Thomas Newell "Tom" Walker b. 29 Jan 1858 Dickson County, Tennessee, USA d. 5 Sep 1942 Howell County, Missouri, USA: Our Family History

1858 - 1942 (84 years)

Photos		Thomas Newell/Nuell Walker, born 29 January 1858, Dickson or Hickman County, Tennessee
Photos		Thomas Newell Walker, born 29 January 1858, Hickman or Dickson County, Tennessee. Detail from family photo

Documents » Slide Show		Thomas N. Walker, census, 1880, Howell County, Missouri 1880 U. S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule, Goldsberry township, enumeration district (ED) 52, p. 24 (penned), p. 467 (stamped, verso), dwelling 196, family 196, N. Thomas Walker [Thomas N.Walker] household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 February 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication…
		Detail from abstract of Walker farm, 1888 sale from Jane E. Crowder to Thomas N. Walker Wiles Abstract Co., Inc. (West Plains, Missouri), "Abstract of Title: Warranty Deed, 13 October 1888, Jane E. Crowder to Thomas N. Walker," recorded Book X: 45; report to Edward M. Long Jr., and wife, Howell County, Missouri, undated [last internal entry 1968]; privately held by William D. Walker [address for private use].
		Thomas N. Walker and Tennessee Crowder, marriage certificate and return Howell County, Missouri, Marriage Book B:155, Thomas Walker-Tennessee Crowder, 1877, certificate and return; Recorder
		Thomas N. Walker, obituary, 1942, Mountain View, Missouri
		Index to Declaratory Statements, entry for Thomas N. Walker's intended homestead in Howell County, the NW 1/4 of Sec 12, Twp 26N, Range 8W. Abstracts, Declaratory Statements, January 1881, Ironton, Missouri Land Office, vol. 8, unpaginated chronological entries; Abstracts of Land Transactions at the Ironton Land Office in Missouri, 1865
		Location of dropped homestead of TN Walker--where he and Tennie lived in the log cabin. NW 1/4 of Sec 12, Twp 26N, Rg 8W See index of Declaratory Statements for legal description.

