A Second Week of Walkers

Welcome back, cousins!

Last time, we talked about the descendants of Clara A Walker Welch (1851–1932), the elder daughter of Isaiah Walker (1821–1906) and Huldah Montgomery (1829–1918). Today, we'll start with her younger sister:

     B. Mary Elvina Walker (1868–1957) was born on 18 May 1868 and grew up in Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana. Her older sister, Clara, was 16 years old when Mary was born.

Mary grew up and married Samuel Percy Terry (1861–1936) on 12 October 1887 in Fulton County, Indiana. He was born on 15 May 1861, the son of Samuel S Terry (1825–1893) and Sarah J McCloud (1831–1883) and grew up in Henry and Rochester, Fulton County.

Samuel's father was a physician who received his commission as an officer in Company S, Indiana 73rd Infantry Regiment on 27 September 1862. He served as an assistant surgeon until he was promoted to full surgeon on 29 January 1863. The younger Samuel followed in his father's profession, graduating from Notre Dame College in 1882 and practicing in Rochester in 1900. During the 1900s, the Terry family moved to Alameda County, California, where Dr. Terry was in practice in 1910. He also served as an examining surgeon in the United States Department of the Interior.

Samuel died in Alameda on 5 November 1936 and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland. Mary died on 8 April 1957 and was buried with her husband. They were survived by two sons and a daughter.

     1. Lillian Terry (1888–1972) was born on 1 November 1888 and grew up in Rochester, Fulton Couty, Indiana. She was probably about 17 years of age when her family relocated to Alameda County, California.

On 22 January 1911, she married an optometrist named Eugene D Painter (1878–1961) in Stockton, San Joaquin County, California. Eugene was born on 13 December 1878, the youngest son of Jerome B Painter (1828–1883) and Caroline A Weaver (1837–1913).  He and Lillian had a son together, but by 1920, Lillian and her son were living back in her parents' home, and she was listed as divorced.

She soon remarried James Roy Rowe (1890–1972) on 27 March 1921 in Alameda County, and they lived in Oakland. James was the son of James F Rowe (1850–1900) and Maria (or Mariah) E Freeman (1856–1929), born on 17 January 1890 in Alameda County, California.

James died in Alameda on 18 September 1972; Lillian died just a few weeks later on 23 October 1972. Their remains were interred in the mausoleum of the Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland.

     a. Terry E Rowe (1913–1971) was born Terry Painter on 13 August 1913 in Alameda, California. Before he turned 18, however, he was adopted by his step-father and appears on his official documents as Terry Rowe after 1930.

On 31 October 1931, Terry married Mildred Lucille Kelber (1913–1992) in Alameda County. Mildred was born in Los Angeles on 28 August 1913 to George C Kelber (1884–1965) and Treasy May Cappleman (1889–1955). They had a son and a daughter together, both still living.

Terry died in Solano County, California, on 4 October 1971. Mildred, who was a secretary for the Plumas County Recorder's office from 1965 to 1980, remarried and moved to Reno, Nevada around 1990. She died in Reno on 1 January 1992 and is buried in the Johnsville Cemetery in Johnsville, Plumas County, California.

They were survived by their son, daughter, and five grandchildren.

     2. Samuel Walker Terry (1894–1964) was born on 9 February 1894 in Rochester, Fulton, Indiana. His family moved to California when he was about 10 years old. Samuel attended University of California at Berkeley and met  Ellis E Morris (1895–1995). His education was interrupted by World War I, and he saw pilot duty in France, and was discharged from the Air Corps with the rank of first lieutenant. Samuel was believed to be the first pilot on the West Coast to come out of a tailspin. He returned from St. Nazaire, France, aboard the Zeelandia in 1919.

Engagement of Samuel Terry and Ellis Morris Fri, Jul 6, 1917 – 1 · The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California) · Newspapers.com
Ellis was born in Ohio on 29 June 1895, and grew up in Alger County, Michigan. She was daughter of Henry Nelson Morris (1860–1920) and Ella Blymyer (1860–1935). Her family moved to Alameda County, California, during the 1900s.

