Harris County GaArchives Obituaries.....Mrs. William Walker 1843
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Macon Messenger (newspaper) 14 Sept 1843

     Mrs. Walker, consort of Wm. Walker, Esq. a highly esteemed and wealthy 
citizen of Harris county, was, on Tuesday before last, precipitated in her 
carriage from the bridge over Mulberry Creek and drowned, before it was 
possible to extricate her from the stream.  The circumstances, as we have 
obtained them from the neighbors of Mr. Walker, are these:  On the morning 
above stated, the carriage of Mr. Walker, containing his wife and child, with 
two other ladies and a servant girl, were crossing the bridge near his 
plantation, on their return from Harris Camp meeting.  When partly across the 
bridge the mules suddenly took fright, and ran the carriage back against the 
railing.  In this position the driver, fearing the terrible result, and unable 
to force his mules forward, sprang from the box, opened the door, and succeeded 
in getting the two young ladies out, before the railing gave way--which it did 
in an instant after they were out--and the carriage and mules, with Mrs. W. and 
child and the servant girl, were all precipitated into the stream.  Hearing the 
shrieks of the driver, Mr. Walker and his brother, who were but a short 
distance behind, spirred up their horses to full speed; but before they reached 
the spot, Mrs. W. and the child were buried in the swollen creek.  The brother 
of Mr. Walker sprang into the creek, at the spot where they fell; the child 
floated from the carriage and rose to the surface; he caught it in his arms and 
rushed to the bank with it, but was all he could save.  The mother and servant 
rose no more, until they were, after much exertion, drawn from their watery 
graves, cold in death.--Columbus Enquirer.

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