Birth date is from Kansas birth certificate for William Richard Walker.
Bio/Obituary
Medford Mail Tribune (Medford, Oregon)
August 25, 1940
William R. (Dick) Walker passed away in Gold Hill Friday afternoon following several months of poor health.
He was born in Fort Scott, Kas., on July 19, 1860. At the age of 14 he crossed the plains by oxteam. The trip took five months and 20 days. They landed in Portland and then came to Grants Pass by mule team. Here he homesteaded in the Spring Valley district, known now as the Fruitdale district. He was one of the employees on the Portland to Grants Pass railroad and was also one of the passengers on the train's first trip from Grants Pass to Portland. He was in the restaurant business in Grants Pass for six years. In 1890 he moved to Gold Hill and for the following five years was engaged in the livery business. Then until 1920 he was engaged again in the restaurant business.
He is survived by three sons and one daughter: Clyde, Alva and Clinton Walker, and Mrs. Della Whitset, all of Gold Hill. There is also one brother, J. Edward Walker, in Roundup, Mont., seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held in the I.O.O.F. hall in Gold Hill Monday at 2:00 p.m. with Rev. D. E. Millard officiating. Interment will be in the Rock Point cemetery. Arrangements are in care of the Conger funeral parlors.
Bio/Obituary
Medford Mail Tribune (Medford, Oregon)
August 25, 1940
William R. (Dick) Walker passed away in Gold Hill Friday afternoon following several months of poor health.
He was born in Fort Scott, Kas., on July 19, 1860. At the age of 14 he crossed the plains by oxteam. The trip took five months and 20 days. They landed in Portland and then came to Grants Pass by mule team. Here he homesteaded in the Spring Valley district, known now as the Fruitdale district. He was one of the employees on the Portland to Grants Pass railroad and was also one of the passengers on the train's first trip from Grants Pass to Portland. He was in the restaurant business in Grants Pass for six years. In 1890 he moved to Gold Hill and for the following five years was engaged in the livery business. Then until 1920 he was engaged again in the restaurant business.
He is survived by three sons and one daughter: Clyde, Alva and Clinton Walker, and Mrs. Della Whitset, all of Gold Hill. There is also one brother, J. Edward Walker, in Roundup, Mont., seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held in the I.O.O.F. hall in Gold Hill Monday at 2:00 p.m. with Rev. D. E. Millard officiating. Interment will be in the Rock Point cemetery. Arrangements are in care of the Conger funeral parlors.
Birth date is from Kansas birth certificate for William Richard Walker.
Bio/Obituary
Medford Mail Tribune (Medford, Oregon)
August 25, 1940
William R. (Dick) Walker passed away in Gold Hill Friday afternoon following several months of poor health.
He was born in Fort Scott, Kas., on July 19, 1860. At the age of 14 he crossed the plains by oxteam. The trip took five months and 20 days. They landed in Portland and then came to Grants Pass by mule team. Here he homesteaded in the Spring Valley district, known now as the Fruitdale district. He was one of the employees on the Portland to Grants Pass railroad and was also one of the passengers on the train's first trip from Grants Pass to Portland. He was in the restaurant business in Grants Pass for six years. In 1890 he moved to Gold Hill and for the following five years was engaged in the livery business. Then until 1920 he was engaged again in the restaurant business.
He is survived by three sons and one daughter: Clyde, Alva and Clinton Walker, and Mrs. Della Whitset, all of Gold Hill. There is also one brother, J. Edward Walker, in Roundup, Mont., seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held in the I.O.O.F. hall in Gold Hill Monday at 2:00 p.m. with Rev. D. E. Millard officiating. Interment will be in the Rock Point cemetery. Arrangements are in care of the Conger funeral parlors.
Bio/Obituary
Medford Mail Tribune (Medford, Oregon)
August 25, 1940
William R. (Dick) Walker passed away in Gold Hill Friday afternoon following several months of poor health.
He was born in Fort Scott, Kas., on July 19, 1860. At the age of 14 he crossed the plains by oxteam. The trip took five months and 20 days. They landed in Portland and then came to Grants Pass by mule team. Here he homesteaded in the Spring Valley district, known now as the Fruitdale district. He was one of the employees on the Portland to Grants Pass railroad and was also one of the passengers on the train's first trip from Grants Pass to Portland. He was in the restaurant business in Grants Pass for six years. In 1890 he moved to Gold Hill and for the following five years was engaged in the livery business. Then until 1920 he was engaged again in the restaurant business.
He is survived by three sons and one daughter: Clyde, Alva and Clinton Walker, and Mrs. Della Whitset, all of Gold Hill. There is also one brother, J. Edward Walker, in Roundup, Mont., seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held in the I.O.O.F. hall in Gold Hill Monday at 2:00 p.m. with Rev. D. E. Millard officiating. Interment will be in the Rock Point cemetery. Arrangements are in care of the Conger funeral parlors.
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