Obituaries: Uncle Willis Walker, 1930, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: January 16, 1930 Winn Parish Enterprise

Father Of Seventy Five Dies At The Age of Ninety-Two Years

Uncle Willis Walker, Old Slavery Negro Has Champion Family

A news item from our correspondence at Gansville, says, "One of Gansville's
old slavery negroes, Uncle Willis Walker dies, ninety-two years old.  He is
said to be the father of seventy-five children."

Uncle Willis died last week, and was buried near Gansville.  During slavery
time he was once owned by Holbert Walker of Gansville.  He was a brother of
Aunt Emma Jones, wife of the late "Uncle Bill Jones",  of Winnfield.   Uncle
Willis, it is said, was the father of seventy-five children.

If all his children were living together, they would equal the population of a
good size village.  If they all attended the same school, it would be a
crowded two-room school.  If they all belonged to the same church, the
membership would have been larger than most churches in this country.  And if
they all were at dinner together, it would take a table 110 feet long to give
plenty of room.  If each should eat four bisquits, the cook would have to
bake 300 bisquits.  And if each should need a tablet on starting to school
Monday morning, the old man would have to dig up $ 7.50.

What a family, he should have a monument also.