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Vesta H. <I>Whitcomb</I> Walker

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Vesta H. Whitcomb Walker

Birth
Greenwich, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
25 Feb 1886 (aged 84)
Oswego County, New York, USA
Burial
Oswego, Oswego County, New York, USA Add to Map
Plot
The Acre Section
Memorial ID
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Mrs. Alva Walker, mother to Dr. Mary Walker, fell in home at Bunker Hill. Oswego Town, while lighting lamp, and breaking her hip

Source: Oswego Palladium Times, 1882
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Mrs. Alvah Walker, mother of Dr. Mary Walker, died at Oswego Sunday night, aged 80. She was a cousin of Robert O. Ingersoll

Source: The Syracuse Standard, April 27, 1887
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Alvah and Vesta Whitcomb Walker came to Oswego in August, 1832, they had four daughter, Vesta, Aurora, Luna and Cyunthia. Alvah built a house and barn on 33 acres of land on the Bunker Hill Road. A fifth daughter, Mary Edwards, was born three months later on Nov. 26. Alvah Walker believed women should have an education and career. Since there was no school in Oswego Town, he built one on his property. The sisters attended school, then Mary went to the Falley Seminary in Fulton, and onto medical school.
Mrs. Alva Walker, mother to Dr. Mary Walker, fell in home at Bunker Hill. Oswego Town, while lighting lamp, and breaking her hip

Source: Oswego Palladium Times, 1882
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Mrs. Alvah Walker, mother of Dr. Mary Walker, died at Oswego Sunday night, aged 80. She was a cousin of Robert O. Ingersoll

Source: The Syracuse Standard, April 27, 1887
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Alvah and Vesta Whitcomb Walker came to Oswego in August, 1832, they had four daughter, Vesta, Aurora, Luna and Cyunthia. Alvah built a house and barn on 33 acres of land on the Bunker Hill Road. A fifth daughter, Mary Edwards, was born three months later on Nov. 26. Alvah Walker believed women should have an education and career. Since there was no school in Oswego Town, he built one on his property. The sisters attended school, then Mary went to the Falley Seminary in Fulton, and onto medical school.

Gravesite Details

Wife of Alvah Walker, mother of Dr. Mary S. Walker, aged 85 years



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