Wade & Webb Family History

Emma Louise McKinney1854–1923

Alabama · Socapatoy · Crews · Marshall

Emma Louise McKinney grew up in Coosa County, Alabama, one of the ten children of Eli Harris McKinney and Martha Holland Willingham. In 1875 she married William Walker Walden, and over twenty-four years she bore eight children, among them Lila, who married James P. Webb. Widowed in Birmingham in 1920, she died at Fairfield in 1923 and was buried in Coosa County.

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Documents (1)
  4. Places
  5. Timeline
  6. Open questions
  7. Searches made
  8. Notes

Birth

  1. 28 Jun 1854 Alabama 1

Marriages

  1. 14 Jul 1875 William Walker Walden, at Coosa, Alabama 7

Death and burial

  1. 1 Dec 1923 Death: Fairfield, Jefferson, Alabama 16
  2. 2 Dec 1923 Burial: New Shiloh Cemetery, Coosa, Alabama 17

Family

Parents
Spouse, 14 Jul 1875
William Walker Walden 1850–1920
Children
Lila Walden 1877–1937
Harris Solomon Walden 1876–1934
Ida Mae Walden 1894–1915
Julius West Walden 1880–1968
Elma Irene Walden 1887–1922
Joseph Forney Walden 1900–1971
Vallie Alburn Walden 1884–1965

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Emma Louise McKinney
  2. Lila Walden, daughter
  3. Hilda Webb, daughter
  4. William Albert Webb Wade, son

Great-grandmother of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Emma Louise McKinney was born in Alabama on 28 June 1854, a date the FamilySearch tree gives and that a citation migrated from an earlier family tree attributes to the federal census of 1900.1 She was a daughter of Eli Harris McKinney and Martha Holland Willingham, who had married in Chambers County, Alabama, on 12 September 1844, and the tree names ten children of the marriage, born between 1844 and 1866.2 Her older brothers and sisters included Eli Harris Jr. (1844), Sarah (1847), John Albert (1849) and Mary Ann Rebecca (1852), and her younger ones Beadie M. (1857), Iter J. (1860), Ella Frances (1862), J. P. (1864) and Martha Valli (1866).3

Coosa County

By the federal census of 1860 the family had moved to Coosa County, where the census listed "Louisa E Mc Kiney" in the household of Harris Mc Kiney in the county's second subdivision.4 Inference Her given names appear here in reverse order, and her father went by his middle name, Harris, in most of his records; the identification is likely, though the index entry in hand gives no age to confirm it.4 Her father served in the Confederate army, in Company A of the 8th Alabama Infantry, according to the tree.5 The census of 1870 found her, indexed as "L M McKinney," in the household of her father, whose own initial is indexed as "N," at Socapatoy, Coosa County.6

Marriage and family

On 14 July 1875 E. L. McKinney married W. W. Walden, William Walker Walden, in Coosa County.7 He was the son of Westley D. Walden, a Confederate captain who had died in 1863, and of Eliza Robbins.8 The tree names eight children, born over twenty-four years: Harris Solomon (1876), Lila (1877), Julius West (1880), Martha Frances Mary (1881), Vallie Alburn (1884), Elma Irene (1887), Ida Mae (1894) and Joseph Forney Walden (1900).9 The census of 1880 listed Emma Walden in her husband's household at Crews, Coosa County, and the census of 1900 found E. L. Walden with him in Election Precinct 17, Lauderdale, Coosa County.10 By 1910 the couple were living in Election Precinct 20, Red Apple, Marshall County, Alabama.11

Her father died at Crews, Coosa County, on 10 June 1908, and her mother in 1913.12 Her daughter Ida Mae, Mrs. Hardeman, died on 16 August 1915, and her death record names her mother as Emma Louisa Walden.13

Birmingham and Fairfield

The census of 1920 listed Emma Walden, indexed as "Emma S Walden," and her husband in the household of their son-in-law James P. Webb in Birmingham, Jefferson County, where their daughter Lila was his wife.14 Her husband died at Birmingham on 21 January 1920.15 Emma Walden died at Fairfield, Jefferson County, on 1 December 1923, according to the tree; the Alabama death index enters her death in 1923 under the misspelling "Emma W. Welden."16 She was buried on 2 December 1923, at the place the tree calls New Shiloh Cemetery, Coosa County, and the Find a Grave index calls the Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery, Coosa County.17

Her children's death records name her in several forms: as Emma McKinney in those of Lila Walden Webb in 1937 and Vallie Walden Reaves in 1965, and as Emma Louise McKinney in that of Joseph F. Walden in 1971.18 The index to the death record of her son Julius West Walden Sr. in 1968 gives his mother's name as "Unknown."19

Documents

  1. 30 December 2024 Find a Grave memorial: Emma Louise McKinney Walden Find a Grave · memorial

