Bessie Walker

• Name	Bessie Walker  [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I4737	Full | ProgenitorWalker
  Last Modified	17 Jan 2012

  
  

  Father	William Walker,   b. Abt 1851, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA ,   d. After 1900  (Age ~ 50 years)
  Mother	Louisa Page,   b. Nov 1851, Arkansas, USA ,   d. 17 Aug 1911, Mariposa County, California, USA  (Age ~ 59 years)
  Married	29 Dec 1870	Macoupin County, Illinois, USA   [3]
  Divorced	Before 1910  [4]
  Family ID	F1654	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  The obituary/death notice of Louisa (Page) Walker, 1911, Mariposa County, California, listed among her children "Mrs. Bessie Downie" of Vancouver, but did not indicate whether Vancouver, Washington, or Vancouver, Canada. The 1923 obituary/death notice of Aaron M. Walker named his surviving siblings, among them a "Mrs. Bessie Downing" of San Francisco. A Bessie Walker married A. S. Deatsch in Merced County on 10 July 1898. The groom was from White Rock, Mariposa County, and the bride was from Mariposa. This couple has not been located in the 1900 census, nor can a marriage record be found for them among the California marriages on FamilySearch. The obituary of Sebastian Fabian Deatsch of White Rock appears on the same family page, and identifies a son "Albert S. Deatsch," who may be the A. S. referenced above. Albert S. Deatsch is found in the 1900 Merced County census, but he enumerated as single, a boarder in the home of a family named Burchell. [5]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2053] "William Disbro's Mariposa Free Press and Mariposa Gazette Vitals, 1922–1923,"abstractions and transcriptions, Mariposa County, California: Genealogy & Historical Research Home Page (http://www.mariposaresearch.net : accessed 16 January 2012), entry for Aaron Walker; citing "Aaron Walker Instantly Killed While at Work," Mariposa (California) Gazette, 19 October 1923. [S2051] "William Disbro's Mariposa Free Press and Mariposa Gazette Vitals, 1911–1912," abstractions and transcriptions, Mariposa County, California: Genealogy & Historical Research Home Page (http://www.mariposaresearch.net : accessed 16 January 2012), entry for Mrs. Louisa Walker; citing "Death of Mrs. Walker," Mariposa (California) Gazette, 19 August 1911. [S2041] Illinois Secretary of State, "Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900," database, Illinois State Archives (http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/archives.html : accessed 14 January 2012), entry for William D. Walker-Louisa Page, Macoupin County (1870); citing Macoupin County, Marriage Book 5: 73, license no. 7078. [S2043] 1910 U.S. census, Mariposa County, California, population schedule, Mariposa township, enumeration district (ED) 96, sheet 8B, p. 173 (stamped, verso), [dwelling not stated], family 4, Loisa [Louisa] Walker household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 7 January 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 87. [S2068] "John Deastsch Photo—Mariposa County Pioneer Family," photo and discussion of Deastsch family, Mariposa County, California: Genealogy & Historical Research Home Page (http://www.mariposaresearch.net : accessed 17 January 2012), for the marriage of A. S. Deatsch–Bessie Walker, 1898, Merced County, California.