Obituaries: Ezeriah Walker, 1945, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From:  May 10, 1945 Winn Parish Enterprise

Last Rites For Ezeriah Walker Held Tuesday

Funeral services for Ezeriah Walker, 84, of Dodson, who died in a Jonesboro
clinic, May 7, 1945, were held Tuesday at 3 p.m. at the Dodson Methodist
Church, of which he was a lifelong member.  Dr. D. B. Raulins of Natchitoches
was in charge of the services and was assisted by Rev. C. B. White of Ruston
and Rev. Roy Grant, pastor of the Dodson Methodist Church.  Burial was in the
Transport Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Jack Emmons and five grandsons of the deceased, D. C. Gaar,
M. W. Gaar, A. D. Wall, Morgan Walker, Jr., and Paul Peters, Jr.

Born in Jackson Parish, July 13, 1860, Mr. Walker was married to Frances M.
Stovall, January 15, 1885, and to this union five children were born, three of
whom survive.  They are W. G. Walker, of Alexandria, and Morgan Walker,
president of the Interurban Transportation Co., Alexandria, and Mrs. Iver W.
Peterson of Dodson and Natchitoches.  A son, Robert J. Walker, died in August,
1937, and a daughter, Mrs. J. M. Gaar, passed away in December, 1943.  His
wife died in September, 1931, and he had made his home with his daughter, Mrs.
Peters, since that time.  Other survivors include twelve grandchildren and
five great grandchildren.

Mr. Walker was a pioneer citizen and landowner of the Stovall Post Office
community in the northeastern part of Winn parish, where he settled in 1886. 
He moved to Dodson in 1906 to take advantage of the schools.  Having engaged
in farming, he retired from all active pursuits about 15 years ago.  His
health was good until three years ago and he was hospitalized two months prior
to his death.

He was possessed of a kind and sunny disposition and leaves a host of friends
among the young and old alike.