Roswell Carl Walker

Male7 October 1920–about 16 March 2003

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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Roswell Carl Walker
1920–2003
Ray Nell Laws
1924–2007
Marriage: 4 April 1945
Roswell Craig Walker
1948–2020

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"

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  • Marriage
    4 April 1945Cisco, Eastland, Texas, United States
  • Children (1)

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    Siblings (2)

    World Events (8)

    1921 · Tulsa Race Massacre

    Age 1

     By 1921, Tulsa was a booming city with a population of over one hundred thousand, with ten thousand African Americans in the Greenwood District. Crime rates in Tulsa soared and vigilantism was present. An incident occurred with Dick Rowland, an African American shoe shiner, and Sara Page, a white elevator operator. Reports claim Rowland stepped on Page’s foot and she let out a scream. The newspaper reported Rowland attempted to rape Page. Rowland was arrested and white vigilantes demanded the sheriff to hand over Rowland for lynching. An armed group of African American men went to the courthouse to aid in protecting Rowland from the mob. The group was turned away and a shot was fired between the white and African American groups, which ignited a riot. While buildings in Tulsa were burned, a major effort by whites focused mainly on the Greenwood District which was burned to the ground and many were shot. Over 30 people were killed and many were injured in the riots. 

    1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

    Age 3

    Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

    1942 · The Japanese American internment

    Age 22

    Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.

    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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