Bruce Morton Garver, the manager of this Memorial to Martha (Young) Walden (1835–1925), is a first cousin four-times-removed to Martha's husband, the Reverend John Morgan Walden (1831-1914). Bruce is also the great-great-great grandson of James Walden (1794-1853) who is an uncle of the Reverend John Morgan Walden and the eldest brother of John Morgan Walden's father, Jesse Walden (1802–1849). Bruce Morton Garver's maternal great-great grandmother, Eliza (Walden) Morton (1823–1847), is a first cousin to the Reverend John Morgan Walden.
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BIRTH, PARENTS, AND SISTER: Martha Young was born on September 4, 1835, in Knox County, Ohio, as the youngest of the two daughters of Ebenezer (Pierson) Young (1798–1870), a native of Morris County, New Jersey, and Sarah E. (Bonar) Young (1799–1847), who had been born to Barnet Bonar and Isabel (Glen) Bonar on April 30, 1799, at Fredrickstown in the Northwest Territory, in what would in 1803 become Knox County of the state of Ohio. Martha's elder sister, Elizabeth (Young) Leonard (1822–1887) in 1843 wed Dr. William Lewis Leonard (1823-1893) who would serve during the Civil War in Company "S" of the 39th Regiment of Iowa Volunteer Infantry of which he became the regimental surgeon. His wife, Elizabeth (Young) Leonard, served as a nurse in a field hospital whose personnel attended to the needs of wounded regimental soldiers and officers. Elizabeth (Young) Leonard & Dr. William Lewis Leonard raised no children. and after the Civil War resided at Winterset, seat of Madison County, Iowa.
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THE MARRIAGE OF MARTHA (YOUNG) WALDEN & JOHN MORGAN WALDEN: During the year 1859 in Ohio, Martha Young (1835–1925) wed the Reverend John Morgan Walden who had been born on February 11, 1831, at Lebanon, seat of Warren County, Ohio, to Jesse Walden (1802-1849) and Matilda (Morgan) Walden (1805–1833) who gave to John the middle name "Morgan" to honor his mother's maiden surname. Martha Young married the Reverend John Morgan Walden within a year after he had been ordained in 1858 as a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, after having been an effective editorial and political leader in efforts to establish Kansas as a free state without slavery and with state-supported public schools. John Morgan Walden and Martha (Young) Walden would raise five children and live to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in 1909 while continuing to mourn the deaths of the youngest two of their five children, Elisha Chisholm Walden (1871-1909) and Elizabeth "Bess" Bonar Walden (1876-1900).
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THE FIVE CHILDREN of MARTHA (YOUNG) WALDEN & the Rev. JOHN MORGAN WALDEN: Together, Martha (Young) Walden and the Reverend John Morgan Walden raised five children, each of whom was born in a town where John Morgan Walden was then serving as pastor of the local Methodist congregation.
(1) Dr. Leonard Walden (1860-1931) was born on April 20, 1860, at Lynchburg in Columbiana County, Ohio. Leonard graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, earned an M.D. at the Ohio Medical College, and became a physician who successfully practiced medicine for more than three decades in the Bond Hill area of Cincinnati, Ohio. Leonard never married and in 1899 completed post-graduate medical studies at the University of Berlin in the German Empire. After retiring from medical practice, circa 1925, Dr. Leonard Walden moved to Dayton, seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, where his widowed sister, Matilda (Walden) Royal (1864–1935) resided with her two surviving daughters, Mary Goode Royal (1885–1971) and Marguerite Walden Royal
(1892–1966). At his sister Matilda's home in Dayton, Dr. Leonard Walden died on December 29, 1931, and was interred on the Walden family plot at Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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(2) Mary Walden (Bowman, 1862-1926) was born on July 11, 1862, at Winterset, seat of Madison County, Iowa, where the Rev. John Morgan Walden then served as the pastor of the local Methodist Episcopal Church, North. During the year 1884, Mary wed Pennsylvania-born Samuel Brittain Bowman (1856–1939). The couple had no children. Both 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 Samuel Brittain Bowman, and her brother-in-law.
