Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Walker, Mary 1913
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New Plymouth Sentinel  1-23-1913
New Plymouth Sentinel 
New Plymouth, Idaho
Thursday, January 23, 1913

Mrs. Mary Walker died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bettie Smith, four 
miles west of New Plymouth, January 15th, 1913, at the advanced age of 85 
years, 2 months and three days. The funeral obsequies were conducted by her 
Pastor, Rev. Thomas Packard, on Thursday afternoon and the remains interred in 
Park View cemetery. 

The subject of this sketch, Mary Cornett, was born in the state of Kentucky in 
the pioneer days of the Blue Grass state, and her grandfather was killed in a 
fort in Boonesboro, in company with the celebrated frontiersman and trapper, 
Daniel Boone. At the age of three years her parents pushed out from the state 
of her birth westward, and crossing the Missouri River on ice, settled in the 
county of Johnson, state of Missouri where a long and active life, filled with 
many interesting and touching experiences, was passed. At that time there were 
few whites in that state, and the family of the deceased was a close neighbor 
and warm friend of Senator Cockerell and family. February 11, 1845 she was 
united in marriage to E. M. Walker, and with him spent over 60 years as wife, 
mother and helpmate. To them were born six sons and three daughters. Lucretia, 
Mollie and William have passed into the soul-land, leaving six other sons and 
daughters to mourn the loss of a good and loving mother. Bettie Smith, George, 
Gentry and J. D. Walker, reside in this community, while James resides in 
Wyoming and Simson makes his home in the state of his birth, Missouri. 

Mrs. Walker become a widow November 18th 1906 and in 1908 came to this 
vicinity where she has made her home since with her daughter, Mrs. Bettie 
Smith. At the early age of 17 she was converted and united with the Baptist 
Church in Missouri and when her old home was broken up by the hand of death, 
she was united with the local church of New Plymouth, and in all the shadows 
and sunlight of these years she had an abiding faith in her Redeemer and 
learned heavily upon the staff of the believer. In her closing years she 
seemed to look with joy like the Apostle to "That City whose builder and maker 
is God." 

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