Brief Life History of Claude Clarence
When Claude Clarence Walker Sr. was born on 2 August 1886, in Texarkana, Miller, Arkansas, United States, his father, John Ezekiel Walker, was 24 and his mother, Martha Ella Vance, was 20. He married Inez Richard Gunn on 31 December 1903, in Grant, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Police Jury Ward 9, Natchitoches, Louisiana, United States in 1920 and Klamath Falls, Klamath, Oregon, United States in 1930. He died on 28 September 1950, in Eugene, Lane, Oregon, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in West Lawn Memorial Park, Eugene, Lane, Oregon, United States.
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- Claude C Walker, "United States Census, 1930"
- Legacy NFS Source: Claude Clarence Walker - Government record: birth-name: Claude Clarence Walker
- Claud Walker, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
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1888
EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL SITE: Frankie Hampton BIRTH 1886 DEATH 1888 (aged 1–2) BURIAL West Lawn Memorial Park Eugene, Lane County, Oregon, USA PLOT Garden of Abraham MEMORIAL ID 186668451
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
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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