Descendants of Pressley Purdy

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Our goal is to research the pioneers that came into the Walla Walla Valley Area, as a starter for those doing their family genealogy; we are not related.

Head Researcher: Sarah Olsen,

Researcher: Linda Kracke

February 1, 2006

Generation No. 1

1. PRESSLEY1 PURDY was born Abt. 1795 in Kentucky. He married ELIZA BURKS 17 Dec 1817 in Washington,KY.

Notes for PRESSLEY PURDY:

1850 Census IL McDonough Pg 255A

Line 16

355 355 Prestly Purddy 55 M Farmer 3500 KY

Elizabeth Purddy 53 F KY

Nicholas Purddy 22 M Farmer KY

Hesikier Purddy 18 M Farmer KY

Joseph Purddy 16 M Farmer KY

Ann Beck 72 F Maryland

Amanda Kirk 21 F Kentucky

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1860 Census IL McDonough Sciota Pg 773

Line 1

2844 2884 Presly Purdy 65 M Farmer 4480 540 KY

Joseph Purdy 26 M KY

Hesikiah Purdy 28 M KY

Nicholas Purdy 31 M Farmer --- 1035 KY

Amanda Purdy 30 F KY

Walan Purdy 3 F IL

Edwan Purdy 3/12 M IL

More About PRESSLEY PURDY:

Census 1: 1850, IL McDonough Pg 255A

Census 2: 1860, IL McDonough Sciota Pg 773

Census 3: 1870, OR Linn Harrisburg Pg 606B(See Son John Buck Purdy)

More About ELIZA BURKS:

Census: 1850, IL McDonough Pg 255A(See Husband)

More About PRESSLEY PURDY and ELIZA BURKS:

Marriage: 17 Dec 1817, Washington,KY

Children of PRESSLEY PURDY and ELIZA BURKS are:

2. i. JOHN BUCK2 PURDY, b. 14 Dec 1819, Kentucky; d. 21 Apr 1901, Umatilla,OR.

ii. NICHOLAS PURDY, b. Abt. 1828, Kentucky.

More About NICHOLAS PURDY:

Census 1: 1850, IL McDonough Pg 255A(See Father)

Census 2: 1860, IL McDonough Sciota Pg 773(See Father)

iii. HESIKIER PURDY, b. Abt. 1832, Kentucky.

More About HESIKIER PURDY:

Census 1: 1850, IL McDonough Pg 255A(See Father)

Census 2: 1860, IL McDonough Sciota Pg 773(See Father)

iv. JOSEPH PURDY, b. Abt. 1834, Kentucky.

More About JOSEPH PURDY:

Census 1: 1850, IL McDonough Pg 255A(See Father)

Census 2: 1860, IL McDonough Sciota Pg 773(See Father)

 

Generation No. 2

2. JOHN BUCK2 PURDY (PRESSLEY1) was born 14 Dec 1819 in Kentucky, and died 21 Apr 1901 in Umatilla,OR. He married MARY E HARDIN. She was born 18 Aug 1828 in KY, and died 09 Jan 1890 in Umatilla,OR.

Notes for JOHN BUCK PURDY:

1850 Census IL McDonough Pg 262A

Line 3

454 454 John B Purddy 30 M Farmer KY

Mary Purddy 22 F KY

Eliza A Purddy 5 M IL

Nancy G Purddy 2 F IL

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1860 Census IL McDonough Emmet Pg 585

Line 40

1617 1599 John B Purdy 40 m Farmer 5000 854 KY

Mary Purdy 31 F KY

Eliza Purdy 14 F IL

Nancy Purdy 12 F IL

Samuel Purdy 9 M IL

Robert Raymon 18 M Farm Laborer VA

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1870 Census OR Linn Harrisburg Pg 606B

Line 39

131 130 Purdy John B 50 MW Farmer 5000 2000 KY

------------, Mary E 42 FW Keeping House KY

------------, Samuel P 11 MW IL

------------, Pressley 75 MW Saddler KY (insane)

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1880 Census OR Umatilla Centerville Pg 43B

John B. Purdy Self M Male W 61 KY Farmer KY KY

Mary E. Purdy Wife M Female W 52 KY Keeping House KY D.C.

