Walter was the son of Willard F. Clark and his second wife Mary Caroline Berrian. He never really got to know his father as he was but a toddler when his father drown while crossing a river. His mother was forced to take him and his six month old brother Lucius to live with her mother and at the time, an unmarried brother.
Eventually his mother did re-marry to a man by the name of Enos George Mack, who it turned out was not a good provider for Mary Caroline, her boys and the children that they would have together.
He learned to work very early on in his life, attempting to help out his impoverished mother whenever he could. As he grew up he worked for various relatives and neighbors.
His uncle, George Berrian had gone to Kansas to live and finally off to the call of the high country in Colorado. At some point Walter went and it was there that he married his first cousin, Georgianna Berrian, daughter of George and Lucinda (Munshower) Berrian. They would have one daughter Grace born in Colorado in 1887. Sadly, the marriage would fail and Georgianna would take Grace and move to the San Diego area of California.
Walter apparently became sort of nomadic and worked at various jobs in the southern Colorado area around Alamosa. At one time he was employed as a glove maker, then worked on a large sheep spread. Many years it was only in the spring, summer and fall that he was employed, saving enough to see him through the winter, which he spent in the town of Alamosa.
His brother Lucius had left Illinois in 1887, first going to Kansas, then finally to Columbus, Klickitat County, Washington to another of their Berrian uncles, James Augustus Berrian. Though the two brothers would never see each other after 1887, they did communicate by letter and Walter considered on numerous occasions of going to Oregon where Lucius eventually settled permanently, but never did.
Nothing is actually known of Walter in his very last years. Whether he had any communication with his only daughter Grace is not known, however, her Uncle Lucius did visit her on occasion when he wintered in Long Beach, California.
NOTE: There is a problem with this tombstone that is on this grave. It appears that the death year says 1922. He died in 1927, keep that in mind.
Eventually his mother did re-marry to a man by the name of Enos George Mack, who it turned out was not a good provider for Mary Caroline, her boys and the children that they would have together.
He learned to work very early on in his life, attempting to help out his impoverished mother whenever he could. As he grew up he worked for various relatives and neighbors.
His uncle, George Berrian had gone to Kansas to live and finally off to the call of the high country in Colorado. At some point Walter went and it was there that he married his first cousin, Georgianna Berrian, daughter of George and Lucinda (Munshower) Berrian. They would have one daughter Grace born in Colorado in 1887. Sadly, the marriage would fail and Georgianna would take Grace and move to the San Diego area of California.
Walter apparently became sort of nomadic and worked at various jobs in the southern Colorado area around Alamosa. At one time he was employed as a glove maker, then worked on a large sheep spread. Many years it was only in the spring, summer and fall that he was employed, saving enough to see him through the winter, which he spent in the town of Alamosa.
His brother Lucius had left Illinois in 1887, first going to Kansas, then finally to Columbus, Klickitat County, Washington to another of their Berrian uncles, James Augustus Berrian. Though the two brothers would never see each other after 1887, they did communicate by letter and Walter considered on numerous occasions of going to Oregon where Lucius eventually settled permanently, but never did.
Nothing is actually known of Walter in his very last years. Whether he had any communication with his only daughter Grace is not known, however, her Uncle Lucius did visit her on occasion when he wintered in Long Beach, California.
NOTE: There is a problem with this tombstone that is on this grave. It appears that the death year says 1922. He died in 1927, keep that in mind.
Walter was the son of Willard F. Clark and his second wife Mary Caroline Berrian. He never really got to know his father as he was but a toddler when his father drown while crossing a river. His mother was forced to take him and his six month old brother Lucius to live with her mother and at the time, an unmarried brother.
Eventually his mother did re-marry to a man by the name of Enos George Mack, who it turned out was not a good provider for Mary Caroline, her boys and the children that they would have together.
He learned to work very early on in his life, attempting to help out his impoverished mother whenever he could. As he grew up he worked for various relatives and neighbors.
His uncle, George Berrian had gone to Kansas to live and finally off to the call of the high country in Colorado. At some point Walter went and it was there that he married his first cousin, Georgianna Berrian, daughter of George and Lucinda (Munshower) Berrian. They would have one daughter Grace born in Colorado in 1887. Sadly, the marriage would fail and Georgianna would take Grace and move to the San Diego area of California.
Walter apparently became sort of nomadic and worked at various jobs in the southern Colorado area around Alamosa. At one time he was employed as a glove maker, then worked on a large sheep spread. Many years it was only in the spring, summer and fall that he was employed, saving enough to see him through the winter, which he spent in the town of Alamosa.
His brother Lucius had left Illinois in 1887, first going to Kansas, then finally to Columbus, Klickitat County, Washington to another of their Berrian uncles, James Augustus Berrian. Though the two brothers would never see each other after 1887, they did communicate by letter and Walter considered on numerous occasions of going to Oregon where Lucius eventually settled permanently, but never did.
Nothing is actually known of Walter in his very last years. Whether he had any communication with his only daughter Grace is not known, however, her Uncle Lucius did visit her on occasion when he wintered in Long Beach, California.
NOTE: There is a problem with this tombstone that is on this grave. It appears that the death year says 1922. He died in 1927, keep that in mind.
Eventually his mother did re-marry to a man by the name of Enos George Mack, who it turned out was not a good provider for Mary Caroline, her boys and the children that they would have together.
He learned to work very early on in his life, attempting to help out his impoverished mother whenever he could. As he grew up he worked for various relatives and neighbors.
His uncle, George Berrian had gone to Kansas to live and finally off to the call of the high country in Colorado. At some point Walter went and it was there that he married his first cousin, Georgianna Berrian, daughter of George and Lucinda (Munshower) Berrian. They would have one daughter Grace born in Colorado in 1887. Sadly, the marriage would fail and Georgianna would take Grace and move to the San Diego area of California.
Walter apparently became sort of nomadic and worked at various jobs in the southern Colorado area around Alamosa. At one time he was employed as a glove maker, then worked on a large sheep spread. Many years it was only in the spring, summer and fall that he was employed, saving enough to see him through the winter, which he spent in the town of Alamosa.
His brother Lucius had left Illinois in 1887, first going to Kansas, then finally to Columbus, Klickitat County, Washington to another of their Berrian uncles, James Augustus Berrian. Though the two brothers would never see each other after 1887, they did communicate by letter and Walter considered on numerous occasions of going to Oregon where Lucius eventually settled permanently, but never did.
Nothing is actually known of Walter in his very last years. Whether he had any communication with his only daughter Grace is not known, however, her Uncle Lucius did visit her on occasion when he wintered in Long Beach, California.
NOTE: There is a problem with this tombstone that is on this grave. It appears that the death year says 1922. He died in 1927, keep that in mind.
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