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Additional WALKER Surnames in FORREST CITY Cemetery
WALKER, James TorbetWALKER, Patton TollmanWALKER, Robert HenryWALKER, Cary AllenWALKER, Charles EWALKER, Georgia AnnWALKER, James PhilipWALKER, TessaWALKER, George PhillipWALKER, Alice Additional WALKER Surnames in ST. FRANCIS County
WALKER, Sam BWALKER, Bertie MWALKER, Francis CWALKER, Laura LWALKER, RubyeWALKER, Nicholas LeeWALKER, VictoriaWALKER, LeviWALKER, BeatriceWALKER, William EWALKER, Michael WayneWALKER, HazelWALKER, William ClementWALKER, W C "Billy"WALKER, BonnieWALKER, Conrad BensonWALKER, FayWALKER, May BettyWALKER, Charles O. "Collie"WALKER, FloraWALKER, Edwin BramelWALKER, Cynthia AnnWALKER, Robert GeorgeWALKER, MarianWALKER, Lowell EWALKER, Eleanor LWALKER, Charla Dawn
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Submitted: 5/2/15 • Approved: 5/3/15 • Last Updated: 5/10/15 • R1073567-G0-S3
15 Dec 1878 - 6 Dec 19 1963
*Obituary
Published 6 Dec 1963
Forrest City Times
Funeral services for Oscie Walker, 84, who died at Forrest Memorial Hospital Friday night, after a short illness, were held Sunday at Stevens Funeral Home. Rev.S.B.Wilford, assisted by Rev.Robert Walker, officiated. Burial was at the Forrest City cemetery. Born on Dec.15,1878, in Russell Co., Alabama, Mr.Walker was the son of Georgia Ann Richardson and James Philip Walker. He moved to Goodwin with his family when still a child. A businessman and a farmer, he also had lived in Palestine before moving to Round Pond in 1921. He owned and operated Walker Brothers Mercantile Co. in Round Pound before his retirement in 1944. He owned and operated a cotton gin at Round Pond and extensive farming interests in St.Francis county before retiring from farming. He lived at 1021 N. Division Street. Survivors include his wife, Mrs.Tessa Dial Walker whom he married in 1938, and several nieces and nephews.
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1954 History of St Francis County
Oscie Walker is one of the most substantial men in St.Francis County as a merchant, planter, and ginner of Round Pond. With only a limited grade school education, Mr.Walker has achieved much in being a prosperous merchant and planter. He was born on Dec.15,1878, in Russell County, Alabama, son of the late James Philip and Georgia Ann (Richardson) Walker of Georgia. He received his education in Goodwin after his family moved there in 1881. In 1898, he received his first experience in retailing with J.T.Dyal & Co. in Goodwin. In 1903, as bookkeeper for C.M.Wilkinson General Merchandise Store in Palestine. For eight years from 1911, he operated the W.L.Boone Co. store in Palestine. In 1921 he moved to Round Pond where he and his former brother, the late George P.Walker founded the Walker Bros. General Merchandise Store. He retired about ten years ago, but still has an interest in the Farmers Gin Company. He is the oldest member of the Planters Bank & Trust Co. which he helped found in 1910. On June 26,1933, he married Tessa Dial, daughter of the late Thomas D. and Emma (Rhodes) Dial of Leola, Ark.
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