He was the son of Joseph R. Durbin and Harriet Logsdon Durbin. [1][2]
He worked for the Philadelphia Lighting Company and died when he came in contact with a live wire while maintaining a power line[2]
He is interred at Saint Francis cemetery in Saint Francis, Kentucky. [1]
Sources
↑ 1.01.1 Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 22 August 2019), memorial page for Walter Martin Durbin (19 Sep 1888–27 Jun 1918), Find A Grave: Memorial #136933075, citing Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Cemetery, Saint Francis, Marion County, Kentucky, USA ; Maintained by Gerald & Martha M. Thompson (contributor 47866457).
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2DX-P8J : accessed 22 August 2019), Walter Durbin in household of Joe R Durbin, Magisterial District 8, Marion, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 95, sheet 15A, family 168, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 481; FHL microfilm 1,374,494.
"Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N9VB-K58 : 2 January 2019), Child Of Walter Durbin, 1916; citing Death, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, certificate , Office of Vital Statistics, Frankfort; FHL microfilm 1,942,740.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Walter by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA test-takers in his direct paternal line.
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