A Memorial Register

The family

Six people, kept as people. This page exists so their names are not only ever printed beside a headline.

1905 to 1937
Marie Green Walkup. Wife and mother, 32 years old. Buried at Citizens Cemetery, Flagstaff.
survived the family
James D. Walkup. Husband and father; chairman of the Coconino County Board of Supervisors in 1937. His later life is told in the book.
1927 to 1937
Daniel Green Walkup. The eldest child, ten years old.
died 1937, age 8
Rose Marie Walkup. Eight years old, per the contemporary reporting.
1933 to 1937
John Samuel Walkup. Four years old.
1935 to 1937
Elizabeth Walkup. The youngest, twenty months old.

Marie and the four children rest at Citizens Cemetery in Flagstaff, a city-kept ground open to respectful visitors. Their memorial pages on Find a Grave are linked from the sources page.

Relatives of the Walkup and Green families: if anything on this site should be corrected, or if you would prefer something here be removed, the author will honor the request. Reach her through the contact page at susanjohnson.org.

Cite this page

ChicagoThe Walkup Family, Remembered.” Flagstaff’s Walkup Family Murders, the Book. https://walkupfamilymurders.com/the-family.

APAFlagstaff’s Walkup Family Murders, the Book. (2026). The Walkup Family, Remembered. https://walkupfamilymurders.com/the-family

Citing the book itself? Edition details and ISBNs are on the buy page.

Headstones at Citizens Cemetery, Flagstaff, in soft evening light
Citizens Cemetery, Flagstaff, where Marie and the children were laid to rest in 1937.