Wade & Webb Family History

Catherine O Chambliss1824–1889

Darlington · DeKalb · Centre

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  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Documents (1)
  4. Places
  5. Timeline
  6. Open questions
  7. Notes

Birth

  1. 7 Dec 1824 Darlington, South Carolina 1

Marriages

  1. Dec 1842 John Butler Walden, at Talladega, Alabama

Death and burial

  1. 1889 Burial: Centre, Cherokee, Alabama
  2. 12 May 1889 Death: place not recorded 11

Family

Parents
Not recorded
Spouse, Dec 1842
John Butler Walden 1816–1896
Children
Charles S. Walden 1862–1945
Emma Walden 1858–?
Joseph Alexander Walden 1854–1891
Emily Walden 1857–1913
John Sparks Walden 1850–1912
Lewis Walden
Minnie Lee Walden 1864–1951

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Catherine O Chambliss
  2. Wife of John Butler Walden
  3. Westley D Walden
  4. William Walker Walden, son
  5. Lila Walden, daughter
  6. Hilda Webb, daughter
  7. William Albert Webb Wade, son

Wife of 2nd great-granduncle of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Catherine O. Chambliss was born on 7 December 1824 in Darlington, South Carolina, according to the FamilySearch tree, which gives no source for the date.1 A biographical sketch of her husband in Northern Alabama, Historical and Biographical (1888), written from information he gave, names her as "Catharine O. Chambliss, daughter of John and Sarah (Pierce) Chambliss, who came from Darlington District, S. C., to Talladega County in 1841."2 The sketch is a secondary source for her family, but it agrees with the tree's Darlington and gives her parents' names, which the tree does not.2

The tree records her marriage to John Butler Walden, a son of Charles Sparks Walden and Sarah Walker, in Talladega County, Alabama, in December 1842.3 The 1888 sketch prints the date as "December, 1812," which cannot be right, since her husband was born on 1 September 1816 in Jasper County, Georgia.4 Inference The tree's December 1842 fits the Chambliss family's arrival in Talladega County the year before, and the printed 1812 is probably a misprint for it.4 According to the sketch, he had studied law at Wetumpka and been admitted to the bar at Talladega.5

The federal censuses list her as Catharine or Catherine O. Walden in her husband's household in DeKalb County, Alabama, in 1850 and 1860, and at Centre, Cherokee County, Alabama, in 1870.6 Her husband, an attorney, had come to Centre in 1864 and practised law there from then on, according to the sketch.7 In 1880, still in Cherokee County, the census index records her as "Darlington Walden".8 Inference The name is probably a misreading of her birthplace, Darlington, taken from another column of the page, though the original has not been checked.8

The tree names seven children: John Sparks (1850–1912), Joseph Alexander (1854–1891), Emily (1857–1913), Emma (born 1858), Charles S. (1862–1945), Minnie Lee (1864–1951) and Lewis, who is undated.9 Her maiden name is confirmed by the Alabama death records of two of them, which name their mother as "Catherine Chamblis" (Charles, 1945) and "Catherine O. Chambless" (Minnie Lee, 1951), and by Charles's Social Security file.10 She died on 12 May 1889 and was buried at Centre, Cherokee County; the Find a Grave index lists her as Catherine Chambliss Walden.11 Her husband survived her and died at Centre in 1896.12

Documents

  1. 1888 Northern Alabama: John Butler Walden, son of Charles and Sarah (Walker) Walden Northern Alabama, Historical and Biographical (Birmingham, Alabama: Smith & De Land, 1888) · book

Places

  1. 1824Darlington
  2. 1842Talladega
  3. 1850–1860DeKalb
  4. 1870–1889Centre
  5. 1880Cherokee

Timeline

  1. 7 Dec 1824BirthDarlington, South Carolina
  2. Dec 1842Marriage, John Butler WaldenTalladega, Alabama
  3. 1850ResidenceDe Kalb county, De Kalb, Alabama
  4. 1860Residence: CensusDivision 2, DeKalb, Alabama
  5. 1870ResidenceCentre, Cherokee, Alabama
  6. 1880ResidenceCherokee, Alabama
  7. 1889BurialCentre, Cherokee, Alabama
  8. 12 May 1889Death

Open questions

None recorded yet.

