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\"DeeWALKER, Dee Grassy<\/strong>, serial number 1917285, PFC, Co. A, 307 Engineers, 82 Div. Joined the Army on 2 Nov 1917 at Waynesboro, TN. Served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France from 19 May 1918 until 9 May 1919. Was honorably discharged at Fort Oglethorpe GA on 21 May 1919. Described as 29 years old, a machinist, with blue eyes, dark brown hair, ruddy complexion and standing 5′ 8\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd” tall.<\/p>\n

Dee Grassy WALKER was born 7 Jan 1889 on Bloody Branch, Wayne County, TN and died 2 September 1974 buried in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was the son of W. D. WALKER, b. 8 Oct 1853, d. 28 April 1936 and Rosanna R. MOSER, b. 9 March 1853. He was a brother to Clinton M. WALKER who biography appears above. Dee married Nona E. SHIPMAN who was born 8 Nov 1895 and died 3 Aug 1965. She is buried in Las Cruces, NM. They didn’t have any children. Dee was gassed while in France and after his return, he moved to New Mexico for his health.<\/p>\n

The Bible record of W. D. WALKER was submitted with the biographies of Clinton and Dee WALKER. It is reproduced here and additional information on their siblings will follow.<\/p>\n

W. D. WALKER Bible Record<\/strong>
\nNo Title Page or Publication Data Submitted<\/p>\n

W. D. WALKER was Borned Oct the 8: 1853
\nR. R. MOSER was Borned March the 9: 1853
\nJessey Gray WALKER was Borned Spt the 4: 1879
\nFrances Clara Jane was Borned Au the 23 1881
\nJohn Alvis WALKER was Borned Dec the 26 1883<\/p>\n

[The following entries are in a different handwriting]
\nW. D. WALKER was borned Oct 8th<\/sup> 1853
\nR. R. MOSER was borned Mar 9th<\/sup> 1853
\nJessey Gray WALKER was borned Sept 4th<\/sup> 1879
\nFrancis Clara Jane WALKER was borned Aug 23d 1881
\nJohn Alvis WALKER was borned Dec 26th<\/sup> 1883 In Wayne Co. Tenn.
\nUlysses Anderson WALKER was born Feb 7th<\/sup>[?] 1886\/\/<\/p>\n

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\nDe Grassy WALKER was Borned January the 7 1889
\nIvy Parlee WALKER was borned Nov 1 1891
\nClinton Mahrandro[?] WALKER was borned July the 16 1894\/\/<\/p>\n

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\nW. D. WALKER and Rachel Rosanna MOSER was marred Nov the 17: 1878 Born and Raised in Wayne Co.<\/p>\n

[in different handwriting: W. D. WALKER and Rachel R. MOSER was married Nov. 17th<\/sup> 1878 Both borned and raised in Wayne County, Tenn.]<\/p>\n

Additional information on the siblings of Clinton M. and Dee Grassy WALKER:
\nGray WALKER, died 25 Sep 1965 and is buried at Philadelphia Cem. Wayne Co., TN
\nJohn A. WALKER, died 26 June 1952, buried also at Philadelphia.
\nEulis WALKER, married ______BARTLEY and died at Decaturville, TN
\nIvy Pearl died 28 Aug 1901 and is buried at the Walker Graveyard, Bloody Branch, Wayne Co., TN.
\nClara WALKER, died 10 March 1936. She married first to Henry GAYLOR who was killed by a mule on 15 March 1905. She then married J. M. REEVES who was killed by a falling tree on 17 Dec 1915.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WALKER, Dee Grassy, serial number 1917285, PFC, Co. A, 307 Engineers, 82 Div. Joined the Army on 2 Nov 1917 at Waynesboro, TN. Served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France from 19 May 1918 until 9 May 1919. Was honorably discharged at Fort Oglethorpe GA on 21 May 1919. Described as 29 years old, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[292],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteranbiography","tag-walker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2059,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}