Walker Infant – Tombstone Inscription

Walker Infant
Section 5
ID 50024 & 50025

Infant daughter*
OF
Jno. W. & Martha C.
WALKER
1847

Documentation
1908 Plat: Not identified on 1908 Plat
        Only Sarah Ann Walker Monument
        on Section 5 Lot 3
Lot Card : April 15, 1846
       Lot purchased by John W. Walker
Interment Book: August 24, 1847
       Son of J. W. Walker*
       Died soon after Birth

*The parents would have recognized any error on the baby’s tombstone and had the problem fixed. The Interment Books were kept by the City Cemetery Sexton and would not have been seen by the parents.  It is thus suggested that the baby was a daughter.

After 2008 Restoration

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