Name	Thomas Newell "Tom" Walker [1, 2, 3]
Nickname	Tom
Land	Jan 1851	Howell County, Missouri, USA [4]
	In January 1881 Thomas N. Walker filed a homestead patent, the NW 1/4 of Sec 12, Twp 26N, Rg 8W, 40 acres. This is probably where they lived in an older log cabin, and where the bobcat got in and tore up the cabin while they were away (see the stories of Della (Walker) Warren Lonnem.
Born	29 Jan 1858	Dickson County, Tennessee, USA [1, 2, 3, 5, 6]
Gender	Male
Census	9 Jul 1860	Danielsville, Middle Division, Dickson County, Tennessee, USA [1]
	1. Walker, R., 31, male, school teacher, [no real estate value], personal $200, Tennessee 2. _____, Easter E., 22, female, Tennessee 3. _____, E. J. [Eudocia J.], 5, female, Tennessee 4. _____, Wm, 4, male, Tennessee 5. _____, "Ann T." [see note below], 2, female, Tennessee 6. _____, Mary C., 5 months, female, Tennessee [Living next door to Esther's mother, Bedie (Clark) Thornton. "Ann T." listed in census was doubtless a misinterpretation. Son Thomas Newell was the right age for this position in the family, all of the other children are correctly named. It is possible that the initials "T. N." were reversed to "N. T." which sounds very like "Ann T."]
Census	13 Jun 1870	Pine Wood (post office), 6th Civil District, Hickman County, Tennessee, USA [2]
	1. Walker, H. R., 42, male, white, work on farm, real estate value $250, personal $800, Tennessee 2. _____, Elizabeth, 32, female, white, keeping house, Tennessee 3. _____, Docia, 15, female, white, work in cotton mill, Tennessee 4. _____, William, 14, male, white, work on farm, Tennessee, [can read, implied], cannot write 5. _____, Thos. N., 12, male, white, work in cotton mill, Tennessee, cannot write 6. _____, Mary C., 10, female, white, work in cotton mill, Tennessee, cannot write 7. _____, Sarah A., 8, female, white, Tennessee 8. _____, Beeda E., 4, female, white, Tennessee 9, _____, Coantha L., white, female, white, Tennessee 10. _____, Martha J., white, female, 5 months, Tennessee, born in January 11. Thornton, Beeda, 54, female, white, Tennessee
Residence	After March 1879	Crowder homestead, Howell County, Missouri, USA [7]
	Tom Walker and his wife Tennie Crowder assumed responsibility for the Crowder homestead (his wife's family place) after the death in March 1879 of his father-in-law, Bluford A. Crowder, and his brother-in-law Joshua Crowder. The present-day Walker farm is a portion of the original Crowder homestead. The original house, which was located closer to hwy 17, and around the corner from the present farm, burned.
Anecdote	30 Dec 1879	Howell County, Missouri, USA [8]
	Della Evaline Walker: "My dad [Thomas Newell Walker] had taken a homestead where I was born in a log cabin and while they went to care for sickness at Grand Pa's and Uncle Josh Crowder, the wildcats tore the chinks out of a crack and went in and tore a piece cloth out of the loom."
Census	17 Jun 1880	Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, USA [9]
	1. Walker, N. Thomas, white, male, 22, married farming, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee 2. _____, F. Tennissee [Phoebe Tennessee], white, female, 22, wife, married, keeping house, Tennessee, Alabama, Tennessee 3. _____, D. Eveline, white, female, 1, daughter, at home, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee 4. Crowder, J. Eveline, white, female, 47, mother in law, widowed, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina
Newspaper Article	5 Jul 1888	Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee, USA [10]
	From The Pulaski Citizen: \"Under Richardson\'s 4th of July claims bill which passed the houseSaturday and went to the senate, Giles county gets $2,875.87. Following is a list of claims from Giles county mentioned in the bill: . . . Thomas N. Walker, adm\'r of Bluford Crowder dec\'d, $520 . . . .\"
Newspaper Article	5 Jul 1888	Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee, USA [10]
	From The Pulaski Citizen: \"Under Richardson\'s 4th of July claims bill which passed the houseSaturday and went to the senate, Giles county gets $2,875.87. Following is a list of claims from Giles county mentioned in the bill: . . . Thomas N. Walker, adm\'r of Bluford Crowder dec\'d, $520 . . . .\"
Newspaper Article	5 Jul 1888	Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee, USA [10]
	From The Pulaski Citizen: \"Under Richardson\'s 4th of July claims bill which passed the houseSaturday and went to the senate, Giles county gets $2,875.87. Following is a list of claims from Giles county mentioned in the bill: . . . Thomas N. Walker, adm\'r of Bluford Crowder dec\'d, $520 . . . .\"
Deed	13 Oct 1888	Howell County, Missouri, USA [11]
	Thomas E. Newell purchased the Crowder homestead from Jane E. Crowder, his widowed mother in law. Described as "the SW1/4 of Sec 31, Twp 27, Rg 7W." Subject to "the support of the said Jane E. Crowder during her natural life time and all her right and title to vest in the said Thomas N. Walker."
