Bruce Morton Garver, the manager of this Memorial, is a great-great-great grandson of James Walden (1794-1853) who is a great uncle of Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden (1876–1900) who is a second cousin to Bruce's great-grandfather George Reynolds Morton (1846-1920). On August 9, 2022, Bruce composed the following first draft of a "bio" of his second cousin-three-times-removed, Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden, and solicits suggestions for its improvement.
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BIRTH, PARENTS, AND A SHORT ACTIVE LIFE: Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden (1876–1900) was born near Cincinnati at Madisonville in Hamilton County, Ohio, to the Reverend John Morgan Walden (1831-1914) and Martha (Young) Walden (1835-1925) who had been born respectively in Warren County, Ohio, and Knox County, Ohio. John Morgan Walden & Martha (Young) Walden named the youngest of their five children, Elizabeth Bonar Walden, after her maternal grandmother, Sarah Elizabeth (Bonar) Young (1799–1847). Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden enjoyed the privileges of an upper-middle class upbringing that included a secondary education and travel to Europe, as is indicated on her March 1898 U.S. Passport Application attached to this Memorial as its third captioned photograph. Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden never wed; but evidence, including the published poem "In Memoriam" that Levi Gilbert dedicated to her and presumably read at her funeral on July 17, 1900, suggests that Bess Walden enjoyed the fellowship and admiration of many friends. (This poem is depicted in photograph No. 3 attached to this Memorial by Chris Hanlin, FAG member # 47638705).
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ELIZABETH BONAR WALDEN's FOUR SIBLINGS are here described in order of their birth:
(1) Leonard Walden was born on November 24, 1871, at Columbiana County, Ohio, to the Reverend John Morgan Walden (1831-1914) and Martha (Young) Walden (1835-1925) who had been born respectively in Warren County, Ohio, and Knox County, Ohio. At the time of Leonard's birth, the Rev. John Morgan Walden was serving as the senior minister of a congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, at Lynchburg in Columbiana County, Ohio. Of John Morgen and Martha (Young) Walden's five children, Leonard was the first to be born. Durng June 1881, Leonard Walden graduated with an undergraduate liberal arts degree at Ohio Weseyan University in Delaware, Ohio. In 1883, he received an M.D. degree from the Ohio Medical College. For three decades thereafter, Dr. Leonard Walden, M. D., successfully practiced medicine n the suburban Bond Hill area of Cincinnati, seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. During the year 1899, Dr. Leonard Walden completed post-graduate medical studies at the University of Berlin in the German Empire. His November 26, 1898, Application for a U. S. Passport is depicted in the second photograph attached to this Memorial. That Application provides documentary evidence for many important events in his life including his post-graduate study of medicine as the University of Berllin in the German Empire. Others equally noteworthy are mentioned in Dr. Leonard Walden's obituary published by the Dayton, Ohio, "Daily News" on December 30, 1931, an obituary whose text may be viewed in the fourth photograph attached to this Memorial. According to this obituary, his collection of postal stamps was considered to be "one of finest" such "collections in Dayton, Ohio." Dr. Leonard Walden never wed. After he retired, circa 1913, from the practice of medicine in the Bond Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, he moved to nearby Dayton, seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, in order to reside close to his sister, Matilda (Walden) Royal (1864–1935), her husband, the Rev. Stanley Olin Royal, (1851-1914), who resided at 835 North Broadway in Dayton with two of their daughters, Mary and Marguerite. A third daughter, Martha E. Royal ( 1887–1891), had died in childhood.
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(2) Mary Walden (Bowman, 1862-1926) was born on July 11, 1862, at Winterset, seat of Madison County, Iowa. During the year 1884, Mary Walden wed Pennsylvania-born Samuel Brittain Bowman (1856–1939), an ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, and the eighth-born of the eleven children of Methodist Episcopal Bishop Thomas Bowman (1817-1914) and Matilda (Hartman) Bowman (1821-1879), both of whom had been born in Pennsylvania. Mary (Walden) Bowman and Samuel Brittain Bowman raised no children. Throughout forty-two years of marriage, the couple devoted their adult lives to the service of successive local congregations within the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, Samuel as a local church pastor and Mary as the unsalaried hard-working pastor's wife.
