Brief Life History of Roswell Carl
When Roswell Carl Walker was born on 7 October 1920, in Blackwell, Kay, Oklahoma, United States, his father, Roswell Cornell Walker, was 44 and his mother, Alta Clark, was 30. He married Ray Nell Laws on 4 April 1945, in Cisco, Eastland, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in District 1348, Fulton, Georgia, United States in 1950 and Tonkawa, Kay, Oklahoma, United States in 2007. He died about 16 March 2003, in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Tarrant, Texas, United States.
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Sources (22)
- Roswell C Walker, Sr, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Roswell Carl Walker - birth: 7 October 1920; Blackwell, Kay, Oklahoma, United States
- Roswell Carl Walker, "Oklahoma, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
Spouse and Children
1920–2003 Male
1924–2007 Female
Children (1)
1948–2020 Male
Parents and Siblings
1875–1961 Male
1889–1983 Female
Siblings (2)
1917–2002 Female
1920–2003 Male
World Events (8)
1921 · Tulsa Race Massacre
Age 1
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Age 3
1942 · The Japanese American internment
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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