Manning & Harriet Walker

WALKER GULLIFORD

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/15/2010 at 22:23:24

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Manning and Harriet Walker
By Harold and Marvel Walker

Manning Walker was born in Allen, New York, April 17, 1841. Harriet Rebecca Gulliford was born in Grant County, Wisconsin, May 26, 1844. They were married in Wisconsin in 1862 where they lived eleven years before moving to Correctionville, Iowa.

Manning was an expert marksman and hunter. Game was plentiful around Correctionville in the 1870s and he is said to have paid his grocery bill each year by selling wild game which he shipped to Chicago. He is also said to have shot one hundred (100) deer in this vicinity. His sons were also expert hunters and fisherman.

The Walkers’ farm was located northwest of Correctionville. They later lived in a house south of Old Highway 20 in the southwest part of Correctionville at the time the mill dam went out and flooded the town. They placed the organ on the table but water got into it and it was ruined.

In 1912 they moved to Lake Andes, South Dakota, where they built a home. He enjoyed hunting and fishing at the lake there. Manning lived there only two years before he died in 1914. Mrs Walker married D B Battin in 1915. They returned to Correctionville and built a new home. Harriet died in 1922.

Manning and Harriet were the parents of seven sons and one daughter, Willis, Levi, Samuel, Frank, Herbert, Belle, Dwight and Jay.

Willis was born in Grant County, Wisconsin, and came with his parents to Correctionville at the age of nine. He was married to Dora Hein, March 1888. They were parents of eight children. Willis and Dora retried to Pierson, Iowa, in 1929. He died April 10, 1931.

Levi was born in Grant County, Wisconsin, and came to Correctionville at an early age. He married Elsie Conklin, March 22, 1887. They farmed near Correctionville until 1909 when they moved to Lake Andes, where they resided until his death. Elsie died November 24, 1945. They had one son and one daughter.

Samuel was born April 5, 1868, at Boscobel, Wisconsin. As a child he moved to Correctionville. He married Donna Louise Remington, September 6, 1894. They farmed here until 1920, when he moved with his family to Billard, Minnesota, where he lived until his death, June 4, 1945. They were the parents of two sons, one who died in infancy.

Frank was born July 22, 1870, at Boscobel, Wisconsin. At the age of three he came with his parents to Correctionville. He married Clara North, March 6, 1895. They bought and farmed Clara’s father farm until 1943 when they retired to Correctionville. He was the only one of Manning and Harriet Walker’s children to live in and around Correctionville. They had two sons. Frank died June 6, 1946. Clara died September 13, 1949.

Herbert was born March 9, 1874, on a farm northwest of Correctionville. He also moved to Lake Andes in the early 1900s. He and his wife had one daughter. He died in Lake Andes, April 23, 1930. He was a painter by trade.

Belle was born near Correctionville. She married Will Hantsbarger. They later moved to a farm near Cherokee and then spent their retirement years in Cherokee. They were the parents of three girls and four boys.

Dwight was born near Correctionville, May 17, 1879. He was married to Mary Hantsbarger, December 1897. They moved to Lake Andes, in 1908. Dwight and May were the parents of one daughter. May died in 1912. Dwight married Ina Parker, June 25, 1913, and they had one son and one daughter. Dwight died September 26, 1940. Ina died September 20, 1974.

Jay was born near Correctionville. He married Maude Garber, also of Correctionville for some time, later moving to Onawa, Iowa. They had one daughter.

Of the eight children of Manning and Harriet Walker, only the Willis, Levi and Frank Walker families have descendants living in Woodbury County.