Elizabeth Tope, daughter of George Tope and Easter Lindsey [note 1], was born 5 July 1835 in Jackson Co., Illinois, and died 13 December 1923 in Alden, Rice Co., Kansas [note 2]. She married Reason Walker on 25 December 1851 in Jackson Co., Illinois. Reason was born 25 January 1830, Grand Tower, Illinois and died 13 February 1921 in Alden, Rice Co., Kansas.     Reason Walker  served as a Private in the Civil War in Company C ., 70th Regiment, Illinois Infantry [note 3].     The family moved from Illinois to Neosho, Missouri in 1868, and three years later to Sedan, Kansas, where it lived until 1891. The family then moved near Sterling, Kansas, and finallly to Alden, Rice Co., Kansas.

 Their children:

1. Nancy Walker.
2. Martha Walker born 1857 in Illinois.
3. Mary Easter Walker
4. George Washington Walker was born 2 November 1855 and died 24 Oct 1922 in Illinois.  He married Mary Elizabeth Short, who was born September 1857 and died 19 September 1949 [note 4].
   Known child, William Herman Walker, was born 3 April 1897 and died 4 February 18, 1899 [note 5]
5. Lucinda Walker.
6. John William Walker born 20 April 1862 in Irving, Montgomery Co., Illinois and died 23 November 1941 in Welser, Washington Co., Idaho.
7. Delila Anna Walker was born 26 March 1871 and died 25 October 1951 in Illinois.  She married Frank Furman, who was born 2 December 1859 and died 10 July 1911 [note 6].
8. Jim Walker.

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Notes:

1. Except for the following note, all data in email from Gail Carraway.
2. Alden Valley Cemetery, Information submitted by Diane Battershell & Jay Ipson unless otherwise noted:  http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/rice/cemaldenval.htm
3. Civil War Pension Index, U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865, Film Number M539 roll 94, Ancestry.com.
4. Alden Valley Cemetery, op sit.
5. Alden Valley Cemetery, op sit
6. Alden Valley Cemetery, op sit.

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