In 1860, Walker married George Halsey Walker and settled in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, where George Walker worked for his uncle, who had a soap factory. Burgess made two more trips to California to continue prospecting and mining for gold, while his family remained on the farm. John Burgess returned in 1951 and the family relocated to a farm in Seekonk, Rhode Island. In 1849, her father joined the California Gold Rush during his absence the family had little money and Walker left school to look after her brother and sister while their mother took what work she could find. She had three siblings, one of whom died in infancy. Sarah Ann Walker, the oldest child of John Montgomery and Lydia Butterworth Backer Burgess, was born on November 18, 1837, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
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