Husband of Mary Ann Myer Walker. Married Apr.6, 1848, Farmington, Van Buren, IA. Three children were born to this union:
Franklin Fruit (1849-?); Mary Elizabeth (Walker) Grubb (1851-1930); Crittenden Nathaniel (1854-1856).
Was murdered by a fellow wagon train traveler in route to Oregon. A Mr. Griffith drove wagon for Fruit Walker, he quarreled with another teamster and tried to hit him over the head w/an ox yoke; when Fruit intervened Griffith shot and killed him. (Ref: Emigrants to Oregon in 1853).
Franklin Fruit (1849-?); Mary Elizabeth (Walker) Grubb (1851-1930); Crittenden Nathaniel (1854-1856).
Was murdered by a fellow wagon train traveler in route to Oregon. A Mr. Griffith drove wagon for Fruit Walker, he quarreled with another teamster and tried to hit him over the head w/an ox yoke; when Fruit intervened Griffith shot and killed him. (Ref: Emigrants to Oregon in 1853).
Husband of Mary Ann Myer Walker. Married Apr.6, 1848, Farmington, Van Buren, IA. Three children were born to this union:
Franklin Fruit (1849-?); Mary Elizabeth (Walker) Grubb (1851-1930); Crittenden Nathaniel (1854-1856).
Was murdered by a fellow wagon train traveler in route to Oregon. A Mr. Griffith drove wagon for Fruit Walker, he quarreled with another teamster and tried to hit him over the head w/an ox yoke; when Fruit intervened Griffith shot and killed him. (Ref: Emigrants to Oregon in 1853).
Franklin Fruit (1849-?); Mary Elizabeth (Walker) Grubb (1851-1930); Crittenden Nathaniel (1854-1856).
Was murdered by a fellow wagon train traveler in route to Oregon. A Mr. Griffith drove wagon for Fruit Walker, he quarreled with another teamster and tried to hit him over the head w/an ox yoke; when Fruit intervened Griffith shot and killed him. (Ref: Emigrants to Oregon in 1853).
Gravesite Details
"They buried him on a rocky knoll eight miles west of Ripple Creek" on the Applegate Trail.https://truwe.sohs.org/files/w.c.myer.htmlAfter her husbands death Mary Ann married his brother John P. Walker in 1855.
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