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(3) Matilda Walden (Royal, 1864-1935) was born at 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 pastor with whom she raised three daughters: Mary Goode Royal (1885–1971), Martha E. Royal (1887–1891), and Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden (1876–1900), none of whom ever wed.
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(4) Son Elisha Chisolm Walden (1871–1909) was named after his paternal uncle Elisha C. Walden (1800-1876), became a professor of science at the University of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and died there on October 19, 1909, at the age of thirty-seven without 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 until he retired from the ministry circa 1910. Martha (Young) Walden's and John Morgan Walden's sons Leonard & Elisha, daughters Elizabeth "Bess" Bonar Walden 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 federal Reconstruction from 1867 to 1877 and thereafter during nine decades of harshly discriminatory "Jim Crow" laws enforced by individual states of the American South until the enactment of the national Civil Rights Act of 1965.
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(5) Daughter Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden (1876–1900) was born near Cincinnati at Madisonville in Hamilton County, Ohio, and named after her maternal grandmother, Sarah Elizabeth (Bonar) Young (1799–1847). Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden died at the age of twenty-four in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 17, 1900, without having ever wed.
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MARTHA (YOUNG) WALDEN's 55 YEARS OF VOLUNTARY WORK ON BEHALF OF THE CHURCH: During the first twenty-five years of their fifty-five years of marriage, Martha (Young) Walden and the Reverend John Morgan Walden not only raised three daughters and two sons, but devoted themselves to the service of successive local congregations within the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, John as an urban church pastor and Martha as the unsalaried hard-working pastor's wife. Like her husband and five children, Matilda (Young) Walden became a member 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 throughout his ministry. Upon John's becoming Bishop of the Cincinnati Conference in 1884, Martha (Young) Walde's unsalaried work on behalf of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, included serving as an organizer and hostess at conference and national Church activities and generally helping John in his administrative work for various Methodist charitable and social outreach organizations.
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OLD AGE & DEATH OF MARTHA (YOUNG) WALDEN & BISHOP JOHN MORGAN WALDEN:
John Morgan Walden died at the age of eighty-two on January 21, 1914, at Daytona in Volusia County, Florida, to which he and his wife, Martha (Young) Walden (1835–1925), had retired circa 1910. (Note that Find a Grave & Ancestry.com place the former town of "Daytona" within Deltona, now the largest city in Volusia County, Florida). On January 26, 1914, five days fter his death, John Morgan Walden was interred at Cincinnati's magnificent Spring Grove Cemetery in Garden LN, Section 113, Lot 236, Space 04. Eleven years and one month later, Martha (Young) Walden died at the age of eighty-nine in the home of her son, Dr. Leonard Walden (1860-1931), at 845 N. Broadway in Dayton, seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, and was interred close to her husband, John, at Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery in Garden LN, Section 113, Lot 236, Space 06. Atop the large grave monument to Martha (Young) Walden & Bishop John Morgan Walden and all five of their children, their two sons-in-law, and three granddaughters, 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.
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ATTACHED DOCUMENTS: Before beginning on Sept. 2, 2022, to write the above "bio" of the Rev. John Morgan Walden, Bruce Garver attached the following document:
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From the "U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865":
Name: Dr, William L Leonard, husband of Elizabeth (Young) Leonard
(1822–1887) and brother-in-law of Martha (Young) Walden (1835-1925).
