Walker, Mary Richardson, 1811-1897

found: NUCMC data from Eastern Wash. State Hist. Soc. for Drury, C.M. Papers, 1932-1983(Mary Richardson Walker)

found: NUCMC files(Walker, Mary (Richardson), 1811-1897; Mrs. Elkanah Walker; missionary, Spokane Indians, Tshimakian, Wash.)

found: NUCMC data from Eastern Wash. State Hist. Soc. for Drury, C.M. Papers, 1932-1983(Elkanah Walker, missionary with Spokane Indians at Tshimakian, Wash.; wife: Mary (Richardson) Walker; b. 1805; d. 1877)

found: Washington State University Libraries: Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) (website), viewed Oct. 6, 2021:Guide to the Elkanah and Mary Richardson Walker Papers 1830-1938, Cage 57 (Biography/History: When Elkanah Walker (1805-1877) was a senior at the Bangor (Maine) Theological Seminary in 1836, he was planning a mission career among the Maritime Zoolaks of South Africa. He was told that it would perhaps be better for him to be married before undertaking such a mission. At the same time Mary Richardson (1811-1897) of Baldwin, Maine, was told that she too must be married to become a missionary. The result was a whirlwind courtship and marriage which did not go to South Africa but the equally distant and primitive Oregon Mission. Eventually settling at Tshimakain on Walker's Prairie near Spokane they ministered to the Spokane Indians and their fellow missionaries: Marcus Whitman, Cushing Eells, Henry H. Spalding and William H. Gray and their wives. After the Whitman Mission killings in 1847, the Walkers moved to Fort Colville for nearly three months and then spent the remainder of their days in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. Here they helped establish the Congregational Association of Oregon City and Tualatin Academy (now Pacific University) at Forest Grove.) - http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu/masc/finders/cg57.htm

found: SNAC (website), viewed Oct. 6, 2021:Walker, Elkanah, 1805-1877 (Reverend Elkanah Walker, pioneer Congregational missionary, was born on August 7, 1805 in North Yarmouth, Maine. Following his ordination in 1838, Walker and his new bride, Mary Richardson, journeyed overland to the Oregon Country in order to serve as missionaries for the Spokane Indians at Tshimakain Mission. The Walkers studied the Spokane language and prepared educational materials for publication by the Mission Press at Lapwai. After the Whitman Massacre (1847), they moved to Oregon and assisted in the organization of the Congregational Association in Oregon City. Elkanah Walker died on November 21, 1877.) - https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6vd6xx8