• Crossed plains to California in 1851.23, P G25 1852, to Sacramento.516

• Given as “Pennsylvania Dutch.”518

• Here she [Mary O’Brien, in Sacramento] met Fred Walter, a widower – twice. When he left Iowa, captain of his team, he left two children with his family; later he sent for them, Jane and Daniel. For he had married “Angeline” who died with fever after birth of her first child (Papa never took his clothes off for three weeks – never left her side more than he could help – always gave her the medicine.) After nine months she was dead – and I believe this was his deepest love. He was a rich man – his teams paid well. He fell in love with Mama while singing in the choir. Mama has told me that the first she ever heard of him was when Emily came home from school and said “I feel so sorry for Jane Walter, her own mother died and now her new mama is dead and she was such a lovely mama.” Papa sang Angeline’s praises and Mama always said “She was a fine woman, I always heard.”
When Mary and ‘Mr. Walter’ married each for the third time, he was 32 – she 30. Annie was born during a flood in Sacramento. The family moved to the “Golden Eagle” Hotel. Mary could not be moved, with boats coming to her bedroom window, she received care. When the river went down – all the mahogany (the mirror and chair you have, were dug out of the mud; the table in your father’s house was in a dozen pieces) – Mary and baby had such awful head colds – Mary became deaf; the baby’s ears “ran” and Dr. H. said these abscesses hardened the eardrum, the cause of much deafness in the old days. When “Mary Angeline” was two, she dressed in hoop skirts and every elegance. Her parents had a carriage and five span of black horses. Then the brick business boomed and Papa made more money. (Mama would say ‘he would lie in bed till nine and let his business run itself.’) However we knew he was not a keen businessman – honest and took everyone’s word. His last contract was for the Capitol building $1,000,000.00 contract – he failed – paid $.80 on the dollar – tried to get Mama to put in her home; this she refused. Through a political friend he got a job on Mare Island when Alice was a baby. The state bought the property – and with this money Mama bought the Vallejo home – after we had lived on Kentucky Street where I was born and lived till nine months old.36, p 5, lines 183-209

• Pa was born in Ohio, his parents were born in Penn. and I think from then on they were Dutch. You know, in early days, all freight came by water to S.F. and carried by boat to Sacramento. From there it was freighted out. Pa had 3 - 10 mule teams and he would carry this freight to Oregon, Nevada, Wash., Montana and Idaho.
I am sorry I never asked him how long it took to make a round trip. When I was working for the S.P. [Southern Pacific] in Sac. in 1882, one his freight wagons stood in an empty lot on 12th and L. Sts.
It had “F. Walter No. 2” on the side. They were mostly trails in those days and there were eating houses about a days travel apart. All roads were there, were toll roads, and they charged so much a team, according to the width of the tires. The wider the tire, the less the toll, as they wouldn’t cut the roads so much.519, p 1

• Resident of California for 57 years at death. Maiden name of mother “Unknown.”515

• Personally, I prefer anecdotal information. The idea that Frederick Walter was a carpenter who became a dairyman and was the third husband of Mary O’Brien fleshes out the bones of the man. The oval picture shows signs of doctoring but he was evidently a good looking devil.195

• Died intestate.520, p 3

• My maternal great, great grandfather was a man named Walters. He is said to have been a German, but I don’t recall ever having heard anything else about him. He had at least one child, my great Grandmother, Jennie Christine Walters. Jennie was born in 1850 or 1851.521

• 1830 Census: Baughman township, Wayne, Ohio. 100001/122001.522
• 1840 Census: Salt Creek, Wayne, Ohio. 1110001/1011001.523
• 1850 Census: Union, Jackson, Iowa. Age 25, b OH. Wife, Christina, and son, Daniel, age 1, b IA.524
• 1880 Census: Vallejo, Solano, California. Age 55, b OH. Carpenter.196
• 1900 Census: Vallejo, Solano, California. Age 71, b Dec 1828, b OH. Both parents b Holland [sic].197

• …at the Oak Tree House, on the Placerville road, by Rev. James Woods, Mr. Frederick Walter to Angeline Bennett.532