Mae Henriette Walker (1881 - 1928)

Born 18 Apr 1881 in Iowa

Ancestors

Died 29 Aug 1928 at age 47 in Sheldon, O'Brien, Iowa, United States

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Biography

She was the older sibling of my maternal grandmother Margaret Walker. When her father John Walker died, she was raised by her paternal grandparents William Walker and Bridget Malady, in Sheldon, Iowa. She married Frank Dougherty.

Documents variously show her given name as Mary, and as Mae -- but in family anecdotes she was always known as Mae.

My grandmother Margaret was raised by her maternal aunt Hattie, and the youngest sibling Chesley Eugene Walker took his stepfather Charles Hinton's surname when his mother remaried and moved to St. Paul, MN.

Sources

• anecdotal, from interview with my grandfather, who married her sister Margaret -- and BIA censuses of the Birch Cooley reservation for Mixed blood Mdewakonton Sioux in 1896,7,8 which list her mother Flora Walker, sister "Maggie", brother Chesley Eugene, but not Mae