Elizabeth Cooper Walker

Elizabeth Cooper Walker

Service & Contributions: Wife of Phillip Walker
Birth: October 21, 1827
Death: July 22, 1868
Burial: Reinterred October 31, 1937
Location
Republic Hill, Section 1
Row:  S
Number:  18
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Elizabeth Cooper Walker

WALKER, ELIZABETH COOPER (1827^1868) Elizabeth Cooper Walker was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee on October 21, 1827. She married Phillip Walker in Shelby County, Texas and had six children: James H., Martha Ann, Solon S., Sarah Jane, James Hemphill, and Josie E. Mrs. Walker died in Johnson County, Texas on July 22, 1868, and was buried Oakland Cemetery, west of Grandview. The Walkers were reinterred to the Texas State Cemetery on October 31, 1937, by the William B. Travis Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Information taken from biography compiled on her husband, Phillip Walker, by Louis W. Kemp and the San Jacinto Monument website, http://www.sanjacinto-museum.org/kemp/v838.html.

Philip Walker

A Soldier in the
Army of Texas
Arrived at San Jacinto
April 22, 1836
Born in South Carolina
March 11, 1815
Died in Johnson County, Texas
July 11, 1897

His Wife
Elizabeth (Cooper) Walker

Born in Tennessee
October 21, 1827
Died in Johnson County, Texas
July 22, 1868

Erected by the State of Texas
1936
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