Enlistment Age: 39
Birth Date: ab0ut 1823 / Birth Place: Ohio, USA
Enlistment Date: 17 Sep 1862
Enlistment Rank: Assistant Surgeon
Muster Date: 24 Nov 1862 / Muster Place: Iowa
Muster Company: S / Muster Regiment: 39th Iowa Infantry
Muster Information: Commission
Muster Out Date: 5 Jun 1865 / Muster Out Place: Washington, District of Columbia
Survived War?: Yes / Side of War: Union
Was Officer?: Yes
Residence Place: Winterset, Iowa
Title: Roster & Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of Rebellion
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BIRTH, PARENTS, AND SISTER: Martha Young was born on September 4, 1835, in Knox County, Ohio, as the youngest of the two daughters of Ebenezer (Pierson) Young (1798–1870), a native of Morris County, New Jersey, and Sarah E. (Bonar) Young (1799–1847), who had been born to Barnet Bonar and Isabel (Glen) Bonar on April 30, 1799, at Fredrickstown in the Northwest Territory, in what would in 1803 become Knox County of the state of Ohio. Martha's elder sister, Elizabeth (Young) Leonard (1822–1887) in 1843 wed Dr. William Lewis Leonard (1823-1893) who would serve during the Civil War in Company "S" of the 39th Regiment of Iowa Volunteer Infantry of which he became the regimental surgeon. His wife, Elizabeth (Young) Leonard, served as a nurse in a field hospital whose personnel attended to the needs of wounded regimental soldiers and officers. Elizabeth (Young) Leonard & Dr. William Lewis Leonard raised no children. and after the Civil War resided at Winterset, seat of Madison County, Iowa.
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THE MARRIAGE OF MARTHA (YOUNG) WALDEN & JOHN MORGAN WALDEN: During the year 1859 in Ohio, Martha Young (1835–1925) wed the Reverend John Morgan Walden who had been born on February 11, 1831, at Lebanon, seat of Warren County, Ohio, to Jesse Walden (1802-1849) and Matilda (Morgan) Walden (1805–1833) who gave to John the middle name "Morgan" to honor his mother's maiden surname. Martha Young married the Reverend John Morgan Walden within a year after he had been ordained in 1858 as a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, after having been an effective editorial and political leader in efforts to establish Kansas as a free state without slavery and with state-supported public schools. John Morgan Walden and Martha (Young) Walden would raise five children and live to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in 1909 while continuing to mourn the deaths of the youngest two of their five children, Elisha Chisholm Walden (1871-1909) and Elizabeth "Bess" Bonar Walden (1876-1900).
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THE FIVE CHILDREN of MARTHA (YOUNG) WALDEN & the Rev. JOHN MORGAN WALDEN: Together, Martha (Young) Walden and the Reverend John Morgan Walden raised five children, each of whom was born in a town where John Morgan Walden was then serving as pastor of the local Methodist congregation.
(1) Dr. Leonard Walden (1860-1931) was born on April 20, 1860, at Lynchburg in Columbiana County, Ohio. Leonard graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, earned an M.D. at the Ohio Medical College, and became a physician who successfully practiced medicine for more than three decades in the Bond Hill area of Cincinnati, Ohio. Leonard never married and in 1899 completed post-graduate medical studies at the University of Berlin in the German Empire. After retiring from medical practice, circa 1925, Dr. Leonard Walden moved to Dayton, seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, where his widowed sister, Matilda (Walden) Royal (1864–1935) resided with her two surviving daughters, Mary Goode Royal (1885–1971) and Marguerite Walden Royal
(1892–1966). At his sister Matilda's home in Dayton, Dr. Leonard Walden died on December 29, 1931, and was interred on the Walden family plot at Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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(2) Mary Walden (Bowman, 1862-1926) was born on July 11, 1862, at Winterset, seat of Madison County, Iowa, where the Rev. John Morgan Walden then served as the pastor of the local Methodist Episcopal Church, North. During the year 1884, Mary wed Pennsylvania-born Samuel Brittain Bowman (1856–1939). The couple had no children. Both 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 Samuel Brittain Bowman, and her brother-in-law.