Census	14 Jun 1900	Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, USA [12]
	1. Walker, Thomas N., head, white, male, born January 1858, 42, married 22 years, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee, farmer, can read and write, owns farm free of mortgage, farm schedule no. 145 2. _____, Tennessee, wife, white, female, January 1858, 42, married 22 years, 10 children 7 living, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee, can read and write 3. _____, Neal, son, white, male, March 1883, 17, single, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, farm laborer, can read and write 4. _____, Luther, son, white, male, May 1886, 14, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, farm laborer, can read and write 5. _____, Roy, son, white, male, September 1891, 8, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, attended school 5 months 6. _____, Earl, son, white, male, March 1894, 6, Missouri, Tennessee, Missouri, attended school 5 months 7. _____, Lena A., daughter, white, female, November 1897, 2, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee
Census	28 Apr 1910	Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, USA [13]
	1. Walker, Thomas N., head, white, male, born January 1858, 52, first marriage, married 32 years, Tennessee, Mississippi, Tennessee, farmer, home farm, own account, can read and write, owns farm with mortgage, farm schedule no. 84 2. _____, Phoeba T., wife, female, white, 52, first marriage, married 32 years, 11 children 7 living, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee, can read and write 3. _____, Earl, son, male, white, 16, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, farm laborer, home farm, can read and write, attending school 4. _____, Lena, daughter, female, white, 12, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, can read and write, attending school
NEWS	Apr 1914	Howell County, Missouri, USA [14]
	*Item in West Plains (Missouri) Journal, 16 April 1914* "Mr. T.N. Walker and daughter Lena left Tuesday evening for California. We are sorry to lose them." This may have been when Tom Walker went to California and worked in San Diego for a while. Lena probably kept house for him.
Residence	Mar 1917	Mountain View, Howell County, MIssouri, USA
	References in the letters of Earl Walker to Grace Campbell in the spring of 1917 indicate that he and his younger sister Lena were both at home with their father, Tom.
Note	Jan 1919 [7]
	Crowder place burned January 1919, when Donald was a baby. Tom was away. Afterward, Earl and Grace and baby lived in a shed on the place for a while. "Mama carried Don out & Dad carried out the organ [on his back]." Also: "The old Crowder house, located across the fields from the present-day Bill Walker farm (which was once a part of the original Crowder homestead), caught fire one winter. Grace and Earl and baby Donald were living there with Earl's father, Thomas N. Walker. It was a very cold winter; the ponds had frozen over, and they couldn't get water from the cistern to fight the blaze. Grace Walker described it: "And all we did was walk out of there with the clothes on our back and little Donald, except that Daddy went in and brought out the organ on his back." Tom Walker was, at the time, somewhere out of state; there is some dispute about where, but Donald Walker (the baby at the time) says that Tom Walker was in California."
	Note found in Dad's handwriting in a book of genealogy notes, says that his mother (Grace) told him that the old home place burned 10 December 1919. Mary was born in the shed 13 Msy 1919.
Census	20 Jan 1920	Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, USA [15]
	1. Walker, T. N., head, owns, mortgaged, male, white, 62, widowed, can read and write, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee, farmer, own account, farm schedule no. 205 2. _____, Earl, son, male, white, 25, married, can read and write, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee, farmer, own account, farm schedule no. 205 3. _____, Grace, daughter [daughter in law], female, white, 22, married, can read and write, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri 4. _____, Lenah [Lena], daughter, female, white, 22, single, can read and write, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee 5. _____, Donald, grandson, male, white, 1 year [8] months, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
Missing Census	1930
	Tom has not been located in the 1930 census.
Residence	Before 1935 [16]
	If the 1940 census is right, Tom was living with his son Earl's family by 1935.
Census	25 Apr 1940	Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, USA [17]
