Brief Life History of Margaret
When Margaret Walker was born on 8 September 1938, in Lexie Crossroads Cemetery, Lexie Crossroads, Franklin, Tennessee, United States, her father, Woodrow Wilson Walker, was 24 and her mother, Lena V McClure, was 19. She married James Donald Brazier on 6 October 1956, in Franklin, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 4 February 2015, in Belvidere, Franklin, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Owens Chapel Cemetery, Winchester, Franklin, Tennessee, United States.
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Sources (4)
- Margaret Walker, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Margaret Walker Brazier, "Find A Grave Index"
- Margaret Walker in entry for Lena Orevia Brazier, "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998"
Spouse and Children
1939–2016 Male
1938–2015 Female
Children (1)
1963–1963 Female
Parents and Siblings
1914–1975 Male
1919–2009 Female
Siblings (2)
1938–2015 Female
1944–1990 Male
World Events (8)
1941
Age 3
1942 · Atomic Energy Plant at Oak Ridge
Age 4
1960
Age 22
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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