Floyd County GaArchives Obituaries.....Willie Walker  May 14 1909
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Rome News Tribune May 21, 1909

In Memoriam: On Tuesday, May 4, Mrs. J. R. Walker was taken with typhoid 
pneumonia and lingered and suffered only ten days, when, as the sun was sinking 
behind the western horizon and enveloping the world in darkness, the Death 
Angel swooped down and spread his mantle over the form of Mrs. Walker and 
touched her life with the finger of his mighty power, calling the spirit unto 
God who gave it. Thus ended the suffering of the body, and the spirit, 
disenthralled, flitted away on pinions of immortality to join the innumerable 
hosts of the redeemed in the sweet by and by.
   Mrs. Walker was a daughter of William Kidd, whose family consisted of eight 
children-Alice, Josie, Leola, Willie, John, Jim, Junius and Zack, five of whom 
still survive.
   She was born in Talladega county, Ala., February 27, 1873. The family moved 
to Georgia in the spring of 1891, and on December 20, 1891, Willie was happily 
married to John R. Walker, son of Mrs. and Mrs. W. J. Walker of Van's Valley. 
The Lord blessed their home with ten children-five girls and five boys-Lee, 
Essie, Walter, Annielow, Norahmay, Harbin, Wallace, Florence, Ruben and Ruth of 
whom Lee and Walter have preceded the mother to lands "beyond the blue".
   Mrs. Walker joined the Missionary Baptist church at Bush Arbor about twelve 
years ago, and since that time she lived a consistent Christian life.
   As a wife she was devoted and true; as a mother she was loving and gentle; 
as a neighbor she was generous and kind.
   I, as her former pastor, take pleasure in testifying to the noble and gentle 
characteristics of Mrs. Walker as wife, mother, friend and devoted Christian. 
In her gentle life she illustrated all the great virtues which combine in the 
good and pure and manifested in her home life all the graces and spirit of self-
sacrifice which combine in the true, loyal wife and mother. But her beautiful 
life work is ended, and she has gone into her bright reward in the golden and 
glorious beyond.
   While we in sympathy with her bereaved and grief-stricken family bow in 
submission to the divine will, we hereby register our great loss, which we, the 
church and community have sustained by her going away.
   I hereby tender my deepest and tenderest sympathy to the bereaved husband 
and children in the great loss of their dear wife and mother, which loss to 
them if irreparable, and commend them to the comforting grace of him who alone 
can console in season of sorrow and poignant grief.
  After a very beautiful and touching service by Rev. J. E. Smith, the body was 
interred at Bush Arbor, amid a multitude of sorrowing and sympathizing friends 
and relatives.  A.B. Carnes

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