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James Edward Wilkerson

James Edward Wilkerson

Male 1893 - 1981  (87 years)

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  • Name James Edward Wilkerson  [1, 2, 3
    • Sometimes seen as "Edward J. Wilkerson."
    Born 6 Dec 1893  Winchester, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5
    Gender Male 
    Died September1981  Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Person ID I4208  Full | ProgenitorWalker
    Last Modified 5 Jul 2013 

    Family Gertie Mae Walker,   b. 5 Aug 1898, Dickson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Sep 1981, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Married Between April 1922-1924  [7, 8, 9
    • 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 Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Mildred B. Wilkerson,   b. Abt 1926, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Emma Jean Wilkerson,   b. Abt 1928, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 5 Jul 2013 
    Family ID F1473  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S1277] Tennessee, Williamson - Review Appeal Newspaper, Franklin, Tennessee. Franklin, Tennessee.
      Robert Journey Walker
      Robert Journey Walker, 80-year-old resident of Derby Lande, Rt. 7, died December 21, at the Williamson County Hospital. A native of Dickson County, he had made his home in Williamson County for many years He had been in declining health for some time.
      Mr. Walker was a retired farmer.
      Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Beaulah Mai Walker of Franklin; daughters, Mrs. Jewell Lampley, Mrs. Pearl Tanner, Mrs. Jean Fox and Mrs. Doris Davis, all of Franklin and Mrs. Joynce Buggs of Murfreesboro; two sons, Robert Walker of Tuscon [sic], Arizona and Mack Walker, of East Lake, Ohio; two sisters, Mrs. Gertie Wilkerson of Nashville and Mrs. Emma Moss of Huron, Texas; two brothers, Seth Walker of Nashville and Lovel Walker of Ashland City; 29 grandchildren; 37 great -grandhildren.
      Herbert A. Robinson officiated at the final rites on December 23 at Franklin Memorial Chapel. Interment was in Williamson Memorial Gardens.
      Grandons served as pallbearers.
      Franklin Memorial Chapel was in charge of the arrangements.

    2. [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.

    3. [S3612] "World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 July 2013), James Edward Wilkerson, serial no. 820, order no. 126, East Lake Precinct, Hamilton County, Tennessee; citing World War I Selective Service system Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918), NARA microfilm publication M1509 (4,582 rolls); FHL roll no. 1,852,989.

    4. [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.

    5. [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.

    6. [S3613] Social Security Administration, "Social Security Death Index," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 5 July 2013), entry for Ed Wilkerson, September 1981, SS no. 408-09-6470.

    7. [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).

    8. [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. .

    9. [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).