• Golden and Vicinity •
The death of Jesse Walker, aged 75, occurred Jan. 25 from lung trouble from which he had suffered several years to some extent, but became more acute for several months preceding death.
He was buried in the Walker cemetery near Elm Grove church,
where funeral services were conducted on Sunday, Jan. 26, by Rev. W. H. McDonald.
Deceased located near Elm Grove post office, in North East township, shortly after emigrating to Illinois from Randolph county, N.C., in 1840, where he lived continuously on a homestead which he acquired a few years after emigrating, but not without contact with the privations and
disadvantages incident to pioneer life common to the locality of that time.
Published in the Quincy Morning Whig, Page3, 1896-02-05. (excerpt)
• Golden and Vicinity •
The death of Jesse Walker, aged 75, occurred Jan. 25 from lung trouble from which he had suffered several years to some extent, but became more acute for several months preceding death.
He was buried in the Walker cemetery near Elm Grove church,
where funeral services were conducted on Sunday, Jan. 26, by Rev. W. H. McDonald.
Deceased located near Elm Grove post office, in North East township, shortly after emigrating to Illinois from Randolph county, N.C., in 1840, where he lived continuously on a homestead which he acquired a few years after emigrating, but not without contact with the privations and
disadvantages incident to pioneer life common to the locality of that time.
Published in the Quincy Morning Whig, Page3, 1896-02-05. (excerpt)
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