Brief Life History of Elijah Thomas
When Elijah Thomas Walker was born on 11 December 1837, in Christian, Kentucky, United States, his father, Alexander Walker, was 28 and his mother, Marian B Jones, was 22. He married Sarah Jane Underwood on 25 November 1856, in Christian, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Fruit Hill, Christian, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Magisterial District 8, Christian, Kentucky, United States in 1900. He died on 19 July 1919, in Christian, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Owen Cemetery, Kelly, Christian, Kentucky, United States.
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- E F Walker, "United States Census, 1860"
- E T Walker, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Elijah T Walker, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1850 · 8th Most Populated State
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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