Published as it appeared on Jan. 27. 1927, in the Corvallis Gazette-Times, Page 1, Column 2.
PIONEER OF COUNTY
HAD RESIDED HERE
SINCE EARLY DAYS
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Mrs. Adaline Walker Was
Link Connecting Present
with Pioneer History
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Mrs. Adaline Martin Walker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Martin, pioneers of Oregon and Benton county, and wife of Jesse H. Walker, died at 8 o’clock last night at the family home in the Oak Ridge neighborhood, five miles south of Corvallis. Frail for a year or more, Mrs. Walker was not strong, but her death followed an illness of but three days and came suddenly and quietly. She was aged 84 years, 11 months and 16 days.
Mrs. Walker was born in Iowa February 10, 1842. In 1847, when she was but five years of age, she came with her parents to Oregon and the Martins settled in Benton county in what is now known as the Oak Ridge community. It was there Mrs. Walker spent her entire life, with the exception of the early years, attending the district school, maturing into womanhood and marrying Jesse H. Walker, the Walkers, too, homesteading in that vicinity.
The Walker home adjoins the homesteads of both the Martins and Walkers and Mr. and Mrs. Walker have resided there continuously since their marriage, Mrs. Walker having passed 79 years in Benton county. To the couple two children were born, a son, Charles Walker, passing away some years ago. The daughter is Mrs. J.H. Watkins of Philomath. The aged husband survives, but at present is quite ill from pneumonia.
The funeral will be held from the Oak Ridge church Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock, with interment in Newton cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Walker are among the last of the pioneers of the Oak Ridge community and the one community link binding that section to its early history.