Mary (Walden) Bowman and Samuel Bowman died respectively in 1926 and 1939 at Denver, capitol city of Colorado, and are interred on the Walden family plot at Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery beside the graves of Mary (Walden) Bowman's parents. her four siblings, her three nieces, her husband, and her two brothers-in-law, Stanley Olin Royal and Samuel Brittain Bowman
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(3) Matilda Walden (Royal, 1864-1935) was born in Cincinnati, seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, and was named after her paternal grandmother, Matilda (Young) Walden (1805-1833). Circa 1884, Matilda wed the Reverend Stanley Olin Royal (1851-1914) , a Methodist Episcopal Church, North, pastor with.whom she raised three daughters: Mary Goode Royal (1885–1971), Martha E. Royal (1887–1891), and Elizabeth Bonar Walden (1876–1900), none of whom ever wed.
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(4) Elisha Chisolm Walden (1871–1909) was born on November 24, 1871, at Cincinnati, seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, to the Reverend John Morgan Walden (1831-1914) and Martha (Young) Walden (1835-1925) who had been born respectively in Warren County, Ohio, and Knox County, Ohio. At the time of Elisha's birth, the Rev. John Morgan Walden was serving as the senior minister of a congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, in metropolitan Cincinnati, Ohio. John Morgan and Martha (Young) Walden named the fourth-born of their five children Elisha Chisolm Walden after his paternal uncle Elisha C. Walden (1800-1876).
Elisha Chisolm Walden became a professor of science at the University of Chattanooga in Hamilton County, Tennessee. Elisha's professorial career, so full of promise, ended there on October 19, 1909, at the age of thirty-seven without hia having ever been married. Several days later, Bishop John Morgan Walden delivered his son Elisha's funeral oration at Cincinnati's Central Union Station before a large audience of family members and friends who had assembled there to meet the "Southern Railway" train that brought Elisha's body home to Cincinnati. This assembly included many members of the Freedman's Aid Society, an organization that the Rev. John Morgan Walden had helped to establish in 1866 and on whose Board of Directors he would serve for the rest of his life. John Morgan Walden's sons Leonard & Elisha, his daughters Elizabeth "Bess" Walden, Mary (Walden) Bowman, and Matilda (Walden) Royal, and her husband, the Reverend Stanley Olin Royal, had also become members and benefactors of the Freedman's Aid Society which helped support Black schools and churches in all of the American states subject to post-Civil War Reconstruction (1867-1877) and thereafter to harshly discriminatory "Jim Crow" laws imposed by individual southern states during nine decades until the national Civil Rights Act of 1965.
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DEATH & INTERMENT: Elizabeth Bonar "Bessie" Walden died at the age of twenty-four on July 17, 1900, in Cincinnati, seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, where she was interred two days later at Spring Grove Cemetery in Garden LN, Section 113, Lot 236, Space 02.
Atop the enormous grave monument to the Rev. John Morgan Walden & Martha (Young) Walden and all five of their children stands a sculpted granite Bible opened to two pages of which the first page cites FIRST CORINTHIANS, XV, 57: "But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through Our Lord Jesus Christ" (over sin and death). The second page cites GALATIANS, VI, 14: "But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." Presumably Bishop John Morgan Walden selected these citations from the King James Version of the New Testament. To the first citation, Bruce Garver has added (within parentheses) four words which summarize the preceding two verses -- 55 & 56 -- from FIRST CORINTHIANS, XV. All evidence suggests that Bishop John Morgan Walden selected these passages from Scripture and helped to design this Walden & Royal family grave monument.
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Bruce Morton Garver thanks "Pam", FAG member No. 47212213, for having on July 29, 2022, transferred to him the management of this Memorial created by "Auto-Graver".
