Walls Cemetery  Hall Co., Texas				
Submitted by Anne Chappel     mailto:ansearch@netwest.com
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Walls Cemetery  Hall Co., Texas				
Submitted by Anne Chappel   mailto:ansearch@netwest.com 

WALLS CEMETERY
(about 1/4 mile due west of Hancock Lake)
(visited 1993   -   information gathered 1993-1994)


 1.  Edward Elijah Walls b. N. C.  b. 20 Oct., 1847,  d. 19 June, 1930  (death certificate at Hall 
      County court house)

 2.  Sarah Jane Rhea Walls (wife of Edward Elijah Walls)  d.  ca. 1917 

 3.  Joseph Andrew Allen Walls (son of Edward and Sarah Jane) b. 25 Sep, 1872, d. 20 Mar.
     1914, Hall County of colon cancer.

4.  Lucy Jane Camp Walls (wife of Joseph)  b. 8 May 1874,  d. 10 Feb. 1913  in Granbury, Hood    
     Co.,TX,  of  cerebral spinal meningitis. 

 5.  Olin Regis (son of Joseph and Lucy) b. 21 Nov., 1894,  d. 27 Feb., 1913 (death certificate in 
      Hall County court house)

 6.  Zella Alice Walls (oldest daughter of Joseph and Lucy)  b. 6 Nov. 1896,   d.  16 Mar. 1918
      at Brice with pneumonia.  (death certificate in Hall County court house)

 7.  Lily Walls (wife of Brackson, son of Edward and Jane) b. ca. 1884,  d. ca. 1916  died in
     childbirth in  route to Clarendon from Lott's ranch.  

 8.  Noma Walls (twin sister of Noel - children of Lily and Brackson)  b. and d. between 1913
      and 1915.

 9.  Eldon Lee Walls (son of Lily and Brackson - died in gun accident)  b. 7 Apr. 1907 - d. 31 
     Aug 1916 (death certificate in Hall County court house)
 
The above information was taken from Hall County courthouse records and information given by   Mina 
Eltice Walls Chappell, daughter of Joseph and Lucy Walls and Jiggs Walls, great-grandson of Edward 
and  Sarah Jane Walls. 

The cemetery is completely surrounded by farmland, and is now mounded high in soil.  The only Walls 
family monument remaining visible is a Woodman of the World stone only about  12 to 16 inches 
above the ground just a few feet west of a willow tree; although, at one time all the family members had markers visible. 
In the northeast corner is the only other visible stone with the following inscription:
Come unto me
Ida Belle
Wife of W. W. Shirley
July 8, 1870
Jan. 17, 1921
In the southeast corner several infants of itinerant families were interred with only wooden crosses 
for markers which are no longer visible and whose names are now forgotten.

According to Jiggs Walls, the first six listed above lie in a row on the west side in the order listed, 
beginning on the south side.    Lily and her two children lie in a row behind them.  Eltyce Walls listed
the other children of Lily and Brack as Andrew, Trolly, Clayton, Connie, Cecil, Olita, Oveta, and 
Hazel,   Brack Walls married two more times.  His third wife was Mrs. Cora [Cass?] James, whom 
he married in Hall County on 13 Jan. 1919.  He  died and was interred in Washington state.  

Jiggs Walls also listed Daniel E. (Dee) Walls (son of Edward and Jane), served in WWI - died with 
flu about 1916 or 1917 as interred in Walls Cemetery, but Eltyce Chappell said he died with typhoid 
fever in east Texas and was interred there.   And Jiggs said Cecil Walls (son of Lily and Brack) who 
died in Borger of burns received fire fighting was buried in the Walls Cemetery, but Eltyce said he 
was buried in Borger.  

Recently the following was found in death records.  This was obviously one of the migrant infants buried there.

Jesse Lee Bryant son of E. M. Bryant, died of meningitis, January 25, 1922