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Ruth Walker

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1902–1991

Ruth Walker

Ruth Walker was born in St. George, Utah, in 1902, came to Short Creek to teach school, and married Warren Black in 1927. She died in Colorado City, Arizona, in 1991.

Ruth Walker was born on 12 August 1902 in St. George, Washington County, Utah, a daughter of Charles Middlemass Walker and Rosannah Kelsey.1 FamilySearch records her under the identifier KVPR-MC5, with that birth, a death date of 13 February 1991 in Colorado City, Mohave County, Arizona, and burial in 1991 at Carling Memorial Park there.2

She married James Warren Black on 17 June 1927 in St. George. The family portrait sheet in the Black Book gives that date and place; a funeral recording in this archive describes the marriage as taking place in the St. George Temple. In his own narrative, Warren Black said he married in 1927, when he was 25, “to Ruth Walker. She came here to teach school in ’26, I guess, and she came back in ’27.”3

FamilySearch lists these children of Ruth Walker and James Warren Black with death dates: Rachel Black (1928–2016), Viola Black (1932–2010), Eldon Black (1933–2026), Leslie Black (1935–1990), Gerald Charles Black (1940–2010), and Linda Black (1942–2019). Arizona birth records name James Warren Black and Ruth Walker as the parents of Viola (8 February 1932), Eldon (11 November 1933), and Leslie (24 September 1935).4

This page is about Ruth Walker (1902–1991), daughter of Charles Middlemass Walker and Rosannah Kelsey and wife of James Warren Black. It is not a page for other people who share the name Ruth Walker.

Appearances

No pre-1961 talk, meeting, document, or photograph on this site has yet been published under her name. The archive holds funeral recordings labeled for Ruth Walker Black at Colorado City Academy in February 1991. Those later years open as they are approved.

Sources

  1. Black Book (Black family history; compiler and date unknown), p. 1, family portrait: spouse of James Warren Black, “WALKER, Ruth,” born 12 August 1902, St. George, Washington, Utah. FamilySearch, Ruth Walker, identifier KVPR-MC5: birth 12 August 1902, St. George, Washington County, Utah; parents Charles Middlemass Walker (KWZ6-Q9S) and Rosannah Kelsey (KWZ6-Q93). Tree details read 30 October 2026. A transcript of the archive funeral recordings labeled for Ruth Walker Black (see note 2) names her parents as Charles M. Walker and Rosanna Kelsey and her birthplace as St. George, Utah.
  2. FamilySearch, KVPR-MC5: death 13 February 1991, Colorado City, Mohave County, Arizona; burial 1991, Carling Memorial Park, Colorado City. FamilySearch person page. HSC archive funeral recordings whose titles name Ruth Walker Black, Colorado City Academy, including speakers labeled Eldon Black Jr., Fred M. Jessop, Gerold Black, Truman I. Barlow, and Wendell Nielsen. The files are dated 10 February 1991; the recording itself states that she died 13 February 1991, which agrees with FamilySearch.
  3. Black Book (Black family history; compiler and date unknown), p. 1, marriage 17 June 1927, St. George, Washington, Utah; and p. 33, first-person narrative of Warren Black. FamilySearch, KVPR-MC5 and James Warren Black, identifier KWHH-MVL, marriage 17 June 1927, St. George. The archive funeral recording described in note 2 gives the marriage as 17 June 1927 in the St. George Temple. An Ancestral File printout dated 11 August 1999 in the same book, p. 22 (sheet numbered 21), gives the marriage as 7 June 1927, without a place.
  4. FamilySearch, KVPR-MC5, children of the marriage to James Warren Black (KWHH-MVL), tree details read 30 October 2026. “1926–1936 Birth Records in Mohave County, AZ,” GenealogyTrails, extracted from an Arizona Department of Health Services database: Viola, 1932.02.08; Eldon, 1933.11.11; Leslie, 1935.09.24; parents James Warren Black (or J. Warren Black) and Ruth Walker. http://genealogytrails.com/ariz/mohave/births1926-1936_oldformat.html.