Mary Catherine Walker

1837 - 1921  (84 years)

• Name	Mary Catherine Walker  [1, 2]
  Born	7 May 1837	Illinois, USA   [1, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Census	3 Jun 1880	Whitehall Precinct, Greene County, Illinois, USA   [4]
  	1. Morrissey, Mary C., white, female, 42, divorced, keeps house, Illinois, Virginia, Virginia 2. _____, Joanna, white, female, 14, daughter, stay at home, attending school, Illinois, Ireland, Illinois 3. _____, Willie, white,male, 10, son, stay at home, attending school, Illinois, Ireland, Illinois
  Census	20 Jun 1900	White Hall (city), White Hall township, Greene County, Illinois, USA   [5]
  	1. Morrissey, Mary C., head, white, female, May 1837, 63, widowed, 4 children 3 living, Illinois, Illinois, Virginia, can read and write, owns home 2. _____, William [C.?], son, white, male, May 1870, 30, single, Illinois, Illinois, Illinois , laborer [pot?] shop, can read and write
  Parents	Mary's death certificate named her parents as "Eligha Walker" [no birthplace stated] and "Clara" Dove, born in "Verginia."  [3]
  Died	7 Oct 1921	Roodhouse, Greene County, Illinois, USA   [3]
  Buried	White Hall Cemetery, White Hall, Greene County, Illinois, USA
  Person ID	I4766	Full | ProgenitorWalker
  Last Modified	24 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	Elijah Walker
  Mother	Charity Dove,   b. 1816-1817, Virginia, USA ,   d. Abt 1890, Columbus, Cherokee County, Kansas, USA  (Age 73 years)
  Family ID	F1526	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Francis Morrissey,   b. Tipperary, Ireland
  Married	3 Jul 1863	Madison County, Illinois, USA
  Divorced	Before 1880  [4]
  Children	+ 1. Johanna P. Morrissey,   b. 17 Feb 1866, Edwardsville, Madison, County, Illinois, USA ,   d. 18 Oct 1936, Roodhouse, Greene County, Illinois, USA  (Age 70 years)   2. William Emmet Morrissey,   b. 19 May 1870, Edwardsville, Madison, County, Illinois, USA ,   d. 13 Jul 1942, Sorento, Shoal Creek township, Bond County, Illinois, USA  (Age 72 years)   3. Mary E. Morrissey,   b. Abt 1864,   d. 1914, Greene County, Illinois, USA  (Age ~ 50 years)
  Last Modified	23 Aug 2014
  Family ID	F1669	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Arcenith Walker's 1904 biography states that he has a sister "Mary Morrisey" in Illinois, identifying the Mary Walker who married John Morrissy in 1863 as Arcenith's sister and another child of Elijah and Charity (Dove) Walker.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2090] 1850 U.S. census, Madison County, Illinois, population schedule, Township 6N Range 7W, [no penned no. stated], p. 439 (stamped, verso), dwelling 13, family 13, Elijah Walker household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 19 January 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 119. [S1669] "History of Cherokee County, Kansas, 1904," name index and transcribed biographies, Digital Library of the KSGenWeb (http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/ : accessed 26 October 2011), biographical entry for Arcenith F. Walker; citing Nathaniel Thompson Allison, History of Cherokee County, Kansas, and its Representative Citizens ([no publisher stated], 1904), transcribed by Justin Metcalf, student from USD 508, Baxter Springs Middle School, Baxter Springs, Kansas, 1-13-1997. [S4415] "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 23 August 2014), entry for Mary Catherine Morrissey, Greene County, 7 October 1921; FHL film no. 1,570,827; citing Public Board of Health, State Archives, Springfield. URL: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N36H-XX2. [S4417] 1880 U. S. census, Greene County, Illinois, population schedule, Whitehall precinct, enumeration district (ED) 87, p. 10 (penned, recto), p. 173 (stamped, verso), dwelling 88, family 98, Mary C. Morrissey household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 23 August 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 209. [S4416] 1900 U.S. census, Greene County, Illinois, population schedule, White Hall township, White Hall (city), enumeration district (ED) 31, sheet 20B, p. 224 (stamped, verso), dwelling 468, family 472, Mary C. Morrissey household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 23 August 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 303.