Jessie Lois (Bonine) Walker (1901 - 1983)

Born 12 Apr 1901 in Manchester, Grant, Oklahoma, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Harold Grant Walker — married 22 Oct 1916 in Pecos, Texas, United States

Died 16 Oct 1983 at age 82 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States

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Biography

Jessie Bonine was born in 1901. She was the daughter of William Clinton Bonine and Livera Pugh. She passed away in 1983.

Sources

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/LH67-K2F Cites 10 sources

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71080325/jessie-lois-walker : accessed 16 July 2022), memorial page for Jessie Lois Bonine Walker (12 Apr 1901–16 Oct 1983), Find A Grave: Memorial #71080325, citing Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA ; Maintained by Joann (contributor 46947842) .

• "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV1Z-MTQP : 23 February 2021), Harold G Walker and Jessie L Bonine, 22 Oct 1916; citing Marriage, citing Pecos, Texas, United States, Texas State Library, Archives Division, and various Texas county clerks; FHL microfilm 2,030,354.

The story of Jessie's marriage to Harold Walker is told by Harold Walker in his Harold Walker Story p.1, uploaded to Ancestry by his granddaughter Sherry.

"After we had been there (Pecos County Texas) about 5 years, I saw the Bonine's wagon come by with Jessie and her folks. Later we would take our wagon with the sideboards on and pick up all the boys and girls and go to church or a party. Later Jessie and I got better acquainted and began to go together. Jesse used to ride a donkey to school at Imperial Texas. When her folks decided to move to Arkansas, we thought we would never see each other again, so we decided to elope. A young couple took us to Jega to catch the train to Ft. Stockton. We had a flat tire and we missed the passenger train so we caught the freight train and rode in the caboose with the conductor. We arrived in Ft. Stockton after dark and the sherif ask us where we were going. We said to the Camica hotel, so he took us to the hotel in his model T Ford. The hotel manager called the Christian minister, and when he arrived we got married. The minister and his wife were the witnesses. After a year married, Livera was born. We lived in a one room house with a dirt floor until we could build us a nice two room house. We felt like we had a mansion. We had a bed, two chairs, a stove, and a table. It doesn't take things to make a home. It takes LOVE. You have to learn to say I'm sorry. Marriage is like a garden. It must be cultivated or it doesn't grow. The winter we ran out of water for the crops, we moved to Anthony Kansas. While there, our second child was born. Jessie was raised in the Church of God. I had never been in one. They were having a revival. I went to church and gave my heart to the Lord." https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/71942149/person/48262765788/media/9b99602e-df7f-4be2-84c7-d0dfcd2d3a3c?_phsrc=yrv72180&usePUBJs=true&galleryindex=12&sort=-created