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Josiah John Walker
14 Dec 1825 – 7 Mar 1899
| Birth | 14 Dec 1825 |
| Death | 7 Mar 1899 |
| Cemetery | Randolph Cemetery Randolph , Fremont County , Iowa , USA |
| Added by | kweaver on 12 Jul 2012 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91562611 |
Bio
A family story says that John was engaged to a girl who jilted him, and he married on the rebound. There is a large monument, bearing the names of John and Adeline, in the Randolph Cemetery, but the record book doesn't show a burial there. Adeline's death record states that she was buried in Orange County, New York. John lived near Celina, Ohio. In 1865, he left there, traveled in a covered wagon to Chillicothe, Schuyler County, Missouri. A family tradition says John had $5000 in gold, and Adeline hid it in a bag of carpet rag balls, then sat on the bag all the way to Missouri. John was dissatisfied in Missouri, and late in 1868, or early 1869, went to Fremont County, Iowa, where his brother Samuel was living. John and family lived in Sam's granary until they moved into their new home a mile and a half northeast of Randolph. Alice Walker Brannian wrote, "That 280 acre farm was virgin prairie. The purchase price was $16.25 per acre. The house now there was built in 1881." Over the years, John acquired a lot of land. He said he didn't want his children to have to work as hard as he had, and gave each of them a farm, except Julia, her husband wasn't a farmer, so they received a house in town and other things. After Adeline's death, John lived with his daughter Elizabeth Addy. He died of cancer.
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Siblings
- Elias Walker 1818–1888
- Elizabeth "Lizzie" Walker Jeffres 1822–1912
- Sarah Catherine Walker Coate 1827–1877
- Samuel Walker 1832–1902
- Thomas Walker 1834–1907
Children
- Charlotte Walker 1852–1860 FaG
- Albert Walker 1855–1855 FaG
- George Walker 1856–1856 FaG
- Rudolph Walker 1857–1858 FaG
- Marion Walker 1859–1937 FaG
- Julianna "Julia" Walker Tuttle Cogeshall 1862–1931 FaG
- Alice Lorena Walker Brannian 1864–1952 FaG
- Elizabeth "Lizzie" Walker Addy 1865–1948 FaG
- John Elias Walker 1868–1947 FaG
- Charles Francis "Frank" Walker 1872–1955 FaG
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