Brief Life History of Eliza S.
When Eliza S. Walker was born in 1839, in Green Township, Hancock, Indiana, United States, her father, Jesse Walker, was 32 and her mother, Martha Roberts, was 31. She married Joseph E. Scott on 8 March 1865, in Hancock, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Green Township, Madison, Indiana, United States in 1870 and Greene, Indiana, United States in 1880.
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- Eliza S Scott in household of Joseph E Scott, "United States Census, 1870"
- Eliza Walker in entry for Alva A Conorroe, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
- Eliza Walker in household of Jesse Walker, "United States Census, 1850"
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1841 · Indiana Nears Bankruptcy
The State of Indiana was near bankruptcy in 1841 due to the inability to repay interest incurred for the Massive Internal Improvement Act. The state liquidated much of its public works. Many of the projects were handed over to the state’s creditors as a way to reduce debt. Only two of the eight proposed infrastructure projects were completed by the creditors.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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