	1. Walker, Earl, owns, value $1000, farm, head, male, white, 46, married, completed 8th grade, born Missouri, lived in same house in 1935, worked for pay this year, worked 60 hours the week of March 24-30, farmer, farm, own account, made $250, has other income, farm schedule no. 155 2. _____, Grace, wife, female, white, 42, married, completed grade 8, Missouri, same house, worked for pay, at home, 60 hours 3. _____, Phyllis, daughter, female, white, 18, single, attended school this year, completed 4 years of high school, Missouri, same house, did not work for pay 4. _____, Doyne, daughter, female, white, 15, single, attending school, completed 1 year high school, Missouri, same house, did not work for pay 5. _____, Newell, son, male, white, 13, attending school, completed grade 7, Missouri, same house, did not work for pay 6. _____, William son, male, white, 9, attending school, completed grade 5, Missouri, same house 7. _____, Irene, daughter, female, white, 7, attending school, completed grade 1, Missouri, same house 8. _____, Maxwell, son, male, white, 5, not attending school, Missouri 9. _____, Leon, son, male, white, 3, Missouri 10. _____, Norman, son, male, white, 1, Missouri 11. _____, Tom N., father, male, white, 82, widowed, completed grade 8, Tennessee, same house, not working for pay, retired farmer, income $180
Died	5 Sep 1942	Howell County, Missouri, USA [3, 6]
Buried	7 Sep 1942	Walker Chapel Cemetery, Howell County, Missouri, USA [3, 6]
Obituary	10 Sep 1942	Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA [18]
	Obituary, Mountain View Standard "Thomas Newell Walker was born in Hickman county, Tenn January 29, 1858. He came to Missouri with his parents at the age of 14 years. They took up their home near Walker?s Chapel, where he grew into manhood. They were among the pioneer families who settled this part of the country. He was married to Phoebe Tennessee Crowder in the year 1877. To this union 11 children were born, four of whom died in infancy. The seven surviving children are Mrs. Della Lonnem of Lincoln, California; Mrs. Ida Johnson of Mountain View; Neal Walker of Lawton, Okla., Luther Walker of Lawton, Okla.; Roay Walker of Gainesville, Florida; Earl Walker of Mountain View; Mrs. Lena Yocky of Long Beach, california. Uncle Tom Walker as he was known throughout the country, was converted and joined the Methodist Church in early life, in which faith he remained throughout his life until God called him to his eternal home September 5, 1942, at the age of 84 years, seven months and seven days. He will be greatly missed by his children and other relatives and many friends as he had spent most of his life in this community and was known the country over."
Email	19 Feb 2013
	Email from Angela McGhie: Janis, I was able to go to the BLM office in Virginia last week and read the tract books for Howell County, Missouri. I had just made a note for my tract book lecture to remind people to not only read the name column, but also the pencil notations in all the columns -- then one of those tiny little pencil notations read "NW4 SE 3,033 Thomas N. Walker Jan. 10 & 14, 1881 offd." I believe it is referencing land offered that Thomas N. Walker filed a claim for, but it never went to patent. I was not in a regular row in the volume, so does not give a date of cancellation or relinquishment, but I hope to be able to follow the 3,033 number to an application or other documentation in the land entry papers at NARA. I will let you know when I am able to get there or get someone to search for the file. This pencil notation was on page 114 in volume 6 of the "Missouri Ironton N & W" Tract Book. It was written along the entry for Section 12, Township 26 North, Range 8 West. The only two other Walker entries in T 26 & 27 N, R 8 & 9 W were the one for William E. Walker in Sec. 20, T 27 N, R 8 W for 80 acres, and one for William J. Walker, a homestead in Sec. 21, T 27 N, R 8 W for 160 acres. I will get back to you as soon as I find more... Angela
Anecdote	"Ash hoe. Ash hopper. Ash bank." Really sneezing, but finishing with the word.
Anecdote	"Lord bless these table comforts to the nourishment of our bodies and our bodies to thy service. Amen." [7]
Anecdote	Tom's grandson, William D. Walker tells about his (Tom's) sneezes, which were always in threes: "It was "sneeze...ASH HOE...sneeze...ASH HOPPER...sneeze...ASH BANK...This was usually followed by a "nose blow" one nostril at a time, using only his finger. Then a final blow or two of both nostrils to make sure the passages were open. These are good things to know. I'd like to see you demonstrate the process except that he often ended the process by wiping his fingers on the cuff of his overalls!" [19]
Anecdote	Tom usually slept with one or two of the boys. In the morning Tom would pull on his overalls just far enough to get a plug of chewing tobacco out of his pocket. Before the need to spit he would go outside--his spitting wasn't allowed in the house. He grew his own tobacco in a little tobacco patch. [7]
Anecdote	Tom Walker's usual mealtime prayer: "Lord bless these table comforts to the nourishment of our bodies, and our lives to thy service. Amen." [7]
	Always returned thanks at lunch, but not dinner.
Person ID	I3031	Full \| ProgenitorWalker
Last Modified	8 Aug 2020

