Jackson County OR Archives Obituaries.....Walker, Enoch F September 5, 1900
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Medford (Oregon) Mail, Friday, 7 Sep 1900, Additional Local Items, p. 6, c. 3
Enoch F. Walker, an old pioneer of this valley, died at his home in West 
Medford, on Wednesday evening, September 5th, aged eighty-six years, seven 
months and seventeen days. Funeral services will be held at the family 
residence this (Friday) afternoon at 2 o’clock.

Medford (Oregon) Mail, Friday, 14 Sep 1900, p. 2, c. 4 In Memory of Enoch F. 
Walker. Enoch F. Walker, the subject of this notice, was born in Kentucky, 
Jan, 18, 1814. In early life with his father and family he moved to Iowa. He 
left that state for Oregon in 1852, arriving in the Rogue river valley on the 
4th of the following September. Upon his arrival in the valley he immediately 
identified himself with its religious and material interests, and during his 
life, by his energy and enterprising spirit, aided much in its present 
development. During the Indian outbreak of 1855, he volunteered in one of the 
companies being organized and shouldering his gun went forth to the protection 
of the early settlers. After the war he again assumed the work interrupted, 
and some of his enterprises being unsuccessful, he seems to have gained 
courage from defeat, throwing into new enterprises a greater degree of courage 
and energy. Circumstances which would have dampened the ardor of most men, 
only seemed to brighten his hopes, stimulate to greater effort, and add faith 
in new undertakings.
In early life he united with the M. E. Church, and his name will ever be 
associated with the early history of the church in this valley. And today 
Methodism owes much of its success to the efforts of such men as E. F. Walker, 
Revs. S. P. Taylor, Gray, Kahler and others. In the church, as well as in 
other associations with which he was identified, he was an active worker and 
liberal supporter. He allowed no man in any order of which he was a member to 
contribute to its success more than himself. He was a man of noble impulses, 
often assisting others to his own financial disadvantage. As a professed 
Christian he was peculiarly free from bigotry and a denominational sprit. His 
home was always open to the representatives of all religious orders, and many 
preachers as well as laymen will not forget the open hospitality of Enoch 
Walker. 
In his death the state loses a useful and honored citizen, the county one of 
its most respected men, and the community a good neighbor and friend. In the 
future his memory will be cherished by children, grandchildren and all others 
who knew him.                  –C.H. Hoxie.

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