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On August 8, 2022, Bruce Garver attached the following document to this Memorial in preparation for writing the above "bio" of Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden:
From the "1880 U. S. Federal Census":
Name: Bessie Walden
Age: 4
Birth Date: About 1876
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1880: Winton Place, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA
Dwelling Number: 161
Gender: Female / Race: White
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: John Morgan Walden
Father's Birthplace: Ohio
Mother's Name: Martha (Young) Walden
Mother's Birthplace: Ohio
Household Members, Age, Relationship
John M. Walden, 49, Self (Head)
Martha Walden, 44, Wife
Leonard Walden, 20, Son
Mary Walden, 17, Daughter
Matilda Walden, 15, Daughter
Elisha Walden, 8, Son
Bessie Walden, 4, Daughter / Neighbors: View others on page
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BIRTH, PARENTS, AND A SHORT ACTIVE LIFE: Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden (1876–1900) was born near Cincinnati at Madisonville in Hamilton County, Ohio, to the Reverend John Morgan Walden (1831-1914) and Martha (Young) Walden (1835-1925) who had been born respectively in Warren County, Ohio, and Knox County, Ohio. John Morgan Walden & Martha (Young) Walden named the youngest of their five children, Elizabeth Bonar Walden, after her maternal grandmother, Sarah Elizabeth (Bonar) Young (1799–1847). Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden enjoyed the privileges of an upper-middle class upbringing that included a secondary education and travel to Europe, as is indicated on her March 1898 U.S. Passport Application attached to this Memorial as its third captioned photograph. Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden never wed; but evidence, including the published poem "In Memoriam" that Levi Gilbert dedicated to her and presumably read at her funeral on July 17, 1900, suggests that Bess Walden enjoyed the fellowship and admiration of many friends. (This poem is depicted in photograph No. 3 attached to this Memorial by Chris Hanlin, FAG member # 47638705).
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ELIZABETH BONAR WALDEN's FOUR SIBLINGS are here described in order of their birth:
(1) Leonard Walden was born on November 24, 1871, at Columbiana County, Ohio, to the Reverend John Morgan Walden (1831-1914) and Martha (Young) Walden (1835-1925) who had been born respectively in Warren County, Ohio, and Knox County, Ohio. At the time of Leonard's birth, the Rev. John Morgan Walden was serving as the senior minister of a congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, at Lynchburg in Columbiana County, Ohio. Of John Morgen and Martha (Young) Walden's five children, Leonard was the first to be born. Durng June 1881, Leonard Walden graduated with an undergraduate liberal arts degree at Ohio Weseyan University in Delaware, Ohio. In 1883, he received an M.D. degree from the Ohio Medical College. For three decades thereafter, Dr. Leonard Walden, M. D., successfully practiced medicine n the suburban Bond Hill area of Cincinnati, seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. During the year 1899, Dr. Leonard Walden completed post-graduate medical studies at the University of Berlin in the German Empire. His November 26, 1898, Application for a U. S. Passport is depicted in the second photograph attached to this Memorial. That Application provides documentary evidence for many important events in his life including his post-graduate study of medicine as the University of Berllin in the German Empire. Others equally noteworthy are mentioned in Dr. Leonard Walden's obituary published by the Dayton, Ohio, "Daily News" on December 30, 1931, an obituary whose text may be viewed in the fourth photograph attached to this Memorial. According to this obituary, his collection of postal stamps was considered to be "one of finest" such "collections in Dayton, Ohio." Dr. Leonard Walden never wed. After he retired, circa 1913, from the practice of medicine in the Bond Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, he moved to nearby Dayton, seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, in order to reside close to his sister, Matilda (Walden) Royal (1864–1935), her husband, the Rev. Stanley Olin Royal, (1851-1914), who resided at 835 North Broadway in Dayton with two of their daughters, Mary and Marguerite. A third daughter, Martha E. Royal ( 1887–1891), had died in childhood.
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(2) Mary Walden (Bowman, 1862-1926) was born on July 11, 1862, at Winterset, seat of Madison County, Iowa. During the year 1884, Mary Walden wed Pennsylvania-born Samuel Brittain Bowman (1856–1939), an ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, and the eighth-born of the eleven children of Methodist Episcopal Bishop Thomas Bowman (1817-1914) and Matilda (Hartman) Bowman (1821-1879), both of whom had been born in Pennsylvania. Mary (Walden) Bowman and Samuel Brittain Bowman raised no children. Throughout forty-two years of marriage, the couple devoted their adult lives to the service of successive local congregations within the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, Samuel as a local church pastor and Mary as the unsalaried hard-working pastor's wife.
