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I AQL'lliLA WALKKJL.lly I lu* punning of Aqullhi Waiker ■‘who tiled ut Hic Iidijio or Ills son, ■.Jiilm V. Wnlker. In Sprint Creek l. Township ItuiL Tliurrtdny evening at r»:3q o'clock, another uC ihe pioneer* j of Dl:u:k rfuwk bounty him roUo iq r hLs reward.rl Alt;juUkt Walkor wan horn Iri - Wood-L !ury Con til y, |own, AUgiial 15, 1840.^» jurirl when yet a youiTff man lit: lt;iimo to Hi Is locality and settled on u fann dual or lowu In the year 1SGLI, and in 1871 waw murrletl lei Kllen C. Bin Human. To tills union ihroo children were born. Joint Ir. nf this plnru; Harvey, of Bremer County. untl Mrs.'! Mury fslttby, of Dos Mobu\*. Inwa. ills * wife preceded him In deal 11 In l'JI7. The ileceaaed during bin many yimrj residence In Spring Creek Tdwnalitp wilh always a prime mover In nil thui wun tfood ror the community. He hail iior-’cd In many positions of I runt, :*nd wa* n I ways roady and wjlirng to 111 fflve of liIn talent urul mcana lo any u, worthy enterprise. Durlnp hb Icm* c. residence here he formed u lur%o I juiuunlNhincc and among both the oldor .^ninl young?r generations had many friends,A number of years n«o Mr. Walker unwed to Jsmmivllo, In Bremer County, where he hud resided Hltmu, although , J corn lot; 1° tile homo or his hoii lo spend piirl or the tliue. During his last Illness he wan eared for In a lender manner by IiIh rtlftllviw, Iiiui the last hours of his life wero made as plasma nt riM w*i* possible. Den lb was due in the ItifJrnilllcK of ad van red age.Funeral service* wore hold from the John Walker home SnLurday lifter noon nt 2:30 o'clock, couducied by fJlt; llev. I), w. Scoti of the Wesleyan MuLIiOiILhI church, of Sfrln#; JCrwsk. Township, and huHnl wan iDada In Ibo family lot ul the Spring Creek erae-Ifvy.ITLio
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Progress Review
La Porte City, Iowa, US
Thu, Jun 07, 1923
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