Places

  1. 1860–1875Coosa
  2. 1870Socapatoy
  3. 1880Crews
  4. 1910Marshall
  5. 1920Birmingham
  6. 1923Fairfield
  7. 1923New Shiloh Cemetery
  8. undatedFairfield

Timeline

  1. 28 Jun 1854BirthAlabama
  2. 1860Residence2nd Subdivision, Coosa, Alabama
  3. 1870ResidenceSocapatoy, Coosa, Alabama
  4. 14 Jul 1875Marriage, William Walker WaldenCoosa, Alabama
  5. 1880ResidenceCrews, Coosa, Alabama
  6. 1910ResidenceElection Precinct 20 Red Apple, Marshall, Alabama
  7. 1920ResidenceBirmingham, Jefferson, Alabama
  8. 1 Dec 1923DeathFairfield, Jefferson, Alabama
  9. 2 Dec 1923BurialNew Shiloh Cemetery, Coosa, Alabama

Open questions

None recorded yet.

Searches made

  1. 2026-11-09Find a Grave search: Emma McKinney, b. 1854 ±3, d. 1923 ±3: 4 results; Emma Walden, b. 1854 ±3, d. 1923 ±3: 2 resultsbest: [Emma Louise McKinney Walden (28 Jun 1854 – 1 Dec 1923), Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery, Coosa County, Alabama](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/277767464/emma-louise-walden); score 17 (high, before review)
  2. 2026-11-09Find a Grave memorial recorded[memorial 277767464](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/277767464), high confidence: [record](../documents/findagrave/277767464-emma-louise-mckinney-walden.md); 5 headstone photo(s)
  3. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Emma Louise McKinney", Alabamano matches
  4. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Emma McKinney", Alabama187 pages; first: [The Scotch-Irish in America : proceedings of the Scotch-Irish Congress, 1889, p. ](https://archive.org/details/scotchirishinam11amergoog?q=%22Emma%20McKinney%22); [The Scotch-Irish in America: Proceedings and Addresses of the Scotch-Irish Congress, 1st-10th ..., 1889, p. ](https://archive.org/details/scotchirishinam03amergoog?q=%22Emma%20McKinney%22); [clauses in wills and forms of wills, 1946, p. ](https://archive.org/details/clausesinwillsfo0000unse?q=%22Emma%20McKinney%22)
  5. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "McKinney", inside histcoosacobrew16 pages; first: [History of Coosa County, 1942, p. 157](https://archive.org/details/histcoosacobrew/page/n157/mode/1up?q=McKinney); [History of Coosa County, 1942, p. 157](https://archive.org/details/histcoosacobrew/page/n157/mode/1up?q=McKinney); [History of Coosa County, 1942, p. 169](https://archive.org/details/histcoosacobrew/page/n169/mode/1up?q=McKinney); 0 with the given name (Emma, Louise)
  6. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "McKinney", inside memorialrecordof00tayl4 pages; first: [Memorial record of Alabama. A concise account of the state's political, military, professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people, 1893, p. 737](https://archive.org/details/memorialrecordof00tayl/page/n737/mode/1up?q=McKinney); [Memorial record of Alabama. A concise account of the state's political, military, professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people, 1893, p. 738](https://archive.org/details/memorialrecordof00tayl/page/n738/mode/1up?q=McKinney); [Memorial record of Alabama. A concise account of the state's political, military, professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people, 1893, p. 748](https://archive.org/details/memorialrecordof00tayl/page/n748/mode/1up?q=McKinney); 0 with the given name (Emma, Louise)
  7. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "McKinney", inside northernalabamah00birm3 pages; first: [Northern Alabama, historical and biographical.., 1888, p. 341](https://archive.org/details/northernalabamah00birm/page/n341/mode/1up?q=McKinney); [Northern Alabama, historical and biographical.., 1888, p. 445](https://archive.org/details/northernalabamah00birm/page/n445/mode/1up?q=McKinney); [Northern Alabama, historical and biographical.., 1888, p. 558](https://archive.org/details/northernalabamah00birm/page/n558/mode/1up?q=McKinney); 0 with the given name (Emma, Louise)