Father	Helton Rutherford Walker, b. 21 Oct 1828, Dickson County, Tennessee, USA , d. 29 Aug 1901, Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA (Age 72 years)
Mother	Esther Elizabeth Thornton, b. 1 Oct 1837, Alabama, USA , d. 22 Apr 1908, Howell County, Missouri, USA (Age 70 years)
Married	26 Jan 1854	Hickman County, Tennessee, USA [20, 21]
Family ID	F1072	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Phoebe Tennessee "Tennie" Crowder, b. 11 Jan 1858, Giles County, Tennessee, USA , d. 7 Apr 1913, Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, USA (Age 55 years)

Married 30 Dec 1877 T. C. Bolerjack's home, Chapel township, Howell County, Missouri, USA [8, 22, 23, 24]

Aunt Della's story of Tom and Tennie's marriage: "Phoebe Tennessee Crowder and Thomas Newell Walker were married Dec 31 of 1877 near Mt. View Missouri. They were married at their home by Grandpa Walker (he lived on a farm two miles west of them). They got on horseback and went to Jimmy Durnell's and Bud Hope and Mary Durnell were married the same day. They were a witness at this wedding."

Children

+	1. Della Eveline Walker, b. 4 Dec 1878, Howell County, Missouri, USA , d. 18 Feb 1970, Auburn, Placer County, California, USA (Age 91 years)
+	2. Ida Elizabeth Walker, b. 27 Nov 1880, Howell County, Missouri, USA , d. 15 Jul 1966, Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA (Age 85 years)
+	3. Thomas Neal "Neal" Walker, b. 19 Mar 1882, Liberal, Barton County, Missouri , d. 8 Nov 1970, Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma (Age 88 years)
+	4. William Luther "Lute" Walker, b. 30 May 1886, Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA , d. 15 May 1960, Houston Memorial Hospital, Houston, Texas County, Missouri, USA (Age 73 years)
	5. Bluford L. Walker, b. 24 Feb 1889, Howell County, Missouri, USA , d. 26 Mar 1889, Howell County, Missouri, USA (Age 0 years)
	6. Norah M. Walker, b. 3 Feb 1890, Howell County, Missouri, USA , d. 21 Sep 1890, Howell County, Missouri, USA (Age 0 years)
+	7. Roy Helton Walker, b. 9 Sep 1891, Hutton Valley, Howell County, Missouri , d. 21 Sep 1969, Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida, USA (Age 78 years)
	8. Troy Melton Walker, b. 9 Sep 1891, Howell County, Missouri, USA , d. Abt 1893, Howell County, Missouri, USA (Age 1 years)
+	9. Earl Theodore Walker, b. 31 Mar 1894, Howell County, Missouri, USA , d. 21 Sep 1983, Howell County, Missouri, USA (Age 89 years)
+	10. Lena Ann Walker, b. 11 Nov 1897, Howell County, Missouri, USA , d. 19 Dec 1989, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, USA (Age 92 years)
	11. Paul Walker, b. 22 Sep 1902, Howell County, Missouri, USA , d. Abt 1904, Howell County, Missouri, USA (Age 1 years)

Last Modified 4 Jul 2014

Family ID F1036 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

See attached sources. [7]
Tom's brother William

He must have been a hard worker. In the twenty years between their move from Tennessee to his death in 1893, he did quite a lot.

He homesteaded his own place in Hutton Valley. Due to illness, he was absent for all of one spring planting, early in his homesteading process. As soon as he got better he went away and worked hauling dirt for the railroad for two months, presumably to make up for the lack of income that year. By 1888 he had a "box house" which was "comfortable to live in" year-round, and had a stone fireplace and chimney. It was furnished with two bedsteads, a cupboard, a sewing machine, a clock, table and chairs, and a cookstove. He had planted 167 fruit trees and cultivated 25 acres in corn, wheat, oats, and vegetables. They had 2 mules, 1 cow, 21 hogs, 4 sheep, and some chickens. Part of the place was "too rough and stony to be cultivated."

