Bleckley County GaArchives Obituaries.....WALKER, Susan April 24, 1910
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WALKER r, SUSAN  Death Announcement
In memory  of   Aunt Susan Walker   
   
   As the last rays  of sunsets  radiant glow 
disappeared behind the western horizon on April 
24th,the gentle spirit of aunt Susan Walker 
looked its tether and took its flight to the 
great beyond.
  IN the death of this good old woman, the 
community feels a genuine an  sincere 
bereavement , for she was indeed a friend  to 
every one and spent her life in her
humble way relieving the sick and distressed 
and smoothing the paths of those in trouble. 
    VVe can contemplate her life with pleasure 
and profit. Her simple child-like faith, 
molest, unpretentious life and unselfish 
devotion to humanity, won for her a place in 
the hearts of those of her generation and an 
entrance into eternal rest aid peace. She 
represented the finest type of the simple 
hearted, true and faithful ante helium mammies, 
who are too rapidly passing into history and 
will soon only be known in tradition and song. 
Only the real Southern man “to the manor born” 
can appreciate the patience, gentleness and 
loyalty of those good old mammies who were 
never known to betray their trusts. 
     I am assured, but express the sentiment of 
every one in our community, when I extend to 
the husband, Old Man Joe Walker, our tend crest 
sympathies. He has passed the 71th ,  mile post 
and his face, too, is turned to the setting 
sum, but we wish for his continuance with us 
many days. His life and example, like his good 
wife’s has been worth much to his race.
   During the trouble sometimes, immediately 
after the war, he publicly announced (when 
importuned by some of his race to run for the 
legislature) “I do not know anything about 
government affairs, The white people of this 
country have always been kind and good to me. I 
will vote as they vote, and trust them until I 
die.” He lias never voted anything but a 
democratic and prohibition ticket. With the 
exception of ‘one or two years after the 
negroes were enfranchised they have taken very 
little interest in politics in Walker’s 
district and then they invariably voted with 
the white people. 
     I cannot recall a -murder trial from this 
district in forty years nor dozen felony eases 
in this time. There has never been the 
slightest race trouble, though it is one of the 
most populous negro districts in the country. L 
am sure their financial condition equals any 
section of the county or perhaps the state. 
   We believe this very satisfactory race 
condition has been due largely to this old man 
and several good colored men in the district. 
We have penned the above lines as a just 
tribute to two old colored people. 
 
   One has passed over the river and the other 
lingers hard by. It is  our earnest desire to 
let the old man know that his life, on right 
lines, has been appreciated by his people, 
which will give him comfort in his loneliness 
and nerve him to continue his work until lie 
too, will he claimed by the reaper. 
T. D. Walker.



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