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(3) Matilda Walden (Royal, 1864-1935) was born at 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 pastor with whom she raised three daughters: Mary Goode Royal (1885–1971), Martha E. Royal (1887–1891), and Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden (1876–1900), none of whom ever wed.
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(4) Son Elisha Chisolm Walden (1871–1909) was named after his paternal uncle Elisha C. Walden (1800-1876), became a professor of science at the University of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and died there on October 19, 1909, at the age of thirty-seven without 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 until he retired from the ministry circa 1910. Martha (Young) Walden's and John Morgan Walden's sons Leonard & Elisha, daughters Elizabeth "Bess" Bonar Walden 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 federal Reconstruction from 1867 to 1877 and thereafter during nine decades of harshly discriminatory "Jim Crow" laws enforced by individual states of the American South until the enactment of the national Civil Rights Act of 1965.
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(5) Daughter Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden (1876–1900) was born near Cincinnati at Madisonville in Hamilton County, Ohio, and named after her maternal grandmother, Sarah Elizabeth (Bonar) Young (1799–1847). Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden died at the age of twenty-four in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 17, 1900, without having ever wed.
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MARTHA (YOUNG) WALDEN's 55 YEARS OF VOLUNTARY WORK ON BEHALF OF THE CHURCH: During the first twenty-five years of their fifty-five years of marriage, Martha (Young) Walden and the Reverend John Morgan Walden not only raised three daughters and two sons, but devoted themselves to the service of successive local congregations within the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, John as an urban church pastor and Martha as the unsalaried hard-working pastor's wife. Like her husband and five children, Matilda (Young) Walden became a member 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 throughout his ministry. Upon John's becoming Bishop of the Cincinnati Conference in 1884, Martha (Young) Walde's unsalaried work on behalf of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, included serving as an organizer and hostess at conference and national Church activities and generally helping John in his administrative work for various Methodist charitable and social outreach organizations.
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OLD AGE & DEATH OF MARTHA (YOUNG) WALDEN & BISHOP JOHN MORGAN WALDEN:
John Morgan Walden died at the age of eighty-two on January 21, 1914, at Daytona in Volusia County, Florida, to which he and his wife, Martha (Young) Walden (1835–1925), had retired circa 1910. (Note that Find a Grave & Ancestry.com place the former town of "Daytona" within Deltona, now the largest city in Volusia County, Florida). On January 26, 1914, five days fter his death, John Morgan Walden was interred at Cincinnati's magnificent Spring Grove Cemetery in Garden LN, Section 113, Lot 236, Space 04. Eleven years and one month later, Martha (Young) Walden died at the age of eighty-nine in the home of her son, Dr. Leonard Walden (1860-1931), at 845 N. Broadway in Dayton, seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, and was interred close to her husband, John, at Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery in Garden LN, Section 113, Lot 236, Space 06. Atop the large grave monument to Martha (Young) Walden & Bishop John Morgan Walden and all five of their children, their two sons-in-law, and three granddaughters, 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.
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ATTACHED DOCUMENTS: Before beginning on Sept. 2, 2022, to write the above "bio" of the Rev. John Morgan Walden, Bruce Garver attached the following document:
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From the "U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865":
Name: Dr, William L Leonard, husband of Elizabeth (Young) Leonard
(1822–1887) and brother-in-law of Martha (Young) Walden (1835-1925).
Enlistment Age: 39
Birth Date: ab0ut 1823 / Birth Place: Ohio, USA
Enlistment Date: 17 Sep 1862
Enlistment Rank: Assistant Surgeon
Muster Date: 24 Nov 1862 / Muster Place: Iowa
Muster Company: S / Muster Regiment: 39th Iowa Infantry
Muster Information: Commission
Muster Out Date: 5 Jun 1865 / Muster Out Place: Washington, District of Columbia
Survived War?: Yes / Side of War: Union
Was Officer?: Yes
Residence Place: Winterset, Iowa
Title: Roster & Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of Rebellion
Bruce Morton Garver, the manager of this Memorial to Martha (Young) Walden (1835–1925), is a first cousin four-times-removed to Martha's husband, the Reverend John Morgan Walden (1831-1914). Bruce is also the great-great-great grandson of James Walden (1794-1853) who is an uncle of the Reverend John Morgan Walden and the eldest brother of John Morgan Walden's father, Jesse Walden (1802–1849). Bruce Morton Garver's maternal great-great grandmother, Eliza (Walden) Morton (1823–1847), is a first cousin to the Reverend John Morgan Walden.