Samuel and Ellis were both attending University of California at Berkeley in 1916, and they announced their engagement in 1917. (see right)

In 1926, with an investment of $5000, he co-founded the Aladdin Heating Corp., a 7-acre plant in San Leandro, which became one of the largest heating, ventilating and air conditioning contractors in Northern California. 

Samuel and Ellis raised their children in Berkeley and Oakland. Samuel was a pioneer in the Bay area's gas beating industry and was a director of five a firms, including the News Equipment Sales Corp. and the Aladdin Heating Corp.

Samuel died on 10 August 1964 in Hayward, Alameda, California. Ellis died on 12 August 1995 in Alameda County, California. They were buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland. They were survived by three sons and 14 grandchildren.

     a. Raymond Morris Terry (1918–1997) was born on 17 July 1918 in Oakland, Alameda, California. He graduated from University of California at Berkeley in 1940 and went to Stanford University that fall.

Raymond married Marian Abbie Fisher (1919–1980) about 1941, and after graduating around 1945, he accepted a commission in the U.S. Navy, serving from about 1946 to 1956. Marian was born on 1 May 1919 in Alameda County, the daughter of Edgar Clement Fisher (1889–1927) and Abbie Gail Cleary (1890–1944).

They settled in San Leandro, San Francisco County, California, where Ray and his business endeavors grew along with the town. His invention of the first coin operated newspaper vending machine led to the establishment and success of New Equipment Company, which eventually became a division of his firm, the Aladdin Heating Corporation.

Marian died on 14 June 1980, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland. Ray died "after a great day fishing and with a cookie in his hand" on 7 May 1997 and was buried with Marian. They were survived by Ray's brother and sister-in-law, and by their five children, sixteen grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

     i. Raymond Lee Terry (1942–2002) was born on 27 September 1942 in Berkeley, Alameda, California. Like his father, the younger Ray Terry accepted a commission in the U.S. Navy. He died on 20 January 2002 and was survived by a brother, three sisters, his wife, a son, and a daughter.

     b. Henry Morris Terry (1921–1978) was born on 8 February 1921 in Berkeley, Alameda, California. Henry was attending Stanford University in 1942, and while the records I have found don't tell me the details, he appears to have served as a doctor in the U.S. Navy, as late as 1959. 

He married Allace Ann Heald (1924–2000), the daughter of Wallace Sheldon Heald (1890–1936) and Foss R Radebaugh (1890–1980). She was born on 9 August 1924 in Duluth, St Louis, Minnesota. Her family relocated to San Diego by 1940, and she presumably met Henry when he was stationed there. We do know that in 1974, they lived in San Diego where Henry was chief of geriatrics at the County University Hospital.

Henry died on 27 August 1978 and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland. Ann died on 20 June 2000.

     c. Samuel Walker Terry, Jr (1925–1999) was born on 13 June 1925 in Oakland, Alameda, California, and grew up in Berkeley. He also had a commission in the U.S. Navy by 1948 - which rounds out an entire family of Naval officers, and completes three generations of service from one family.

Samuel Jr. died on 4 October 1999 in San Leandro, Alameda, California, but I don't believe that's the whole story. His father's 1964 obituary claimed 14 grandchildren, so Samuel and his brother, Henry, must have had nine children between them who I have not been able to identify.

     3. Frederick Percy Terry (1896–1986) was born on 19 March 1896 in Rochester, Fulton, Indiana. His father moved the family to California in 1904. Fred enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving from 15 December 1917 through 18 June 1919, returning home as a sergeant from France aboard the Madawaska.

Fred married Marion Adelaide McCormick (1899–1977) on 9 October 1924 in Alameda County, California. She was born on 15 October 1899 in Saginaw, Michigan, the youngest child of Walter James McCormick (1864–1908) and Maude A Speddy (1870–1922).

