Ella Worth Walker

Brief Life History of Ella Worth

Ella Worth Walker was born in 1848, in Virginia, United States. She married John Thomas Benton Surber on 6 June 1864, in Adams, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Ten Mile, Macon, Missouri, United States in 1870 and Jefferson Township, Shelby, Missouri, United States for about 3 years. She died on 13 September 1877, in Franklin, Virginia, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Clarence, Shelby, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Thomas Benton Surber
1839–1884
Ella Worth Walker
1848–1877
Marriage: 6 June 1864
Laura Antoinette Surber
1865–
John Benton Surber
1876–
Minnie Montana Surber
1866–1913
Arletta Surber
1867–1930
Oscar Byron Surber
1869–1935
Lottie Louella Surber
1871–1929
Warren Wilbur Surber
1873–1944

Sources (9)

  • Ella W Lerber, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Ella W Walker, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
  • Ella Worth Walker Surber, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (6)

1857

Historical Boundaries: 1857: Shelby, Missouri, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

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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