17. [S3607] John Stephen Kostick (Miami, Fla.), "Kostick's Index of Names," internet family tree, The Kostick Family Tree (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/k/o/s/John-S-Kostick/index.html : accessed 5 July 2013), pp. 77, 339 for Gertie M. Walker and Austen Green. Name, birth, death, and spouse listed only. No sources cited. [S3614] Social Security Administration, "Social Security Death Index," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 5 July 2013), entry for Girtie Wilkerson, September 1981, SS no. 410-07-0590. [S3610] Marshall-Bruce-Polke Co.'s Nashville (Tennessee) City Directory 1928, vol. LIX (Nashville, Tenn.: Marshall-Bruce-Polk Co.,[1928]), 1301, entry for Edward Wilkerson and wife Gertie; "U. S. City Directories, 1821-1989," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 5 July 2013). [S3605] 1930 U.S. census, Caddo County, Oklahoma, population schedule, Cyril (town), enumeration district (ED) 8-19, sheet 9B, p. 242 (stamped, verso), dwelling 192, family 203, Ed J. Wilkerson household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 4 July 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1894. [S3604] 1940 U.S. census, Davidson County, Tennessee, population schedule, Nashville (300 Myrtle), enumeration district (ED) 99-122, sheet 9A, p. 1487 (stamped, recto), household no. 178, Edward Wilkerson household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 July 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 3974. [S3568] "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 27 May 2013), Dickson County, Tennessee, marriage license no. 3212, M. D. Vinyard-A. D. Walker, 11 September 1881 (license), 13 September 1881 (marriage); citing Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, microfilm [no. not stated], Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville. This license, issued by surname and initials, has reversed the bride and groom, naming M. D. Vinyard [Martha D. Vinyard] as a 27-year-old farmer and A. D. Walker [Alonzo Denson Walker] as a 15-year-old. [S3606] Tennessee State Board of Health, death certificate no. 78 (1922), Austen Green; "Tennessee, Death Records, 1908-1958," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 5 July 2013); citing Tennessee Death Records, 1908-1959, roll no. 137, Tennessee State Library and Archives. . [S3611] Marshall-Bruce-Polke Co.'s Nashville City Directory 1924, vol. LVII (Nashville, Tenn.: Marshall-Bruce-Polk Co.,[1924]), 824, entry for "Edw" Wilkerson and wife Gertie; "Welcome to Nashville, Tennessee, 1924 Directory," digital images, Distant Cousin.com (http://distantcousin.com/Directories/TN/Nashville/1924/ : accessed 5 July 2013).