Wade & Webb Family History

George Westley Walden1860–1929

Rockford · Coryell · Harris · Woodland Cemetery

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Sources
  4. Notes

Birth

  1. 1860 Rockford, Coosa, Alabama

Marriages

  1. 8 Mar 1883 Martha Valli McKinney, at Coosa, Alabama 4

Death and burial

  1. 1929 Burial: Woodland Cemetery, Rosebud, Falls, Texas
  2. Nov 1929 Death: Rosebud, Falls, Texas

Family

Parents
Westley D Walden 1819–1863
Elizabeth Moore 1836–1874
Spouse, 8 Mar 1883
Martha Valli McKinney 1866–1936
Children
Soloman Westley Walden 1889–1964

Line of descent Webb line

  1. George Westley Walden
  2. Half-brother of William Walker Walden
  3. Lila Walden, daughter
  4. Hilda Webb, daughter
  5. William Albert Webb Wade, son

Half-great-granduncle of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

George Westley Walden was born at Rockford, Coosa County, Alabama, in 1860, according to the FamilySearch tree, which gives no source for the year.1 He was the youngest child of Westley D. Walden and his second wife, Elizabeth Moore; his father, a Confederate captain, died at Marietta, Georgia, in 1863, when George was a small child.2 By 1880 he was in Texas, where the census of that year listed George Walden in the household of his sister Laura and her husband, Clinton S. Wilson, in Coryell County.3

On 8 March 1883 George Walden married M. V. McKinney, Martha Valli McKinney, in Coosa County, Alabama.4 She was a daughter of Eli Harris McKinney and Martha Holland Willingham and a younger sister of Emma Louise McKinney, the wife of George's half-brother William Walker Walden.5 The tree names one son, Soloman Westley Walden (1889–1964), whose Texas death record names George Walden as his father.6 The census of 1900 found George Walden in Justice Precinct 1 of Coryell County, Texas, and in 1920 he was living in the household of his son, Soloman W. Walden, in the fifth ward of Houston, Harris County.7 He died on 26 November 1929, according to the Texas death records, which index his father's name as West Walden; the tree places his death at Rosebud, Falls County, Texas, and his burial at Woodland Cemetery there.8

Sources

Every FamilySearch record attached to George Westley Walden.

  1. 1880George Walden, "United States, Census, 1880"
  2. 08 Mar 1883George Walden, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  3. 1883George Walden, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  4. 8 Mar 1883George Walden, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  5. 1900George Walden, "United States Census, 1900"
  6. 1920George Walden, "United States, Census, 1920"
  7. 26 November 1929George Walden, "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1977"
  8. 1 September 1964George Walden in entry for Solomon West Walden, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
  9. George Walden, "Find a Grave Index"
  10. George Walden, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KZQS-MQ9: birth 1860, Rockford, Coosa, Alabama, no source attached back to the text
  2. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KZQS-MQ9: parents Westley D Walden and Elizabeth Moore FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KCR9-YLT (their page): children Alabama (1856), Laura (1858), George Westley (1860); Captain Company B 60th Alabama Infantry CSA; death 10 Oct 1863, Marietta, Cobb, Georgia back to the text
  3. "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch, George Walden in entry for Clinton S. Wilson, 1880. Record: George Walden in entry for Clinton S. Wilson, 1880 "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch, Laura Wilson in entry for Clinton S. Wilson, 1880. Record: Laura Wilson in entry for Clinton S. Wilson, 1880 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KZQS-MQ9: residence 1880, Precinct 4 and 5, Coryell, Texas back to the text
  4. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, George Walden and M. V. Mckinney, 08 Mar 1883. Record: George Walden and M. V. Mckinney, 08 Mar 1883 "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", FamilySearch, George Walden, 8 Mar 1883. Record: George Walden, 8 Mar 1883 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KZQS-MQ9: marriage 8 Mar 1883, Coosa, Alabama back to the text
  5. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile G7S9-DBF (their page): parents Eli Harris McKinney Sr. and Martha Holland Willingham FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MDYC-8K5 (their page): Emma Louise McKinney, same parents, spouse William Walker Walden back to the text
  6. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KZQS-MQ9: child Soloman Westley Walden, 1889–1964 "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1977", FamilySearch, George Walden in entry for Solomon West Walden, 1 September 1964. Record: George Walden in entry for Solomon West Walden, 1 September 1964 back to the text
  7. "United States, Census, 1900", FamilySearch, George Walden, 1900. Record: George Walden, 1900 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KZQS-MQ9: residence 1900, Justice Precinct 1, Coryell, Texas; 1920, Houston Ward 5, Harris, Texas "United States, Census, 1920", FamilySearch, George Walden in entry for Soloman W Walden, 1920. Record: George Walden in entry for Soloman W Walden, 1920 back to the text
  8. "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1977", FamilySearch, George Walden, 26 November 1929. Record: George Walden, Texas Deaths, 26 November 1929 "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1977", FamilySearch, West Walden in entry for George Walden, 26 November 1929. Record: West Walden, Texas Deaths, 26 November 1929, attached to Westley D Walden as his child's death record FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KZQS-MQ9: death Nov 1929, Rosebud, Falls, Texas; burial Woodland Cemetery, Rosebud "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, George Walden. Record: George Walden, Find a Grave Index back to the text