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Mary Richardson Walker
Mary Richardson Walker (April 1, 1811 – November 21, 1877) was an American missionary. She was the daughter of Joseph and Charlotte Richardson of West Baldwin, Maine.〔First White Women Over the Rockies Diaries, Letters, and Biographical Sketches of the Six Women of the Oregon Mission who made the Overland Journey in 1836 and 1838 Vol II Mrs. Elkanah Walker and Mrs. Cushing Eells, 1963, Glendale, California, The Arthur H. Clark Company, p. 24.〕 Both parents were school teachers and valued education for all their children. She attended Maine Wesleyan Seminary. Mary wanted to be a missionary and applied at the American Board of Missionaries, but she was turned down, because she was not married.〔Drury, Clifford Merrill, ''First White Women Over the Rockies Diaries, Letters, and Biographical Sketches of the Six Women of the Oregon Mission who made the Overland Journey in 1836 and 1838 Vol II Mrs. Elkanah Walker and Mrs. Cushing Eells'', 1963, Glendale, California, The Arthur H. Clark Company, pps. 26-31.〕
William Thayer, a mutual friend of Mary Richardson and Elkanah Walker, knew they wanted to be missionaries, so he set up a meeting between them. After a 48-hour courtship, Elkanah proposed to Mary.〔First White Women Over the Rockies Diaries, Letters, and Biographical Sketches of the Six Women of the Oregon Mission who made the Overland Journey in 1836 and 1838 Vol II Mrs. Elkanah Walker and Mrs. Cushing Eells, , pps. 26-311963, Glendale, California, The Arthur H. Clark Company.〕 A year later on March 5, 1838, they married hurriedly so they could depart for the Oregon Country as missionaries.〔First White Women Over the Rockies Diaries, Letters, and Biographical Sketches of the Six Women of the Oregon Mission who made the Overland Journey in 1836 and 1838 Vol II Mrs. Elkanah Walker and Mrs. Cushing Eells, pps. 39-44, 1963, Glendale, California, The Arthur H. Clark Company.〕
==Trip to Oregon Country==
The Walkers departed her home at North Yarmouth, Maine on March 7, 1838 for Boston, Massachusetts and then to Independence, Missouri for the long trip across the continent with three other couples: Cushing and Myra Eells, Asa and Sarah Smith, and William and Mary Gray. Mary Walker became pregnant and traveled side-saddle for most of the 1900 miles.〔First White Women Over the Rockies Diaries, Letters, and Biographical Sketches of the Six Women of the Oregon Mission who made the Overland Journey in 1836 and 1838 Vol II Mrs. Elkanah Walker and Mrs. Cushing Eells, p. 69, 1963, Glendale, California, The Arthur H. Clark Company.〕 The missionaries arrived at the Whitman Mission on August 29, 1838.〔First White Women Over the Rockies Diaries, Letters, and Biographical Sketches of the Six Women of the Oregon Mission who made the Overland Journey in 1836 and 1838 Vol II Mrs. Elkanah Walker and Mrs. Cushing Eells, p. 117, 1963, Glendale, California, The Arthur H. Clark Company.〕
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