 

More About JOHN BUCK PURDY:

Burial: Weston,Umatilla,OR1

Census 1: 1850, IL McDonough Pg 262A

Census 2: 1860, IL McDonough Emmet Pg 585

Census 3: 1870, OR Linn Harrisburg Pg 606B

Census 4: 1880, OR Umatilla Centerville Pg 43B

Census 5: 1900, OR Umatilla Athena Dist 113 Pg 99A(See Son Samuel Pressley Purdy)

Emigration: 1865, IL by Mule Team 46 yrs old

Occupation 1: 1892, Farmer

Occupation 2: 1900, Retired Farmer

Picnic: 1892, Weston, Umatilla, OR

Residence 1: 1892, Athena, Umatilla, OR

Residence 2: 1900, Living with son Samuel Purdy

More About MARY E HARDIN:

Burial: Weston,Umatilla,OR2

Census 1: 1850, IL McDonough Pg 262A(See Husband)

Census 2: 1860, IL McDonough Emmet Pg 585(See Husband)

Census 3: 1870, OR Linn Harrisburg Pg 606B(See Husband)

Census 4: 1880, OR Umatilla Centerville Pg 43B(See Husband)

Children of JOHN PURDY and MARY HARDIN are:

i. ELIZA A3 PURDY, b. Abt. 1845, IL.

More About ELIZA A PURDY:

Census 1: 1850, IL McDonough Pg 262A(See Father)

Census 2: 1860, IL McDonough Emmet Pg 585(See Father)

ii. NANCY G PURDY, b. Abt. 1848, IL.

More About NANCY G PURDY:

Census 1: 1860, IL McDonough Emmet Pg 585(See Father)

Census 2: 1850, IL McDonough Pg 262A(See Father)

3. iii. SAMUEL PRESSLEY PURDY, b. Oct 1850, IL; d. 13 Dec 1917, Jackson,OR.

 

Generation No. 3

3. SAMUEL PRESSLEY3 PURDY (JOHN BUCK2, PRESSLEY1) was born Oct 1850 in IL, and died 13 Dec 1917 in Jackson,OR3. He married ELIZABETH ANN HARTMAN 24 Dec 1874 in Weston, Umatilla Co., OR, daughter of JAMES HARTMAN and JANE JONES. She was born 21 Aug 1856 in Agency, IA, and died 31 May 1925 in Pendleton,Umatilla, OR4.

Notes for SAMUEL PRESSLEY PURDY:

1880 Census OR Umatilla Centerville Pg 43B

Samuel B. Purdy Self M Male W 29 IL Farmer KY KY

Elizabeth Purdy Wife M Female W 23 IA TN TN

Thomas A. Purdy Son S Male W 4 OR IL IA

John B. Purdy Son S Male W 1 OR IL IA

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1900 Census OR Umatilla Athena Dist 113 Pg 99A

Line 19

214 215 Purdy Samuel Head WM Oct 1850 49 M 26 IL KY KY Farmer

------------, Elizabeth Wife WF Aug 1856 43 M 26 (7 Children 6 Alive) IA TN TN

------------, Walter E Son WM Feb 1881 19 S OR IL IA Farm Laborer

------------, Nellie A Daughter WF Nov 1883 16 S OR IL IA At School

------------, James P Son WM Mar 1886 13 S OR IL IA At School

------------, Jessie Daughter WF Jan 1892 7 S OR IL IA At School

------------, John B Father WM Dec 1819 80 Wd KY KY KY Retired Farmer

Stone Sanford C Boarder WM Oct 1872 27 S MO IA TN

 

More About SAMUEL PRESSLEY PURDY:

Census 1: 1860, IL McDonough Emmet Pg 585(See Father)

Census 2: 1870, OR Linn Harrisburg Pg 606B(See Father)

Census 3: 1880, OR Umatilla Centerville Pg 43B

Census 4: 1900, OR Umatilla Athena Dist 113 Pg 99A

Emigration: 1865, IL by Ox Team 15 yrs old

Occupation 1: 1892, Farmer

Occupation 2: 1900, farmer

Picnic: 1892, Weston, Umatilla, OR

Residence: 1892, Weston, Umatilla, OR

Notes for ELIZABETH ANN HARTMAN:

[1892 Pioneers.FTW]

1900 census shows father and mother born in TN. She had 7 children, 6 living.