Mary (Walden) Bowman and Samuel Bowman died respectively in 1926 and 1939 at Denver, capitol city of Colorado, and are interred on the Walden family plot at Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery beside the graves of Mary (Walden) Bowman's parents. her four siblings, her three nieces, her husband, and her two brothers-in-law, Stanley Olin Royal and Samuel Brittain Bowman
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(3) Matilda Walden (Royal, 1864-1935) was born in Cincinnati, seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, and was named after her paternal grandmother, Matilda (Young) Walden (1805-1833). Circa 1884, Matilda wed the Reverend Stanley Olin Royal (1851-1914) , a Methodist Episcopal Church, North, pastor with.whom she raised three daughters: Mary Goode Royal (1885–1971), Martha E. Royal (1887–1891), and Elizabeth Bonar Walden (1876–1900), none of whom ever wed.
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(4) Elisha Chisolm Walden (1871–1909) was born on November 24, 1871, at Cincinnati, seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, to the Reverend John Morgan Walden (1831-1914) and Martha (Young) Walden (1835-1925) who had been born respectively in Warren County, Ohio, and Knox County, Ohio. At the time of Elisha's birth, the Rev. John Morgan Walden was serving as the senior minister of a congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, in metropolitan Cincinnati, Ohio. John Morgan and Martha (Young) Walden named the fourth-born of their five children Elisha Chisolm Walden after his paternal uncle Elisha C. Walden (1800-1876).
Elisha Chisolm Walden became a professor of science at the University of Chattanooga in Hamilton County, Tennessee. Elisha's professorial career, so full of promise, ended there on October 19, 1909, at the age of thirty-seven without hia having ever been married. Several days later, Bishop John Morgan Walden delivered his son Elisha's funeral oration at Cincinnati's Central Union Station before a large audience of family members and friends who had assembled there to meet the "Southern Railway" train that brought Elisha's body home to Cincinnati. This assembly included many members of the Freedman's Aid Society, an organization that the Rev. John Morgan Walden had helped to establish in 1866 and on whose Board of Directors he would serve for the rest of his life. John Morgan Walden's sons Leonard & Elisha, his daughters Elizabeth "Bess" Walden, Mary (Walden) Bowman, and Matilda (Walden) Royal, and her husband, the Reverend Stanley Olin Royal, had also become members and benefactors of the Freedman's Aid Society which helped support Black schools and churches in all of the American states subject to post-Civil War Reconstruction (1867-1877) and thereafter to harshly discriminatory "Jim Crow" laws imposed by individual southern states during nine decades until the national Civil Rights Act of 1965.
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DEATH & INTERMENT: Elizabeth Bonar "Bessie" Walden died at the age of twenty-four on July 17, 1900, in Cincinnati, seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, where she was interred two days later at Spring Grove Cemetery in Garden LN, Section 113, Lot 236, Space 02.
Atop the enormous grave monument to the Rev. John Morgan Walden & Martha (Young) Walden and all five of their children stands a sculpted granite Bible opened to two pages of which the first page cites FIRST CORINTHIANS, XV, 57: "But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through Our Lord Jesus Christ" (over sin and death). The second page cites GALATIANS, VI, 14: "But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." Presumably Bishop John Morgan Walden selected these citations from the King James Version of the New Testament. To the first citation, Bruce Garver has added (within parentheses) four words which summarize the preceding two verses -- 55 & 56 -- from FIRST CORINTHIANS, XV. All evidence suggests that Bishop John Morgan Walden selected these passages from Scripture and helped to design this Walden & Royal family grave monument.
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Bruce Morton Garver thanks "Pam", FAG member No. 47212213, for having on July 29, 2022, transferred to him the management of this Memorial created by "Auto-Graver".
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On August 8, 2022, Bruce Garver attached the following document to this Memorial in preparation for writing the above "bio" of Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden:
From the "1880 U. S. Federal Census":
Name: Bessie Walden
Age: 4
Birth Date: About 1876
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1880: Winton Place, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA
Dwelling Number: 161
Gender: Female / Race: White
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: John Morgan Walden
Father's Birthplace: Ohio
Mother's Name: Martha (Young) Walden
Mother's Birthplace: Ohio
Household Members, Age, Relationship
John M. Walden, 49, Self (Head)
Martha Walden, 44, Wife
Leonard Walden, 20, Son
Mary Walden, 17, Daughter
Matilda Walden, 15, Daughter
Elisha Walden, 8, Son
Bessie Walden, 4, Daughter / Neighbors: View others on page
Bruce Morton Garver, the manager of this Memorial, is a great-great-great grandson of James Walden (1794-1853) who is a great uncle of Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden (1876–1900) who is a second cousin to Bruce's great-grandfather George Reynolds Morton (1846-1920). On August 9, 2022, Bruce composed the following first draft of a "bio" of his second cousin-three-times-removed, Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden, and solicits suggestions for its improvement.