Marion died on 25 April 1977 in Alameda County, California, and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michigan, where her parents and other ancestors were buried. Fred died in Alameda County on 27 September 1986 and was buried with Marion in Saginaw.

     a. Frederick Mccormick Terry (1927–1993) was born in Alameda, California, on 6 April 1927. He married Patricia Eleanor Goggin (1929–2006) on 3 February 1951. They were both graduates of Alameda High School. Patricia was born on 10 November 1929 in Alameda, the youngest daughter of Alfred Samuel Goggin (1884–1931) and Maude E Curley (1892–1965).

The couple lived in Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, California, starting in 1963. Patricia worked in the insurance industry before having children, then she retired to become a stay-at-home mom. Fred died on 4 April 1993 in Contra Costa County; Patricia died at the age of 77, on 28 November 2006 at her home in Walnut Creek.

They were survived by two daughters and two grandchildren.

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The Great COVID crisis continues, and I'm still sorting out what I need to do to complete my degree. No promises I'll stick to my "schedule," but for now, we're pressing on! Thanks for sticking with m, everybody!

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Great Scott: the Difficult Family

As much as I dislike posting incomplete information, I'm afraid I will have to leave out a lot of details this week. Strangely, I always feel like I write more when I know less about a family. Maybe that's my way of explaining what little I do know since I can't always tell a complete story.

But, to continue where we left off last time, I introduce:

II. Charles A Scott (1858–1940)

Born on 28 March 1858, in Iowa, his parents were George Scott and Lucetta Beach. His older sister, Violetta, was also born in Iowa. The family soon moved back to Illinois where his younger siblings were born, and they all grew up on a farm near Harrison, Winnebago County, Illinois.

Charles married Elisabeth C "Lizzie" Cowan (1862–1957) in 1881 when he was 23 years old. Lizzie was born in Illinois and raised in Harrison by her parents, James S Cowan (b. 1802) and Elmira Vail (b. 1821). James was an Irish immigrant who arrived in the United States during the 1830s, so it is highly unlikely that he was related to the other Cowan family discussed in an earlier post.

Charles and Lizzie had four children in 12 years, all of whom were born in the Harrison and Rockford area. Charles ran an "express and feed barn" at 314 Elm street in Rockford during the early 1900s. In 1910 the family appeared in Paris, Howard County, Iowa, where the household included their two younger sons, Harold and Ray, and Lizzie's widowed sister, Hattie. By 1920 they were living in Walhalla, Pembina County, North Dakota, within a few miles of the Canadian border.

Charles died on 11 April 1940, in Walhalla, at the age of 82. Lizzie lived until 9 July 1957 and died in nearby Mountain. They were buried together in the Walhalla Hillside Cemetery.

     A. Emery Scott (b. 1884) was born on 26 March 1884, in Harrison, Illinois. He worked for his father, and he married Marian Louise Schuster (b. 1892) on 20 April 1909. They had one daughter together. According to the 1910 Census, the three of them lived in Rockford, on Mulberry Street, and Emery worked as a barber.

I don't know when, but evidence would suggest that Emery and Marian's marriage did not last for more than ten years. There are four records in the Illinois, County Marriages, 1800-1940 database that say he married Fahy William (b. 1895) on 9 February 1922. They had one son together.

Unfortunately, Emery's story becomes difficult to follow after this. He and Fahy are listed in a city directory in Fond du Lac in 1926, where his occupation is given as "capt Samaritan Mission." In 1932, Fahy is listed as the wife of "Edw" living in Milwaukee. Ten years later, Emery shows up in Bethany, Harrison County, Missouri, where his draft registration says he is unemployed; it lists someone named Jim Beaver as his point of contact. That is the more recent record I have been able to track down for Emery Scott.

