BORN IN: San Mateo
DIED: 11/13/1886
AGED: 29
DEATH LOCATION: Woodside
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BURIED IN UNION CEMETERY WITH THE SAME LAST NAME:
- Walker, Claude Tobin
- Walker, Eugene (d.1885)
- Walker, Eugene (d.1886)
- Walker, Henry
- Walker, Hiram W
- Walker, Infant Son
- Walker, Malcolm V
- Walker, Mary F
- Walker, Mary (d.1872)
- Walker, May F
- Walker, Phebe
- Walker, Sylvester
- Walker, Willard
- Walker, William Walter
- Walker, Zillah
BURIED NEARBY IN PLOT 16:
CURRENT EVENTS:- 1860 The Pony Express
- 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
- 1861 American Civil War
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
- 1866 Ku Klux Klan
- 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
- 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
- 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
- 1876 Baseball's National League
- 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
- 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
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OBITUARY --------------- NANCY WALKER
The San Mateo County Times and Gazette 11/20/1886
A Tragedy's Sad Sequel
REDWOOD CITY - November 13.
Mrs. Eugene Walker died this morning at Woodside,
near this town, at the home of her brother-in-law,
Thomas Shine. The death of Mrs. Walker is the final
ending of the awful tragedy which took place in Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo County,
last month, the details of which are still fresh in the minds of the people. Young
Eugene Walker was shot down at his doorstep by the Hem___s, neighboring farmers, and
his wife severely wounded. On seeing her husband dead, Mrs. Walker, mangled
and bleeding, with her child in her arms, dragged herself to the earest residence,
a mile away. The murderers were afterward lynched. Mrs. Walker and the dead body of her
husband were brought to this town, their old home, where the heroine of that
awful experience lingered in great pain till her death.
All that the outside world will know of the tragedy and its sequel so fresh in the memories of most readers
of this paper, is epitomized in the curt dispatch above. But the neighbors
and other friends of the household where Nancy Walker breathed her last know much that is there untold.
As Charles Reade truly tells us, "Not a day passes over the world but men
and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble
sorrows." Not all of us may do great deeds or speak great words. It is not given to all of
us to suffer noble sorrows. But to poor Eugene Walker's brave little wife was given
the suffering of the noblest type of sorrow, to
which was added physical pain so poigant that one winces even to think of it. And she bore
it all with unshaken fortitued, patient, unselfish,
brave to the last. Seven long months,
two hundred and twenty seven days
of pain and dread and doubt! Yet not
one complaining, fretful, self indulgent
murmur lingers in the thoughts
of those who so carefully and tenderly
watched and waited on her. Her
sister, Mrs. Thomas Shine, and her
brother, Mr. Malcolm Boyd, her father-in-law,
Mr. Silvester Walker, and all
the members of the Shine family
devoted themselves unweariedly to the
care and comfort which was all they
might do for her. Surgical and
medical skill did what might be done
to suppliment the strong vital force of her
delicate yet strangely enduring
physique. She lived much longer than her friends ever dared hope.
Her last hours were comparatively painless,
and she went to her long sleep with a smile.
The funeral was attended by a large concourse of neighbors and friends;
and by many friends of her husband
and her father. No service was held
at the house, but at the grave, in the
Walker plot in Union Cemetery, Mr. Fackenthall
spoke impressively and appropriately and read over the coffin
the solemn service of the church.
Little May Walker, two years old, the survivor of the
double tragedy which has shadowed her baby life,
will remain an ____ of her aunt's family, where a pleasant
and healthfu life is assured. Mr. Sylvester Walker
will be her guardian and hold for her the little
property left her.
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