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    1. Walker, Prier, Shire, Lamb, Mann, Ducummun, Harter
    2. Looking for anyone whom is connected to the persons listed in the story below. Thank you, Angela Creacy DiBlasi Crawford County History, Page 6-7, George B. Walker came to Crawford County at an early day from Greene County Ind. north of Worthington. The mother's family was from North Carolina. The following children was born to George B. Walker and wife: John Wesley who married Margaret Prier, daughter of James and Lucy Prier, they have five boys and three girls, Calvin L. and Charles Edward both unmarried: Charlotte M. who married John Shire, son of Christopher Shire and they have two daughters and live on a farm in Crawford County, George B. Jr. who married Jane Elarter of Crawford County and they have one son and three daughters and live in Robinson , and Dora who married William Ducummun and they have three daughters, Effie, Frances and Mary. The deceased children of George B. Sr and his wife Mary (Lamb) Walker, were Simon and Lizzie, both dying when quite young. The children of Gorge B. Jr. are Guy, Rught , Ruby and Opal.William Dun Walker attend district school at the Union Star School until he was nineteen, when he began farming. On January 8, 1891, he was married to Effie Myrtle Mann by the Reb. Salathiel Lamb and one child was born of this union, a son, who died in infancy March 4 1894. Mrs. Walker is a daughter of Abel H. and Susan (Harter) Mann both father and mother being from stark county Ohio near Dayton. Mrs. Walker is one in a family of seven children as follows: William K, Ota, Ora P, Idu, Everett L., Mrs Walker and Ivy. By a former marriage her father had three chilren.Mr. Walker owns 66 acres of the farming land and has a comfortable residence upon it. He also owns 160 acres south of Gordon station. In politics he is a Republican. Both he and his wife belong to the Methodist Church of which he has been a member for about twenty one years and his wife for twenty three years both being active in Sunday School work. They are very substantial people and widely and favorable known in the community where they have spent their lives. Crawford County History, Page 6, Nature has done much to make Crawford County a desirable abiding place especially for the farmer, for the cilmastice conditions are such as to insure good crops. the soil is fertile and hidden in the ground are fast supplies of natural gas and oil. Transportation facilities are almost unsurpassed so that the marketing of produce is as easy matter and the farmers of this locality are prospering greatly. Prominent among them is William Dun Walker, who was born in Crawford County, near Hardinville, March 13 1869 a son of George B. and Mary M (Lamb) Walker. Angela DiBlasi Alexander County ILGenWeb www.rootsweb.com/~ilalexan/alexander.htm Crawford County ILGenWeb www.rootsweb.com/~ilcrawfo/index.htm Jasper County IlGenWeb www.rootsweb.com/~iljasper/ Ripley County INGenWeb www.rootsweb.com/~inripley/ MoGenWeb page for Lewis County Missouri at www.rootsweb.com/~molewis/

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