Walker
Name Origin: Walker from England. One who cleaned and thickened cloth, a fuller; one who come from Walker (marsh by the Roman wall) in Northumberland.
2nd Great Grandfather
Aquila Walker
b 18451
d 1923 in LaPorte City, Black Hawk, Iowa2
bur. Spring Creek Cemetery, Black Hawk, Iowa, row 18
m abt 1 Jun 1871 in LaPorte City, Black Hawk, Iowa to Ellen C Bingaman3
ch: *Mary Walker b 1872 Spring Creek, Black Hawk, Iowa4
John Perry Walker b. Spring Creek, Black Hawk, Iowa, m Hattie B Harmon5
ch: (3 of 6 or 7)
Harley Walker b. Spring Creek, Black Hawk, Iowa, never married6
My grandmother, Margaret Robb said that Aquila�s family owned a mill in or near Waverly, Bemer, Iowa. At least for a time, Ellen and Aquila lived over the mill. They were early Iowa pioneers. Aquila farmed adjacent to or with Ellen�s father, William Perry Bingaman. I believe John farmed in Rhodes, Iowa, southwest of Marshalltown. Grandma said he was a large man. He had 6 or 7 children. Harley was said to have become bewitched by a gypsy woman. He was so mesmerized that it drove him to madness and that is why he ended up in a mental institution. I do not know how much of this is true. Ellen, Aquila�a wife died quite young and her mother, Mary Geren lived with Aquila and helped to raise Mary Walker Lane�s oldest daughter, Ivadell.
Great Grandmother
Mary Walker
b Spring Creek, Black Hawk, Iowa d about 1934/35 in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, bur. Des Moines, Polk, Iowa,7 m (1) 2 May 1982 at LaPorte City, Black Hawk, Iowa to Isaac Lane, divorced 9 Oct, 19078 (2) ______Mortis in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, div. (3) Robert S Bisby in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, div. (4) George Vernon Atchley9
Mary married the hired hand, Isaac Lane, against her father�s wishes. Aquila gave the couple land to farm, but the marriage did not last. After having three daughters they were divorced. Mary moved with her daughter, Margaret, to Des Moines to find work. She left her oldest daughter (and possibly the youngest, Emma Marie) in the care of her father and her grandmother. This must have been a hard time for Mary. Maybe not having the best judgment when it came to men she married three more times. Her marriages to the next two were disasters. I believe ______Mortis had several children from a previous marriage and those children lived with them. My grandmother talked about her step brothers and sisters. She remembered seeing Jesse Mortis, age 11, burned to death when he tried to fill a kerosene stove and it blew up. Mortis, also, had a son, Harry, and daughters, Lala, Lizzie and Velma. Velma married ______Otta. They lived near Los Angeles and had a daughter Betty. Mary finally found a good man in George Atchley and he is remembered fondly by my mother. He had children from a previous marriage, a son named Vernon and a daughter, Betty, who married ______Nackel. Mary Walker Atchley was a mid-wife.
Query's for other Walker Families:
From twojean@ix.netcom.com - I'm looking for more information on John Culbertson Walker b 25 Oct 1817 in Blount County, Tennessee. He died after 1855, and married on 19 Jan 1837 in Blount county Mary Ann Myers, b 1819. Then had one child, Sydney E, a girl, b 15 Oct, 1854. (posted Mar 19, 1997)
Black Hawk County, Iowa Marriages
1854-1900
Date marriage license was issued
*Aquila Walker Ellen Bingaman 1 Jun 1871 Bk B Rec 602
Byron Walker Bly Arville 16 Sep 1871 Bk C Rec 20
John S Walker Susan L Bates 23 Sep 1871 Bk C Rec 22
John Walker Adaline Baldwin 21 May 1872 Bk C Rec 178
Sanders Walker Johanna C Hamilton 22 Nov 1872 Bk C Rec 282
Martha A Walker John L Bates 3 Jul 1868 Bk B Rec 318
Sanders Walker Orra A Thompson 26 Jun 1868 Bk B Rec 314
Rebecca Walker George D Verdin 7 Apr 1868 Bk B Rec 300
Lizzie M Walker ______, Zertman 31 Jan 1866 Bk B Rec 180
Mrs. Elizabeth Walker A J Lowell 17 Sep 1863 Bk B Rec 70
Wm R Walker Roberta J Smith 28 Jan 1882 Bk J Rec 45
David Walker May Whitney 14 Sep 1892 Bk M Rec 114
*Mary Walker Isaac Lane 30 Apr 1892 Bk M Rec 36
Jacob Walker Sarah McGarr 3 Mar 1885 Bk I Rec 307
*John Perry Walker Hattie B Harmon 6 Jun 1894 Bk N Rec 86
James Walker Mary Fuller 13 mar 1884 Bk I Rec 409
Charles R Walker Bary M Blim 19 Jun 1894 Bk N Rec 98
Lum Walker Hattie Erins 21 Nov 1883 Bk I Rec 8
Columous Walker Francis Antone 1 May 1895 Bk N Rec 322
Maude M Walker Harvey Biikley 12 Feb 1896 Bk O Rec 39
Mollie Walker Edward M Towne 20 Jun 1899 Bk P Rec 415
Lula May Walker W O Hedrick Jr. 3 Nov 1887 Bk O Rec 447
Albert M Walker Jennie Girton 11 Dec 1899 Bk O Rec 56
Samuel R. Walker Marian McFarland 22 Sep 1897 Bk O Rec 407
Mrs. Lizzie Walker E D Ackerson 22 Oct 1892 Bk M Red 146
Nellie J Walker John Anderson 19 Oct 1892 Bk M Rec 14110
Query: If you know how any of these Walker�s relate to the three with the asterisk I would like to know. Surely some of these people are part of a family. . .Aquila
Spring Creek Cemetery, Black Hawk County, Iowa markers:
Adaline Walker d ae 3 yrs Dec 30, 1860 d/o __& M Walker
Row 11 Infant d 28 July 1858 d/o G. & M Walker
Infant d 21 Aug 1859 ae 2 days s/o F. C. & M Walker
Row 18 Aquila Walker b 1845 d 1923
Ellen Bingaman Walker b 27 Jul 1847 d Apr 25 190711
1 Family records of Margaret Lane Robb
2 Tombstone in Spring Creek Cemetery
3 Marriage certificate, Black Hawk Co., Iowa Marriage Book B rec 602, Sandra Shaffer Barber.
4 Family records of Margaret Lane Robb
5 Black Hawk Co., Iowa Marriage Book N rec 86
6 Ibid.
7 Family records of Margaret Lane Robb
8 Black Hawk Co., Iowa Marriage Book M rec 36, Sandra Shaffer Barber.
9 Family records of Margaret Lane Robb
10 Notes from Fay Medhaug of the Northeast Iowa Genealogical Society.
11 Ibid.Walker Links:
Black Hawk County, Iowa
Map of Black Hawk County, Iowa 1895
The Spangler Family Genealogy Page
Jim Markle's Genealogy
The Wheelers' Home Page
The Wheelers' Home Page
Bodie-Antle Family & Ancestors
Surname Web: Walker
Miami Co Ohio Biography of H.J. Walker
Bios from Washington Co., Pa
Samuel Walker
George T Walker
James C Walker
GenForum:Walker
Family Branches
Aquilagold@yahoo.com
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April 19, 2009
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