NOTES:
1850 OR CENSUS – Catharine Walker (20y, b Illinois) enumerated with Wellington B. (25y, b Virginia, occupation farmer)
1860 OR CENSUS – Catharine Walker (31y, b Illinois) enumerated with W.B. (36y, b Virginia, occupation farmer), L.J. [Josephine] (7y, b Oregon), C.M. [Claiborne] (5y, b Oregon), Fanny (1y, b Oregon) and S.M. Purvine (19y, b Illinois, occupation farmer)
1870 OR CENSUS – Catherine Walker (40y, b Illinois) enumerated with W.B. (46y, b Virginia, occupation cattle dealer), Joseph (17y, b Oregon), Montgomery (14y, b Oregon), Fannie (12y, b Oregon), Jennie (9y, b Oregon) and Fiske (5y, b Oregon)
1880 WA CENSUS – Catharine Walker (51y, b Illinois) enumerated with husband Wellington (54y, b Missouri, occupation stock raiser), 4 children, all born in Oregon, Clayborn (26y, occupation stock raiser), Hannie (21y), Virginia B. (19y) and Fiske (14y) and 2 brothers [of Catherine], Nelson Purvine (45y, b Illinois) and Charles Purvine (35y, b Illinois)
1900 WA CENSUS – Catheren Walker (b May 1829, Illinois, married 51y, mother of 7 children, 5 living at time of census) enumerated with husband Wellington B. (b Mar 1827, Virginia, occupation farmer), son Fisk M. (b Nov 1865, Oregon, married 8y, occupation farmer), his wife Dora N. (b Dec 1865, Washington, mother of 3 children) and their 3 children, Routh T. (b Nov 1893, Washington), Mary M. (b Dec 1897, Washington) and Clayburn J. (b Sept 1899, Washington); also with family was brother-in-law [brother of Catherine] Nelson Purvine (b Mar 1835, Illinois, widowed, occupation teamster)
DISCREPANCY - name spelled Catharine on monument; Catherine in obituary.
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