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Delia Walvoord
(1856-Unknown)
 Delia
Walvoord was the youngest child of Gerrit Jan and Anna Maria Engel
Nolten Walvoord. She was born April 15, 1856. She was just
three-months-old at the time her father drowned in Lake Michigan.
On
April 15th, 1865, Delia's ninth birthday, the President of the United
States died from a gunshot wound to the head he had received at Ford's
Theater in Washington D. C. the night before.
Delia married
Frank Lawson on January 1, 1877 in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin and
lived on a farm in Chester, Iowa. Frank was born around 1854.
They had at least two sons, John and Herbert.
When Delia's
husband Frank had gone insane her mother, Anna Maria whose children
were all grown, moved to Chester to help with the farming until the
Lawson boys, John and Herbert, became adults. Anna Maria Walvoord lived
there until she was nearly eighty-years-old.
Delia died 25 Apr 1914 in
Fillmore County, MN at the age of 58. Her husband Frank died
around 23 Mar 1922 in Rochester, Minnesota he was about 68 when he died.
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