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Subject: [IDGem] Re: walker cemetery
Date: 2 Aug 2003 18:30:45 -0600

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Surnames: Walker
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Hi Ronda, I'm a Walker and I do live in Emmett. Anderson was my ggggrandfather also. Most of what I know about him I got from your parent's cousins, Carolynn Walker in Tigrid,OR and Marlene Hellman in New Plymouth, ID. Their father/father-in-law was Melvin, a brother to your grandmother, Verla. You can contact them via email. (Carolynn: and Marlene: )

Anderson Walker was the youngest of eleven children, all born in Indiana. His mother died giving birth. You can find him on an 1860 Census record of Martin County, IN living in Lost River Township. He would have had a young family of his own by this time. Family records say that he was born in Shoals, IN which is also in Martin County. On January 31, 1965 Anderson Walker enlisted in the Union Army in the 145 Indiana Infantry, Company D, as a private. In the fall of 1881 Anderson and his wife Margaret (Butler) with their son James and his wife Loretta Ellen and their daughter Mary May, George and Ed Butler, sons of Hiram Butler (Margaret's brother), Joseph Gatton, Tony Bandish, and John Connell left Indiana for Powder River, Oregon. Their journey took them by train to Kelton, Utah, on the north edge of the Great Salt Lake. From Kelton they went by covered wagon on the Oregon Trail to Weiser, Idaho, arriving on Christmas day in 1881. They remained here for a time working at s!
awmills and in timber, then moving to Crane Creek, Idaho where they homesteaded. The place where they homesteaded is north of Emmett and East of Weiser in Washington County. Anderson and Margaret had 8 children that I know of. The Walker cemetery is on the old original homestead. All their children homesteaded nearby in Crane Creek or Ola I believe. I have land records showing them all in the area. (Anderson's son, William Houston Walker, is my gg grandfather. He's a brother to Thomas Walker.)

They all ranched and farm as far as I know. I'm not sure about Anderson, but most of his sons and grandsons had sheep. There's rumor that they had a sawmill north of Ola at one time. If not, they at least worked in timber some.

Anderson's parents, Thomas Walker Jr. and Polly Gwinn/Guinn (sp?) were born in Tennessee and migrated to Indiana when their first son was a baby. They're buried in IN. His grandparents, Thomas Walker Sr. and Elizabeth Magill were born and died in TN. I won't give you all the names, dates and places here, but I've got family records going back several more generations. They came from Wigton, Scotland around 1726. They migrated in groups with lots of family members. They came first to PA, and then ventured out to the frontier in western VA. There are still lots of Walkers in the area where VA, NC, and TN meet. They were in the french and Indian wars of the 1700s and also the Revolutionary War.

Walkers branched off into Texas, Kentucky, Indiana, and who knows where else. The internet is a great place for digging up all this stuff. Contact me, and I'll send you more info.

Sincerely,
Lori (Walker) Coniglio
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