Brief Life History of Rigdon Bryant
When Rigdon Bryant Walker was born on 5 December 1842, in Rock Island, Rock Island, Illinois, United States, his father, Ransom A Walker, was 19 and his mother, Mary Abbott, was 22. He married Rachel Dew on 21 June 1867, in Warren, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Clay Township, Grundy, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Buffalo Township, Garfield, Oklahoma, United States in 1900. He registered for military service in 1865. He died on 30 March 1902, in Enid, Garfield, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Enid Cemetery, Enid, Garfield, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Rig A B Walker, "United States Census, 1900"
- Rigdon B Walker, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Rigdon Bryant Walker, "Find A Grave Index"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848 · Chicago Board of Trade is organized
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1858 · A House Divided
Abraham Lincoln's goal was to be different than the previous Senators of Illinois and voice his opinion in how he saw the State and the United States start to drift apart in the different ideology on what was right and what was wrong. Even though it would become an unsuccessful campaign strategy to win the senate seat, to this day it is one of the most famous speeches of US politics.
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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