  8. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "McKinney", inside historyofalabama01owen4 pages; first: [History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, 1921, p. 395](https://archive.org/details/historyofalabama01owen/page/n395/mode/1up?q=McKinney); [History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, 1921, p. 469](https://archive.org/details/historyofalabama01owen/page/n469/mode/1up?q=McKinney); [History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, 1921, p. 469](https://archive.org/details/historyofalabama01owen/page/n469/mode/1up?q=McKinney); 0 with the given name (Emma, Louise)
  9. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "McKinney", inside birminghamcitydi1914unse28 pages; first: [Birmingham city directory, 1909, p. 121](https://archive.org/details/birminghamcitydi1914unse/page/n121/mode/1up?q=McKinney); [Birmingham city directory, 1909, p. 138](https://archive.org/details/birminghamcitydi1914unse/page/n138/mode/1up?q=McKinney); [Birmingham city directory, 1909, p. 83](https://archive.org/details/birminghamcitydi1914unse/page/n83/mode/1up?q=McKinney); 2 with the given name (Emma, Louise)
  10. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "McKinney", inside jeffersoncountyb00dubo7 pages; first: [Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama; historical and biographical, 1887, p. 26](https://archive.org/details/jeffersoncountyb00dubo/page/n26/mode/1up?q=McKinney); [Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama; historical and biographical, 1887, p. 208](https://archive.org/details/jeffersoncountyb00dubo/page/n208/mode/1up?q=McKinney); [Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama; historical and biographical, 1887, p. 208](https://archive.org/details/jeffersoncountyb00dubo/page/n208/mode/1up?q=McKinney); 0 with the given name (Emma, Louise)
  11. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "McKinney", inside storyofcoalironi00armeno matches; 0 with the given name (Emma, Louise)
  12. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "McKinney", inside cu319241022016411 page; first: [Early settlers of Alabama, 1899, p. 127](https://archive.org/details/cu31924102201641/page/n127/mode/1up?q=McKinney); 0 with the given name (Emma, Louise)
  13. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Emma McKinney", Alabama (187 pages)Not her: a harpist at the Scotch-Irish Congress (1889), a South Dakota will (Dennis L. and Emma McKinney), a Kansas visitor (1890), a North Carolina music student.
  14. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "McKinney" inside the Coosa history (16 pages), *Memorial Record* (4), *Northern Alabama* (3), Owen (4), Birmingham directory (28), Jefferson County (7), *Early Settlers of Alabama* (1)No Emma. The Coosa history and *Memorial Record* concern Harris McKinney's family (her father's disputed parents; see her father's log, [Coosa history record](../documents/1942-coosa-history-mckinney-family.md), [Memorial Record record](../documents/1893-memorial-record-mcadory-slaughter-harris-mckinney.md)); the Birmingham and Jefferson County hits are other McKinneys (H. U. McKinney, city clerk; McKinney Bros. barbers).
  15. 2026-11-09Internet Archive hits assessed: 10 searchesNo match for Emma herself. No record for her.
  16. 2026-11-09DPLA: "Emma Louise McKinney"no matches
  17. 2026-11-09DPLA: "Emma McKinney", Alabamano matches
  18. 2026-11-09DPLA hits assessed: 2 searchesNo hits; nothing to assess.

