Eliza Adeline Walker b. 26 Jan 1836 Madison County, Illinois, USA d. 4 Sep 1928: Our Family History

1836 - 1928 (92 years)

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Name	Eliza Adeline Walker [1, 2, 3]
Born	26 Jan 1836	Madison County, Illinois, USA [2, 3]
	Letter by granddaughter states she was born in Rock Island, Illinois.
Gender	Female
Census	6 Jul 1860	Blue Rapids township, Marshall County, Kansas, USA [4]
	1. Paul, William, 30, male, white, farmer, real estate $400, personal $150, Ireland 2. _____, Eliza, 24, female, white, Illinois 3. _____, Martha 6, female, white, Illinois 4. _____, Samuel, 4, male, white, Illinois 5. _____, Sarah, 1, female, white, Iowa
Census	30 Jun 1870	Barrett, Blue Rapids township, Marshall County, Kansas, USA [5]
	1. Paul, William, 40, male, white, farmer, real estate $4000, Ireland, mother and father of foreign birth 2. _____, Eliza, 34, female, white, keeping house, Illinois 3. _____, Martha A., 16, female, white, at home, Illinois, attending school 4. _____, Samuel F., 14, male, white, at home, Illinois, attending school 5. _____, Sarah, 11, female, white, at home, Iowa, attending school 6. _____, Clara, 7, female, white, Kansas 7. _____, Wm. F., 7, male, white, Kansas
Census	29 Jun 1880	Blue Rapids township, Marshall County, Kansas, USA [6]
	1. Paul, William, white, male, 50, farmer, Ireland, Ireland, Ireland 2. _____, Eliza, white, female, 44, wife, keeps house, Illinois, Georgia, Kentucky 3. _____, S. Frank, white male, 24, son, in college, Illinois, Ireland, Illinois 4. _____, Sarah, white, female, 21, daughter, at home, Iowa, Ireland, Illinois 5. _____, William F., white, male, 17, son, works on farm, Missouri, Ireland, Illinois
Census	23 Apr 1910	Blue Rapids (city) township, Marshall County, Kansas, USA [7]
	1. Wanamaker, Jay N., head, male, white, 53, first marriage, married 28 years, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, part owner, flouring mill, own account, can read and write, owns home free of mortgage 2. _____, Sarah L., wife, female, white, 51, first marriage, 28 years, 6 children 6 living, Iowa, Ireland, Illinois, can read and write 3. _____, Harold H., son, male, white, 16, Kansas, Wisconsin, Iowa, can read and write, attending school 4. _____, Elnora F., daughter, female, white, 12, Kansas, Wisconsin, Iowa, can read and write, attending school 5. _____, Paul, son, male, white, 9, Kansas, Wisconsin, Iowa, attending school 6. Paul, Eliza A., mother in law, female, white, 74, widowed, 5 children 5 living, Illinois, Virginia, Kentucky, income, can read and write
Census	7 Jan 1920	Blue Rapids, Marshall County, Kansas, USA [8]
	1. Wanamaker, Jay N., head, owns free of mortgage, male, white, 62, married, can read and write, Wisconsin, Ohio, Ohio, secretary, fair association 2. _____, Sarah L., wife, female, white, 61, married, can read and write, Iowa, Ireland, Illinois 3. _____, Elnora, daughter, female, white, 21, single, attending school, can read and write, Kansas, Wisconsin, Iowa 4. Paul, Eliza, mother in law, female, white, 83, widowed, can read and write, Illinois, Virginia, Kentucky
Died	4 Sep 1928 [3]
Obituary	Aft 4 Sept 1928	Blue Rapids, Marshall County, Kansas, USA [9]
	*Obituary of Eliza A. (Walker) Paul, Blue Rapids Times, Blue Rapids* Eliza Adaline WALKER was born January 26, 1836 at Rock Island, Ill., and entered into life everlasting on Sept. 4, 1928, at Blue Rapids, Kansas, aged 92 years, 7 months and 9 days. She was the daughter by a second marriage of the Rev. Samuel A. WALKER. Her mother was Nancy Thompson WALKER. The Rev. Samuel WALKER was a pioneer Methodist minister born in 1785. The two generations, Mrs. PAUL and her father, reaching back to the signing of the Constitution of the United States. Mrs. PAUL's early life was spent at Rock Island, where she was married to Wm. PAUL in 1853. In 1859 they came west to carve out a new home in what was then the territory of Kansas, with the thought of helping to settle it with sympathizers for the Union. After the firing on Ft. Sumpter, Wm. PAUL answered his country's call for volunteers and left his little family in the care of their mother and joined the 13th Kansas Volunteer Infantry, staying in the army until he was honorably discharged at the close of the civil war. There was a very good school at this time at Irving called the Wetmore Institute, and after the close of the war, Wm. PAUL took advantage of the homestead law and homesteaded 80 acres of land two miles north of Irving in the Blue River valley, where their children had the advantage of a very good school. Later they added to the 80 acres by purchase. The old home remained in Mrs. PAUL's hands until her death, helping to make her last days comfortable and peaceful. Mrs. PAUL was the proud mother of five children: Mrs. Martha RIPPEY of Sheridan, Ark.; S.F. PAUL of Blue Rapids, deceased two years ago; Mrs. J.N. WANAMAKER of Blue Rapids; Mrs. Clara WILLIAMSON of Portland, Ore.; and W.F. PAUL of Huntsville, Texas; 24 grandchildren and two great grandchildren, making 76 descendants. Every year on her birthday and on Christmas she heard from the members of this large family, knew where they all were and what they were doing, claiming all of them as her own. Wm. PAUL was called to his reward in 1889 and for nearly forty years she traveled the journey of life alone. Thinking and planning for the welfare of her family and doing for others filled her later years and helped to make her sunset years peaceful and happy. She spent the last 31 years of her life in the home of her daughter, Mrs. J.N. WANAMAKER. If long life and length of days are given to the faithful, then indeed she was recompensed. Her children rise up and call her blessed.
Person ID	I4449	Full \| ProgenitorWalker
Last Modified	28 May 2022

