Susan Howard WALKER

September 6, 1857 - November 20, 1939

*Obituary (Article)
Arkansas Countryman
Thursday, May 21, 1925

WALKER, Sue - Sue Walker Attends Reunion - Miss Sue Walker left Monday night for Dallas, Texas, where she is attending the annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans and Southern Memorial associations. Miss Walker is president of the Fayetteville association and second vice-president of the national organization. In the possible absence of both president, Mrs. Wilson of Atlanta, and the first vice-president, Mrs. Bryant, of Memphis, Miss Walker will be called upon to preside over the Memorial association meetings.

*Obituary
Fayetteville Democrat
Wednesday, June 1, 1927

Miss Walker In Hospital - Miss Sue Walker is a patient at City Hospital. Miss Walker is president of the Southern Memorial Association and was to have presented the medals to Confederate veterans on Southern Memorial Day, June 3rd. Mrs. Cenar Hight will present the medals.

*Obituary
Northwest Arkansas Times
Monday, November 20, 1939

Long Illness Fatal To Miss Susan Walker - Member of One of City's First Families Was Ill for Two Years - Miss Susan (Sue) Walker, 82, member of one of Fayetteville's first families, died at noon today after an illness of two years.

Susan Howard Walker was born in Fayetteville Sept. 6, 1857, daughter of James David Walker and Mary Washington Walker. Her father was a son of Judge David Walker, outstanding Arkansas jurist, and her mother was a direct descendant of a brother of George Washington, for whom the county was named.

She had lived all her life here except for a short period while teaching art at Cottey College in Missouri.

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She was a founder of the Southern Memorial Association and at one time served as a national officer. She was president of the Fayetteville association at the time of her death. She also was a member of the Colonial Dames and Daughters of 1812.

She had most of her life been active in beautifying and maintaining the Confederate cemetery.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. o'clock tomorrow from Saint Paul's Episcopal church of which she was a life-long member.

*Obituary
Northwest Arkansas Times
Tuesday, November 21, 1939

Final Rites For Miss Sue Walker - Burial Of Widely Known Fayetteville Woman Was In Walker Cemetery - Funeral services of Miss Sue Walker, who died Monday at noon after a long illness, were held today at St. Paul's Episcopal church. The Rev. Samuel H. Rainey, rector, officiated and burial was in the Walker cemetery east of Fayetteville.

Pallberers were Hal Cravens, A.D. McAllister, Leland Bryan, James Williams, W.H. Summers and Homer Pearson. The body rested at the rectory, 119 East Lafayette, until the final hour.

Miss Walker was a granddaughter to David Walker who came from Kentucky to Arkansas in 1830 returning to his native State three years later to be married to Miss Jane Lewis Washington, whose grandfather was a first cousin to George Washington. David Walker later was chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court and president of the session convention.

Parents of Miss Walker were U.S. Senator James David Walker and Mary Walker. She had three brothers, Vol Walker and J. Wythe Walker, prominent attorneys here, and Dr. David Walker, all now deceased.

She is survived by the following nephews: Randall Walker of Fayetteville; Byrnes and Courtney Walker of Harrison, New York and Wythe Walker, Jr., of Evanston, Illinois.

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