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BIRTH, PARENTS, AND A SHORT ACTIVE LIFE: Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden (1876–1900) was born near Cincinnati at Madisonville in Hamilton County, Ohio, to the Reverend John Morgan Walden (1831-1914) and Martha (Young) Walden (1835-1925) who had been born respectively in Warren County, Ohio, and Knox County, Ohio. John Morgan Walden & Martha (Young) Walden named the youngest of their five children, Elizabeth Bonar Walden, after her maternal grandmother, Sarah Elizabeth (Bonar) Young (1799–1847). Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden enjoyed the privileges of an upper-middle class upbringing that included a secondary education and travel to Europe, as is indicated on her March 1898 U.S. Passport Application attached to this Memorial as its third captioned photograph. Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden never wed; but evidence, including the published poem "In Memoriam" that Levi Gilbert dedicated to her and presumably read at her funeral on July 17, 1900, suggests that Bess Walden enjoyed the fellowship and admiration of many friends. (This poem is depicted in photograph No. 3 attached to this Memorial by Chris Hanlin, FAG member # 47638705).
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ELIZABETH BONAR WALDEN's FOUR SIBLINGS are here described in order of their birth:
(1) Leonard Walden was born on November 24, 1871, at Columbiana County, Ohio, to the Reverend John Morgan Walden (1831-1914) and Martha (Young) Walden (1835-1925) who had been born respectively in Warren County, Ohio, and Knox County, Ohio. At the time of Leonard's birth, the Rev. John Morgan Walden was serving as the senior minister of a congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, at Lynchburg in Columbiana County, Ohio. Of John Morgen and Martha (Young) Walden's five children, Leonard was the first to be born. Durng June 1881, Leonard Walden graduated with an undergraduate liberal arts degree at Ohio Weseyan University in Delaware, Ohio. In 1883, he received an M.D. degree from the Ohio Medical College. For three decades thereafter, Dr. Leonard Walden, M. D., successfully practiced medicine n the suburban Bond Hill area of Cincinnati, seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. During the year 1899, Dr. Leonard Walden completed post-graduate medical studies at the University of Berlin in the German Empire. His November 26, 1898, Application for a U. S. Passport is depicted in the second photograph attached to this Memorial. That Application provides documentary evidence for many important events in his life including his post-graduate study of medicine as the University of Berllin in the German Empire. Others equally noteworthy are mentioned in Dr. Leonard Walden's obituary published by the Dayton, Ohio, "Daily News" on December 30, 1931, an obituary whose text may be viewed in the fourth photograph attached to this Memorial. According to this obituary, his collection of postal stamps was considered to be "one of finest" such "collections in Dayton, Ohio." Dr. Leonard Walden never wed. After he retired, circa 1913, from the practice of medicine in the Bond Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, he moved to nearby Dayton, seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, in order to reside close to his sister, Matilda (Walden) Royal (1864–1935), her husband, the Rev. Stanley Olin Royal, (1851-1914), who resided at 835 North Broadway in Dayton with two of their daughters, Mary and Marguerite. A third daughter, Martha E. Royal ( 1887–1891), had died in childhood.
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(2) Mary Walden (Bowman, 1862-1926) was born on July 11, 1862, at Winterset, seat of Madison County, Iowa. During the year 1884, Mary Walden wed Pennsylvania-born Samuel Brittain Bowman (1856–1939), an ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, and the eighth-born of the eleven children of Methodist Episcopal Bishop Thomas Bowman (1817-1914) and Matilda (Hartman) Bowman (1821-1879), both of whom had been born in Pennsylvania. Mary (Walden) Bowman and Samuel Brittain Bowman raised no children. Throughout forty-two years of marriage, the couple devoted their adult lives to the service of successive local congregations within the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, Samuel as a local church pastor and Mary as the unsalaried hard-working pastor's wife.
