Walter Atkin Bladen (1855 - 1947)

Born 15 Nov 1855 in Akron, Summit, Ohio, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Lucy Loetta (Shriver) Bladen — married 28 Dec 1880 in Iowa, Iowa, United States

Died 27 Jan 1947 at age 91 in Marengo, Iowa, Iowa, United States

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Biography

Walter Atkin Bladen was born 15 Nov 1855 in Akron, Summit, Ohio. He married Lucy Loetta Shriver on 28 Dec 1880 in Iowa County, Iowa.

In 1882 Walter Atkin farmed on his father-in-law, Michael Shriver's farm at Marengo, Iowa. He was hailed out so he moved his family to New Castle, Nebraska that fall so they could plant the 1883 crop. Walter's parents moved to New Castle from Marengo in the spring of 1885, buying an adjoining place.

After the death of his sister Minerva Bladen Talbott in 1897, her twin daughters Laura and Lora were raised by Walter Atkin and his wife Lucy. Minerva's death was not known until the twins were brought to the Bladen farm in the spring of 1898. The twins were four years old when Minerva died.

After his father Walter Lewis died in 1908, Walter Atkin became a mortician at Coleridge, Nebraska and stayed with that occupation for about thirty years. He and Lucy then moved back to Marengo, Iowa about 1930, where he owned a furniture store for a few years prior to his and Lucy's deaths.

Walter Atkin died 27 Jan 1947 and is buried in the Marengo Cemetery.

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