This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Walden Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xYB.2ACE/1623 Message Board Post: source: CHRONICLES OF OKLAHOMA VOL 12 NO 4 pages: 494, 495 DECEMBER 1934 NECROLOGY Page 494 RESOLUTION. WHEREAS, Asa E. Walden, was born March 1, 1893, at Melisa, in Collin County, Texas, being a son of W. E. Walden and Mary Alice Walden, nee Roberts; that the parents of said Asa E. Walden came to Pike, Indian Territory, (now Love County) in 1900, where young Walden attended his first school, thereafter he attended school at Thackerville, and Marietta, Oklahoma, he then attended Southeastern State Teachers College, and taught school a year and attended Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, and obtained his law course, and was admitted to the bar in Oklahoma in the summer of 1914; at the election in 1914, Asa E. Walden was elected representative from Love County, was re-elected twice and served the people in the Legislature of this State for six years, and in 1920, resumed the practice of law; that in December 1914, Asa E. Walden married Exa Wiseman of Thackerville, and to this union was born five children; Helen Walden; Alice Joe Walden; Jimmie Walden; Rose Marie Walden! and Sue Walden; thereafter and in April of 1923, the Governor of the State of Oklahoma, appointed Asa E. Walden District Judge of the Eighth Judicial District of the State of Oklahoma, he being then 29 years of age and the youngest District Judge in Oklahoma; that Judge Walden was re-elected twice to his position, and was District Judge when he died September 1, 1934; that Judge Walden served the people of this District and the State of Oklahoma fearlessly and honestly and was widely and favorably known. That Judge Walden was a member of the Methodist Church of Marietta, and teacher of the Bible Class of that Church, the class being named for him; he was also a member of the Masonic Order. THEREFORE be it resolved that in the death of Judge Asa E. Walden the Judiciary of this State has lost one of its most valuable Judges; that the Bar of this State has lost one of its brightest members. THAT THE FAMILY of Judge Walden has lost all, he being a devoted husband and a loving father; That the Methodist Church has lost an active worker and valuable member. Page 495 That the people have lost a real friend, for he was in fact a friend of the common man, believing at all times the rights of the oppressed should be protected. Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be spread of record on the journal of the District Court of Love County, Oklahoma; a copy sent to the Historical Society of the State of Oklahoma, a copy to the Historical Society of the State of Texas, and a copy to the family of Judge Walden. Respectfully submitted, B. W. Jones J. W. Dixon Crawford W. Cameron John Steele Batson C. C. Wilkins O. E. English W. J. Williams J. I. Goins, THE BAR OF LOVE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. (Committee)