Mary (Walden) Bowman and Samuel Bowman died respectively in 1926 and 1939 at Denver, capitol city of Colorado, and are interred on the Walden family plot at Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery beside the graves of Mary (Walden) Bowman's parents. her four siblings, her three nieces, her husband, and her two brothers-in-law, Stanley Olin Royal and Samuel Brittain Bowman
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(3) Matilda Walden (Royal, 1864-1935) was born in Cincinnati, seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, and was named after her paternal grandmother, Matilda (Young) Walden (1805-1833). Circa 1884, Matilda wed the Reverend Stanley Olin Royal (1851-1914) , a Methodist Episcopal Church, North, pastor with.whom she raised three daughters: Mary Goode Royal (1885–1971), Martha E. Royal (1887–1891), and Elizabeth Bonar Walden (1876–1900), none of whom ever wed.
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(4) Elisha Chisolm Walden (1871–1909) was born on November 24, 1871, at Cincinnati, seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, to the Reverend John Morgan Walden (1831-1914) and Martha (Young) Walden (1835-1925) who had been born respectively in Warren County, Ohio, and Knox County, Ohio. At the time of Elisha's birth, the Rev. John Morgan Walden was serving as the senior minister of a congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, in metropolitan Cincinnati, Ohio. John Morgan and Martha (Young) Walden named the fourth-born of their five children Elisha Chisolm Walden after his paternal uncle Elisha C. Walden (1800-1876).
Elisha Chisolm Walden became a professor of science at the University of Chattanooga in Hamilton County, Tennessee. Elisha's professorial career, so full of promise, ended there on October 19, 1909, at the age of thirty-seven without hia having ever been married. Several days later, Bishop John Morgan Walden delivered his son Elisha's funeral oration at Cincinnati's Central Union Station before a large audience of family members and friends who had assembled there to meet the "Southern Railway" train that brought Elisha's body home to Cincinnati. This assembly included many members of the Freedman's Aid Society, an organization that the Rev. John Morgan Walden had helped to establish in 1866 and on whose Board of Directors he would serve for the rest of his life. John Morgan Walden's sons Leonard & Elisha, his daughters Elizabeth "Bess" Walden, Mary (Walden) Bowman, and Matilda (Walden) Royal, and her husband, the Reverend Stanley Olin Royal, had also become members and benefactors of the Freedman's Aid Society which helped support Black schools and churches in all of the American states subject to post-Civil War Reconstruction (1867-1877) and thereafter to harshly discriminatory "Jim Crow" laws imposed by individual southern states during nine decades until the national Civil Rights Act of 1965.
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DEATH & INTERMENT: Elizabeth Bonar "Bessie" Walden died at the age of twenty-four on July 17, 1900, in Cincinnati, seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, where she was interred two days later at Spring Grove Cemetery in Garden LN, Section 113, Lot 236, Space 02.
Atop the enormous grave monument to the Rev. John Morgan Walden & Martha (Young) Walden and all five of their children stands a sculpted granite Bible opened to two pages of which the first page cites FIRST CORINTHIANS, XV, 57: "But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through Our Lord Jesus Christ" (over sin and death). The second page cites GALATIANS, VI, 14: "But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." Presumably Bishop John Morgan Walden selected these citations from the King James Version of the New Testament. To the first citation, Bruce Garver has added (within parentheses) four words which summarize the preceding two verses -- 55 & 56 -- from FIRST CORINTHIANS, XV. All evidence suggests that Bishop John Morgan Walden selected these passages from Scripture and helped to design this Walden & Royal family grave monument.
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Bruce Morton Garver thanks "Pam", FAG member No. 47212213, for having on July 29, 2022, transferred to him the management of this Memorial created by "Auto-Graver".