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BIRTH, PARENTS, AND SISTER: Martha Young was born on September 4, 1835, in Knox County, Ohio, as the youngest of the two daughters of Ebenezer (Pierson) Young (1798–1870), a native of Morris County, New Jersey, and Sarah E. (Bonar) Young (1799–1847), who had been born to Barnet Bonar and Isabel (Glen) Bonar on April 30, 1799, at Fredrickstown in the Northwest Territory, in what would in 1803 become Knox County of the state of Ohio. Martha's elder sister, Elizabeth (Young) Leonard (1822–1887) in 1843 wed Dr. William Lewis Leonard (1823-1893) who would serve during the Civil War in Company "S" of the 39th Regiment of Iowa Volunteer Infantry of which he became the regimental surgeon. His wife, Elizabeth (Young) Leonard, served as a nurse in a field hospital whose personnel attended to the needs of wounded regimental soldiers and officers. Elizabeth (Young) Leonard & Dr. William Lewis Leonard raised no children. and after the Civil War resided at Winterset, seat of Madison County, Iowa.
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THE MARRIAGE OF MARTHA (YOUNG) WALDEN & JOHN MORGAN WALDEN: During the year 1859 in Ohio, Martha Young (1835–1925) wed the Reverend John Morgan Walden who had been born on February 11, 1831, at Lebanon, seat of Warren County, Ohio, to Jesse Walden (1802-1849) and Matilda (Morgan) Walden (1805–1833) who gave to John the middle name "Morgan" to honor his mother's maiden surname. Martha Young married the Reverend John Morgan Walden within a year after he had been ordained in 1858 as a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, after having been an effective editorial and political leader in efforts to establish Kansas as a free state without slavery and with state-supported public schools. John Morgan Walden and Martha (Young) Walden would raise five children and live to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in 1909 while continuing to mourn the deaths of the youngest two of their five children, Elisha Chisholm Walden (1871-1909) and Elizabeth "Bess" Bonar Walden (1876-1900).
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THE FIVE CHILDREN of MARTHA (YOUNG) WALDEN & the Rev. JOHN MORGAN WALDEN: Together, Martha (Young) Walden and the Reverend John Morgan Walden raised five children, each of whom was born in a town where John Morgan Walden was then serving as pastor of the local Methodist congregation.
(1) Dr. Leonard Walden (1860-1931) was born on April 20, 1860, at Lynchburg in Columbiana County, Ohio. Leonard graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, earned an M.D. at the Ohio Medical College, and became a physician who successfully practiced medicine for more than three decades in the Bond Hill area of Cincinnati, Ohio. Leonard never married and in 1899 completed post-graduate medical studies at the University of Berlin in the German Empire. After retiring from medical practice, circa 1925, Dr. Leonard Walden moved to Dayton, seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, where his widowed sister, Matilda (Walden) Royal (1864–1935) resided with her two surviving daughters, Mary Goode Royal (1885–1971) and Marguerite Walden Royal
(1892–1966). At his sister Matilda's home in Dayton, Dr. Leonard Walden died on December 29, 1931, and was interred on the Walden family plot at Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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(2) Mary Walden (Bowman, 1862-1926) was born on July 11, 1862, at Winterset, seat of Madison County, Iowa, where the Rev. John Morgan Walden then served as the pastor of the local Methodist Episcopal Church, North. During the year 1884, Mary wed Pennsylvania-born Samuel Brittain Bowman (1856–1939). The couple had no children. Both 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 Samuel Brittain Bowman, and her brother-in-law.