More About ELIZABETH ANN HARTMAN:

Burial: Weston,Umatilla,OR5

Census 1: 1880, OR Umatilla Centerville Pg 43B(See Husband)

Census 2: 1900, OR Umatilla Athena Dist 113 Pg 99A(See Husband)

More About SAMUEL PURDY and ELIZABETH HARTMAN:

Marriage: 24 Dec 1874, Weston, Umatilla Co., OR

Children of SAMUEL PURDY and ELIZABETH HARTMAN are:

i. THOMAS A4 PURDY, b. Abt. 1876, Oregon.

More About THOMAS A PURDY:

Census: 1880, OR Umatilla Centerville Pg 43B(See Father)

ii. JOHN B PURDY, b. Abt. 1879, Oregon.

More About JOHN B PURDY:

Census: 1880, OR Umatilla Centerville Pg 43B(See Father)

iii. WALTER EDWIN PURDY, b. 18 Feb 1881, Umatilla,OR6; d. 09 Nov 1959, Butte, California7.

Notes for WALTER EDWIN PURDY:

World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 Record

Name: Walter Edwin Purdy

City: Not Stated

County: Butte

State: California

Birth Date: 18 Feb 1881

Race: White

Roll: 1530708

DraftBoard: 0

Nearest Relative: Mrs. Elizabeth A. Purdy, Marshfield,Oregon

 

More About WALTER EDWIN PURDY:

Census: 1900, OR Umatilla Athena Dist 113 Pg 99A(See Father)

Occupation: 1900, farm laborer

4. iv. NELLIE ANGELINE PURDY, b. 17 Nov 1883, Umatilla,OR.

v. JAMES PRESSLEY PURDY, b. Mar 1886, OR; m. MARY M. MADDEN, 15 Dec 1916, Dillon, Beaverhead Co., MT.

More About JAMES PRESSLEY PURDY:

Census: 1900, OR Umatilla Athena Dist 113 Pg 99A

Occupation: 1900, At school

More About JAMES PURDY and MARY MADDEN:

Marriage: 15 Dec 1916, Dillon, Beaverhead Co., MT

vi. JESSIE PURDY, b. Jan 1892, OR.

More About JESSIE PURDY:

Census: 1900, OR Umatilla Athena Dist 113 Pg 99A(See Father)

Occupation: 1900, At school

vii. FREDDIE L PURDY, b. Abt. 1877; d. 29 Dec 1978, Umatilla,OR.

More About FREDDIE L PURDY:

Burial: Weston,Umatilla,OR8

 

Generation No. 4

4. NELLIE ANGELINE4 PURDY (SAMUEL PRESSLEY3, JOHN BUCK2, PRESSLEY1) was born 17 Nov 1883 in Umatilla,OR9. She married ERNEST EDMUND WALDEN, son of JOHN WALDEN and LENA STAGGS. He was born 09 Dec 1881 in Oregon10, and died Jan 196411.

More About NELLIE ANGELINE PURDY:

Census 1: 1900, OR Umatilla Athena Dist 113 Pg 99A(See Father)

Census 2: 1910, WA Walla Walla Lincoln Pct ED 233 Pg 278B(See Husband)

Census 3: 1920, WA Walla Walla Prescott ED 116 Pg 3B(See Husband)

Census 4: 1930, OR Umatilla Pct 5 ED 5 Pg 1A(See Husband)

Occupation: 1900, At school

Notes for ERNEST EDMUND WALDEN:

Walla Walla Union Bulletin (Walla Walla, Washington) > 1949 > March > 13

Ernest E Walden, who has been among other things, assessor in the eastern portion of Umatilla county many years, comes from a family of early settlers in Oregon and Umatilla County.

