Mary was the 1st child of 7 born to Ephraim S. & Hannah M. (Gotee) Williams.
She spent her youth in Waterford, Saginaw, and possibly briefly in Detroit.
She became Mrs. Hiram Walker on 5 Oct 1846, being married at her grandmother's homestead on Silver Lake in Waterford Twp.
The first church in Walkerville, Ontario (St. Mary's) which was located on Riverside Drive was erected in her memory, as was it's successor, the more current & renowned St. Mary's, adjacent to Willistead Manor.
(The East Window in the original church, a memorial to Mary, was given to St. Paul's Church, Essex in 1904.)
She was a founder and liberal supporter of St. Luke's Hospital in Detroit.
Mrs. Walker left a family of one daughter and four sons: Julia Elizabeth, Willis Ephraim, Edward Chandler, Franklin Hiram, & James Harrington Walker.
She spent her youth in Waterford, Saginaw, and possibly briefly in Detroit.
She became Mrs. Hiram Walker on 5 Oct 1846, being married at her grandmother's homestead on Silver Lake in Waterford Twp.
The first church in Walkerville, Ontario (St. Mary's) which was located on Riverside Drive was erected in her memory, as was it's successor, the more current & renowned St. Mary's, adjacent to Willistead Manor.
(The East Window in the original church, a memorial to Mary, was given to St. Paul's Church, Essex in 1904.)
She was a founder and liberal supporter of St. Luke's Hospital in Detroit.
Mrs. Walker left a family of one daughter and four sons: Julia Elizabeth, Willis Ephraim, Edward Chandler, Franklin Hiram, & James Harrington Walker.
Mary was the 1st child of 7 born to Ephraim S. & Hannah M. (Gotee) Williams.
She spent her youth in Waterford, Saginaw, and possibly briefly in Detroit.
She became Mrs. Hiram Walker on 5 Oct 1846, being married at her grandmother's homestead on Silver Lake in Waterford Twp.
The first church in Walkerville, Ontario (St. Mary's) which was located on Riverside Drive was erected in her memory, as was it's successor, the more current & renowned St. Mary's, adjacent to Willistead Manor.
(The East Window in the original church, a memorial to Mary, was given to St. Paul's Church, Essex in 1904.)
She was a founder and liberal supporter of St. Luke's Hospital in Detroit.
Mrs. Walker left a family of one daughter and four sons: Julia Elizabeth, Willis Ephraim, Edward Chandler, Franklin Hiram, & James Harrington Walker.
She spent her youth in Waterford, Saginaw, and possibly briefly in Detroit.
She became Mrs. Hiram Walker on 5 Oct 1846, being married at her grandmother's homestead on Silver Lake in Waterford Twp.
The first church in Walkerville, Ontario (St. Mary's) which was located on Riverside Drive was erected in her memory, as was it's successor, the more current & renowned St. Mary's, adjacent to Willistead Manor.
(The East Window in the original church, a memorial to Mary, was given to St. Paul's Church, Essex in 1904.)
She was a founder and liberal supporter of St. Luke's Hospital in Detroit.
Mrs. Walker left a family of one daughter and four sons: Julia Elizabeth, Willis Ephraim, Edward Chandler, Franklin Hiram, & James Harrington Walker.
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