Charles Waldo Walker Sr (1907 - 1993)

Born 23 Mar 1907 in Ducktown, Polk, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Nora Elizabeth (Holley) Walker — married 25 Sep 1925 in Oklahoma, USA

Descendants

Died 8 Nov 1993 at age 86 in Elk City, Beckham, Oklahoma, United States

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Biography

Charles Waldo Walker was born March 23, 1907 in Ducktown, Tenn. At the time of his birth his family was living in Tenn. so that his father Joseph could teach school there. When Waldo was 13 years old the family moved to Tulsa, Okla. While the family was in Tulsa, Waldo worked in a dairy part time bottling milk. He was going to school at the same time. He also churned butter in a 16 gallon container at the dairy. While working on the farm close to Nida and Emet Okla. Joseph wanted Waldo and Harold to take turns going to school and helping with the cotton farming on 250 acres. Waldo decided to let Harold go to school as Harold wasn't interested in farming and Waldo said a person couldn't learn much going part time. Waldo married Nora Elizabeth Holley on Sept. 25, 1925. She was 14 and Waldo was 18 years old. They lived in various houses in the Nida and Emet area. Sometime in the 1940's they moved to Emet to a farm that Waldo rented. He raised milk cows and sold milk to a bottling plant in Okla. They also had large cotton fields. They lived here until the late 1950's when they moved to Elk City Okla. so that Waldo could have a good paying job. He worked at one time for the county grading roads in the Beckham Co. area. They lived in a couple of houses in Elk City. Waldo died on Nov. 8, 1993 and is buried at Porch Cemetery, near Elk City. Nora died May 26, 1977 and is buried in Porch Cemetery.

Sources

A STEP IN PROGRESS, A FAMILY HISTORY,1538-2000 by William and Linda Walker

• Year: 1910; Census Place: Gritter, Cobb, Georgia; Roll: T624_180; Page: 15A; Enumeration District: 0043; FHL microfilm: 1374193

"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HB3N-TW2 : accessed 15 January 2021), Charles W Walker, Precinct 2, Hardeman, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 6, sheet 7B, line 54, family 11, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2340; FHL microfilm 2,342,074.

This information was passed on to me from family members.