First Walden Migrated to Area in 1845.

Over a period of 20 years, much of Umatilla county's east end has been assessed by Ernest E Walden of Milton-Freewater. The veteran deputy asessor is a busy beaver right now compiling the statistics from which next year's taxes will be computed. This is his twenty-first year in this highly important assignment.

His territory embraces the district from Pendleton to the state line but due to the late start and the bad roads created by the recent disturbances, he fears he will not be able to cover the territory without some help.

Family an Old One.

Over approximately the same period of time Walden has been a school director in his community. But even more important -- to history-minded folk -- are the unique associations his parents and grandparents had with early development of Oregon.

The Roving Reporter managed on day recently to prevail on the busy deputy assessor to stand still long enough to review some of the Walden family history. This is Walden's busy season.

Came in '45

Benjamin E Walden, my grandfather, came out to Oregon with the big train of 1845," he said, "They were met in Southern Idaho by Marcus Whitman, with the advice that Indians were menacing. One group of California bound men without families decided they would join in with the Oregon bound wagons, making a total of 90 wagons in the train.

"About where La Grande now is the train was met by a large number of chiefs and their warriors. Whitman started a council that lasted far into the night. Finally the peace pipe was lighted and the train breathed easier. When the train reached the top of the Blues, Whitman left and returned to the mission while the immigrants pushed on to the Willamette Valley."

McLoughlin Incident

At Oregon City, Walden's grandfather helped build a house for Dr.McLoughlin. Hudson's Bay company factor at Fort Vancuver. This building more recently became part of the McLoughlin museum.

Not long after, the Waldens were settled in the Waldo hills, six miles east of Salem. There a home was built and in it was born John Walden, more fully referred to presently. Only a few years ago Ernest Walden returned to the Waldo hills and found the original home -- now 100 years old -- still in use, but as part of a tavern.

The present owners revealed that the title for the land originally passed to Ben Walden from the government in 1849.

John to Weston

By 1871 John Walden set up a family domicile near Weston and there Ernest E Walden was born. In due time, Ernest Walden took a shine to Nellie Purdy, over Athena way. She belonged to the same Purdy clan which at one time opereated Bingham Springs. He not only took a shine to Nellie, he married the girl.

Mr and Mrs Walden found some wheat land around Prescott which they liked so well they farmed it for 20 years, and then moved over to the Freewater country, where they have since resided.

Walden has two half-brothers, Orville and Ted, who also live in the Milton-Freewater district.

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Name: Ernest Edmond Walden

City: Prescott

County: Walla Walla

State: Washington

Birth Date: 9 Dec 1882

Race: White

Roll: 1992177

DraftBoard: 0

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1910 Census WA Walla Walla Lincoln Pct ED 233 Pg 278B

Walden,Earnest E.,head,28,m5,OR,OR,OR,Farmer

Nellie A.,wife,26,m5,2,2,OR,IL,IA

Virginia E.,4,OR

Margurite L.,daughter,10/12,WA

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1920 Census WA Walla Walla Prescott ED 116 Pg 3B

Walden,Ernest,head,38,m,OR,OR,OR,Manager,Wheat Elevator

Nelly,wife,36,m,OR,IL,IA

Virginia,daughter,13,OR

Margrete,daughter,10,WA

Francis,daughter,7,WA

Paul,son,2 6/12,WA

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1930 Census OR Umatilla Pct 5 ED 5 Pg 1A

Walden,Ernest E.,head,48,m23,OR,OR,OR

Nellie A.,wife,46,m21,OR,KY,IA

Francis,daughter,17S,OR

Paul E.,son,12S,OR

Elmira or Elvira J.,daughter,9S,OR

 

 

More About ERNEST EDMUND WALDEN:

Census 1: 1885, Walla Walla County Census Vol 2 Pg 185(See Grandfather Benjamin Walden)

Census 2: 1910, WA Walla Walla Lincoln Pct ED 233 Pg 278B

Census 3: 1920, WA Walla Walla Prescott ED 116 Pg 3B

Census 4: 1930, OR Umatilla Pct 5 ED 5 Pg 1A

Children of NELLIE PURDY and ERNEST WALDEN are:

i. VIRGINIA E5 WALDEN, b. Abt. 1906, Oregon.

