Obediah Cann WALKER

1870 - 1951  (80 years)

• Name	Obediah Cann WALKER
  Birth	7 Oct 1870	Millerville, Clay, Alabama, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Census	19 Apr 1910	Wray Township, Jefferson, Oklahoma, USA   [2]
  Census	3 Feb 1920	Ryan, Jefferson, Oklahoma, USA   [3]
  Occupation	Merchant
  Occupation	Postmaster
  Death	12 Apr 1951	Gotebo, Kiowa, Oklahoma, USA   [1]
  	at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. & Mrs. R. E. Forbes
  Burial	Ryan Cemetery, Ryan, Jefferson, Oklahoma, USA   [4]
  Person ID	I13469	Dyal and Speckels
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2019

  
  

  Family	Nannie FIELD,   b. Oct 1869, Missouri, USA d. 1934 (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	1895	Nocona, Montague, Texas, USA   [1, 5]
  Children	+ 1. Dr. Newton Field WALKER,   b. 18 Mar 1905, Fleetwood, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, USA d. 12 Aug 1976, El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F9402	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2019

  
  

• Notes

  “When a year old [Obediah] moved with his parents to a farm northwest of Whitesboro TX. He joined the Masonic Lodge in 1893. In 1895 he married Miss Nannie Field at Nocona TX where he and his brother, Mel, were in the grocery business. He and his wife moved to Fleetwood in 1898 which continued to be his home except from 1919 to 1924, when he was in the grocery business in Ryan. “He was postmaster at Fleetwood until he was retired when he reached the age of 70 years. He also had a general merchandise store and gin at Fleetwood. He was a charter member of the Masonic Territorial Lodge at Terral and also a charter member of the lodge when it was reorganized after statehood. He had a life membership in the Terral Lodge.” [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S3544] Thursday, April 19, 1951. [S13] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910, Jefferson County, Oklahoma, ED 159, p. 2B, line 64. [S14] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920, Jefferson County, Oklahoma, ED 211, p. 8A, line 20. [S673] Find A Grave, Ryan Cemetery, Ryan, Jefferson County, Oklahoma, USA, 16 Sep 2019. [S1939] Ancestry.com, Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014), FHL Film Number: 1024889.