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.
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.
Family Members
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Henry David Walls
1857–1931
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William Thomas "Tom" Walls
1859–1934
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John Willis "Babe" Walls Jr
1861–1925
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Clement Clay Walls
1863–1911
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Sarah Elizabeth Walls Mayhall
1866–1953
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James Virgil Walls
1870–1912
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Sebron J. Walls
1872–1955
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David Lincoln Walls
1873–1938
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Addie Permelia Walls Romans
1874–1961
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Dicy Catherine Walls Campbell
1878–1965
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John Asa "Bud" Bryan
1885–1973
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Mollie Catherine Bryan Barnes
1886–1911
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Martha Caldonia Whitaker Provence
1887–1962
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David Simon Whitaker
1889–1953
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Annetta Katherine "Nettie" Whitaker Isbell
1893–1970
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Ernest Jackson Whitaker
1895–1965
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Ural Henry Whitaker
1897–1963
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Oscar Gilbert Whitaker
1898–1972
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Willie Whitaker Roberts
1908–1985
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