Author: Slade, Edward Walker
Biography:
SLADE, Edward Walker (1793-1867: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 11 Oct. 1793 and baptised on 1 Dec. at St. James’s, Bristol, the eldest son of William Slade and Sarah Walker, who had married on 12 Dec. 1791 at St. Peter’s, Bristol. Nothing is known of his education but he later educated two of his sons at a Mr. Pocock’s academy and he may have received a similar commercial and classical education. He lived in Park Street, Bristol, from where he traded as a baker and wrote the preface to his only known collection of verse, The Skull, and Other Poems (1829), which he published by subscription with just over a hundred and twenty local subscribers. In addition to the lead poem, which explored the idea of death in various occupations, and some commonplace religious verse, it includes “Reflections on Visiting Tintern Abbey.” He married Mary Blake (1784-1863) on 3 July 1814 at the Temple, Bristol. They went on to have eight children. For reasons as yet unknown, they emigrated to America with six surviving children, and arrived in New York on 7 July 1834 on board the Barque Woodman. They moved to Euclid, Cuyahoga, Ohio, where he resumed his trade as a baker, but he acquired farmland and the 1850 US census lists him as a farmer. His wife Mary died on 1 Jan. 1863 and he then married Samantha Doane (1817-90) on 3 Nov. 1865. There was no issue. He died on 3 July 1867 at East Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, and was buried in East Cleveland cemetery where there is still a grave. (ancestry.co.uk 9 Apr. 2024; findmypast.co.uk 9 Apr. 2024; findagrave.com 9 Apr. 2024; Bristol Mirror 31 Dec. 1825) AA
Other Names:
- J. W. S.