Walkers' Farmhouse

It appears that Sam N. Walker is standing to the right of the woman with the horse (from our observer's perspective) in this picture. The woman sitting in the chair is Everna Frizzell; most likely the children surrounding her are hers.

The man kneeling in the front looks like Lee Walker, Everna and Sam's brother. The details on the back of this photo were written on it later in life by Flossie Russell (but the year of her marriage was 1903, not 1906).

I imagine the children are Everna Frizzell's, but as further photos of some of her children are not available, this is only an educated guess. The man standing on the right could be Eli Frizzell, or Tom Walker. The woman with the horse is presently an unknown. Click here to see a blowup of these people, which I hope could be helpful in aiding to identify the mystery folk in this photograph.

This house was originally built for Charles Walker, but Sam N. Walker, his son, lived in it for a long time as well and it was known within the family as the "Walker homestead." It was located between Wapello and Morning Sun, Iowa, relatively near Newport. There was a long, shaded lane from the main road to get to the farmhouse proper. The house was still standing in the 1960s, but since has been torn down and no longer is in existence.

Sam Dotson, mentioned as having done the carpentry work, was the brother of George W. Dotson, and the brother-in-law of Mary Lucy Moyers Dotson, George's wife.

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