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Mary J. Walker

Mary J. Walker

Female 1844 - 1920  (76 years)

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  • Name Mary J. Walker  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    • Granddaughter's letter referred to her as "May."
    Born 10 Mar 1844  Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 5] 
    Gender Female 
    Census 25 Nov 1850  District 37, Rock Island County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    1. Walker, Samuel A., 65, male, farmer, real estate value $300, Virginia
    2. _____, Nancy H., 46, female, Kentucky
    3. _____, Harriet [A.?], 23, female, Illinois
    4. _____, Juliett F., 17, female, Illinois
    5. _____, Eliza, 15, female, Illinois, attending school
    6. _____, Mary J., 6, female, Illinois, attending school 
    Census 2 Jul 1860  Blue Rapids, Blue Rapids township, Kansas Territory, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    1. Walker, Samuel, 75, male, school teacher, Virginia
    2. _____, Nancy, 55, female, Kentucky
    3. _____, Mary, 16, female, domestic, Illinois 
    Census 1 Jun 1870  Palmyra Precinct, Otoe County, Nebraska, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    1. Holly, M., 26, female, white, dress maker, Illinois
    2. _____, C. E., 4, male, white, personal prop value $80, Nebraska

    [next door to sister Sarah and husband Samuel Swank] 
    Census 1 Jun 1880  Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    1. Lemon, W. H., white, male, 29, married, railroad fireman, Iowa, Michigan, New York
    2. _____, Mary, white, female, 36, wife, married, keeping house, Illinois, Virginia, Kentucky 
    Residence Abt 1889  Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    At the time that her sister Eliza A. (Walker) Paul's Marshall County, Kansas, biography was written Mary was widowed and living in Ohio. 
    NEWS 27 Apr 1889  Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    "Mary Lemon sues in the district court for a divorce from William H. Lemon. The ground is desertion." 
    Census 28 Apr 1910  Parma township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    1. Sloan, John, head, male, white, 71, second marriage, married 22 years, Ohio, Ireland, Ireland, farmer, general farm, own account, can read and write, owns farm free of mortgage
    2. _____, Mary J., wife, female, white, 66, second marriage, married 22 years, 4 children 1 living, Illinois, Virginia, Kentucky, can read and write
    3. _____, Frank B., son, male, white, 38, single, Ohio, Ohio, Ohio, farm labor, home farm, can read and write 
    Census 15 Jan 1920  Parma township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    1. Sloan, Mary J., head, owns, free of mortgage, female, white, 75, widowed, can read and write, Illinois, Virginia, Kentucky, no occupation

    [Frank B. is likely her stepson, son of deceased husband]
    2. _____, Frank B., son, mallow white, 48, [marital status "un"], can read and write, Ohio, Ohio, Ohio, construction, house carpenter
    3. Hetrick, John [F.? T.?], border, male, white, 21, single, can read and write, Ohio, Ohio, Ohio helper, steam factory 
    Died 14 Sep 1920  Parma, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    NEWS 17 Sep 1920  Cleveland, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Plain Dealer:

    "SLOAN -- Mary J., beloved wife of the late John Sloan and mother of Frank, at residence, Sheraton drive, Parma, O., Tuesday, Sept. 14, age 76. Funeral from late residence Friday Sept. 17, at 2 p. m. Burial Riverside cemetery." 
    Parents
    1920 death certificate names parents as Samuel Walker born in Virginia, and Nancy Thompson born in Kentucky.  [5] 
    Person ID I4452  Full | ProgenitorWalker
    Last Modified 26 Jun 2022 

    Father Samuel Allen Walker,   b. Abt 1785, Amherst County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. After 1860  (Age ~ 76 years) 
    Mother Nancy Thompson,   b. 25 Apr 1808, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Feb 1870  (Age 61 years) 
    Married 20 Apr 1826  Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11, 12] 
    Family ID F1557  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Eugene Holly 
    Married Between 1860-1866  [2, 4, 6] 
    • Mary was in her parents' home in the 1860 census. In 1870 she is head of household, probably widowed but possibly divorced, with a son born about 1866.
    Children 
     1. C. E. Holly,   b. Abt 1866, Nebraska, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 11 Aug 2014 
    Family ID F2095  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 William Lemon 
    Married 30 Jun 1872  Otoe County, Nebraska, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [13] 
    Divorced Jun 1889  Nebraska, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [14] 
    Last Modified 25 Jun 2022 
    Family ID F1559  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 John Sloan,   b. Abt 1841,   d. 21 Mar 1913, Parma, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 72 years) 
    Last Modified 31 Jan 2013 
    Family ID F1831  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [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.

    2. [S1755] 1860 U. S. census, Marshall County, Kansas Territory, population schedule, Blue Rapids, Blue Rapids township, p. 5 (penned), [no stamped p. no.], dwelling 36, family 36, Samuel A. Walker household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 November 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 351.

    3. [S1754] Portrait and Biographical Album of Marshall County, Kansas. . . (Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1889), 576; biography of Eliza A. (Walker) Paul.

    4. [S3125] Lawson Howland (showland@cableone.net) to Janis Walker Gilmore (Pawleys Island, SC), email, 4 February 2013; attached was they 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.

    5. [S3113] Cuyahoga County, Ohio, death certificate no. 57215, Mary J. Sloan (1920); "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953," digital images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 31 January 2013); citing FHL microfilm no. 1,991,306.

    6. [S4406] 1870 U. S. census, Otoe County, Nebraska, population schedule, Palmyra Precinct (Nebraska City), pp. 15-16 (penned), p. 488a-b (stamped), dwelling 160, family 160, M. Holly household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 11 August 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 831.

    7. [S4408] 1880 U. S. census, Douglas County, Nebraska, population schedule, Omaha, enumeration district (ED) 17, p. 4 (penned, recto), p. 177 (stamped, verso), dwelling 35, family 35, W. H. Lemon household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 11 August 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 747.

    8. [S6633] "Cases in Court," Daily Nebraska State Journal (Omaha, Neb.), 27 April 1989, p. 5, col. 2, item for Mary Lemon suing for divorce from William H. Lemon; digital image, GenealogyBank (http://www.genealogybank.com/ : accessed 26 June 2022).

    9. [S6634] 1920 U.S. census, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, population schedule, Parma township, enumeration district (ED) 564, sheet 10B (penned, recto), p. 253 (stamped, verso), dwelling 218, family 221, Mary J. Sloan household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/33317862:6061 : accessed 26 June 2022); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 1375.

    10. [S6635] "Died: SLOAN" Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), 16 September 1920, p. 23, col. [not stated], Mary J. Sloan; digital image, GenealogyBank (http://www.genealogybank.com/ : accessed 26 June 2022).

    11. [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.

    12. [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.

    13. [S4407] “Nebraska, Marriages, 1855-1995,” database, FamilySearch, entry for William Lemon-M. J. Hawley [Holly], 30 June 1872, Otoe County; citing Otoe County, Nebraska reference P.C. 295; FHL film no. 1,977,681.

    14. [S6631] "Lincoln Briefs," Omaha Daily Herald (Omaha, Neb.), 7 June 1989, p. 3, col. [clipping], item for divorce granted to Mary Lemon from William H. Lemon; digital image, GenealogyBank (http://www.genealogybank.com/ : accessed 26 June 2022).


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