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(3) Matilda Walden (Royal, 1864-1935) was born at 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 pastor with whom she raised three daughters: Mary Goode Royal (1885–1971), Martha E. Royal (1887–1891), and Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden (1876–1900), none of whom ever wed.
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(4) Son Elisha Chisolm Walden (1871–1909) was named after his paternal uncle Elisha C. Walden (1800-1876), became a professor of science at the University of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and died there on October 19, 1909, at the age of thirty-seven without 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 until he retired from the ministry circa 1910. Martha (Young) Walden's and John Morgan Walden's sons Leonard & Elisha, daughters Elizabeth "Bess" Bonar Walden 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 federal Reconstruction from 1867 to 1877 and thereafter during nine decades of harshly discriminatory "Jim Crow" laws enforced by individual states of the American South until the enactment of the national Civil Rights Act of 1965.
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(5) Daughter Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden (1876–1900) was born near Cincinnati at Madisonville in Hamilton County, Ohio, and named after her maternal grandmother, Sarah Elizabeth (Bonar) Young (1799–1847). Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden died at the age of twenty-four in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 17, 1900, without having ever wed.
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MARTHA (YOUNG) WALDEN's 55 YEARS OF VOLUNTARY WORK ON BEHALF OF THE CHURCH: During the first twenty-five years of their fifty-five years of marriage, Martha (Young) Walden and the Reverend John Morgan Walden not only raised three daughters and two sons, but devoted themselves to the service of successive local congregations within the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, John as an urban church pastor and Martha as the unsalaried hard-working pastor's wife. Like her husband and five children, Matilda (Young) Walden became a member 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 throughout his ministry. Upon John's becoming Bishop of the Cincinnati Conference in 1884, Martha (Young) Walde's unsalaried work on behalf of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, included serving as an organizer and hostess at conference and national Church activities and generally helping John in his administrative work for various Methodist charitable and social outreach organizations.
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OLD AGE & DEATH OF MARTHA (YOUNG) WALDEN & BISHOP JOHN MORGAN WALDEN:
John Morgan Walden died at the age of eighty-two on January 21, 1914, at Daytona in Volusia County, Florida, to which he and his wife, Martha (Young) Walden (1835–1925), had retired circa 1910. (Note that Find a Grave & Ancestry.com place the former town of "Daytona" within Deltona, now the largest city in Volusia County, Florida). On January 26, 1914, five days fter his death, John Morgan Walden was interred at Cincinnati's magnificent Spring Grove Cemetery in Garden LN, Section 113, Lot 236, Space 04. Eleven years and one month later, Martha (Young) Walden died at the age of eighty-nine in the home of her son, Dr. Leonard Walden (1860-1931), at 845 N. Broadway in Dayton, seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, and was interred close to her husband, John, at Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery in Garden LN, Section 113, Lot 236, Space 06. Atop the large grave monument to Martha (Young) Walden & Bishop John Morgan Walden and all five of their children, their two sons-in-law, and three granddaughters, 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.
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ATTACHED DOCUMENTS: Before beginning on Sept. 2, 2022, to write the above "bio" of the Rev. John Morgan Walden, Bruce Garver attached the following document:
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From the "U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865":
Name: Dr, William L Leonard, husband of Elizabeth (Young) Leonard
(1822–1887) and brother-in-law of Martha (Young) Walden (1835-1925).
