Jessie Amelia Walch, Daughter of James

This begins a new section of the Walch history. Having finished the lives of Stephen Walch and Elizabeth Charnock’s children, we now turn to the next generation of cousins.

Jessie Walch was born in 1877 in New York and raised in Winfield, Kansas. In about 1903 at age 25, Jessie married John W. Mendenhall, son of Isaac Mendenhall and Emily M. Paris. John was born in Missouri in 1874 and moved with his family to a farm in Liberty Township of Cowley County when he was about four years old. Jessie and John had three children, all of whom were born in Kansas: Howard W., John Harold, and Pansy. Following Pansy’s birth in about 1911, the Mendenhalls moved to Las Animas, Colorado, where John operated a plumbing shop. They lived at 348 Saint Vrain Ave in Las Animas in 1920 and 1930. They also lived for a time in Grand Junction, Colorado. John died in 1945 at age 74. Jessie died in 1961 at age 84 and was buried beside John in the Las Animas Cemetery. At this time there is nothing known about their descendents.

The photograph is Jessie with her younger sister Grace. The photograph is courtesy of Cait Hendron of Glendale, Arizona, a great-grandniece of Jessie Walch.