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Susan Frances “Pink” <I>Walls</I> Whitaker

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Susan Frances “Pink” Walls Whitaker

Birth
New Hope, Madison County, Alabama, USA
Death
6 Oct 1945 (aged 78)
Grant, Marshall County, Alabama, USA
Burial
Grant, Marshall County, Alabama, USA Add to Map
Plot
Row: 16 - 24
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Her full name was Susan Frances Mildred Caroline Celestia Berilla Walls Bryan Whitaker. She was called "Pink".
One family bible gives her name simply Susan Frances Walls. According to her granddaughter Mildred Isbell Dalrymple, who lived with her briefly in 1924, Pink had at least two additional names which she recited as a little song but which apparently were not recorded. Her siblings likewise had additional names, she said, so that they could choose the middle name(s) as suited them. Mildred's mother, Pink's daughter, told her three sons the same story.
It was not uncommon for families of German heritage to have multiple names (three or four), while families of part Native American descent often had more. British and European royal babies often receive multiple given names. The late author Eudora Welty once stated that she knew several "country people" whose parents had bestowed multiple names upon them for some reason or other. Any other specific reason that John Willis Walls and Mary Selvage gave their children multiple names is unknown.

Pink Walls first married Joseph John Bryan on Jan. 24, 1883, and after his death she married (12 Dec 1886 in Marshall County) Andrew Jackson (Jack) Whitaker (Marriage Book 8, p.375).

She was the daughter of John Willis Walls and wife Mary Selvage Walls.
Granddaughter of Henry Wall(s) and Diana ("Dicey") (Carpenter) Walls, Michael K. Selvage and Nancy Jane (Snow) Selvage;
great-granddaughter of Daniel Wall(s) and Sarah (Harless) Walls, Willis Carpenter and Elizabeth (Ross) Carpenter, Jeremiah Selvidge and Mary (Kelly) Selvidge, John Johnson Snow and Elizabeth Snow.

Her great-great-grandparents, Henry and Charity Harless, and Charles and Lucy Ross, settled in Alabama Territory prior to Statehood, as did Daniel Walls, John Johnson Snow and Willis Carpenter, and descendants of these ancestors are designated members of First Families of Alabama, by the Alabama Genealogical Society.
Her full name was Susan Frances Mildred Caroline Celestia Berilla Walls Bryan Whitaker. She was called "Pink".
One family bible gives her name simply Susan Frances Walls. According to her granddaughter Mildred Isbell Dalrymple, who lived with her briefly in 1924, Pink had at least two additional names which she recited as a little song but which apparently were not recorded. Her siblings likewise had additional names, she said, so that they could choose the middle name(s) as suited them. Mildred's mother, Pink's daughter, told her three sons the same story.
It was not uncommon for families of German heritage to have multiple names (three or four), while families of part Native American descent often had more. British and European royal babies often receive multiple given names. The late author Eudora Welty once stated that she knew several "country people" whose parents had bestowed multiple names upon them for some reason or other. Any other specific reason that John Willis Walls and Mary Selvage gave their children multiple names is unknown.

Pink Walls first married Joseph John Bryan on Jan. 24, 1883, and after his death she married (12 Dec 1886 in Marshall County) Andrew Jackson (Jack) Whitaker (Marriage Book 8, p.375).

She was the daughter of John Willis Walls and wife Mary Selvage Walls.
Granddaughter of Henry Wall(s) and Diana ("Dicey") (Carpenter) Walls, Michael K. Selvage and Nancy Jane (Snow) Selvage;
great-granddaughter of Daniel Wall(s) and Sarah (Harless) Walls, Willis Carpenter and Elizabeth (Ross) Carpenter, Jeremiah Selvidge and Mary (Kelly) Selvidge, John Johnson Snow and Elizabeth Snow.

Her great-great-grandparents, Henry and Charity Harless, and Charles and Lucy Ross, settled in Alabama Territory prior to Statehood, as did Daniel Walls, John Johnson Snow and Willis Carpenter, and descendants of these ancestors are designated members of First Families of Alabama, by the Alabama Genealogical Society.


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