Enlistment Age: 39
Birth Date: ab0ut 1823 / Birth Place: Ohio, USA
Enlistment Date: 17 Sep 1862
Enlistment Rank: Assistant Surgeon
Muster Date: 24 Nov 1862 / Muster Place: Iowa
Muster Company: S / Muster Regiment: 39th Iowa Infantry
Muster Information: Commission
Muster Out Date: 5 Jun 1865 / Muster Out Place: Washington, District of Columbia
Survived War?: Yes / Side of War: Union
Was Officer?: Yes
Residence Place: Winterset, Iowa
Title: Roster & Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of Rebellion
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BIRTH, PARENTS, AND SISTER: Martha Young was born on September 4, 1835, in Knox County, Ohio, as the youngest of the two daughters of Ebenezer (Pierson) Young (1798–1870), a native of Morris County, New Jersey, and Sarah E. (Bonar) Young (1799–1847), who had been born to Barnet Bonar and Isabel (Glen) Bonar on April 30, 1799, at Fredrickstown in the Northwest Territory, in what would in 1803 become Knox County of the state of Ohio. Martha's elder sister, Elizabeth (Young) Leonard (1822–1887) in 1843 wed Dr. William Lewis Leonard (1823-1893) who would serve during the Civil War in Company "S" of the 39th Regiment of Iowa Volunteer Infantry of which he became the regimental surgeon. His wife, Elizabeth (Young) Leonard, served as a nurse in a field hospital whose personnel attended to the needs of wounded regimental soldiers and officers. Elizabeth (Young) Leonard & Dr. William Lewis Leonard raised no children. and after the Civil War resided at Winterset, seat of Madison County, Iowa.
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THE MARRIAGE OF MARTHA (YOUNG) WALDEN & JOHN MORGAN WALDEN: During the year 1859 in Ohio, Martha Young (1835–1925) wed the Reverend John Morgan Walden who had been born on February 11, 1831, at Lebanon, seat of Warren County, Ohio, to Jesse Walden (1802-1849) and Matilda (Morgan) Walden (1805–1833) who gave to John the middle name "Morgan" to honor his mother's maiden surname. Martha Young married the Reverend John Morgan Walden within a year after he had been ordained in 1858 as a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, after having been an effective editorial and political leader in efforts to establish Kansas as a free state without slavery and with state-supported public schools. John Morgan Walden and Martha (Young) Walden would raise five children and live to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in 1909 while continuing to mourn the deaths of the youngest two of their five children, Elisha Chisholm Walden (1871-1909) and Elizabeth "Bess" Bonar Walden (1876-1900).
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THE FIVE CHILDREN of MARTHA (YOUNG) WALDEN & the Rev. JOHN MORGAN WALDEN: Together, Martha (Young) Walden and the Reverend John Morgan Walden raised five children, each of whom was born in a town where John Morgan Walden was then serving as pastor of the local Methodist congregation.
(1) Dr. Leonard Walden (1860-1931) was born on April 20, 1860, at Lynchburg in Columbiana County, Ohio. Leonard graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, earned an M.D. at the Ohio Medical College, and became a physician who successfully practiced medicine for more than three decades in the Bond Hill area of Cincinnati, Ohio. Leonard never married and in 1899 completed post-graduate medical studies at the University of Berlin in the German Empire. After retiring from medical practice, circa 1925, Dr. Leonard Walden moved to Dayton, seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, where his widowed sister, Matilda (Walden) Royal (1864–1935) resided with her two surviving daughters, Mary Goode Royal (1885–1971) and Marguerite Walden Royal
(1892–1966). At his sister Matilda's home in Dayton, Dr. Leonard Walden died on December 29, 1931, and was interred on the Walden family plot at Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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(2) Mary Walden (Bowman, 1862-1926) was born on July 11, 1862, at Winterset, seat of Madison County, Iowa, where the Rev. John Morgan Walden then served as the pastor of the local Methodist Episcopal Church, North. During the year 1884, Mary wed Pennsylvania-born Samuel Brittain Bowman (1856–1939). The couple had no children. Both 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 Samuel Brittain Bowman, and her brother-in-law.
