Walter Burk McNew1
b. 19 May 1883
Father | Daniel Burke McNew2 b. 10 May 1843, d. 8 Oct 1903 |
Mother | Nancy Clark Ryburn3 b. 7 Sep 1847, d. 12 Dec 1914 |
Birth | 19 May 1883 | Walter Burk McNew was born on 19 May 1883.1 |
Marriage | He married Bertie Gertrude Rutherford.4 | |
Cens-1920 | 13 Jan 1920 | By 1920 Walter and Bertie had been married several years and had two children, Allen and Nannie.5 |
A second daughter, born prematurely in April 1918, lived just a few hours. Beside their own children, Walter and Bertie also raised Ben Ryburn, Jr., whose father, Bennie Newton Ryburn, had been raised as a sibling of Walter McNew.6,7,8 | ||
Cens-1930 | 3 Apr 1930 | Five year old Bennie appears to have been enumerated with Walter and Bertie in 1930 (he is listed as Billie McNew, age 5, nephew), as were their own 2 teenage children. Walter's brother, William McNew was also working on the family dairy farm.9 |
Family | Bertie Gertrude Rutherford | |
Children |
Charts | Descendants of Mathew Ryburn and Jane Beattie Descendants of James Clark and Isabella Breckenridge |
Last Edited | 29 May 2011 |
Citations
- [S29] Leonidas Littleton Papers titled "Ryburn Family."
- [S574] Dan B. McNew household, 1900 U.S. cens., Washington Co., Virginia, pop. sched., Glade Spring District, ED 108, sheet 5B, dwelling 81, family 84, viewed online at Genealogy.com, April 2003, image 10 of 70. Dan B. McNew, 59, b. May 1841, marr 30 yrs, locomotive engineer, Nancy C., 52, b. Sept. 1847, marr 30 yrs, mother of 5 children, all living; James B., son, 26, b. Sept. 1873, locomotive f___y; William, son, 24, b. Nov. 1875, farmer; Annie, dau, 20, b. May 1880; Walter, son, 17, b. May 1883; Joseph, son, 13, b. Oct. 1886, Ryburn, Benjamin, 5, Jul 1894; all born VA, all parents b. VA.
- [S237] Nannie C. McNew household, 1910 U.S. cens., Washington Co., VA, pop. sched., Glade Spring Precinct, ED 116, sheet 6A, dwelling 86, family 95, viewed online at Ancestry.com, 2002, image 11 of 36. Enumeration reports: Nannie C. Ryburn, 62, wid, mother of 5 children, all living; James B. (son) 37, sgl, locomotive engineer; William A. (son) 34, sgl, farmer; Walter B. (son) 28, farmer; Joseph D. (son) 24 locomotive fireman; Bennie N. Ryburn (nephew) 16; all b. Virginia.
- [S29] Leonidas Littleton Papers titled "Ryburn Family". No date given.
- [S238] Walter McNew household, 1920 U.S. cens., Washington Co., VA, pop. sched., Glade Spring District, ED 149, sheet 5A, dwelling 86, family 88, viewed online at Ancestry.com, April 2003, image 5 of 19. Walter McNew, 35, farmer; Bertie, wife, 36; Allen; Nannie, 3 x/12; all b. VA.
- [S2273] Research of Jack Hockett, Montreal, Canada; Mr. Hockett cites the Washington Co. Virginia death record entry for Infant McNew (Library of Virginia, reel 64) which he abstracted as: WCV, North Fork: WCV, Glade Spring: Infant McNEW, w, female, b 02 Apr 1918; lived 4h; d of premature birth, 03 Apr 1918, s/o W. B. McNew, Glade Spring, VA & Berta G. Rutherford, Bristol, VA; bur Glade Spring, VA.
- [S140] "Ryburn History," compiled by P. Shugart, p. 18.
- [S16] Ben Ryburn Jr.'s mother was Sarah Ella Rutherford. Her relationship to Bertie Rutherford McNew, if any, is not known to me.
- [S639] Walter B. McNew household, 1930 U.S. cens., Washington Co., VA, pop. sched., Gladespring, ED 96-4, sheet 2B, dwelling 35, family 39, viewed online at Ancestry.com, March 2003, image 4 of 14. Walter B. McNew, 36, married at 30, owns dairy farm; Bertie G., wife, 37, married at 21; J. Allen, son, 15; Nannie C., dau, 14; Billy, nephew, 5; William A., brother, 54, farmer on dairy farm; all born Virginia.