Maria (Abbott) Walker (1796 - 1846)

Born 8 Aug 1796 in Holden, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Daniel Walker — married 22 Sep 1814 in Barre, Vermont

Descendants

Died 20 Apr 1846 at age 49 in Grass Lake, Jackson County, Michigan, United States

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Biography

Maria Abbott was born in Holden, Massachusetts, in 1796 and moved to Barre, Vermont with her family when she was a young girl. She married Rev. Daniel Walker in Barre in 1814. They lived in Barre until 1828. In 1828 they moved to Beaver Dam, Pennsylvania, but left there in March 1831 to move to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and then to Grass Lake, Michigan, which was then "a wilderness frontier." In Grass Lake, her husband was the first postmaster. He also served as town clerk and town treasurer for most of the time they lived there. He died in Grass Lake on 10 March 1839. ^[1]

Ten children were born to the marriage of Daniel Walker and Maria (Abbott) Walker.^[1]

Maria Walker died at Grass Lake, Michigan, in 1846.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Abbott, p. 503

• Abbott, Lemuel Abijah. Descendants of George Abbott, of Rowley, Mass. Published by the compiler, Boston, Mass., 1906.