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile M569-FP3: birth 7 Dec 1824, Darlington, South Carolina, no source for the birth back to the text
  2. Northern Alabama: John Butler Walden, son of Charles and Sarah (Walker) Walden, Northern Alabama, Historical and Biographical (Birmingham, Alabama: Smith & De Land, 1888): Notes: from information given by John B. Walden himself; pp. 132–133: Mr. Walden was married in December, 1812 [sic], to Catharine O. Chambliss, daughter of John and Sarah (Pierce) Chambliss, who came from Darlington District, S. C., to Talladega County in 1841 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile M569-FP3: no parents in the tree back to the text
  3. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile M569-FP3: marriage Dec 1842, Talladega, Alabama FamilySearch Family Tree, profile K85G-FCW (their page): parents Charles Sparks Walden and Sarah Walker back to the text
  4. Northern Alabama: John Butler Walden, son of Charles and Sarah (Walker) Walden, Northern Alabama, Historical and Biographical (Birmingham, Alabama: Smith & De Land, 1888): JOHN BUTLER WALDEN, Attorney-at law, was born in Jasper County, Ga., September 1, 1816 … married in December, 1812 [sic] … came from Darlington District, S. C., to Talladega County in 1841 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile M569-FP3: marriage Dec 1842, Talladega, Alabama back to the text
  5. Northern Alabama: John Butler Walden, son of Charles and Sarah (Walker) Walden, Northern Alabama, Historical and Biographical (Birmingham, Alabama: Smith & De Land, 1888): at the age of twenty years, at Wetumpka, Ala., began the study of the law, and at Talladega was admitted to the bar back to the text
  6. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Catharine O Walden in entry for John B Walden, 1850. Record: Catharine O Walden in entry for John B Walden, 1850 "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Catherine O Walden in entry for John B Walden, 1860. Record: Catherine O Walden in entry for John B Walden, 1860 "United States, Census, 1870", FamilySearch, Catharine O Walden in entry for J B Walden, 1870. Record: Catharine O Walden in entry for J B Walden, 1870 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile M569-FP3: residences 1850 De Kalb county; 1860 Division 2, DeKalb; 1870 Centre, Cherokee back to the text
  7. Northern Alabama: John Butler Walden, son of Charles and Sarah (Walker) Walden, Northern Alabama, Historical and Biographical (Birmingham, Alabama: Smith & De Land, 1888): Attorney-at law … In 1864 he came to Centre, and has here since that time given his whole attention to his profession back to the text
  8. "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch, Darlington Walden in entry for J. B. Walden, 1880. Record: Darlington Walden in entry for J. B. Walden, 1880 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile M569-FP3: birth Darlington, South Carolina back to the text
  9. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile K85G-FCW (their page): seven children, with the years given back to the text
  10. "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Catherine Chamblis in entry for Charles Walden, 1945. Record: Catherine Chamblis in entry for Charles Walden, 1945 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Catherine O. Chambless in entry for Minnie Lee Walden, 1951. Record: Catherine O. Chambless in entry for Minnie Lee Walden, 1951 "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007", FamilySearch, Catherine O Chambliss in entry for Charles Walden. Record: Catherine O Chambliss in entry for Charles Walden, NUMIDENT back to the text
  11. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile M569-FP3: death 12 May 1889, no place; burial Centre, Cherokee, Alabama "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Catherine Chambliss Walden. Record: Catherine Chambliss Walden, Find a Grave Index back to the text
  12. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile K85G-FCW (their page): death 18 Feb 1896, Centre, Cherokee, Alabama back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to Catherine O Chambliss (8)
  1. 1850Catharine O Walden, "United States, Census, 1850"
  2. 1860Catherine O Walden, "United States, Census, 1860"
  3. 1870Catharine O Walden, "United States, Census, 1870"
  4. 1880Darlington Walden, "United States, Census, 1880"
  5. 1945Catherine Chamblis, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  6. 1951Catherine O. Chambless, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  7. Catherine Chambliss Walden, "Find a Grave Index"
  8. Catherine O Chambliss, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"