Heirology

Ancestors

Myra Elizabeth Walker

1866-1952 · Warren County, Tennessee
Born 1866, Kentucky
Died 1952
Children include George

Myra Elizabeth Williams was born on 10 March 1866. Her death certificate gives her birthplace as Kentucky, while her memorial gives Warren County, Tennessee. Her parents were William M. Williams, called Billy, and Elizabeth Ann Stoner, called Bittie. Those are the names her son Edly gave the registrar in 1952.

On 22 November 1882 she married Warren Butler Walker at Cagle, in Sequatchie County. Their first son, George William Cleveland Walker, was born in 1884. She had twelve children in all, and seven lived to adulthood. Warren died in 1915, after 33 years of marriage.

Myra lived on for 37 years as a widow, on a rural route out of Dunlap, in the 2nd Civil District of Sequatchie County. She died there on 17 March 1952, a week after her eighty-sixth birthday. Dr. R. D. Shepherd of Dunlap gave the cause as senility. The Howard Ewton Funeral Home of Dunlap buried her on 18 March 1952 at Fredonia, in Camp Cemetery, not beside her husband in Savage Cemetery.

Sources

Find a Grave memorial: Myra Elizabeth Williams Walker (1866-1952)
Find a Grave, memorial 5628584, Myra Elizabeth Williams Walker, Camp Cemetery, Fredonia, Sequatchie County, Tennessee
Proves: Names George William Cleveland Walker (1884-1939) as a son of Myra Elizabeth Williams Walker, wife of Warren Butler Walker.
Find a Grave memorial: George William Cleveland Walker (1884-1939)
Find a Grave, memorial 5627342, George William Cleveland Walker, Deer Creek Cemetery, Cheswick, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Proves: Links George William Cleveland Walker to his mother Myra Elizabeth Williams Walker (1866-1952).
Tennessee, Department of Public Health, certificate of death 52-06230, Myra Elizabeth Walker, 17 March 1952; FamilySearch, Tennessee Deaths 1914-1966, ark 1:1:NSVQ-FGM, image 3:1:S3HY-6MZ7-PGW.
Tennessee death certificate 52-06230 (FamilySearch ark 1:1:NSVQ-FGM); Find a Grave memorial 5628584
Find a Grave, memorial 5628584, photograph added by '82 VFL on 15 Jun 2018.

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