He was just 37 when he died. We don't know his cause of death, but we do know that he had the earlier illness that didn't allow him to plant. When the Civil War started he was age 5 and when it ended he was 9, and he was the oldest boy in the family, with his father away from home. Privations of the war years may have left him with poor health.

William was just two years older than your granddad Tom. They suffered the Civil War together as boys, made the move to Missouri together as adolescents, and married about the same time as young men. Their first children were born just six months apart, Della in December 1878 and Henderson in June 1879.

Tom's next closest brother was Bob, 13 years younger. (Five girls between Tom and Bob.)

Sources

[S2560] 1860 U.S. census, Dickson County, Tennessee, population schedule, Danielsville (post office), Middle Division, p. 42 (penned), p. 222 (stamped, verso), dwelling 290, family 290, R. Walker household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 Sept 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1247.
[S2561] 1870 U.S. census, Hickman County, Tennessee, population schedule, Pine Wood (post office), 6th Civil District, pp. 18-19 (penned), p. 531B-532A (stamped), dwelling 135, family 133, H. R. Walker household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 Sept 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1538. .
[S2646] Missouri State Board of Health, death certificate no. 30474 (1942), Thomas N. Walker, Howell County; "Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1962," digital images, Missouri Digital Heritage (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates : accessed 23 September 2012); Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City.
[S4953] Abstracts, Declaratory Statements, January 1881, Ironton, Missouri Land Office, vol. 8, unpaginated chronological entries; Abstracts of Land Transactions at the Ironton Land Office in Missouri, 1865 ? 1905, HMS/MLR Entry Number: UD 2581; Records of the Bureau of Land Management, Record Group 49; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
[S940] Helton Rutherford Walker Family Bible Records, Holy Bible (publication data unavailable), loose page of family data, held by Pat Simmons [address and phone number for private use] and the Bible from which they were removed privately held by her sister, Mona; the Bible was left to Rutherford's eldest daughter, Eudocia (Walker) Stokes; from Eudocia it passed to her son, William Earnest Stokes; from William Earnest to his daughter, Clarice Marie (Stokes), who left it to her daughters, Pat and Mona (continued in their possession Jan 2008).
[S41] Missouri, Howell - Cemetery, Walker Chapel, (County Road 2980, near Trask, Howell County, Missouri), marker for Thomas N. Walker (Reliability: 3).
[S73] Walker, William D. Walker (memories), (Informal conversations and interviews with William D. Walker (Beaverton, Oregon), by his daughter, Janis Gilmore (Pawleys Island, SC), 1984 to the present (2007); regarding the history of the Walker, Campbell, Crowder, and DeBoard families.).
[S2262] The collected letters and documents of Della Eveline (Walker) Warren Lonnem (now deceased); these documents passed from Della Lonnem to her daughter, Faith (Lonnem) Quick; from Faith to her niece, Jesse Keenon (granddaughter of Della Lonnem); photocopied, 1996, in the possession of Janis Walker Gilmore (Pawleys Island, SC); original documents in the possession of Jesse Keenon (Muskogee, Oklahoma), 2007.
[S2648] 1880 U. S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule, Goldsberry township, enumeration district (ED) 52, p. 24 (penned), [no stamped no.], dwelling 196, family 196, N. Thomas Walker [Thomas N. Walker] household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 Sept 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 691; FHL film no. 1,254,691. .
[S5578] \"What Giles County Gets,\"The Pulaski Citizen (Wichita, Kan.), 5 July 1888, p. 3, col. 4, item regarding Miss Ilion Beard; digital image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 24 February 2019).
[S4159] Wiles Abstract Co., Inc. (West Plains, Missouri), "Abstract of Title: Warranty Deed, 13 October 1888, Jane E. Crowder to Thomas N. Walker," recorded Book X: 45; report to Edward M. Long Jr., and wife, Howell County, Missouri, undated [last internal entry 1968]; privately held by William D. Walker [address for private use].
[S2651] 1900 U.S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule, Goldsberry township, enumeration district (ED) 52, p. 9B (penned), p. 31 (stamped, verso), dwelling 176, household 177, Thomas N. Walker household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 Sept 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 860.