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(3) Matilda Walden (Royal, 1864-1935) was born at 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 pastor with whom she raised three daughters: Mary Goode Royal (1885–1971), Martha E. Royal (1887–1891), and Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden (1876–1900), none of whom ever wed.
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(4) Son Elisha Chisolm Walden (1871–1909) was named after his paternal uncle Elisha C. Walden (1800-1876), became a professor of science at the University of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and died there on October 19, 1909, at the age of thirty-seven without 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 until he retired from the ministry circa 1910. Martha (Young) Walden's and John Morgan Walden's sons Leonard & Elisha, daughters Elizabeth "Bess" Bonar Walden 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 federal Reconstruction from 1867 to 1877 and thereafter during nine decades of harshly discriminatory "Jim Crow" laws enforced by individual states of the American South until the enactment of the national Civil Rights Act of 1965.
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(5) Daughter Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden (1876–1900) was born near Cincinnati at Madisonville in Hamilton County, Ohio, and named after her maternal grandmother, Sarah Elizabeth (Bonar) Young (1799–1847). Elizabeth Bonar "Bess" Walden died at the age of twenty-four in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 17, 1900, without having ever wed.
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MARTHA (YOUNG) WALDEN's 55 YEARS OF VOLUNTARY WORK ON BEHALF OF THE CHURCH: During the first twenty-five years of their fifty-five years of marriage, Martha (Young) Walden and the Reverend John Morgan Walden not only raised three daughters and two sons, but devoted themselves to the service of successive local congregations within the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, John as an urban church pastor and Martha as the unsalaried hard-working pastor's wife. Like her husband and five children, Matilda (Young) Walden became a member 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 throughout his ministry. Upon John's becoming Bishop of the Cincinnati Conference in 1884, Martha (Young) Walde's unsalaried work on behalf of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, included serving as an organizer and hostess at conference and national Church activities and generally helping John in his administrative work for various Methodist charitable and social outreach organizations.
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OLD AGE & DEATH OF MARTHA (YOUNG) WALDEN & BISHOP JOHN MORGAN WALDEN:
John Morgan Walden died at the age of eighty-two on January 21, 1914, at Daytona in Volusia County, Florida, to which he and his wife, Martha (Young) Walden (1835–1925), had retired circa 1910. (Note that Find a Grave & Ancestry.com place the former town of "Daytona" within Deltona, now the largest city in Volusia County, Florida). On January 26, 1914, five days fter his death, John Morgan Walden was interred at Cincinnati's magnificent Spring Grove Cemetery in Garden LN, Section 113, Lot 236, Space 04. Eleven years and one month later, Martha (Young) Walden died at the age of eighty-nine in the home of her son, Dr. Leonard Walden (1860-1931), at 845 N. Broadway in Dayton, seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, and was interred close to her husband, John, at Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery in Garden LN, Section 113, Lot 236, Space 06. Atop the large grave monument to Martha (Young) Walden & Bishop John Morgan Walden and all five of their children, their two sons-in-law, and three granddaughters, 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.
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ATTACHED DOCUMENTS: Before beginning on Sept. 2, 2022, to write the above "bio" of the Rev. John Morgan Walden, Bruce Garver attached the following document:
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From the "U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865":
Name: Dr, William L Leonard, husband of Elizabeth (Young) Leonard
(1822–1887) and brother-in-law of Martha (Young) Walden (1835-1925).
Enlistment Age: 39
Birth Date: ab0ut 1823 / Birth Place: Ohio, USA
Enlistment Date: 17 Sep 1862
Enlistment Rank: Assistant Surgeon
Muster Date: 24 Nov 1862 / Muster Place: Iowa
Muster Company: S / Muster Regiment: 39th Iowa Infantry
Muster Information: Commission
Muster Out Date: 5 Jun 1865 / Muster Out Place: Washington, District of Columbia
Survived War?: Yes / Side of War: Union
Was Officer?: Yes
Residence Place: Winterset, Iowa
Title: Roster & Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of Rebellion
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