TAZEWELL COUNTY, VA - OBITUARIES - Amanda Jane Walk, 28 Jan 1920
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"Clinch Valley News"
Tazewell, Tazewell Co., VA
Friday, January 30, 1920

Typed as writted:

MRS. AMANDA WALK

MRS. AMANDA JANE WALK, aged 77, died at 9 o’clock Wednesday night, at the
home of Mrs. V. L. Stephenson, her daughter on lower Tazewell avenue.
The burial will take place this morning at Thompson Valley.

Mrs. Walk has been in poor health for several years, but dangerously ill
for a few days.

She leaves two daughters and two sons-WILEY and WM. WALK, MRS. V. L.
STEPHENSON, and MRS. CORA HARRISON. Also brothers, LEWIS, WESLEY,
HARVEY, and EMMETT MATTHEWS.

Mrs. Walk was a member of the Baptist church for years, a consistent,
cheerful Christian woman, who served well her day and generation both as
wife and mother of a large family of worthy children. She sleeps well
after a long live. Peace to her ashes.

[Amanda Jane Matthews, d/o William R. Matthews & Nancy Williams, also
widow of Van Walk. Her brothers were:
J. Lewis Matthews who married twice; 1. Virginia (I do not know
surname), 2. Elizabeth Sanders

Charles Wesley ‘Wes’  Matthews, 1848-1950, who served in the Civil War,
CSA, and lived to be 102. Wes Matthews married Cynthia Cregar, d/o
Montgomery Cregar & his first wife, Susan Felty.

Harvey K. Matthews, 1857-1948

John Emmett Matthews who married Edna K. Shrader, d/o George Carroll
Sharder &  Margaret Fox.

Amanda’s daughter, Nannie Walk, was the second wife of Vonner L.
Stephenson  whose first wife had been Luvica Ann ‘Lucy’  Bowling, d/o
Lindsay Bowling & Rutha Mae Burnett.

Ammanda also had a son Alexander W. ‘Alex’  Walk who was accidentally
killed in 1905 in Bristol in a freak  accident at Bristol Door & Lumber
Company].

Karen EAGLE Moman
arizonaeagle@qwest.net
July 9, 2002


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