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Life History of Doretta Vennekohl Walker
Transcribed by Norman C. Walker, May 9, 2009
This manuscript is written in pencil on both sides of an unlined paper, and was among family histories I received from my parents, Glenn and Lucille Walker. It is not legible enough to be copied due to browning of the paper. I kept the spelling as it was and tried to do so with the sentences, but the structure of the latter is unclear in the manuscript.
The History of my Life
I was borned on October 24, 1866 in Andrew Co., Missouri, about 14 miles north east of St. Joseph, Mo. At the age of 11 years my father died and 3 years later my mother married again, moving to Clinton Co. Missouri. Thus, I was 14 years old then, here I met a young man by the name of Joseph Bird Walker to whom I was married on February 18, 1885 to this union was borned 4 children two dying in infancy the other two growing up to manhood. In the year of 1899 my Husband died of Typhoid fever.
In the spring of 1899 we moved to Lathrop, Missouri, here I lived untill the fall of 1923. In the spring of 1913 my second son Glenn went to Los Angeles California, then in the fall of 1914 I went to Los Angeles to spend the winter accompanied by my son Bright, again in the fall of 1920 I left for Los Angeles California returning this time the first of August 1921 and in the year of 1923 in September I sold my home in Lathrop Missouri and moved to Los Angeles California staying here and ther for a time but for most of the time of the first years in Los Angeles made my home with my son Bright, then in the spring of 1925 Glenn and I built a home to gather in Long Beach California. I stayed with Mrs W. N. Graves, keeping house for them from January 24 to July 1st moving in my own home at this time, that Glenn and I built at 3737 Lime Ave. Long Beach California then in the spring of 1929 Glenn traded our home in Long Beach for an Avocado Ranch near San Diego, and loosing every thing we had and I made my home with them untill the fall of 1933 when I rented Mrs Julia Williams little home and moved in on Oct 27 1933. When I went to Oklahoma City to visit my sister Mary Wild, returning the First of December and renting the Sparger place. Living there till June 15 1935 when I moved to the small house across the street from Day Williams and am still there at this place at this time June 25 1939. |
1866 - 1946 (79 Jahre)