Father	Samuel Allen Walker, b. Abt 1785, Amherst County, Virginia, USA , d. After 1860 (Age ~ 76 years)
Mother	Nancy Thompson, b. 25 Apr 1808, Kentucky, USA , d. 10 Feb 1870 (Age 61 years)
Married	20 Apr 1826	Madison County, Illinois, USA [10, 11]
Family ID	F1557	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family William Paul, b. 16 Feb 1830, County Antrim, Ireland , d. 12 Aug 1886 (Age 56 years)

Married 30 Jun 1853 Rock Island County, Illinois, USA [3]

Children

+	1. Martha "Mattie" Paul, b. May 1854, Rock Island County, Illinois, USA
+	2. Samuel Frank Paul, b. 28 Jan 1856, Rock Island County, Illinois, USA , d. 15 May 1926, Blue Rapids, Marshall County, Illinois, USA (Age 70 years)
+	3. Sarah L. "Sadie" Paul, b. Abt 1859, Iowa, USA , d. 1 Jan 1936 (Age ~ 77 years)
+	4. Clara Irene Paul, b. Abt 1863, Kansas, USA , d. 1932 (Age ~ 69 years)
+	5. William F. Paul, b. 29 May 1863, Missouri, USA , d. 4 Apr 1957, Victoria, Victoria County, Texas, USA (Age 93 years)

Last Modified 12 Mar 2014

Family ID F1560 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Documents

Eliza Walker and husband William Paul, 1860 Marshall County, Kansas, census
1860 U.S. census, Marshall County, Kansas, population schedule, Blue Rapids township, p. 10 (penned, recto), p. 359 (penned, verso), [no stamped no.], dwelling 83, family 83, William Paul household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 10 August 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication T653, roll 360.

Sources

[S1752] 1850 U.S. census, Rock Island County, Illinois, population schedule, District 37, p. 254 (stamped, recto), dwelling 2001, family 2001, Samuel A. Walker household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 31 October 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 126.
[S1754] Portrait and Biographical Album of Marshall County, Kansas. . . (Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1889), 576; biography of Eliza A. (Walker) Paul.
[S4162] Lawson Howland (showland@cableone.net) to Janis Walker Gilmore (Pawleys Island, SC), email, 4 February 2013; attached was typescript of material written by J. N. Wannamaker and printed in "The Times" [locale not stated] on 31 December 1936, based on a letter that Mr. Wannamaker received from Martha "Mattie" (Paul) Rippy regarding her Paul and Walker ancestry, as well as a description of their lives in Kansas. Mr. Wannamaker's wife Sadie (Paul) Wannamaker was Mattie Rippy's younger sister and both were the children of Eliza (Walker) Paul, the daughter of Samuel A. Walker.
[S4399] 1860 U.S. census, Marshall County, Kansas, population schedule, Blue Rapids township, p. 10 (penned, recto), p. 359 (penned, verso), [no stamped no.], dwelling 83, family 83, William Paul household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 10 August 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication T653, roll 360.
[S4400] 1870 U. S. census, Marshall County, Kansas, population schedule, Blue Rapids township, p. 10 (penned), p. 298 (stamped, verso), dwelling 90, family 85, William Paul household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 10 August 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 438.
[S4401] 1880 U. S. census, Marshall County, Kansas, population schedule, Blue Rapids township, enumeration district (ED) 165, p. 26 (penned, recto), p. 214 (stamped, verso), dwelling 234, family 248, William Paul household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 10 August 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 388.
[S4402] 1910 U.S. census, Marshall County, Kansas, population schedule, Blue Rapids City township, enumeration district (ED) 63, sheet 13A (penned), p. 34 (stamped, recto), dwelling 216, family 217, Jay N. Wanamaker household, for Eliza A. Paul; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 14 June 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 447.
[S4403] 1920 U.S. census, Marshall County, Kansas, population schedule, Blue Rapids City township, enumeration district (ED) 66, sheet 6A (penned), p. 27 (stamped, recto), dwelling 144, family 144, Jay N. Wanamaker household, for Eliza Paul, mother in law; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 11 August 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 540.
[S4404] Lawson Howland (showland@cableone.net), submitter, "Paul-Dunlap-Jennrich-Schumacher Tree,".
[S1753] Illinois Secretary of State, "Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900," database, Illinois State Archives (http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/archives.html : accessed 13 November 2011), entry for Samuel A. Walker-Nancy Thompson, Madison County (1826); citing marriage book 6: 14, license no. 537.
[S4203] Madison County, Illinois, marriages, vol. 6:14, license no. 537, Samuel A. Walker-Nancy Thompson, license and return, 20 April 1826; FHL microfilm 1,306,457, item 2.