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Clarence Eugene Walker was born May
29, 1887 in Currituck Co. and
died in Norfolk, Va. on Feb. 18, 1945. He married Sarah Nevada "Wada" Burton on
March 11, 1906.
Nevada,
daughter of Dempsey Burton & Mary Virginia Saunders, was
born in May 19, 1882 and died in June 22, 1976.
Clarence was a farmer in Coinjock, N.C. and worked for the State
Highway Department. This latter occupation took him to Hertford, N.C.
about 1927. Their oldest child, Virgie, being married by then, remained in Currituck
County, but the other children grew up in Hertford and remained
there for the rest of their lives. Clarence eventually became Police
Chief for the town of Hertford in the mid-1930s and remained in that
position for the rest of his life.
Nevada
loved to garden and, as long as she was able, she had beds of
flowering annuals in her yard and planters on the porches.
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Clarence Eugene
Walker |
Clarence
as a Hertford, NC policeman |
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| Left to right:
daughter Essie Virginia
Walker, grandson Garland Walker, Clarence Eugene & Nevada
(Burton) Walker on a trip to a tulip farm in or near Creswell,
NC.
It was a favorite Sunday afternoon destination when the tulips
were in bloom. |
Left to right
- grandson Garland Walker, Nevada (Burton) Walker, daughter
Shirley (Walker) Matthews, and Clarence Eugene Walker
Most likely Shirley's husband, Glenn Matthews, took the picture. |
Every summer, Clarence & Nevada would spend a week at
Nags Head. Here they are on one of the fishing piers with
grandson Garland. |
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Hogkilling in Currituck circa 1925. Pictured from left to right
are Bub Parker, William 'Bill' Walker, and his
brother Clarence. Clarence's mother-in-law, Mary
Virginia Saunders Burton was remarried to Apollos Parker.
Perhaps this Bub Parker is Apollos or some of his
family.
UPDATE from Roy Sawyer received Mar.
9, 2011 - Bub Parker shown
in Glenda's hog killing picture was Derwood Parker, who lived with
his wife, Mat, just north of the Walker homeplace south of
Coinjock. My father, who grew up at Coinjock, used to spend
Saturday nights with some other boys at Mr. Bub and Ms. Mat's
house - they were childless and were nice to the boys and loved
having them. Daddy said that Ms. Mat often cooked hamburger for
Sunday morning breakfast and that it was the best hamburger he had
ever eaten. He never had
hamburger for Sunday morning breakfast! |
Clarence and his brother, Bill, both worked for the
NC State Transportation Department. Clarence ran the road
grader and Bill operated the bridge over the Inland
Waterway at Coinjock. Back in the days when most roads in
southeastern North Carolina, were dirt, a regular sight was the
road grader 'dragging' the roads. This would smooth out the sandy
roads and fill in the ruts and holes. Clarence's daughter
Shirley is standing on the back of the truck bed |
Clarence and Nevada had 4 children:
1)
Virgie
Opal Walker (1908-1935)
2)
Morgan Vixon Walker (1909-1984)
3)
Essie
Virginia Walker (1912-1989) [see photos below]
4) Shirley Louise Walker (1921-2004)
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Left to
Right: Virgie & Morgan Walker c1912 |
Virgie holding the reins while brother Morgan holds
baby Essie on the horse's back. Photo circa 1914. |
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Left to
right:
Essie, Virgie,
& Morgan
Walker
Photo circa 1920 |
Essie Virginia Walker was born June 21, 1912 and died June 13,
1989. She was the namesake of her father's sister, Essie
Virginia Walker, who was born in 1884. She
did not marry but lived with her mother most of her life. She
worked for a local dry cleaning business and enjoyed keeping
records of the family history.
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