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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Louisa Walker ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Walker, Louisa
LAST NAME: Walker FIRST NAME: Louisa MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Purvine AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: F TITLE: 
BORN: 13 Feb 1831 DIED: 13 Aug 1920 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Jacksonville, Illinois
DEATH PLACE: Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

1850 OR CENSUS – Louisa Walker (18y, b Illinois) enumerated with Clayborn C. (30y, b Virginia, occupation farmer)

1860 OR CENSUS – Louisa Walker (29y, b Illinois) enumerated with C.C. [Claiborne] (40y, b Virginia, occupation farmer); also with family was J.J. [Joshua] Purvine (17y, b Illinois)

1870 OR CENSUS – Louisa Walker (38y, b Illinois) enumerated with Claiborne (51y, b West Virginia, occupation farmer), Josie (17y b Oregon), Fannie (11y, b Oregon), Virginia (9y, b Oregon) and Fiske (5y, b Oregon) [Note-the minors were children of Wellington & Catherine Walker, Wellington being Claiborne’s brother and Catherine being Louisa’s sister. The children also appear with their parents in the 1870 census of Portland, Multnomah co, Oregon, FA#547]

1880 OR CENSUS – Louisa Walker (49y, b Illinois) enumerated with husband Claiborn C. (61y, b Virginia, occupation farmer); also with family was James White (22y, b Missouri)

1900 OR CENSUS – Louisa Walker (b Feb 1831, Illinois, no children) enumerated with husband Claiborne C. (b Mar 1819, Virginia, married 50y); they were listed as uncle and aunt in house of Charles M. Purvine (b July 1862, Oregon, married 4y) his wife Fannie S. (b July 1873, Oregon, mother of 2 children) and their 2 children Walker R. (b Nov 1896, Oregon) and Margarette (b Dec 1898, Oregon)

1910 OR CENSUS – Louisa Walker (79y, b Illinois, widowed) enumerated as aunt in family of Charles Purvine (46y, b Oregon, married 14y, occupation engineer), his wife Frances (35y, b Oregon, mother of 3 children) and their 3 children, Walker (15y, b Oregon), Margaret (11y, b Oregon) and Byron (2y, b Oregon)

1920 OR CENSUS – Louisa Walker (87y, b Illinois, widowed) enumerated as aunt in family of Charles M. Purvine (56y, b Oregon, occupation engineer), his wife Frances (45y, b Oregon) and their 2 children, Margaret (21y, b Oregon) and Byron (12y, b Oregon)

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (1920 Multnomah co) #2176 Louisa Walker, female, widowed, spouse Claiborne C. Walker; b Jacksonville, Ill; father John Purvine; d 13 Aug 1920, 765 Gantenbein Ave, Portland, age 89y 5m 28d; lived in town 14y; bur Salem [Zena]; informant Frances Purvine, 765 Gantenbein Ave 

OBITUARY: 

WALKER - August 13, 1920, at the residence of her nephew, C. M. Purvine, 765 Gantenbein avenue, Louisa Walker, aged 89 years 5 months 28 days; widow of the late Claiborne C. Walker. Remains at the residential parlors of R. T. Byrnes, 910 Williams avenue. Remains will be sent to Salem, Or., for interment at a later date.
Oregonian, The (Portland, Oregon) 14 Aug 1920, pg 12

INSCRIPTION: 

Louisa
1831 - 1920
[shares marker with C. C.]
Walker

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs

OSBH DC (1920 Multnomah co) #2176

1850 OR CENSUS (Polk co, FA#163)

1860 OR CENSUS (Polk co, FA#222)

1870 OR CENSUS (Polk co, FA#318)

1880 OR CENSUS (Polk co, Bethel, ED 102, FA#38)

1900 OR CENSUS (Polk co, Spring Valley, ED 172, FA#24)

1910 OR CENSUS (Multnomah co, Portland, ED 230, sheet 6A)

1920 OR CENSUS (Multnomah co, Portland, ED 158, sheet 2A)

Oreg. 14 Aug 1920, pg 12

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