Robert Hugh Walker

Male3 September 1916–6 September 1989

Brief Life History of Robert Hugh

When Robert Hugh Walker was born on 3 September 1916, in Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, United States, his father, Ira Isaiah Walker, was 39 and his mother, Eva Pearl Gailey, was 30. He lived in Cascade, Montana, United States in 1920 and Seattle, King, Washington, United States in 1950. He died on 6 September 1989, in Yakima, Yakima, Washington, United States, at the age of 73.

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Robert Hugh Walker
1916–1989
Lorraine Frances Fecker
1922–2012

Sources (9)

  • Robert Walker in household of Ira I Walker, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Robert Hugh Walker, "Montana, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
  • Robert H Walker, "Washington Death Index, 1965-2014"

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World Events (8)

1917

Age 1

U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.

1917 · Fort Lewis is Established

Age 1

Fort Lewis military base was established in 1917, in Tacoma, Washington. It was named after Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It used to be one of the largest and most modern military reservations in the US. In February 2010, it merged with McChord Air Force Base. 

1937 · The Neutrality Act

Age 21

The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

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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