More About VIRGINIA E WALDEN:

Census 1: 1910, WA Walla Walla Lincoln Pct ED 233 Pg 278B(See Father)

Census 2: 1920, WA Walla Walla Prescott ED 116 Pg 3B(See Father)

ii. MARGUERET LOIS WALDON, b. 27 Jun 1909, Oregon12.

More About MARGUERET LOIS WALDON:

Census 1: 1910, WA Walla Walla Lincoln Pct ED 233 Pg 278B(See Father)

Census 2: 1920, WA Walla Walla Prescott ED 116 Pg 3B(See Father)

iii. FRANCIS WALDEN, b. Abt. 1913, Washington.

More About FRANCIS WALDEN:

Census 1: 1920, WA Walla Walla Prescott ED 116 Pg 3B

Census 2: 1930, OR Umatilla Pct 5 ED 5 Pg 1A(See Father)

iv. PAUL WALDEN, b. 07 May 1917, Prescott, Washington; d. 28 Mar 2003, Hood River, Hood River, Oregon13; m. (1) ETHEL MAE MATHENY; b. Abt. 1924, Oregon; m. (2) BETTY MCEWEN, Abt. 1940.

Notes for PAUL WALDEN:

Hood River News Obituary

Page: 2 April 2003

Paul Walden Retired Oregon radio broadcaster and radio station owner

Paul E. Walden, who served three terms in the Oregon State House of

Representatives in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 85. A memorial service is

planned for Wednesday, April 2, at St. Mark?s Episcopal Church in Hood River,

where he was a longtime member. The Rev. Rustin R. Kimsey, retired Episcopal

Bishop of Eastern Oregon, will deliver the eulogy. Mr. Walden, the father of

U.S. Rep. Greg Walden of Hood River, spent 48 years in radio broadcasting,

working as an engineer and station manager at radio stations in Walla Walla,

LaGrande and Pendleton. He worked at KODL radio in The Dalles for 27 years

before purchasing KIHR radio in Hood River in 1967. He served twice as

president of the Oregon Association of Broadcasters. Mr. Walden earned his

license as a Radiotelephone Operator First Class in 1937, after studying

broadcast engineering at the Oregon Institute of Technology in Portland. He

acquired his radio amateur (HAM) license in 1934, and remained an active radio

amateur until quite recently, communicating with other radio amateurs around

the globe, both by voice and by Morse Code. He was in the U.S. Army Signal

Corps in 1946 and 1947, stationed at Fort Monmouth, N.J. Mr. Walden, who was

born on a wheat ranch near Prescott, Wash., on May 7, 1917, to Ernest Edmund

and Nellie Angeline Purdy Walden, grew up in Milton-Freewater and graduated

from Mac-High in 1935. He was a descendent of Oregon pioneers; his family came

to the Oregon Territory by wagon train in 1845. The diary that his

great-grandmother, Sarah J. Walden Cummins, kept of her journey on the Oregon

Trail has been published as ?The Autobiography and Reminiscences of Sarah J.

Cummins.? Mr. Walden?s survivors include three sons and their wives: Bob and

Connie Walden of Phoenix, Ariz.; Bill and Sandy Walden of Gresham; and Greg

and Mylene Walden of Hood River. He also is survived by a stepson, two

stepdaughters, and their spouses: Mike and Val Tenney of The Dalles; Barb and

Mitch Hosford of Hood River and Jo Ann and Lewis Wixon of The Dalles. Other

survivors include two grandsons, Mathew Walden of Gresham and Anthony Walden

of Hood River, and two sisters, Eleanor Day of Kellog, Idaho, and Ginger Delk

of Ridgecrest, Calif. In 1940 in LaGrande, he married Betty McEwen, who died

in 1990. His second wife, Ethel Mae Tenney Walden, died in 1999. He served as

a lay reader in the Episcopal Church for 50 years, and had been a member of

the Diocesan Council for the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Oregon, serving for