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On August 8, 2022, Bruce Garver attached the following document to this Memorial in preparation for writing the above "bio" of Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden:
From the "1880 U. S. Federal Census":
Name: Bessie Walden
Age: 4
Birth Date: About 1876
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1880: Winton Place, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA
Dwelling Number: 161
Gender: Female / Race: White
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: John Morgan Walden
Father's Birthplace: Ohio
Mother's Name: Martha (Young) Walden
Mother's Birthplace: Ohio
Household Members, Age, Relationship
John M. Walden, 49, Self (Head)
Martha Walden, 44, Wife
Leonard Walden, 20, Son
Mary Walden, 17, Daughter
Matilda Walden, 15, Daughter
Elisha Walden, 8, Son
Bessie Walden, 4, Daughter / Neighbors: View others on page
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BIRTH, PARENTS, AND A SHORT ACTIVE LIFE: Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden (1876–1900) was born near Cincinnati at Madisonville in Hamilton County, Ohio, to the Reverend John Morgan Walden (1831-1914) and Martha (Young) Walden (1835-1925) who had been born respectively in Warren County, Ohio, and Knox County, Ohio. John Morgan Walden & Martha (Young) Walden named the youngest of their five children, Elizabeth Bonar Walden, after her maternal grandmother, Sarah Elizabeth (Bonar) Young (1799–1847). Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden enjoyed the privileges of an upper-middle class upbringing that included a secondary education and travel to Europe, as is indicated on her March 1898 U.S. Passport Application attached to this Memorial as its third captioned photograph. Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden never wed; but evidence, including the published poem "In Memoriam" that Levi Gilbert dedicated to her and presumably read at her funeral on July 17, 1900, suggests that Bess Walden enjoyed the fellowship and admiration of many friends. (This poem is depicted in photograph No. 3 attached to this Memorial by Chris Hanlin, FAG member # 47638705).
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ELIZABETH BONAR WALDEN's FOUR SIBLINGS are here described in order of their birth:
(1) Leonard Walden was born on November 24, 1871, at Columbiana County, Ohio, to the Reverend John Morgan Walden (1831-1914) and Martha (Young) Walden (1835-1925) who had been born respectively in Warren County, Ohio, and Knox County, Ohio. At the time of Leonard's birth, the Rev. John Morgan Walden was serving as the senior minister of a congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, at Lynchburg in Columbiana County, Ohio. Of John Morgen and Martha (Young) Walden's five children, Leonard was the first to be born. Durng June 1881, Leonard Walden graduated with an undergraduate liberal arts degree at Ohio Weseyan University in Delaware, Ohio. In 1883, he received an M.D. degree from the Ohio Medical College. For three decades thereafter, Dr. Leonard Walden, M. D., successfully practiced medicine n the suburban Bond Hill area of Cincinnati, seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. During the year 1899, Dr. Leonard Walden completed post-graduate medical studies at the University of Berlin in the German Empire. His November 26, 1898, Application for a U. S. Passport is depicted in the second photograph attached to this Memorial. That Application provides documentary evidence for many important events in his life including his post-graduate study of medicine as the University of Berllin in the German Empire. Others equally noteworthy are mentioned in Dr. Leonard Walden's obituary published by the Dayton, Ohio, "Daily News" on December 30, 1931, an obituary whose text may be viewed in the fourth photograph attached to this Memorial. According to this obituary, his collection of postal stamps was considered to be "one of finest" such "collections in Dayton, Ohio." Dr. Leonard Walden never wed. After he retired, circa 1913, from the practice of medicine in the Bond Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, he moved to nearby Dayton, seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, in order to reside close to his sister, Matilda (Walden) Royal (1864–1935), her husband, the Rev. Stanley Olin Royal, (1851-1914), who resided at 835 North Broadway in Dayton with two of their daughters, Mary and Marguerite. A third daughter, Martha E. Royal ( 1887–1891), had died in childhood.
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(2) Mary Walden (Bowman, 1862-1926) was born on July 11, 1862, at Winterset, seat of Madison County, Iowa. During the year 1884, Mary Walden wed Pennsylvania-born Samuel Brittain Bowman (1856–1939), an ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, and the eighth-born of the eleven children of Methodist Episcopal Bishop Thomas Bowman (1817-1914) and Matilda (Hartman) Bowman (1821-1879), both of whom had been born in Pennsylvania. Mary (Walden) Bowman and Samuel Brittain Bowman raised no children. Throughout forty-two years of marriage, the couple devoted their adult lives to the service of successive local congregations within the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, Samuel as a local church pastor and Mary as the unsalaried hard-working pastor's wife.
