Brief Life History of Frederick Kaye
When Frederick Kaye Walker was born in February 1845, in Kentucky, United States, his father, William H. Walker, was 32 and his mother, Mary Dorothy Kaye, was 17. He married Caroline Gardner on 22 May 1867, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Oldham, Kentucky, United States in 1860 and Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. He died on 25 November 1906, at the age of 61, and was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States.
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- Fred Walker, "United States Census, 1880"
- F. K Walker, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Fredk. Walker, "Kentucky Deaths and Burials, 1843-1970"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
In 1846, Mayor Frederick A. Kaye began investigating the possibility of developing a rural or garden-style cemetery on the grounds, a popular concept at the time. Hartford, Connecticut civil engineer Edmund Francis Lee was hired, who planned a cemetery with winding paths, graves across the tops of hills, and lakes and ponds in the valleys. The Cave Hill Cemetery Co. was chartered in February 1848, and the cemetery was dedicated on July 25, 1848.
1862 · Battle of Perryville
On October 8, 1862, the Battle of Perryville took place between the Army of Ohio and the Army of Mississippi. It was the bloodiest battle on Kentucky soil. The Union lost around four thousand people and the Confederates lost around three thousand people. This was about one fifth of those that fought.
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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