two years as council chairman. Mr. Walden, who greatly appreciated hearing -

and telling - a good story, also was a community activist. He was named First

Citizen of The Dalles in 1956, where he was president of Kiwanis, twice

president of The Dalles Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the chamber?s

board of directors. He chaired The Dalles Dam dedication committee, and served

as the master of ceremonies when then-Vice President Richard M. Nixon

dedicated the dam in the mid-1950s. He was a former Exalted Ruler of the Hood

River Elks Lodge, and also was a member of Hood River Rotary, the Pendleton

Masonic Lodge, Al Kader Shrine and Portland Valley of the Scottish Rite. The

family suggests memorials to Hospice of the Gorge, c/o Anderson?s Tribute

Center, 1401 Belmont, Hood River, OR 97031. 1

 

More About PAUL WALDEN:

Census 1: 1920, WA Walla Walla Prescott ED 116 Pg 3B(See Father)

Census 2: 1930, OR Umatilla Pct 5 ED 5 Pg 1A(See Father)

More About PAUL WALDEN and BETTY MCEWEN:

Marriage: Abt. 1940

v. ELMIRA WALDEN, b. Abt. 1921, Oregon.

More About ELMIRA WALDEN:

Census: 1930, OR Umatilla Pct 5 ED 5 Pg 1A(See Father)

 

 

Endnotes

1. Weston, Oregon Cemetery Index, Purdy,John B. Masonic Section A Row 5 b 14 Dec 1819 d 21 Apr 1901 MASON.

2. Weston, Oregon Cemetery Index, Purdy, Mary E. Masonic Section A Row 5 b 18 Aug 1828 d 9 Jan 1890 w/o J.B.

3. Oregon Death Index, (Ancestry.com), "Electronic," Name: Purdy, Samuel Pressley County: Jackson Death Date: 13 Dec 1917 Certificate: 261 .

4. Oregon Death Index, (Ancestry.com), "Electronic," Name: Purdy, Elizabeth Ann County: Umatilla Death Date: 31 May 1925 Certificate: 129.

5. Weston, Oregon Cemetery Index, Purdy, Eliza A. Masonic Section A Row 4 1856-1925.

6. Delayed Birth Oregon Archives, Case# 487/21407 Name Purdy, Walter Edwin Date 02-18-1881 Record Type Delayed Birth County Umatilla Source Health .

7. CA Death Index, Name: PURDY, WALTER EDWIN Social Security #: 545224175 Sex: MALE Birth Date: 18 Feb 1881 Birthplace: OREGON Death Date: 9 Nov 1959 Death Place: BUTTE Mother's Maiden Name: HARTMAN Father's Surname: PURDY.

8. Weston, Oregon Cemetery Index, Purdy, Freddie L. Masonic Section A Row 4 d 29 Dec 1878 1y 4m 27d so S.O. & E.A.

9. Delayed Birth Oregon Archives, Case# 486/21403 Name Walden, Nellie Angeline Purdy Date 11-17-1883 Record Type Delayed Birth County Umatilla Source Health .

10. Delayed Birth Oregon Archives, Case# 46 Name Walden, Ernest Edmond Date 12-09-1881 Record Type Delayed Birth County Umatilla Source Health Parents x .

11. SS Death Index, ERNEST WALDEN 09 Dec 1881 Jan 1964 (Idaho) (none specified) 540-28-4061 Oregon.

12. Delayed Birth Oregon Archives, Parent: Ernest E Waldon Name: Margueret Lois Waldon Location: Walla Walla Parent: Nellie Purdy Birth Date: 27 Jun 1909 Sex: F Race: W.

13. SS Death Index, Name: Paul E. Walden SSN: 542-07-0437 Last Residence: 97031 Hood River, Hood River, OregonBorn: 7 May 1917 Died: 28 Mar 2003 State (Year) SSN issued: Oregon (Before 1951 ).