     1. Irene E Scott (b. 1910) appears only in the 1910 U.S. Census. Her mother appears there, and in the Cook County, Illinois, Marriages Index, 1871-1920 database. It is possible that one or both of them died, or that Marian remarried; Irene may appear under another name, as I don't know what the middle initial "E" stood for.

     2. William Robert Scott (1925–2000) is listed in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 where both of his parents' names are given, as well as his date and place of birth: 27 February 1925 in Brownwood, Brown County, Texas, USA.

Because his parents were listed in Milwaukee in 1932, I looked for him there in 1940 and found a 13-year-old William R. Scott in the household of Charles and Fahy Rundall (with those spellings) living at 810 South Second Street. In 1946, he graduated from Boys Trade And Tech High School in Milwaukee.

I do not know where he died, because the Social Security record does not say, but before that, the last record I found shows William still living in Milwaukee in 1952. That leaves a 48-year gap in his story.

     B. Louis H Scott (1889–1974) was born on November 23, 1889, in Rockford, Illinois. He married Althea Elizabeth Prindle (1891–1983) in 1909 in Boone County, Illinois. Althea was the daughter of Stephen Arthur Prindle (1862–1939) and Drusilla "Mamie" Leach (1871–1942) and was born in Aurora, Buchanan, Iowa. They had five children between 1910 and 1920, several of whom were born in North Dakota.

The Scott family appeared in Owen Township on the 1910 Census, but the following year saw the birth of their daughter, Dorothy, in Walhalla. Althea's parents, Steve and Mamie, had recently divorced, and in 1910, Steve's Census record shows him living in Walhalla already, while Mamie is listed as a housekeeper in the Owen Township home of George T. Johns, whom she would soon marry.

A Louis Scott appears in the 1918 City Directory for Williston, North Dakota, at the other end of the state from Walhalla, where his business is listed simply as "billiards." I suspect that this is not the same Louis Scott, but there is no way to tell from the information at hand.

In 1920 the family is back in Rockford, where Louis works as a foreman in a lock factory. Louis and Althea remained in Rockford throughout the 1920s and appeared there in the 1930 Census, too. However, they divorced at some point in the 1930s, and both remarried. Althea married Joseph Nichols Udell (1890–1953) sometime between 1934 and 1937; Louis married Mary Jane Nicholl (1881–1970).

As an odd side note, Joseph Udell's first wife was Alice Amanda Brooks (1894-1940). She appeared on the 1940 Census, listed as Alice Udell with marital status shown as Divorced. That Census page was dated April 1940, and Alice died the following month. In her death record, which is indexed in the Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947 database, she is described as a housewife and divorced, but the record lists her spouse's name as "Lovis Scott." I can't view the original document online, but I assume that is a transcription error for "Louis."

After Louis married Mary Jane, we find a record of her naturalization in 1941; she was born in England, and other records indicate she arrived in the United States before 1935. They remained together in Rockford throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Mary Jane died in 1970, and Louis in 1974. They were buried together in the North Burritt Cemetery in Winnebago County.

     1. Glen Edwin Scott (1910–1968) was born 9 April 1910, in Winnebago County, Illinois, when his father, Louis, was 20 and his mother, Althea, was 18. He was married three times but left no children behind. He was a World War II veteran, serving in England and Belgium, and he was president of Local 1061 UAW at Brown Manufacturing Company, where he was employed.

His first marriage was to Alma Josephine Weaver (1914–2010), around 1932; they divorced in the early 1940s. He remarried Mildred L. Hansen on 21 December 1945, but they were not together for very long. On May 7, 1947, in Chicago, he married Ellen "Susie" Overocker, head of the Classified department of the Woodstock Daily Sentinel, who survived him.

In January 1968, he was blinded by the headlights of an approaching vehicle and when he swerved to the right, his car struck the parked car. Ellen took him to the hospital, and he seemed to be alright. But he died on July 2, 1968, in Rockford, Illinois, at the age of 58, after what his obituary described as a "long illness," and he was buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in Rockford.

