Claude Walker

1887 - 1910  (~ 22 years)

• Name	Claude Walker  [1]
  Born	Feb 1887	Missouri, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Census	15 Jun 1900	Hutton Valley township, Grays Harbor County, Washington, USA   [1]
  	1. Walker, Rutherford, head, white, male, October 1829, 71, married, married 46 years, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee, farmer, can read and write, owns farm free of mortgage, farm schedule, 142 2. _____, Elizabeth, wife, white, female, October 1837, 64, married, 46 years, 12 children 10 living, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, can read and write 3. _____, Claude, grandson, whtie, male, February 1887, 13, Missouri, Tennessee, Missouri, farm labor, can read, cannot write
  Negative evidence	Not located in South Dakota state census, 1905 or 1915.  [2, 3]
  RESEARCH	No record of the death of Claud Walker in South Dakota, searched 1 July 1905 through 31 December 1925.  [4]
  Died	Between 1900-1910	South Dakota, USA
  	Researcher Wilda (Phipps) Beasley had an opportunity in the 1970's or 1980's to interview Ben Dryman, the younger half-brother of Claude Walker. Ben stated that Claude died in the mines in "Deadwood, North Dakota" (probably actually Deadwood, South Dakota). Wilda Beasley was a descendant of Helton Rutherford Walker through his daughter Martha Jane "Mattie" (Walker) Phipps. No date has been associated with this event. However, Claude Walker appeared in the 1900 census in the home of his Walker grandparents. In 1900 his mother Cynthia Dryman was enumerated as the mother of 9 children, 8 living. In 1910 she was enumerated as the mother of 10 children, 7 living. There are discrepancies here. The total numbers of children in each case are as we would expect: 9 by 1900 and (with the additional birth of Benjamin in 1901) 10 in 1910. But which child was already dead by 1900? All nine known children were accounted for. If she had, as is likely, lost a child prior to 1900, then she was the mother of 10 children in 1900. If, as stated in 1910, she was mother of 10 children and only 7 were living, these were the living: Henderson, John R., Nola, Thomas, Goldie, Frank, and Benjamin. Not located in 1910 are Mary, Claude, and Annie. Did Mary, Claude, and Annie all die between 1900 and 1910? Annie would have been just 12, it is likely that she would be found in her family home, if living. Mary could have married and Claude might not yet have died. However, the most likely conclusion is that all three of these died between 1900-1910.
  RESEARCH	Between 1970-1990  [5]
  	Letter from Wilda (Phipps) Beasley, about 2002 "Janis, I have just this morning received two messages from Jeff Reece (Rhysaprhys@aol.com) and he included in one, a message from you dated 10/27/02 - giving census records of THORNTON, WALKER, DRYMAN in Texas and Howell Co. Missouri. Back in 1981 I was corresponding with Robert Wesley Stokes, son of Eudocia (Walker) and Albert Wesley Stokes, daughter of Helton Rutherford Walker and Ester Elizabeth Thornton. Robert Stokes sent me the following list of children for William "Bud" Walker and Jane Cox: Six Children: (1) Henderson Walker (2)John Walker (3) Claude Walker (4) Nola Walker (5) Tom Walker (6) Goldie Walker After William Walker died, Jane Cox married Henry Dryman and they had 4 children; he gave me the following: (1) Frank Dryman (2) Ben Dryman 3 and 4: died young, buried: Moffett Cemetery I also corresponded with a Ben Dryman in Dec 1981 (who I presume was #2 child) and with a Mrs. Carl Caton in Dec. 1981 - they gave me the following information: Henderson Walker was a fire Chief in Okam, Washington - was married - had 1 daughter. John Walker - never maried - buried: Moffett Cemetery Claude Walker - Killed in Mines in Deadwood, N.Dakota - he never married Nola Walker - lived in Willow Springs, MO, married to Mart Kelly, had 3 children: Thelma, Basil and the other died young. Mart Kelly worked for the railroad. Nola and Mart were already deceased in 1981 Tom Walker - was in World War I - never married - died in 1918 with the flu - buried: Moffett Cemetery Goldie Walker - lived with mother and step-father - never married - buried: Moffett Cemetery. This Moffett Cemetery is in Hutton Valley - I have never gone to it - my Dad (Tim Phipps) was going to take me there, but before we got to it, my mother had a severe stroke and was in the Nursing Home in Willow Springs and we just never took the time to go. Then, my Dad passed away in 1995 and I just never took the time to go."
  Person ID	I833	Full | ProgenitorWalker
  Last Modified	8 Oct 2012

  
  

  Father	William E. "Bud" Walker,   b. 31 Jan 1856, Tennessee, USA ,   d. 15 Feb 1893, Howell County, Missouri, USA  (Age 37 years)
  Mother	Cynthia Jane Cox,   b. Abt 1861, Missouri, USA ,   d. 1910-1920, Howell County, Missouri, USA  (Age ~ 59 years)
  Married	Between 1877 and 1879  [6]
  	estimate based on her age, and age of son
  Family ID	F1173	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Claude Walker appears, age 13, in Helton Rutherford Walker's 1900 Howell County, Missouri, census enumeration, where he is designated as "grandson." The surname "Walker" and his age point to the William E. "Bud" Walker as his father. (Bud had died in 1893 and his wife had remarried.) No other documents naming Claud have yet been discovered. He has not been located in the 1910 census. Information on Bud's children was obtained by Wilda (Phipps) Beasley from Ben Dryman, a child of Cynthia (Cox) Walker's second marriage. (See letter and citation.) Ben named Claud as one of the children of Bud and Cynthia and stated that he had gone to Deadwood, North Dakota (should be "South Dakota") where he died in the mines. He also indicated that Claud had never married.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2563] 1900 U.S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule, Hutton Valley township, enumeration district (ED) 56, sheet 8B, p. 129 (stamped, verso), dwelling 147, family 147, Rutherford Walker household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 Sept 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 860. [S2711] "South Dakota, State Census, 1905," digital iimages, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 8 Oct 2012), negative search for Claud Walker, born in Missouri. [S2712] "South Dakota, State Census, 1915," digital iimages, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 8 Oct 2012), negative search for Claud Walker, born in Missouri. [S2710] South Dakota department of Health, Vital Records, notification, 1 October 2012, no record of the death of Claud Walker, searched, 1 July 1905 through 31 December 1925. [S327] Wilda (Phipps) Beasley (Gainesville, MO) to author, letters and e-mail, from the mid-1980's to 2000; Wilda Beasley was the daughter of Martha Jane Walker and James Thomas Phipps; Mrs. Beasley is now deceased. . [S2612] 1880 U. S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule, Hutton Valley township, enumeration district (ED) 48, p. 7 (penned), p. 387 (stamped, recto), dwelling 58, family 59, Wm U. Walker [William E. Walker] household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 22 Sept 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 691; FHL film no. 1,254,691.