[S2652] 1910 U.S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule, Goldsberry township, enumeration district (ED) 79, sheet 11A, p. 105 (stamped, recto), dwelling 78, family 78, Thomas N. Walker household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 Sept 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 784.
[S4128] Gerald and Charlotte Groves, Howell County, Missouri, Post Offices, Postmasters, and their Communities, vol. 4 (Willow Springs, Mo.: G. and C. Groves, 1989), 185, item for T. N. Walker and daughter Lena; citing The West Plains (Missouri) Journal, 16 April 1914.
[S2653] 1920 U.S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule, Goldsberry township, enumeration district (ED) 90, sheet 18A, p. 281, (stamped, recto), dwelling 370, family 385, T. N. Walker household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 Sept 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 920.
[S4118] 1940 U.S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule, Goldsberry township, enumeration district (ED) 46-6, sheet 9B, p. 63 (stamped, verso), household no. 192, Earl Walker household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 January 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 2113.
[S2650] 1940 U.S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule, Goldsberry township, enumeration district (ED) 48-6, sheet 9B, p. 68 (stamped, verso), house no. 192, Earl Walker household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 Sept 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 2113. .
[S4531] “Thomas Newell Walker,” Mountain View Standard (Mountain View, Mo.), 10 September 1942, p. 1, col. 6, obituary; microfilm reel no 31256, State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia.
[S4246] William D. Walker to Janis Walker Gilmore, email, 15 April 2014, subject "Grandpa's sneeze.".
[S311] Helton Rutherford Walker obituary, photo copy of undated clipping from unidentified newspaper, sent to the author by Harold Reeves (Riverton, Wyoming), about 1990. Mr. Reeves is now deceased. The State Historical Society of Missouri has searched their microfilm collection of West Plains and Mountain View (Howell County) newspapers for the obituary without success.
[S99] Esther Pratt (6408 Worchester Drive; Nashville, Tennessee) to Sandra Johnston (Oklahoma), letter, 13 May 1997, regarding the Elijah Walker family of Dickson County, Tennessee. Privately held by Ms. Johnston. The author has lost contact with Ms. Johnston and no longer knows her whereabouts.
[S309] Missouri, Howell - Mountain View Standard Newspaper, Missouri.
«b»Mrs. T.N. Walker«/b»
Phoebe Tennessee Crowder was born in Giles county, Tenn., January 11, 1858; died at her home near Mountain View, Mo., April 7, 1913, age 55 years, 2 months and 27 days.
She was married to T.N. Walker December 30, 1877. To this union were born eleven children - seven boys and four girls. Three boys and one girl died in infancy. She leaves a husband and four boys and three girls to mourn their loss.
She professed faith in Christ in the year 1878 at Walker Chapel church in Howell county, Mo., in services conducted by Rev. J. B. Rice and H.R. Walker; sanctified in the year 1901 at West Plains, Mo., in services conducted by Rev. J.M. Robinson, presiding elder of the South Missouri and Arkansas conference of the Free Methodist church.
Her children were all at her bedside except one daughter, Mrs. Della E. Warren of Oxnard, Cal.
She was a great sufferer from tuberculosis but endured with great patience, ever mindful of others through all of her sufferings as she was in health. Shel like Paul of old, has fought a good fight, kept the faith and has gone to the reward of the faithful.
Regardless of the rainfall she was followed by a large concourse of friends to Walker Chapel, where after a short service conducted by Bro. A.J. Koonce, the body was laid to rest to await the resurrection morn.
A Friend
[S2649] Howell County, Missouri, marriage certificate, Marriage Book [1877]: 105, D. A. Thomas Walker-Tennessee Crowder, 30 December 1877; digital image, "Missouri Marriage Records, 1850-2002," Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 October 2013); citing Missouri Marriage Records, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City.
[S4370] Howell County, Missouri, Marriage Book B:155, Thomas Walker-Tennessee Crowder, 1877, certificate and return; Recorder’s Office, West Plains.