Mary (Walden) Bowman and Samuel Bowman died respectively in 1926 and 1939 at Denver, capitol city of Colorado, and are interred on the Walden family plot at Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery beside the graves of Mary (Walden) Bowman's parents. her four siblings, her three nieces, her husband, and her two brothers-in-law, Stanley Olin Royal and Samuel Brittain Bowman
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(3) Matilda Walden (Royal, 1864-1935) was born in Cincinnati, seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, and was named after her paternal grandmother, Matilda (Young) Walden (1805-1833). Circa 1884, Matilda wed the Reverend Stanley Olin Royal (1851-1914) , a Methodist Episcopal Church, North, pastor with.whom she raised three daughters: Mary Goode Royal (1885–1971), Martha E. Royal (1887–1891), and Elizabeth Bonar Walden (1876–1900), none of whom ever wed.
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(4) Elisha Chisolm Walden (1871–1909) was born on November 24, 1871, at Cincinnati, seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, to the Reverend John Morgan Walden (1831-1914) and Martha (Young) Walden (1835-1925) who had been born respectively in Warren County, Ohio, and Knox County, Ohio. At the time of Elisha's birth, the Rev. John Morgan Walden was serving as the senior minister of a congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, in metropolitan Cincinnati, Ohio. John Morgan and Martha (Young) Walden named the fourth-born of their five children Elisha Chisolm Walden after his paternal uncle Elisha C. Walden (1800-1876).
Elisha Chisolm Walden became a professor of science at the University of Chattanooga in Hamilton County, Tennessee. Elisha's professorial career, so full of promise, ended there on October 19, 1909, at the age of thirty-seven without hia having ever been married. Several days later, Bishop John Morgan Walden delivered his son Elisha's funeral oration at Cincinnati's Central Union Station before a large audience of family members and friends who had assembled there to meet the "Southern Railway" train that brought Elisha's body home to Cincinnati. This assembly included many members of the Freedman's Aid Society, an organization that the Rev. John Morgan Walden had helped to establish in 1866 and on whose Board of Directors he would serve for the rest of his life. John Morgan Walden's sons Leonard & Elisha, his daughters Elizabeth "Bess" Walden, Mary (Walden) Bowman, and Matilda (Walden) Royal, and her husband, the Reverend Stanley Olin Royal, had also become members and benefactors of the Freedman's Aid Society which helped support Black schools and churches in all of the American states subject to post-Civil War Reconstruction (1867-1877) and thereafter to harshly discriminatory "Jim Crow" laws imposed by individual southern states during nine decades until the national Civil Rights Act of 1965.
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DEATH & INTERMENT: Elizabeth Bonar "Bessie" Walden died at the age of twenty-four on July 17, 1900, in Cincinnati, seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, where she was interred two days later at Spring Grove Cemetery in Garden LN, Section 113, Lot 236, Space 02.
Atop the enormous grave monument to the Rev. John Morgan Walden & Martha (Young) Walden and all five of their children stands a sculpted granite Bible opened to two pages of which the first page cites FIRST CORINTHIANS, XV, 57: "But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through Our Lord Jesus Christ" (over sin and death). The second page cites GALATIANS, VI, 14: "But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." Presumably Bishop John Morgan Walden selected these citations from the King James Version of the New Testament. To the first citation, Bruce Garver has added (within parentheses) four words which summarize the preceding two verses -- 55 & 56 -- from FIRST CORINTHIANS, XV. All evidence suggests that Bishop John Morgan Walden selected these passages from Scripture and helped to design this Walden & Royal family grave monument.
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Bruce Morton Garver thanks "Pam", FAG member No. 47212213, for having on July 29, 2022, transferred to him the management of this Memorial created by "Auto-Graver".
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On August 8, 2022, Bruce Garver attached the following document to this Memorial in preparation for writing the above "bio" of Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden:
From the "1880 U. S. Federal Census":
Name: Bessie Walden
Age: 4
Birth Date: About 1876
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1880: Winton Place, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA
Dwelling Number: 161
Gender: Female / Race: White
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: John Morgan Walden
Father's Birthplace: Ohio
Mother's Name: Martha (Young) Walden
Mother's Birthplace: Ohio
Household Members, Age, Relationship
John M. Walden, 49, Self (Head)
Martha Walden, 44, Wife
Leonard Walden, 20, Son
Mary Walden, 17, Daughter
Matilda Walden, 15, Daughter
Elisha Walden, 8, Son
Bessie Walden, 4, Daughter / Neighbors: View others on page
Gravesite Details
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