A future Beloit resident married Nancy Smith in York State.

The evidence

• “Walker, retired from that business and.again began the manufacture of reapers, which he continued till 1860 and than suspended, and since that time has. not been engaged in active business ; he held the position of route agent from 1861 till 1865, and then resigned his position and retired from business altogether and has done nothing since ; he owns four lots in the city with tenement houses, and has an annual income from them sufficient to live on. He was married in York State, in 1830, to Nancy Smith, and they had one child, now dead ; his wife died in Beloit, December 25, 1870 ; he was married again, in Erie Co., N. Y., in 1871, to Mrs.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/18-bios-beloit.md, PDF p. 753

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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