WALKER, C.C.

WALKER, DAVIS

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/16/2013 at 08:37:36

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 818

WALKER, C.C.--Mason, section 15, P.O. Victor. Was born February 10, 1831, in Euphemia, Upper Canada, where he lived and attended school until 1849, then went to Kalamazoo, Michigan, and remained but a few years, when he moved to Wisconsin, where he resided one year. Thence to Henry county, Illinois, there engaged in the manufacture of brick till 1867, when he came to Iowa and located in Grinnell, and again engaged in the manufacture of brick and bricklaying till March, 1880, when he came upon his farm of forty acres, which he had bought in 1876; he is now working at his trade in Victor. He was married December 4, 1859, in Kewanee, Illinois, to Miss Mary M. Davis, a resident of the same place, who was born in Wyoming county, New York, March 31, 1842; from this union six children have been born, as follows: Jennie I. (born December 15, 1860), Hattie (born November 8, 1864), Syba L. (born October 19, 1865), Minnie A. (born June 18, 1868), Frederick E. (born January 5, 1872) and Herbert C. (born August 16, 1874). Mrs. Walker's mother (Sybil) died in Crawford county, Iowa, July 16, 1879; she was born January 5, 1806, in Otsego county, New York. John J. Davis, her father, was born January 2, 1804, in Schoharie, New York, and died in Crawford county, October 2, 1880.