     2. Dorothy Elizabeth Scott (1911–1995) was born on October 5, 1911, in Walhalla, North Dakota. She married Charles F Rowe (b. 1908) in 1929 and they had one son together. She later married Marvin Homer Haycraft (1910–1967).

Dorothy's records don't ever quite say what I would expect them to say, and I suspect there is more to her story than I can see, but I hate making a lot of guesses to fill in the blanks. For example, there is a record of her marriage to Charles Rowe indexed in Boone county in the Illinois, County Marriages, 1800-1940 database. Yet, she appears in her parents' household on the 1930 Census under the name "Dorothy Scott," listed as married.

I don't really know when Dorothy married Marvin Haycraft, either. While there is a marriage record showing they married on 31 May 1952, in Winnebago, Illinois, Dorothy and Marvin are listed as husband and wife in the 1940 Census, along with her son Richard Rowe; so I don't know when they actually became a couple.

North Burritt Cemetery

Dorothy and Marvin retired to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the 1950s, and Marvin presumably died there in 1967. Dorothy died on 9 June 1995 in Rockford, Illinois, at the age of 83, and they were both buried in North Burritt Cemetery, Winnebago County, Illinois.

     a. Richard Arthur Rowe (1930–1990) was born on 18 January 1930, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He lived in Rockford, Illinois, and was attending East High School in 1942.

He died on October 4, 1990, in Winnebago, Illinois, at the age of 60, and was buried in the North Burritt Cemetery. His marker calls him "beloved son and father," so I hope to hear from his descendants some day.


     3. Evelyn May Scott (1913–1939) was born 15 March 1913 in Leyden, Pembina County, North Dakota. She grew up in Winnebago county, Illinois, and married Russell Elmer Shores (1913–1967).

She died at 26 when she crashed her car into a tree on 23 August 1939.

     4. Harry L Scott (1915–1981) was born in North Dakota on 11 April 1915. He married before 1940, and he worked as a press operator. He and his wife, Dorothy, lived briefly in Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa, but returned to Rockford area by 1941, appearing in the city directory for Beloit, Rock County, Wisconsin.

Harry enlisted when the war broke out, and served in the U.S. Army from 1 October 1942 through 30 October 1945. After his death on 14 February 1981, he was buried in Arlington Memorial Park Cemetery in Rockford, Illinois.

     5. Mamie Drucella Scott (1917–1918) was born in Leyden, Pembina County, North Dakota on 21 May 1917. The family then moved back to Rockford, Illinois; sadly, Mamie died on 22 October 1918 and was buried there on 24 October.

     C. Harold Scott (1891–1985) was born on 30 November 1891, in Rockford, Illinois. His family lived in Paris, Iowa, in 1910, and he married Beulah Bell Kintz (1895–1992) in about 1911. She was the oldest child of Delbert Ilyf Kintz (1872–1957) and Mary Adeline "Mamie" Clark (1877–1942).

Harold and Beulah relocated to North Dakota around the time the rest of the Scott family did, and they had two sons and three daughters between 1912 and 1921.

Harold was a farmer and eventually worked for the Northern Potato Company in Walhalla.
He died on December 29, 1985, in Leonard, North Dakota, at the age of 94, and was buried in Walhalla, North Dakota. Beulah died 1 February 1992 at the age of 97.

     1. Paul I Scott (1912–1979) was born in Iowa on 23 September 1912 and grew up on the farm in Walhalla, North Dakota. He married Amy L Bailey (1914–2003) on 15 September 1934 in Brown County, South Dakota. Her parents were William George Bailey (1878–1965) and Naomi Olivia Petrehn (1885–1974) of McIntosh County, North Dakota.

They stayed in the Dakotas until at least 1940, when they were living in Ipswich, South Dakota. They had a son, still living, and a daughter. In 1943 the family moved to Vancouver, Washington.