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MDYC-8K5: birth 28 Jun 1854, Alabama 1900 US Census, Coosa Alabama: Legacy NFS source: birth 28 June 1854, Alabama; 1900 US Census, Coosa, Alabama back to the text
  2. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MDYC-8K5: parents Eli Harris McKinney Sr. and Martha Holland Willingham "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Harris Mc Kinney and Martha H. Willingham, 12 Sep 1844. Record: Harris Mc Kinney, 12 Sep 1844 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MPLT-6SB (their page): marriage 12 Sep 1844, Chambers, Alabama; ten children back to the text
  3. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MPLT-6SB (their page): children of Eli Harris McKinney Sr. and Martha Holland Willingham, with birth years back to the text
  4. "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Louisa E Mc Kiney in entry for Harris Mc Kiney, 1860. Record: Louisa E Mc Kiney in entry for Harris Mc Kiney, 1860 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MDYC-8K5: residence 1860, 2nd Subdivision, Coosa FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MPLT-6SB (their page): Eli Harris McKinney Sr., also named Harris Mc Kinney back to the text
  5. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MPLT-6SB (their page): military service Aug 1864: Company A 8th Alabama Infantry CSA back to the text
  6. "United States, Census, 1870", FamilySearch, L M McKinney in entry for N McKinney, 1870. Record: L M McKinney in entry for N McKinney, 1870 "United States, Census, 1870", FamilySearch, N McKinney, 1870. Record: N McKinney, 1870, attached to Eli Harris McKinney Sr. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MDYC-8K5: residence 1870, Socapatoy, Coosa back to the text
  7. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, W. W. Walden and E. L. Mckinney, 14 Jul 1875. Record: W. W. Walden and E. L. Mckinney, 14 Jul 1875 "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", FamilySearch, E. L. McKinney in entry for W. W. Walden, 14 Jul 1875. Record: E. L. McKinney in entry for W. W. Walden, 14 Jul 1875 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MDYC-8K5: marriage 14 Jul 1875, Coosa, Alabama back to the text
  8. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY38-58X (their page): parents Westley D Walden and Eliza Robbins FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KCR9-YLT (their page): Captain Company B 60th Alabama Infantry CSA; death 10 Oct 1863 back to the text
  9. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MDYC-8K5: children of William Walker Walden and Emma Louise McKinney, 1876–1900 back to the text
  10. "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch, Emma Walden in entry for W. W. Walden, 1880. Record: Emma Walden in entry for W. W. Walden, 1880 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MDYC-8K5: residence 1880, Crews, Coosa "United States, Census, 1900", FamilySearch, E L Walden in entry for W W Walden, 1900. Record: E L Walden in entry for W W Walden, 1900 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2LX-JR1 (their page): residence 1900, Election Precinct 17 Lauderdale, Coosa back to the text
  11. "United States, Census, 1910", FamilySearch, Emma L Walden in entry for William W Walden, 1910. Record: Emma L Walden in entry for William W Walden, 1910 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MDYC-8K5: residence 1910, Election Precinct 20 Red Apple, Marshall, Alabama back to the text
  12. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MPLT-6SB (their page): death 10 Jun 1908, Crews, Coosa, Alabama "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Harris McKinney, 10 Jun 1908. Record: Harris McKinney, 10 Jun 1908 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZG4-LQW (their page): Martha Holland Willingham, 1824–1913 back to the text
  13. "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Emma Louisa Walden in entry for Ida Mae Hardeman, 16 Aug 1915. Record: Emma Louisa Walden in entry for Ida Mae Hardeman, 16 Aug 1915 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Emma Walden in entry for Ida Mae Hardeman, 1915. Record: Emma Walden in entry for Ida Mae Hardeman, 1915 back to the text
  14. "United States, Census, 1920", FamilySearch, Emma S Walden in entry for Jas P Webb, 1920. Record: Emma S Walden in the household of Jas P Webb, 1920 "United States, Census, 1920", FamilySearch, Walla W Walden in entry for Jas P Webb, 1920. Record: Walla W Walden in the household of Jas P Webb, 1920 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2LX-JR1 (their page): spouse James Pleasant Webb back to the text
  15. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY38-58X (their page): death 21 Jan 1920, Birmingham back to the text
  16. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MDYC-8K5: death 1 Dec 1923, Fairfield, Jefferson, Alabama "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Emma W. Welden, 1923. Record: Emma W. Welden, Alabama Deaths, 1923 back to the text
  17. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MDYC-8K5: burial 2 Dec 1923, New Shiloh Cemetery, Coosa, Alabama "Find a Grave Index," database, FamilySearch, Emma McKinney Walden, ; Burial, , Coosa, Alabama, United States of America, Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery; citing record ID 81622064, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com. Record: Emma McKinney Walden, Find a Grave Index: burial, Coosa, Alabama, Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Emma Louise McKinney Walden. Record: Emma Louise McKinney Walden, Find a Grave Index back to the text
  18. "Florida, Deaths, 1877-1939", FamilySearch, Emma McKinney in entry for Lila Walden Webb, 2 October 1937. Record: Emma McKinney in entry for Lila Walden Webb, 2 October 1937 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Emma McKinney in entry for Vallie Walden Reaves, 1965. Record: Emma McKinney in entry for Vallie Walden Reaves, 1965 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Emma Louise McKinney in entry for Joseph F. Walden, 1971. Record: Emma Louise McKinney in entry for Joseph F. Walden, 1971 back to the text
  19. "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Unknown in entry for Julius West Walden, Sr., 1968. Record: Unknown in entry for Julius West Walden, Sr., 1968 back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to Emma Louise McKinney (21)
  1. 1860Louisa E Mc Kiney, "United States, Census, 1860"
  2. 1870L M McKinney, "United States, Census, 1870"
  3. 1875E. L. McKinney in entry for W. W. Walden, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  4. 14 Jul 1875E. L. McKinney, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  5. 14 Jul 1875E. L. Mckinney, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  6. 1880Emma Walden, "United States, Census, 1880"
  7. 1900E L Walden, "United States, Census, 1900"
  8. 1910Emma L Walden, "United States, Census, 1910"
  9. 16 Aug 1915Emma Louisa Walden, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  10. 1915Emma Walden in entry for Ida Mae Hardeman, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
  11. 1920Emma S Walden in household of Jas P Webb, "United States Census, 1920"
  12. 1923Emma W. Welden, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  13. 2 October 1937Emma McKinney, "Florida, Deaths, 1877-1939"
  14. 1965Emma McKinney, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  15. 1968Unknown, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  16. 1971Emma Louise McKinney, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  17. Emma Louise McKinney Walden, "Find a Grave Index"
  18. Emma McKinney Walden, "Find a Grave Index"
  19. Emma McKinney, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
  20. Legacy NFS Source: Emma Louise McKinney - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Emma Louise McKinney
  21. Legacy NFS Source: Emma Louise McKinney - Government record: Census record: birth: 28 June 1854; ,,Alabama, United States