Orvarene Zina Adair

Brief Life History of Orvarene Zina

When Orvarene Zina Adair was born on 27 April 1865, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Robert Alexander Adair, was 26 and her mother, Lurena Ellen Clapp, was 19. She married William Gideon Walker on 27 February 1884, in Knox, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States in 1910 and Civil District 5, Knox, Tennessee, United States in 1920. She died on 3 April 1923, in Knox, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Clapps Chapel Cemetery, Corryton, Knox, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Gideon Walker
1861–1920
Orvarene Zina Adair
1865–1923
Marriage: 27 February 1884
Jerry Albert Shannon Walker
1885–1949
Clarence Cornelius Walker Sr
1888–1961
William Leo Walker
1891–1978
Ernest F Walker
1893–
Henry R Walker
1898–
Raymond Walker
1903–1967
Ella Walker
1905–

Sources (19)

  • Orvil Walker in household of W G Walker, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Orvasine Clapp, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
  • Orvia Z. Clapp, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"

World Events (8)

1866 · The First Civil Rights Act

The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.

1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic

When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

Name Meaning

Scottish (Galloway) and northern Irish: from the Scottish personal name Adair, a form of Edgar .

History: James Adair (c. 1709–83) was an ‘Indian trader’ in SC from 1735; he was born in Antrim, northern Ireland. Baron William Adair, from Scotland, also settled in SC at around the same period.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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