Paul was an electrician, and Amy worked in the accounting department at Kaiser Hospital in Portland for 18 years before retiring in 1970. After being together 45 years, Paul died in 1979, and Amy died Tuesday, 2 December 2003, in Vancouver. She was 89.

     a. Lynn Paula Scott (1936–1964) was born 20 October 1936 and graduated from Vancouver High school in 1954. She married John Carlton "Jack" Keel Sr (1936–2010) on 17 July 1957.

At the age of 18, Jack had joined the Army and served as a Paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne in Korea from December of 1956 through January of 1958. After returning, Jack moved to Camas, Clark County, Washington, and began his career as a barber on Main Street. He worked in the same shop for over 40 years.

Lynn only saw the first few of those years before she died in Portland, Oregon, in 1964. They had several children, who are all still living. John remarried, and

     2. Viola Scott (1915–1934) may have died on 28 November 1934, but I have been unable to find any records to say so. Other researchers indicated that was the case in their trees.

     3. Donald Harold Scott (1917–1989) was born on January 4, 1917, in Walhalla, North Dakota. He married Wilma Leona Kelley (1918–1980) about 1938, and they had one son and three daughters, all still living.

The family moved to Williston, North Dakota, in 1953 and to Glasgow, North Dakota, in 1957. Donald was the custodian for Glasgow schools, and then owned and managed Eddie's Quick Shop from 1974 to 1982, when he retired. Wilma died in 1980, and he died on August 12, 1989, in Hill, Montana, at the age of 72, and was buried in Lakota Cemetery in Nelson County, North Dakota.

     4. Myrtle Scott (b. 1918)
     5. Bernice Scott (b. 1921)

The two youngest daughters of Harold and Beulah Scott both appear in the household with their parents and siblings on the 1930 and 1940 U.S. Census, and in the 1925 record in the North Dakota, Territorial and State Censuses, 1885, 1915, 1925 database. Myrtle also appears in the 1920 U.S. Census. There are plenty of records for women with similar names and birth dates scattered throughout the country, but in every case so far, I've had to rule these records out as a lead because either Scott was their married name, or because the record lists information that contradicts what little I already know.

     D. Ray Scott (1896–1958) was born 15 October 1896, in Harrison, Illinois, when his father, Charles, was 38 and his mother, Lizzie, was 34. We have a pretty thorough record of his service in World War I, but less detail about the rest of his life. He appears to have worked in construction, living in different North Dakota towns, but usually residing with his parents, or at least listing them as his permanent address.

Ray was inducted at Cavalier, the county seat of Pembina County, North Dakota, on 29 March 1918. He was sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa, and served in Headquarters Company, 137th Infantry, until 30 January 1919. The rest of his time in service, he was attached to Company D, 137th Infantry, and he shipped overseas aboard the ship Missanabie, serving in Europe from 3 May 1918 to 23 April 1919.

Ray's unit was part of the massive Meuse-Argonne Offensive and served in the Defensive Sector at Gerardmer (Alsace) and Grange-le-Comte (Lorraine). Ray was discharged from Camp Dodge, Iowa, on 6 May 1919, as a Private.

He died on 18 March 1958 in Imperial, California, at the age of 61, and was buried in the Walhalla City Cemetery back in Walhalla, North Dakota.

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And there you have it; I try to do right by the people I am researching, and tell their stories as completely as I can. My hope is to piece together something accurate that speaks well of them, but when I go in knowing as little as I did with some of these folks, I worry that I missed something important, or that I uncovered something painful.

Either way, my hope is to get to the truth and remember them well.

As always, I appreciate any comments or corrections from family members, however distant we might be. If you recognize any of the Scott family and want to learn more, please contact me. You can comment below, email my Gmail account at "callintad at gmail dot com" (you know, with the @ and the . in the right places!), or follow the link at the top of the right column to join our Callin Family History Facebook group.

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