Donation Land Claim 820, Polk Co; Walter M. Walker, born 1814, Wythe Co, Va; Settled Claim 24 Dec 1849; married Jane 6 July 1843, Mo; Aff: Claiborne C. Walker, Andrew J. Doak

1850 OR CENSUS – Wm M. Walker (35y, b Virginia, occupation farmer) enumerated with Jane (30y, b Missouri), U.V. [Mary] (6y, b Missouri), Susan (1m, b Oregon) and Elizabeth (15y, b Virginia, black)

1860 OR CENSUS – W.M. Walker (45y, b Virginia, occupation farmer) enumerated with Jane (41y, b Missouri), U.V. [Mary] (15y, b Missouri), S.N. [Susan] (11y, b Oregon), Nancy (7y, b Oregon) and Lodusky (3y, b Oregon); also with family were A. Hult (36y, b Ohio, occupation laborer) and Samuel Taylor (15y, b Illinois)

1870 OR CENSUS – Walter Walker (56y, b West Virginia, occupation farmer) enumerated with Jane (52y, b Missouri), Susan (21y, b Oregon), Nancy (17y, b Oregon), Ladusky (13y, b Oregon) and Dora (7y, b Oregon); also with family was Dudley Henry (26y, b Missouri, occupation laborer)

1880 OR CENSUS – Walter M. Walker (65y, b Virginia, occupation farmer) enumerated with wife Jane (62y, b Missouri), daughter Dora (18y, b Oregon) and grandson Elmer Purvine (14y, b Oregon)

WALKER—At his home in Spring Valley, Polk county, Oregon, on Monday, May 1 [this date is a newspaper typo, it should have said May 4], 1896, at 10 a .m. of neuralgia of the heart, Walter M. Walker, aged 81 years, 9 months and 11 days.
The funeral services will be held at the Spring Valley church and cemetery tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11 o’clock a.m.
Mr. Walker was born in Virginia July 23, 1814, and was, therefore, in his eighty-second year. He removed with his parents to Missouri in 1829, remaining there until 1848, when he came to Oregon with his wife, whom he had married in 1843. Her maiden name was Jane Mackey. They settled in Spring Valley immediately upon their arrival and have lived there continuously since that time—a period of nearly a half a century. The picturesque and fertile valley that has been their home so long was given its name by Mr. Walker in 1852. C.C. and W. B. Walker, his brothers, who came to Oregon in 1845, are yet living; the former in Spring Valley, the latter in Klickitat county, Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. Walker have had five children, namely Mary Virginia, now Mrs. J. L. Purvine; Susan Missouri, who was the wife of Dr. W. D. Jefferies, of Salem; Nancy, now Mrs. D. G. Henry; Laduska Jane, now Mrs. Jas. K. Sears, and Dora who is still at home, the comfort and stay of her mother in this trying hour. After fifty-three years of the closest and most endearing relationship, Mrs. Walker finds herself bereft of him who was once her protector and loving companion, and though children and friends may gather round her with kind words of consolation, there is none to take his place.
Of all the grand old pioneers to whom Oregon is so much indebted for its greatness, none have been held in higher esteem than was Major Walker (a title by which all knew him.) Never was a man so universally loved. It was a matter of pride with all to call him their friend. More than any other man he helped those in his community in need, and did so without ostentation. He was a faithful and consistent member of the Baptist church at Spring Valley.
Daily Capital Journal 5 May 1896

Walter M. Walker
Born in Wythe Co., VA
July 23, 1814,
Died at Zena, Oregon
May 4, 1896
Aged 81 years, 9 months, 11 days
I Know That My Redeemer Liveth 
[shares monument with Jane]

Janssen Compilation 
Saucy Survey & Photographs 

Genealogical Material in Oregon Donation Land Claims, Vol 1, page 33

1850 OR CENSUS (Polk co, FA#160)

1860 OR CENSUS (Polk co, FA#218)

1870 OR CENSUS (Polk co, FA#393)

1880 OR CENSUS (Marion co, East Salem, ED 80, FA#53)

DCJ 5 May 1896