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- One winter Jennie took her father's horse and cutter by herself, on the back roads to play the music in the small white church at her girlfriends wedding.
- Ontario Birth Registration # 501402
Jennie Walker, 26 y. b, 11 March, 1883, Erin, Ont.; Mother Ella Hamilton Age 19, Father Charles Henry Walker Age 26, Carriage builder Manufacture, Residence, Erin, Ontario.
Married notations: +Declaration by mother, Family Bible record, marriage.
Informant: Annie Walker, 228 Fairman (?) ave, Toronto &Dr. Henry McNaughton , Erin, ON.
- 1883 Mar 22 - Born - In Erin, on Sunday, 5th March, the wife of Charles H Walker, of a daughter.
Ref: Acton Free Press, 22 Mar 1883, page 2, column 2.
.Walker, Charles (Daughter), Birth announcement, Acton Free Press, 9 Mar 1893, page 2, column 1.
Jennie was born in the large red brick house her father, John Walker, built next to his blacksmith & carriage shop at Scot and Main Streets, Erin, Ontario. She help to raise her younger siblings. Jennie and her new husband moved to Toronto where John Felker had a good job with CCM plant. On Thanksgiving and holidays they would go back to Erin to visit her mother and picnicking at Stanley Park in Erin or Belfountain.
Jennie had a hard time providing after her husband died young. Daughter Marie quit high school to help her mother and brothers. She sure loved her hockey and football. Jennie was famous for her apple and especially her mincemeat pies, which she made by hand in barrels for the fancy grocery store in Erin. Her peanut butter cookies were pretty good too!
Jennie has a photo of her standing in in the doorway of her grandparent's Hamilton fine goods general store in Erin; Later she ran her own grocery store on Weston Rd., Toronto. They were the first to have large standing radio in the store. Neighbours would come in to listen to the programming.
Jennie Was Given A Gold Pocket Watch For Playing The Piano For The Erin Church. One Winter She Took Her Father's Horse & Cutter Herself On The Back Roads To Play In The Little White Church Where Her Girlfriend Was Getting Married.
Erin Advocate, Ontario:
909 Aug 25, Wed. - Mrs. Chas. W Walker, of West Toronto, who has been spending a 2 weeks vacation with friends & relatives here, returned home on Saturday evening, sorry to leave, but looking forward to a return visit next year.
[Chas. Walker died in June 1908. Ella sold up the foundry & and moved with her girls to Toronto in 1922 to nurse her dying daughter Kate Walker.]
1909 Oct 27 - Miss J. Walker, visited Toronto Friends, on Thanksgiving Day.
1909 Sep 22 - Mr. J. Felker, Toronto, spent Sunday with friends in town.
1911 Jan. 4 - Mr. Frank Walker, Union Bank, Smith's Falls, at home.
Mr. & Mrs. J. Felker, of Toronto, spent New Years with his mother, Mrs. C H Walker.
1911 Jan 25 - The first Carnival of the season held at the Rink on Thurs. evening was a success and was much enjoyed by many skaters. Prize winners were Best Boy skater under 9, Clayton Justice, Best Girl., Best Dressed Lady: 1st Mrs. Baird, 2nd, Miss R. Walker.
1911 May 24 - Mrs. J. Felker, Toronto; & Mrs. T. Justice and daughter, of Dauphin, Manitoba, are here on a visit to their mother, Mrs. C. Walker.
1911 May 31 - Mrs. J. Felker, who has been here on a visit to her mother, Mrs. C. Walker, returned to her home in Toronto last week, accompanied by her sister Ruby.
1911 July 12 - Mrs. J. Felker, Toronto,is here on a visit to her mother, Mrs. C. Walker.
1911 Oct. 18 - Erin Fair Visitors: Mr & Mrs. J. Felker, Toronto, at Mrs. C. Walker's, 6,000 people attended the Fair last Friday.
1911 Nov. 22 - Mrs. R. Hamilton is visiting her granddaughter, Mrs. J. Felker, Toronto. [i.e. Jane Matilda McCutcheon].
1911 Dec. 27 - Christmas visitors, Mr. Neil Felker, of Toronto and formerly of the Advocate with friends in town.
Mr. & Mrs. J. Felker, of Toronto; Mr. Frank Walker, of Smiths Falls; Miss I. Walker, with their mother, Mrs. Walker.
Notes: For more Advocate social news, please look under the various individuals - PJA Uncle James Walker came every Sunday with his family to Sunday dinner on Weston Road with his niece, Jennie Walker Felker. James was a short man.
Transcripts by P J Ahlberg. Thank you. - - - [1]
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1883 - 1959 (76 years)