Samuel Nathaniel, Jennie Reil, Viola, John Henry, Marjorie and Robert Walker

After Hattie Mae Moyers died, Sam Walker married again. His second wife was Jennie Reil Hannah. She was considerably younger than he.

They had five children. One, Rosalie Walker, died in infancy, January 28, 1933. John was in the service and declared missing in action in World War II. Viola Van Houten and Robert Walker both live in Texas, Marjorie Kimble lives in Morning Sun.

Below is a story from a local newspaper that tells of Samuel N.'s trip to Texas with his father, Charles Pearsey Walker.

Thanks once again to Marjorie Kimble for providing this story.

This picture was apparently taken in the autumn (John is carrying a football) of 1933, the year in which Rosalie Reil Walker was born and died.

A Group of "Cousins" in the 1930s

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A Newspaper Story About Sam Walker

Recalls Long Ago Wagon Trip

Radio and press reports of the recent caravan journeying by wagon and horseback from Fairfield to Des Moines stirred memories of another trip taken many years ago by a Morning Sun resident. In the year 1880 S. N. Walker, long time resident of this community, made a wagon trip from New London to Limestone county Texas, 50 miles south of Dallas. Now 85 years old, Walker yells of the long journey made by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C P. Walker, and their children who included Tom Walker, also a resident of this community.

The long and hazardous journey was made in a single wagon drawn by one team of horses and a month was spent on the road. When the father found Texas not to his liking, he returned in 1881 with his father to Iowa, using the same wagon and the same team.

From Marjorie Kimble:

An added note: It is my understanding that Charles P. Walker's wife, Ruth Ellen, was suffering from tuberculosis and they went with the hopes of her getting better in the different climate, but it didn't work. Also, that is how Aunt Flossie came to be born in Texas. She always referred to herself as "the yellow rose of Texas" for that reason.