Brief Life History of Gather Thomas
When Gather Thomas Walker was born on 29 November 1896, in Dayton, Rhea, Tennessee, United States, his father, Thomas Hennagar Walker, was 28 and his mother, Estamady A. Green, was 24. He married Virgie Mae Lockhart on 9 June 1920, in Sequatchie, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States in 1920 and Lejunior, Harlan, Kentucky, United States in 1930. He registered for military service in 1920. In 1940, at the age of 44, his occupation is listed as in 1940 census, was a laborer with the w.p.a. on road construction.. He died on 23 December 1962, in Anthony, Harper, Kansas, United States, at the age of 66.
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- Geather Thomas Walker, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Geather Thomas Walker - Individual or family possessions: birth: 29 November 1896; Dayton, Rhea, Tennessee, United States
- Gather Thomas Walker, "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002"
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1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1900 · Governor Shot
On January 30, 1900 Governor William Goebel of Kentucky was assassinated. He took a bullet to the chest, outside the Old State Capitol. He died on February 3, 1900.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
English (mainly North and Midlands) and Scottish: occupational name for a fuller, from Middle English walker, Old English wealcere (an agent derivative of wealcan ‘to walk, tread’), ‘one who trampled cloth in a bath of lye or kneaded it, in order to strengthen it’. This was the regular term for the occupation during the Middle Ages in western and northern England. Compare Fuller and Tucker . As a Scottish surname it has also been used as a translation of Gaelic Mac an Fhucadair ‘son of the fuller’. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
History: The name was brought to North America from northern England and Scotland independently by many different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Samuel Walker came to Lynn, MA, c. 1630; Philip Walker was in Rehoboth, MA, in or before 1643. The surname was also established in VA before 1650; a Thomas Walker, born in 1715 in King and Queen County, VA, was a physician, soldier, and explorer.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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